Greenwich Decorative Arts Society Lecture: “Isamu Noguchi: A Modern Moment” @ The Bruce Museum

“Isamu Noguchi: A Modern Moment”
Lecture by Jenny Dixon, Director, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, Queens
Refreshments immediately following the lecture.
Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988) is among those who gave definition to mid twentieth century modernism.  Yet his protean production as an artist and designer went far beyond the constraints of a single discipline, as was characteristic of his time.  Set design,  playgrounds, parks, plazas, sculpture, furniture design and akari all encompassed his oeuvre.
The son of an American intellectual and a Japanese poet,  he considered himself a global artist and also introduced a post war east west conversation into the cultures he was a part of. With no heirs and wanting to be understood for his life’s work, he founded his own museum dedicated to his work which opened in 1985.  Many think the Museum itself is one of Noguchi’s greatest works and possibly accomplishments.
Jenny Dixon joined The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum as director in April 2003. Since that time, she has consolidated the Museum and Foundation into a single entity, popularly known as The Noguchi Museum, and greatly expanded public awareness of both the Museum and Isamu Noguchi’s production.  Ms. Dixon served as executive director of the Public Art Fund from 1980 through 1986.  In 1999 she was named director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts.  Jenny Dixon has taught at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Parsons School of Design, and New York University.
Admission for non-members of the Greenwich Decorative Arts Society is $25. Space is limited.  Reservations required for members and guests by March 27th.  For reservations and information: greenwichdecorativearts@gmail.com or 203-322-2967.

Image: Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988), Red Cube, Site-specific sculpture, 140 Broadway, New York, NY