While some imagine that Noguchi would be proud to have his work displayed at the White House under these circumstances, I would bet that he is turning in his grave.
Amy Lyford
Amy Lyford is Professor of Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the author of Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor and Nation, 1930-1950 (University of California Press, 2013) and Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (University of California Press, 2007).
