There are just a few lighting fixture designers that have stayed in the public consciousness over the years. One of them, a favorite of mine, is Isamu Noguchi. His light sculptures, made of simple ...

Sculpture is tough. It’s hard to design. It’s hard to make. And it’s become harder and harder to see. At least, it has become much more difficult to see on the terms sculptors have long made their ...

Qi Baishi is one of the most influential Chinese ink painters of the 20th century. Isamu Noguchi, who lived in Japan and the United States, was one of the most critically acclaimed sculptors of the ...

Isamu Noguchi at Machu Picchu, 1983. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. If it were left up to Gutzon Borglum, the 20th century would have been deprived of one of its most ...

In a $400 million renovation of 666 Fifth Avenue, Brookfield Properties and Kohn Pedersen Fox may have to get rid of a special Isamu Noguchi sculpture. (Americasroof/Wikimedia Commons) The ...

Isamu Noguchi, Moerenuma Park (1988-2000), Sapporo, Japan. (courtesy The Noguchi MuseumArchive) (©The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, NY / Artists Rights Society) Not all playgrounds are ...

Even decades after Saburo Hasegawa’s death, the artist and designer Isamu Noguchi would describe his friendship with Hasegawa as an “everlasting conversation.” The two first met in 1950, when Noguchi ...

Das High Museum of Art zeigt vom 10. April bis 2. August 2026 eine Retrospektive mit 200 Werken von Isamu Noguchi. Zu den Highlights zählen seltene Akari-Laternen, Modelle von Playscapes sowie ...

PORTLAND — You can’t touch Isamu Noguchi’s “Play Sculpture,” a big, low-slung, serpentine, cherry-red steel ring. But you’ll be able to soon. It sits in the middle of “Beyond the Pedestal: Isamu ...

Objects conservators have a challenging job. On any given day Ariel O'Connor, an art object conservator at SAAM, might be asked to research, examine, document, and treat works of art made with bronze, ...