In 1951, Isamu Noguchi proposed a playground for a sliver of land just south of the United Nations campus, next to FDR Drive on the East Side of Manhattan. After an existing playground had been ...

Isamu Noguchi’s relationship with New York City, and specifically Queens, was fundamental as well as compensatory. As an ...

Above: Isamu Noguchi, with the Plaza Hotel in the background, at the debut of his first public sculpture on city land, Unidentified Object (1979), at the corner of Central Park. Isamu Noguchi was a ...

This special guided tour offers an intimate introduction to Noguchi’s New York, exploring the artist’s profound and evolving relationship with the city he called home for much of his life. Through ...

Just a little over 40 years ago, an 80-year-old Isamu Noguchi opened a sculpture garden and museum along the East River in Long Island City, Queens. In a 1985 article about its opening—the first ...

"I traveled around the world six times over like a homeless waif. New York is the center from which ideas radiate all over the world," renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi told The Village Voice in 1959.

In 1980, an Isamu Noguchi sculpture was abruptly removed from the lobby of the Bank of Tokyo in New York. Some customers had found the looming presence of the suspended 17-foot cube unsettling, and ...

What is New York’s greatest unrealized work of art? An argument can be made for Riverside Playground. This sprawling sculptural landscape, designed for what today remains an unremarkable hillside in ...