noguchi love

Google honors Martha Graham on her 117th birthday. Aside from being an influential choreographer, Graham was a close contemporary with Noguchi, who designed her sets. Check out the animation with music.

Museum Day is coming up on May 18th!

kite flight!

will you be at KITE FLIGHT this saturday? everyone’s doing it :) see you at Socrates Sculpture Park, 11am, rain or shine!

KITE FLIGHT on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 at Socrates Sculpture Park - rain or shine!

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palindromic1:

to say that the new exhibit at the noguchi museum is beautiful would be an understatement.

it is BREATHTAKING.

the entire second floor has been renovated to hold various works by noguchi (including his ingenius chess table) and his contemporaries: work from frida kahlo, alexander calder, michio…

To find one’s own identity, you cannot borrow from someone else.

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—	Isamu Noguchi

1st 5 to RT next & last #artQOTD gets free admission this Saturday, 11/20. Tour On Becoming an Artist w/Curator Amy Wolf at 11:30am

Art is a continuous search. There’s no end to it, and that is what makes it so marvelous.

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—	Isamu Noguchi

Only one more day for quotes on Twitter. Have you enjoyed our #artQOTD month-long project? You still have time to re-tweet your favorites.

Reception for “On Becoming An Artist” is tomorrow night at the Noguchi Museum, and OBAA officially opens to the public on Wednesday, the 17th, aka Isamu Noguchi’s birthday.

See you there!

If time and the seasons are inseparable, it seems to me that time and dancing are hardly less so.

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—	Merce Cunningham

Isamu Noguchi (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.

Among his furniture work was his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture. His work lives on around the world and at the Noguchi Museum in New York City.