TO DEVOTEES OF the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, there is no place more magical than the island of Shikoku, overlooking Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. There, in the town of Mure, Noguchi created some of the most ...

Isamu Noguchi’s “Coffee Table (IN-50)” (c. 1947-53)—a modest three-piece kit originally promoted by Herman Miller as “sculpture in wood and glass”—is an icon of mid-century-modern design. Its ...

This off-site show staged by the Noguchi Museum remains on view at the mid-century Manhattan office tower through next summer ...

In May 1942, Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi made a brave decision, choosing to enter the Poston War Relocation Camp in the Arizona desert. The artist was among the people of Japanese descent ...

s a young adult, Isamu Noguchi called himself a citizen of the world. He was born in Los Angeles, reared part time in several Japanese cities, and educated in Indiana, and he voluntarily lived in an ...

The Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi made his way back into the spotlight recently, with the addition of one of his sculptures in the Rose Garden at the White House. Meanwhile, here in New York, ...

In Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows (1933), the Japanese author dissects the use of light in the east and west. Of the east, he writes, “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the ...

Feeling wistful on New Year’s Eve of 1987, a year before his passing, artist and designer Isamu Noguchi said to friends, "My best things have never been built." If that, as recounted in Hayden Herrera ...

Isamu Noguchi, “Zazen” (1982-83), hot-dipped galvanized steel, alongside the belated 800-year-old Sargent Juniper in the Bonsai House at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (all photos by the author for ...

Site-specific installations and galvanised-steel sculptures are among artworks by artist Isamu Noguchi currently on display at London's White Cube gallery. Curator Dakin Hart selects five highlights ...

“Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Hayden Herrera Isamu Noguchi was a difficult man who made art easy to look at. In his life and work, he was ...