Noguchi Museum
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The Noguchi Museum, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, is a museum and
History
To house the museum, in 1974 Noguchi purchased a photogravure plant and gas station located across the street from his New York studio, where he had worked and lived since 1961.[2] The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum opened to the public in 1985 on a seasonal basis.[3] At the time, it was the first such museum to be established by a living artist in America.[3]
In 1999, the Foundation Board approved a $13.5 million capital master plan to address structural concerns, ADA and NYC Building Code compliance and create a new public education facility. During renovation, the museum relocated to a temporary space in Sunnyside, Queens, and held several thematic exhibitions of Noguchi's work.[4] In February 2004, the museum was formally chartered as a museum, and granted 501(c)(3) public charity status. The Noguchi Museum reopened to the public at its newly renovated space in June 2004. The museum building continued to suffer from structural issues into the early 2000s and a second $8 million stabilization project was begun in September 2008.[5] As a result, there are now 12 galleries and a gift shop within the museum.
In 2022, the museum was awarded $4.5 million in capital funding, $1.5 million of which came from Mayor Eric Adams and the rest from Queens Borough president Donovan Richards.[6] The funds will be used for a restoration of the artist's original 1959 living and studio space situated opposite the museum as well as for a new two-story, 6,000-square-foot building adjacent to the studio to house the museum's collection and archival material.[7]
Tree of Heaven
Until March 26, 2008, a 60-foot (18 m)-tall 75-year-old
Programs
Exhibition
The museum celebrated the 25th anniversary of its opening with the exhibition On Becoming an Artist. Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922 - 1960, which open from November 17, 2010, to April 24, 2011[9]
Other artists whose work have been featured include Koho Yamamoto.
Education
The New York State Council on the Arts has recognized the museum's educational program, Art for Families, as a stellar example of a community outreach program, and Art for Tots as a “superb approach” in making young children comfortable in a museum setting.[citation needed]
Isamu Noguchi Award
Since 2014, the Isamu Noguchi Award has been given annually “to individuals who share [museum founder] Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, global consciousness, and East-West exchange.” Recipients have included:
- 2014: Norman Foster, Hiroshi Sugimoto[10]
- 2015: Jasper Morrison, Yoshio Taniguchi
- 2016: Tadao Ando, Elyn Zimmerman[11]
- 2017: John Pawson, Hiroshi Senju
- 2018: Naoto Fukasawa, Edwina von Gal[12]
- 2019: Rei Kawakubo[12]
- 2020: David Adjaye, Cai Guo-Qiang[13]
- 2021: Shio Kusaka, Toshiko Mori
- 2022: Daniel Brush, Thaddeus Mosley
Directors
- 1989–2003: Shoji Sadao
- 2003–2017: Jenny Dixon[14]
- 2018–2023: Brett Littman[15][16]
- 2024: Amy Hau
See also
- List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
- List of museums in New York
- List of single-artist museums
- Japanese in New York City
References
- ^ Glueck, Grace (May 10, 1985). "Noguchi and his Dream Museum". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
- ^ Vogel, Carolyn (June 8, 2004). "The Renovated Noguchi Museum Is Friendlier but Still Discreet". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
- ^ New York Times.
- New York Times.
- ^ "Sinking Noguchi Museum gets $8M". New York Daily News. March 21, 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ Tessa Solomon (12 August 2022), Noguchi Museum Gets $4.5 M. from NYC to Restore the Celebrated Sculptor’s Queens Studio ARTnews.
- New York Times.
- ^ Collins, Glen (March 27, 2008). "A Tree that Survived a Sculptor's Chisel is Chopped Down". The New York Times. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ "Exhibitions:On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and his Contemporaries, 1922-1960". The Noguchi Museum. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Hannah Ghorashi (2 December 2015), Tadao Ando and Elyn Zimmerman Win the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award ARTnews.
- ^ a b Claire Selvin (14 March 2019), Rei Kawakubo Wins 2019 Isamu Noguchi Award ARTnews.
- ^ Camille Okhio (17 November 2020), Noguchi Museum Presents Its Annual Award to AD100 Architect David Adjaye Architectural Digest.
- ^ Alex Greenberger (14 June 2017), Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon to Retire After 14 Years at Haven in Queens ARTnews.
- ^ Andrew Russeth (5 February 2018), Drawing Center’s Brett Littman Will Lead Noguchi Museum ARTnews.
- New York Times.
- Davis, Douglas (1990). The museum transformed: design and culture in the post-Pompidou age. New York: Abbeville Press. pp. 186–188. ISBN 978-1558590649.