Noguchi: The Bollingen Journey 1949–1956
January 30–April 19, 2009
Co-organized by the Noguchi Museum and the Sackler Center for Arts Education
Organized as a personal travelogue, this exhibition provides insight into world-renowned Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi’s (1904–1988) sustained artistic and personal engagement with Asia. The Bollingen Foundation, with the support of Paul and Mary Conover Mellon, funded many projects, including the dissemination of Carl Jung’s essays and translations of early Asian texts. The foundation awarded Noguchi several fellowships to travel to India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere. A selection of his travel photographs capture civic and archaeological sites as well as daily rites and performance rituals. The exhibition includes a limited-edition Ivory Press book with original artwork and a text by Pico Iyer.
Also on View
Coomaraswamy Films
Fridays, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
New Media Theater
The
Ceylonese-born art historian, collector, and curator, Ananda Kentish
Coomaraswamy (1877–1947) expanded American aesthetics from object-based
connoisseurship toward an understanding of the symbolic value of art.
Traveling to Asia in the 1920s with his wife and
American modern dancer, Stella Bloch, Coomaraswamy used the latest image technology
to document ritual dance, performance festivals, and religious sites,
highlighting the relationships between art, life, and nature. Stripped
of sound, these black-and-white films allow viewers to fully experience
the formal expressiveness of rhythmic movement, facial inflections, and
gestural phrasing. For more information about related programs and
ticketing, visit the Education section of the Web site.
Noguchi with wife Yoshiko (Shirley) Yamaguchi on the veranda of their house and his studio, Kita-Kamakura, Japan, ca. May–December 1952. Collection of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Also on View
Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection
November 19, 2011–February 8, 2012This focused selection of monochrome works reveals how an apparently simple formal device served for many artists as the point of departure for a complex re-evaluation of painting and sculpture.
Pop
Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection
From the Archives: Artist Awards and Acquisitions, 1956–1987
Collection On View
In
addition to special exhibitions, the Guggenheim Museum presents
permanent collection shows that focus on the museum's areas of interest
and specialization. On view now from the collection are portions of the Thannhauser Collection—presenting masterpieces by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet,
Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh. More
Browse other works from the Guggenheim Collection currently on view in New York.
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