The Noguchi Museum

Miwako Kurashima’s ‘* folding cosmos,’ on view at The Noguchi Museum through November 17, is inspired by the One-Mat Room, a small study space created by the nineteenth century Japanese explorer Takeshirō Matsuura (1818–1888). Constructed from wood collected by far-flung friends at important sites throughout Japan, the room became a kind of map of Matsuura’s social network and locations that held meaning for him and those he knew. Inspired by this concept, Kurashima’s exhibition brings together artworks that explore how even the most intimate spaces can evoke the vastness of the universe. On Thursdays at 1 and 1:30 pm, Kurashima invites five guests into the installation for tea and conversation. Seats can be reserved at The Noguchi Museum front desk on the day of the program. Learn more by visiting noguchi.org. ___ Installation views, Miwako Kurashima: * folding cosmos, The Noguchi Museum, New York, October 16–November 17, 2024. Photos: Nicholas Knight. ? The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS).

From October 16 through November 17, The Noguchi Museum will present Japanese designer and interior architect Miwako Kurashima’s traveling installation ‘* folding cosmos.’ Organized by Kurashima and Noguchi Museum Curator Kate Wiener, ‘* folding cosmos’ explores the interplay between the intimate and infinite, offering a quiet space for gathering and contemplation. The installation features works by Kurashima and Isamu Noguchi, as well as contemporary Japanese artists A? Kitahara, Kineta Kunimatsu, and Ayumi Tanaka. Each Thursday at 1 pm and 1:30 pm during the exhibition, Kurashima will invite a small group of visitors to join her in the installation to share tea and conversation. To keep these tea meetings intimate, capacity will be limited to five participants per meeting. Seats can be reserved at The Noguchi Museum front desk on the day of the program. Learn more about the exhibition: noguchi.org. ___ Images: Isamu Noguchi’s Akari PL2 (1965) installed in Miwako Kurashima’s ‘* folding cosmos,’ Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, 2017. Photo: Anna Mas. Courtesy of Miwako Kurashima Miwako Kurashima, * folding cosmos, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, 2017. Tea bowl: Koichi Uchida. Photo: Anna Mas. Courtesy of Miwako Kurashima

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On view August 28, 2024–September 14, 2025, 'Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation' features a selection of Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures, project models, drawings, and dance sets. Coinciding with the Museum’s 40th anniversary in 2025, the exhibition returns over sixty works from the permanent collection to the second floor. Taking inspiration from Isamu Noguchi’s own arrangements and intentions for these spaces in the earliest years of the Museum (1985–88), the exhibition reveals Noguchi’s lifelong interest in themes such as transformation, mortality, weightlessness, and humanity’s coexistence with nature; and explores how his many unrealized environmental projects were a well of ideas that he refined and adapted within later realized projects. 'Against Time' is curated by Matthew Kirsch, Museum Curator and Director of Research. __ Image: Isamu Noguchi giving a tour of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in 1988. Photo: Eugenie Coumantaros. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 04285. ? The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS).

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Read now on Hyperallergic: “The story you may not see in the galleries is how Takaezu’s legacy continues to take shape through the stories and artwork of her apprentices, many of whom are practicing artists and educators today.?Hyperallergic?interviewed 10 of the 40 apprentices she trained over four decades, along with studio assistants, friends, and colleagues to gain an intimate perspective on the artist and her lasting influence on the field.” (Kealey Boyd) https://lnkd.in/ebSj8Pgg

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Tuesday, April 9, at 1 pm ET: Watch a conversation with 'Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within' curators Glenn Adamson, Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Kate Wiener, and scholar Christina Yang as part of The Brooklyn Rail’s The New Social Environment series. Free, on Zoom. Register at https://lnkd.in/ev2d-ZRM

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