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Isamu Noguchi's "Sky Mirror" 1970, Basalt
Another piece "Strange Bird" is placed on the island in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese Hill and Pond Garden. The Japanese garden is celebrating its 100th Birthday
Isamu Noguchi designed Akari light sculptures from 1952-1986 and the artist FUTURA2000 hand painted the light designs in 2020. Noguchi created more than 200 models but with the possibilities of the various bases, shades and extension rods the variety is endless.
Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, Queens
in the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, Queens NY. This is a wonderful little oasis-- can't believe it took me this long to finally visit.
Recycled art because it once had a past interaction with humans, I've always liked that. I looked it up, this sculpture really was for a time and actual millstone.
I would prefer to know where this millstone's previous life was but I can't find that. I did find where Isamu Noguchi wrote "I made a number of variations on old millstones I found. I made them mine and I made them sculpture."
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre (13 ha) public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay. The Chairman to the trust is Ary Shaeban. Located in the park is a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus sculpted by Count Vittorio di Colbertaldo of Verona, one of Benito Mussolini’s hand picked ceremonial bodyguards known as the “Black Musketeers.”
The park began construction in 1924 under the design plans of Warren Henry Manning and 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, Florida.
Bayfront Park is bordered on the north by Bayside Marketplace and the FTX Arena, on the south by Chopin Plaza, on the west by Biscayne Boulevard and on the east by Biscayne Bay. Bayfront Park is host to many large events such as the New Year's ball drop, Christmas celebrations, concerts, the Bayfront Park Amphitheater, the Tina Hills Pavilion, as well as boat tours around Biscayne Bay.
In June 2020, the park's Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus statues were vandalized, though it was announced that they would not be removed.
Bayfront Park holds the city's annual "America's Birthday Bash" on Independence Day, which attracted over 60,000 visitors in 2011. The park also hosts the city's official New Year's Eve party that annually hosts over 70,000 visitors. Visitors are encouraged to take public transport for events at Bayfront Park as parking can be scarce and expensive. The nearest Metrorail station is Government Center. From there a connection to the Metromover is available with three stops near the park, Bayfront Park, First Street, and College/Bayside.
It has been the site of the Ultra Music Festival, an electronic dance music event. In 2018, Miami's commissioners barred the festival from being held downtown, citing complaints surrounding noise and the behavior of attendees, resulting in a relocation to Virginia Key. The festival returned to the park in March 2022.
The park hosted the hip-hop music festival "Rolling Loud" in 2017. Performers included Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott, Young Thug, and Mac Miller.
The Bayfront Park includes an amphitheater with capacity of 10,000 people, in where several cultural events have been held. On pop culture, notably, the Bayfront Park amphitheater was stage for country pop singer Shania Twain during her Come On Over Tour in early 1999, with two shows featuring guests Backstreet Boys, Elton John and Canadian dance group Leahy. A CBS television special was filmed throughout the concerts and aired in March 1999 under the title of Winter Break. It was later released on home video in 2001 as The Specials.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayfront_Park
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Originally from 31 views of "Black Sun," unedited
(part of my Volunteer Park set)
Volunteer Park
Seattle, Washington
cc 2009 Eden Politte
Black Sun over the Black Sun sculpture by Isamu Noguchi at Volunteer Park in Seattle, WA.
Photographed with a Chinon SLR camera using an Auto Tamron f/4.5 21mm lens. The film is Kodak Spectrum Analysis film 5367, no.1 expired 4/1981. The film is only sensitive to UV and blue light. This was a 1 second exposure at f/4.5. It has been reversed like you would with a negative but you can see where the sun and the bright sky has become solarized from over exposure while the rest of the scene is exposed as a negative. The film was developed in Kodak HC-110 dilution F for 10 minutes with Benzotriazole used as an anti-fogging agent.
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre (13 ha) public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay. The Chairman to the trust is Ary Shaeban. Located in the park is a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus sculpted by Count Vittorio di Colbertaldo of Verona, one of Benito Mussolini’s hand picked ceremonial bodyguards known as the “Black Musketeers.”
The park began construction in 1924 under the design plans of Warren Henry Manning and 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, Florida.
Bayfront Park is bordered on the north by Bayside Marketplace and the FTX Arena, on the south by Chopin Plaza, on the west by Biscayne Boulevard and on the east by Biscayne Bay. Bayfront Park is host to many large events such as the New Year's ball drop, Christmas celebrations, concerts, the Bayfront Park Amphitheater, the Tina Hills Pavilion, as well as boat tours around Biscayne Bay.
In June 2020, the park's Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus statues were vandalized, though it was announced that they would not be removed.
Bayfront Park holds the city's annual "America's Birthday Bash" on Independence Day, which attracted over 60,000 visitors in 2011. The park also hosts the city's official New Year's Eve party that annually hosts over 70,000 visitors. Visitors are encouraged to take public transport for events at Bayfront Park as parking can be scarce and expensive. The nearest Metrorail station is Government Center. From there a connection to the Metromover is available with three stops near the park, Bayfront Park, First Street, and College/Bayside.
It has been the site of the Ultra Music Festival, an electronic dance music event. In 2018, Miami's commissioners barred the festival from being held downtown, citing complaints surrounding noise and the behavior of attendees, resulting in a relocation to Virginia Key. The festival returned to the park in March 2022.
The park hosted the hip-hop music festival "Rolling Loud" in 2017. Performers included Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott, Young Thug, and Mac Miller.
The Bayfront Park includes an amphitheater with capacity of 10,000 people, in where several cultural events have been held. On pop culture, notably, the Bayfront Park amphitheater was stage for country pop singer Shania Twain during her Come On Over Tour in early 1999, with two shows featuring guests Backstreet Boys, Elton John and Canadian dance group Leahy. A CBS television special was filmed throughout the concerts and aired in March 1999 under the title of Winter Break. It was later released on home video in 2001 as The Specials.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayfront_Park
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. - Isamu Noguchi
The Isamu Noguchi Museum is one of my favorite small museums.
Moere Numa Park just outside Sapporo, Hokkaido, was designed by world famous Isamu Noguchi. This is one of his Earth Sculpture you can enjoy using your body with. Yeah I mean it. Taken: Aug 2004.
Leaving the Noguchi sculpture garden to go back into the museum, I really like this setting. The cinderblock and the effects of water on the simple wall. A shadow play sets of a basalt stone carving named Thebes, named after an an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile.
I was wondering about the naming, is basalt common there? Then I came across "In Egypt, basalt vessels are almost exclusively excavated in a funerary context." A Meaning in that? I don't know, perhaps.
This article is by: Gabriela Enamorado and Angela Abdala - November 3, 2020
As a result of the Challenger tragedy, memorials were built across the United States. The grandest and most celebrated was designed by famed Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who died a few weeks before the memorial was officially unveiled on December 30, 1988, without seeing his work completed. The double helix-shaped steel and granite sculpture firmly stands in the southwest corner of Bayfront Park in Miami.
Led by famed newscaster Ralph Renick, Miamians joined perpetual maintenance to create the memorial in honor of the seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who had been chosen from more than 11,000 applicants to be the first civilian in space.
Why a memorial in Miami? As local historian Professor Paul George said, “A city in Florida needed to do a beautiful, serious memorial to that tragedy in January 1986 because we’re the state that kind of birthed the whole space thing in the United States and beyond. And that’s exactly why Renick thought it would be important to pay tribute to those lives we lost.”
The memorial was funded by donations from Miami-Dade schoolchildren and their families, and the trust fund of Lamar Louise Curry, a social studies Miami Senior High School teacher who made many contributions to Miami. Besides being an only child and never getting married, Lamar inherited from her father a lot of real estate in the Florida Keys and in Miami. She had a lot of love for Miami and its people.
As Paul George said, “she had the time and the desire to help the community and so she had to be one of the moving forces for the idea”. And that’s exactly what she did.
Lamar’s fund along with the donations covers the expenses of the white granite monument that stands at 100 feet, its grassy green garden with several flowers surrounding it, and a stone triangle that lies in front of the sculpture that bears the last names of the victims and a poem dedicated to them.
Although the work of art was built with great precision and dedication, and cost $250,000, (about $790,000 in 2020), skateboarders in Miami have not given it the respect it deserves.
“It was a place where skateboarders liked to skateboard,” said Timothy Schmand, former Executive Director at Bayfront Park Management Trust. “So they would come off the monument and then hit that triangle with their skateboard.”
To this day, the sculpture requires repainting every four to five years. The garden surrounding it needs perpetual maintenance.
Almost three and a half decades after the tragedy, Bayfront Park continues to display a wonderful piece of art in honor of the seven crew members who perished in the accident.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
sfmn.fiu.edu/downtown-miamis-challenger-memorial-the-memo...
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Trinity and US Realty Buildings illuminated in red, white and blue last night. Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube is in the foreground. Mark di Suvero's Joie de Vivre is in the mid-ground.
Known as Miami’s front porch, this park began as a small reserve for political and religious gathering amidst railroad tracks and tidal marsh. In 1922 the city constructed a retaining wall, commissioned Warren Manning, who worked for Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. in the late 19th century, to design a park, and spent 17 months reclaiming the coastline. Manning’s design for the 62-acre parcel employed meandering paths through palms, tropical almonds, and Royal Ponciana, a circular bed of exotic flowers, and a wide pedestrian promenade that extended East Flagler Street to the bay. Much of Manning’s design was destroyed by a hurricane in 1926. A year later, the city installed a band shell, a grotto, and a rock garden on the waterfront. The U.S. Navy commandeered the park through World War II but permitted the city to install the Dade County War Memorial in 1943. Battered from the military occupation, the park was returned to the city in 1950 and a public library was built obstructing views to the bay. The following two decades saw little investment in the park.
In 1980 the city commissioned Isamu Noguchi to redesign the newly named Bayfront Park, which had shrunk to 32 acres due to peripheral development. Noguchi convinced the city to demolish the library and re-extend Manning’s pedestrian promenade, which now terminates at a spray fountain surrounded by a paved civic space. Bosques of subtropical trees provide shade for grassy lawns, the rock garden, and several of Noguchi’s sculptures including a monument to the Challenger space shuttle. The War Memorial was updated in the 1990s.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
miami-history.com/news/bicentennial-park-dedicated-in-1976/
www.tclf.org/landscapes/bayfront-park
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