"The exhibition, Noguchi's New York, opens at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City with a focused look at how one artist spent decades imagining the city as a terrain for sculpture, play, and - most importantly - public life. The show, which exhibits both realized and unrealized projects, is a survey of Isamu Noguchi's lifelong relationship with New York, and the experience feels like a tour through an imagined version of what the city might have been."
"A bronze model for Play Mountain (1933), intended either for Central Park or an entire city block, sits low and wide like a piece of topography. Its stepped slopes, sledding run, and bandshell compress the scale of a neighborhood into a single surface. Seen in person, the scale model feels intimate and tactile. Nearby, newly commissioned animated films project children moving across those contours, translating the bronze maquette into motion."
Noguchi's New York opens at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, presenting realized and unrealized projects that map Isamu Noguchi's decades-long engagement with the city. The exhibition centers on sculpture, play, and public life, tracing work from Noguchi's arrival in 1922 through the 1930s and beyond. Early gallery rooms feature portrait heads, anti-fascist projects, and a bronze maquette for Play Mountain (1933) with stepped slopes, a sledding run, and a bandshell that compress neighborhood scale into a single surface. Newly commissioned animated films translate the maquette into movement, showing children traversing those contours. Curators note Noguchi's experimentation with metal as a response to New York's urban landscape.
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