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 ...

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 ...

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 ...