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Last Friday night, Seattle was hit by a freak ice storm. After playing some music a a friend's house I went to Volunteer Park to see if I could find something to fun to take pictures of. It was *freezing cold* and totally deserted...The perfect time to shoot.
This is Isamu Noguchi's "Black Sun" -- the sculpture that inspired Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun track. I'm a Capitol Hill native, and I've always thought of it as "The Donut" but that's just me.
This is a HDR image that I made from three source photos: 8, 15 and 30 seconds at f5/12mm with my 12-24 Tokina lens and trusty D80. I was *an idiot* and forgot to change the ISO back to 100, so all of the stuff I shot that night is at 640 ISO. :( However, Noise Ninja rocks like, um, SoundGarden, and my ass was saved.
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Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The outside is cold and hard stone, but the translucent marble panels give a golden glow to the inside. Absolutely incredible. Its biggest problem is that it's at Yale.
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A major exhibition of Isamu Noguchi at the YSP in collaboration with the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York.
Beginnings, 1965, Andesite, Isamu Noguchi
I have walked by this so many times but only today found out is is called 'Red Cube' and is by the artist Isamu Noguchi. It is located at 140 Broadway in downtown Manhattan.
Taken with my Canon MC and some fuji superia X-Tra 400 film.
One of the two works in the upper garden, this one was as much a part of the landscape as it was a sculpture - part wall /part patio/possibly part whale.
Hart Plaza opened in 1975. It is symbolic of mid-1970s urban landscape design with acres of hardscaping, an amphitheater, and a central fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi and Walter Budd. The Renaissance Center was conceived by Ford and is now owned by GM. It was designed by John Portman and opened in the late 1970s.
The Dodge Fountain is the focal point for Hart Plaza. It is a memorial funded by Horace E. Dodge's widow, Anna. It was designed by Isamu Noguchi, made of stainless steel, and dedicated in 1978.
The buildings around the plaza are typical office buildings with curtain wall skins, reflecting the design back soulessly.
This sculpture purportedly inspired the Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun"
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The bright red painted steel of Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube stands out in strong contrast to the blacks, browns, and whites of the buildings and sidewalks around the sculpture. Located to one side of a small plaza in front of the HSBC (previously the Marine Midland Bank) building on Broadway, Red Cube is surrounded on three sides by skyscrapers, the height of which draw a viewer's eye upwards. The sculpture itself adds to this upward pull, as it balances on one corner, the opposite corner reaching towards the sky. Despite its title, the sculpture is not actually a cube, but instead seems as though it has been stretched along its vertical axis.
Aside from it's striking color, Red Cube also stands out from the surrounding architecture in that all of its lines are diagonals, whereas the buildings are made up of horizontal and vertical lines. Additionally, the sculpture is balanced somewhat precariously on one corner, while the buildings, by contrast, and solidly placed.
Through the center of the cube there is a cylindrical hole, revealing an inner surface of gray with evenly-spaced lines moving from one opening of the hole to the other. Looking through this hole, the viewer's gaze is directed towards the building behind, tying the sculpture and the architecture together.
Los Angeles born Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988) was a sculptor, theatrical and industrial designer best known for his abstract works and set designs for MArtha Graham productions. News was one of his last figurative works, and the only time he employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. His work can be found throughout major metropolitan cities, in museums, and in the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City in New York. Noguchi's work around New York includes the Sunken Garden for Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza and News at the Associated Press Building His Thunder Rock was also temporarily on display in Rockefeller Plaza.
Magic Chef Building
L'Architecure D'Aujourd'hui magazine
pp. 60-61
article on building by Harris Armstrong
New York City, New York: Or, the Red Cube, that is. . . Sculpture by Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi, set in front of 140 Broadway in downtown.
Photos from a great early-spring day wandering around Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle. The light is always pretty bad by the time I make my way over there. Perhaps someday I'll get there in the morning before it gets too hazy.
Volunteer Park is a very cool spot - it has great views of the city in most directions, has a 75' water tower with an observation deck you can walk up to, and also is home to the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
Some more info on Isamu Noguch's "Black Sun", from the all-knowing Wikipedia. I found it interesting that Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun was named for this sculpture.
Slide Mantra, located in Bayfront Park, was created by Isamu Noguchi in 1986 to represent the U.S. at its Art Pavilion Biennial in Venice, Italy. Noguchi had Bayfront Park in mind when he created the 10-foot high carrara marble spiral staircase.
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public space in Downtwon Florida along Biscayne Bay. Originally constructed in 1924 to the design of Warren Henry Manning, it officially opened in March, 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami.
The bright red painted steel of Isamu Noguchi's "Red Cube" (1968) stands out in strong contrast to the blacks, browns, and whites of the buildings and sidewalks around the sculpture.
Public art in New York City; located to one side on a small plaza in front of 140 Broadway, New York City.
The Challenger Memorial, designed by sculptor Isamu Noguchi and designer Buckminster Fuller, was dedicated in the southwest end of Bayfront Park on January 28, 1988. Commemorating the seven astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, the 100-foot tall abstract steel sculpture of a spiraling double helix is painted white and stands in a recessed cement triangular base. The words of Michael McClure's poem are inscribed on a nearby plaque: "O, Ivory, cinder, Open Petals, Soar the Space Path, Flesh Spirits Heroes. McAuliffe, Onizuka Jarvis. McNair Smith Resnik Scobee."
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public space in Downtwon Florida along Biscayne Bay. Originally constructed in 1924 to the design of Warren Henry Manning, it officially opened in March, 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami.
The address at 140 Broadway is also referred to on occasion as the Marine Midland Bank Building or the HSBC Building. It was constructed in 1967 based upon the designs of Skidmore Owings and Merrill for its then primary tenant who acquired the naming rights, the Marine Midland Bank. At the time, Marine Midland occupied the first 20 floors of the 51-story (688 foot tall) trapezoidal-shaped structure. In 1987, Marine Midland was fully acquired by HSBC and the building took on a new secondary name.
140 Broadway is perhaps best known for its plaza art of a giant red steel cube standing on one corner. This public piece is by Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi.
This address also made headlines on August 20, 1969 when it was the site of a bombing attack said to be a statement versus America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The attack occurred at approximately 10:30 in the evening. The attacker, Sam Melville, planted twenty-five sticks of dynamite near the elevator on the eighth floor. Twenty people were injured in total as part of the incident. Melville, for his crime, was sentenced to eighteen years in Attica Prison where he would later be shot and killed as part of the riot which occurred there in September of 1971.
For more history regarding this site, including how you can visit this locale via one of our MP3 audio walking tours, check out our site here: iwalkedaudiotours.com/2011/12/iwalked-new-york-city%E2%80...
March 2 - from the book, Ballet for Martha Making Appalachian Spring, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca. What a wonderful picture book on the story of Martha Graham's ballet studio. It is a great history about American dance.
Isamu Noguchi, American, 1904-1988
Miss Expanding Universe, 1932
Aluminum
113.9 x 88.6 x 15.2 cm (40 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 9 in.)
Born in the United States, Isamu Noguchi lived in Japan until he was 13 year old and was deeply affected by Japanese art and culture. In 1930 the artist returned to Japan to study its sculptural traditions and ceramics. Miss Expanding Universe was the first sculpture Noguchi made upon his return to the United States in 1932. In this work, he combined machine-age streamlining with characteristics of ancient Japanese funerary sculpture (haniwa). Later the same year, Noguchi transformed this flowing form into a sacklike costume for the pioneering dancer and choreographer Ruth Page and her ballet Expanding Universe.
Black Sun, 1960-63, by the Japanese-American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi.
Other photos of Isamu Noguchi's work on Flickr.
There is an Isamu Noguchi Pool also (with more than 250 photos).
Two of my favorite sculptors in the "modern" canon.
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988) "The White Gunas," 1946, White marble, 5 units. I'm guessing that "gunas" (plural) may refer to the Sanskrit word defining qualities or modes of existence.
Jean Hans Arp (German) "Classical Sculpture," 1965
Polished bronze
Photographed at the Simon Norton Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Slide Mantra, located in Bayfront Park, was created by Isamu Noguchi in 1986 to represent the U.S. at its Art Pavilion Biennial in Venice, Italy. Noguchi had Bayfront Park in mind when he created the 10-foot high carrara marble spiral staircase.
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public space in Downtwon Florida along Biscayne Bay. Originally constructed in 1924 to the design of Warren Henry Manning, it officially opened in March, 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami.
Water fountain by Masatoshi Izumi, partner of Isamu Noguchi at Kurashiki Central Hospital in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan.
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