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 ...

Long Island City, N.Y. Talk about what might have been. Over the course of his career, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) designed 30 public projects for New York City—works such as plazas, playgrounds, ...

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 ...

The exhibit "Noguchi's New York" explores how Isamu Noguchi relationship with New York transformed the city even when thwarted by Robert Moses. It displays a survey of 50 of his works and animations ...

Artist Isamu Noguchi once stated, "My best things have never been built." At the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, you can decide if he was right. Sketches, models, and blueprints for more than a ...

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 ...

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