Isamu Noguchi
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Sep 22, 2026
Scott SottileGUEST
Yeah.
CarolineHOST
The one thing that I think would look fabulous in here is a huge Noguchi white paper lantern
Scott SottileGUEST
lanternOh, yeah
CarolineHOST
Don't you think that, that they've-
Dan GratzHOST
There's an honesty about it.
Jerry BlackmanGUEST
I guess the big, the big shift is there was this bravado and heroism with the high modernists and this faith in, in authorship, like a, you know, Noguchi, how bold you just have this, like this wedge of material and like a hole in it.
Jerry BlackmanGUEST
Right.
Jerry BlackmanGUEST
Then you have a version of modernism that's about like these kind of more complicated antiheroes.
Jerry BlackmanGUEST
I mean, I don't purport to.
Jerry BlackmanGUEST
to be in that school, but I pay attention to that work a lot.
Dan GratzHOST
There is something about the boldness or the simplicity of a Noguchi, as you mentioned, the bravado, but it's also, it's like listening to Black Sabbath or something like from the early albums, Paranoid or something like that.
Dan GratzHOST
There's a clarity there.
Richard PolskyGUEST
Creates a domino effect.
Richard PolskyGUEST
The boards for Herring, Basquiat, Lichtenstein, Noguchi, goes on and on.
Richard PolskyGUEST
They all closed.
Richard PolskyGUEST
So it created certainly an opportunity.
James FoxHOST
Do you want to tell it?
Alastair SookeHOST
Well, it's not, it's not the story-- I, I don't think you have the story in mind of meeting at the Art Students League Isamu Noguchi.
James FoxHOST
Oh, no.
Alastair SookeHOST
That's not what you're referring to, is it? But I, I couldn't resist because, of course, he has featured prominently.
Dave PayneHOST
Having read about a second floor vestibule, vestibule, I asked a food vendor for directions.
Dave PayneHOST
She poun- pointed out a dark, unmarked stairwell that led up to a sunny chamber where beginning in nineteen thirty-five, a thirty-one-year-old Japanese American artist named Isamu Noguchi completed a vast artwork, History Mexico, over eight months.
Dave PayneHOST
Five years later, Noguchi would gain fame for News, a relief adorning Rockefeller Center in New York.
Dave PayneHOST
History Mexico, a seventy-two foot long sculptural frieze made of concrete and black and red pigmented cement, depicts socialism battle with Nazism and capitalism with dynamic shapes of sickles, swastikas, and human figures.
Shiv RaoGUEST
We just
John DriscollHOST
said this as the tech founder between the Noguchi sculpture and the, and the, and the tower of, of the leaning tower of books.
Shiv RaoGUEST
Yeah.
Shiv RaoGUEST
It looked like they're going to fall down, but we just created a video, for example, to, uh, try to kind of convey our mission.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
Having read about a second-floor vestibule, I asked a food vendor for directions.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
She pointed out a dark, unmarked stairwell that that led up to a sunny chamber where, beginning in 1935, a 31-year-old Japanese-American artist named Isamu Noguchi completed a vast artwork, History in Mexico, over eight months.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
Five years later, Noguchi would gain fame for News, a relief adorning Rockefeller Center in New York.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
history mexico a seventy two foot long sculptural frieze made of concrete and black and red pigmented cement depicts socialism's battle with nazism and capitalism with dynamic shapes of sickles swastikas and human figures Noguchi later wrote fondly of his Mexican sojourn, during which time he met and had a brief affair with the surrealist artist Frida Kahlo, who was married to Rivera.
Dan GelernterHOST
But it's such a beautiful space, and it makes you thoughtful.
Dan GelernterHOST
And right next to that, you will see a modern sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, which is called his Waterstone.
Dan GelernterHOST
which is meant to evoke Japanese rock garden.
Dan GelernterHOST
It's a rock that has water bubbling out of the middle of it, but actually so smoothly that you can't perceive water flow at all.
Dave PayneHOST
Having read about a second-floor vestibule, vestibule, I asked a food vendor for directions.
Dave PayneHOST
She poun- pointed out a dark, unmarked stairwell that led up to a sunny chamber where, beginning in 1935, a thirty-one-year-old Japanese American artist named Isamu Noguchi completed a vast artwork, History Mexico, over eight months.
Dave PayneHOST
Five years later, Noguchi would gain fame for News, a relief adorning Rockefeller Center in New York.
Dave PayneHOST
History Mexico, a seventy-two-foot-long sculptural frieze made of concrete and black and red pigmented cement, depicts socialism battle with Nazism and capitalism with dynamic shapes of sickles, swastikas, and human figures.