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.
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Melania Trump Unveils Noguchi Sculpture in White House Rose Garden
Noguchi is the first Asian-American artist to enter the White House collection.
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The Noguchi Museum Can Exist Without Visitors
The films of Distance Noguchi show the empty museum’s famous sculpture garden faintly stirred by the wind, the gentle splash of a fountain, or the chance arrival of a bird.
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Noguchi Museum Launches Online Archive of 60,000 Unique Works
The vast archive of photographs, manuscripts, and digitized drawings is coupled with an updated digital catalogue raisonné of Isamu Noguchi’s work.
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Isamu Noguchi’s Creative Friendship With Saburo Hasegawa
By all accounts the two had an intense friendship, and together they created a new modern aesthetic.
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Introducing Isamu Noguchi’s Playground Designs to the Next Generation
The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens will host a free workshop on the magic of playground design by the Noguchi Museum.
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To Respect Isamu Noguchi’s Vision, Architects Revise Controversial Plaza Renovation Plan [UPDATED]
After an outcry by aficionados and community members, architects have submitted a new proposal to redesign the plaza that houses Noguchi’s “Red Cube” sculpture.
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Proposed 140 Broadway Plan Threatens Noguchi’s “Red Cube” [UPDATED]
The Noguchi Foundation was not consulted on the proposal and says it undermines Isamu Noguchi’s vision of the public space around his iconic sculpture.
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Isamu Noguchi’s Voluntary Stay in a Japanese-American Incarceration Camp
The modernist sculptor voluntarily entered one of the many incarceration camps for Japanese Americans, and it was an experience that deeply impacted him.
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Untying the Knots of History Around Japanese-American Internment
Orlaineta is concerned with unpacking history and sifting through forgotten objects in order to reconstruct a story.
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The Gift of Simplicity in America’s Love Affair with the Shakers
The Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the emergence of 19th-century Shaker minimalism, and its influence on American Modernism.
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The Forgotten Artistic Playgrounds of the 20th Century
No matter if your childhood playground had a rusted metal slide that was scorching hot in summer or a sleek and safe structure of soft plastic climbing walls and swings, it’s likely that you created your own narrative of play.