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Noguchi's New York Sculptures Celebrated

The Museum of Modern Art has launched 'Noguchi's New York,' a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The exhibition utilizes photographs, architectural models, and archival materials to document his extensive footprint across the city, from the Ford Foundation’s Sunken Garden to the Challenger memorial. By focusing on his public installations, the show highlights Noguchi’s unique ability to blend natural materials with abstract forms within the urban grid.

40 year old sculpture demolished battery park city resiliency project

Crews have begun demolishing Ned Smyth's 40-year-old sculpture *Upper Room* in Battery Park City, New York, to make way for the North/West Battery Park City Resiliency (NWBPCR) project. The 20-column concrete colonnade, commissioned in 1986 as the neighborhood's first public art piece, features an elongated table with inlaid chessboards and was appraised at $1.5 million. The demolition is part of a larger plan to install a coastal flood barrier system along the Hudson River waterfront, intended to protect against storms like Hurricane Sandy.