Isamu Noguchi

Monica Obniski is curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the High Museum of Art. Marin R. Sullivan is an independent art historian and curator. Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer, and historian. Marci Kwon is an assistant professor of art and art history at Stanford University. Alexandra Lange is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. Ken Tadashi Oshima is a professor in the department of architecture at the University of Washington.

“[Noguchi's] art’s vitality,” art critic Margaret Sheffield wrote, “not only in its exterior forms but the resonating forces within, marks even his most elegant works with a feeling of primordial energy. The quality of inner force, of incipient creation, demonstrates that to an astonishing degree, Noguchi achieved the goal he gave himself at the age of 21, ‘to view nature through nature’s eyes.’” — ANTIQUES & THE ARTS WEEKLY"Isamu Noguchi saw artistic opportunity everywhere: in the studio, onstage, at a lantern shop, while walking a city street. Two spring shows highlight the range and impact of his long career, which flourished between 1922 and his death in 1988 and culminated in his founding of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, in Long Island City, Queens." — SOTHEBY'S MAGAZINE (NEW YORK CITY)"'I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational," Isamu Noguchi said in a pamphlet about his Playscapes. Perhaps best known for his stone sculptures and Akari lamps, the Japanese artist and designer always had an eye on the spaces that define childhood, particularly public playgrounds and their influence on the young mind." — COLOSSAL (CHICAGO)