Isamu Noguchi

Objects of Common Interest, Tube Light I and Tube Light II, 2019, installed among Isamu Noguchi’s monumental late-career basalt sculptures in The Noguchi Museum’s indoor-outdoor galleries.
Noguchi Foundation Collaborates with Objects of Common Interest

It could feel forced to have the opus of another artist (or a duo, or a workshop) with a specific ethos and aesthetic installed in a museum entirely dedicated…

Isamu Noguchi
Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi Unveiled in White House Rose Garden
Acquired for the White House Collection with assistance from the White House Historical Association, this is the first work of art by an Asian American artist in the collection.
grid of 9 white organic, shell-shaped Isamu Noguchi ashtrays
Isamu Noguchi Masters the Art of the Ashtray
Isamu Noguchi, a man who spent his career envisioning sculptures as an intentional part of everyday environments, made a passionate attempt to design a new kind of ashtray.
Isamu Noguchi in Nara with Saboro Hasegawa, Michio Noguchi, and other friends on his 1950 trip to Japan.
Changing and Unchanging Things: Two Artists in Postwar Japan
The friendship between the two artists did not only enrich their private lives, but also the development of their art in the post-WWII decades.
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Sculptor Isamu Noguchi Refuses the Constraints of the Present
In this 1972 footage, artist Isamu Noguchi discusses the limitations of industrial tools and how he transcended the constraints of the time in which he lived. He also reflects on the future of…