The Noguchi Museum Will Launch Shows on the Famed Sculptor's Progressive Designs

Beginning in February 2020, The Noguchi Museum will present two forgotten projects by Isamu Noguchi. "The Sculptor and the Ashtray" will explore the artist's attempts to design the perfect ashtray, while "Composition for Idlewild Airport" reveals his unrealized design for a monumental sculpture placed in the International Arrivals Building at New York's Idlewild Airport (now the John F. Kennedy Airport). "The Sculptor and the Ashtray" was inspired by Mary Mix Foley's unpublished article written ...