LET'S ALL GO ON A GROUP TOUR TO THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM!

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Let's all go to on a Group Tour of the Nogochi Museum on Saturday May 24th from 12pm - 2pm. We are going to have a professional group tour from 12pm to 1pm, and an additional self-exploration of the Museum from 1pm to 2pm. The total cost of this very special museum event visit is $20 per person, which includes admission to the museum!

HISTORY

Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors. Through a lifetime of artistic experimentation, he created sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, landscapes, and set designs. His work, at once subtle and bold, traditional and modern, set a new standard for the reintegration of the arts. This intimate, meditative museum in Long Island City was conceived and built by Isamu Noguchi himself. Here, his mostly abstract sculptures and often-copied paper lamps are displayed across two levels of exhibition space and throughout a quiet, ivy-covered walled garden.

THE EXHIBITIONS WE ARE GOING TO SEE:

# Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation

What are we going to find in the permanent collection? Even if you're not familiar with Noguchi's work, you've probably come across one of his Akari light sculptures—geometric or globular lamps made of washi paper and bamboo that glow softly from within—which have become something of a modern design trope since he started designing them in the early 1950s. But he also made sculptures, designed furniture and stage sets, and created expressive brush drawings on large scrolls. A selection of these works, assembled by Noguchi before his death, are on display on the ground floor and in the garden. In one room, a collection of light sculptures hangs from the ceiling like an indoor paper cloud. In the garden, his massive stone monoliths seem almost prehistoric.

# Biography of Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors. Through a lifetime of artistic experimentation, he created sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, landscapes, and set designs. His work, at once subtle and bold, traditional and modern, set a new standard for the reintegration of the arts.
Noguchi, an internationalist, traveled extensively throughout his life. (In his later years he maintained studios both in Japan and New York.) He discovered the impact of large-scale public works in Mexico, earthy ceramics and tranquil gardens in Japan, subtle ink-brush techniques in China, and the purity of marble in Italy. He incorporated all of these impressions into his work, which utilized a wide range of materials, including stainless steel, marble, cast iron, balsa wood, bronze, sheet aluminum, basalt, granite, and water.
Noguchi’s first retrospective in the United States was in 1968, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. In 1986, he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Noguchi received the Edward MacDowell Medal for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to the Arts in 1982; the Kyoto Prize in Arts in 1986; the National Medal of Arts in 1987; and the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese government in 1988. He died in New York City in 1988.