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The Kafeteria coffee shop at the National Gallery of Danmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) has been designed by Danish-Vietnamese performance artist Danh Vo (b. 1975) and showcases furniture by Enzo Mari (tables and chairs from the DIY range), Poul M. Volther (the black chairs, known as J46), Nanna Ditzel (the stools) and Isamu Noguchi (the lamps).
Honolulu Capitol District, O‘ahu.
Sky Gate, by Isamu Noguchi, painted steel sculpture, 1977.
It's a mystery!
Looking from a distance, this sculpture carves out a rectangular space in the sky. And gazing up from the center (see photo above), the sky appears within a triangle.
So what shadow shape is cast when the sun is precisely overhead on May 26, 2010, at 12:28pm? I was there to find out (see next photo)!
Twice a year in the tropics, the sun crosses the sky and stands directly overhead. This astronomical phenomenon occurs in May and July in Honolulu and is called Lāhainā Noon. The day and time differs each year, but it last happened on Wednesday, May 26th at precisely 12:28pm.
Le Bambole Mk. II Pinhole Camera. Kodak 160 Portra NC. Exposure: f/256 and 3 seconds.
sculpture: I am a Foxhole (aka The World is a Foxhole).
sculptor: Isamu Noguchi.
materials: magnesite cement, cork, wire, fabric, and wood.
date: 1942.
The piece was later cast in bronze and presented horizontally rather than vertically (on a brick wall, as above) and titled The World is a Foxhole.
This work is among several done by Noguchi following his release from the Poston Arizona Relocation Center in November 1942.
The bronze casting can be viewed here.
Archival photograph by Rudolph Burkhardt from A Sculptor's World, 1968.
Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube (1968) (or rhombohedron, as Canadian Pacific clarifies on his photo) is a 28-foot-tall sculpture located at the entrance of the Marine Midland Building (or HSBC Bank Building as it is also known) located at 140 Broadway, Manhattan's financial district, New York City, New York, United States of America.
Cubo Rojo (Cube, 1968). Escultura del artista japonés-estadounidense Isamu Noguchi.
La escultura es en realidad un romboedro, como aclara Swire en su foto, que mide 28 pies de altura (8 metros y medio). Este curioso poliedro se sostiene sobre uno de sus vértices a la entrada del edificio Marine Midland Building (que es conocido también como HSBC Bank Building). Tanto el Marine Midland Building como el hexaedro se localizan en el 140 de la calle Broadway, en el distrito financiero de Manhattan (Ciudad de Nueva York, NY, Estados Unidos).
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Isamu Noguchi, 1983, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado College, Downtown, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, sculpture
Surreal Estate Saturday #3: Isamu Noguchi's "Black Sun" and the Space Needle as seen from Volunteer Park.
This week's dose of Surreal Estate Saturday would be incomplete without a story and a confession, so here it goes: This shot looks fake. Duh, say some. Totes, say others as they shake their heads and purse their lips into a sneer. And they are right. It looks photoshopped, and poorly at that, which made me sad after I saw it. I had a pretty specific image in mind when I went to the park in the freezing dead of night, and dang it that's the image I was gonna make. And I did that. And it looked fake, even while it was still on the memory card inside the camera.
Except it isn't. Fake, that is. Which is to say this is a single image, with no compositing or cut'n'paste or content aware fill or photoshop magic (aka "lies!"). Some of the reasons it looks so fake...let's start by saying that this is a perspective that the human eye can't see. I shot this with a 300mm lens about a foot off the ground from across the street on the steps of the Asian Art Museum at f/32, the smallest aperture, so I had to leave the shutter open for like three minutes -- plenty of time for the photons to bounce around and create the fuzz (i.e., diffraction) under the top of the needle, which looks a lot like bad feathering in photoshop. Also, the color temperatures are different inside and outside of the hole in the donut...due to the fact that the lights in Volunteer park are green and amber, while the ones on the needle are a lot more blue. And the forced perspective makes the needle look either really close (and small) or it makes the sculpture look absurdly huge. And the colored stripes (made by a passing car) bring to mind those crap-tastic filters, like, the kind that they used on rave flyers back in 1995. PLUR!
The more you have seen this in real life, the more fake it probably appears in this photo. Oooh, now that's a cognitive blind alley worth a gander for sure. Have fun, and watch out for the drunken taxicabs of absolute reality.
Isamu Noguchi at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
BBG to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Japanese Hill - and - Pond Garden
Isamu Noguchi's scuplture "Cube" in fron of Marine Midland Building - 140 Broadway
Category: Office
Location: 140 Broadway, Downtown Manhattan, NYC
Built: 1967
Height: 688 ft (209.7 m)
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
On June 25, 2013, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Marine Midland Building as a New York City Landmark, under the name "140 Broadway".
Sky Gate sculpture by Isamu Noguchi at 650 S King St. in Frank Fasi Civic Grounds lawn, Honolulu.
During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" (sub solar point) this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.
For 363 days of the year, it will make a curvy, twisted shadow, but when the Sun is directly above it, the height-changing ring casts a perfect circle on the ground.
This occurs twice a year in Honolulu—26 May, at 12:28 p.m. and 15 July, at 12:37 p.m.
THERE IS ALWAYS ONE—AND ONLY one—point on Earth that is closest in distance to the Sun.
At this point, the Sun is directly overhead, and its rays land exactly perpendicular to the Earth’s surface.
This is called a subsolar point, and it circles the globe every day, while simultaneously following a repetitive, yearlong north-and-south cycle based on the planet’s changing tilt.
This means that the subsolar point, at one time or another, hovers somewhere between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
The subsolar point in Hawaii has been nicknamed the “Lahaina Noon,” and since the Sun is directly overhead and the rays fall perpendicular to the ground, a strange thing happens when it comes to the shadows of objects that stand straight up: they disappear. The ’Lāhainā Noon’ term was coined in the 1990s by the Bishop Museum in Hawaii based on “lā hainā” meaning “cruel Sun” in the Hawaiian language.
Original Caption: Manhattan's Huge World Trade Center Still Under Construction, Seen From Lower Broadway 05/1973
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Photographer: Blanche, Wil
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Probably one of the most photographed sculptures in the Wall Street area. Isamu Noguchi's Cube, or Red Cube, was created in 1967. The HSBC Plaza, formerly Marine Midland Bank Plaza, it sits in is one of the early examples of a hight variance for public space trade off.
As far as I can tell, the lyrics to Soundgarden's song "Black Hole Sun" have nothing to do with Isamu Noguchi's sculpture "Black Sun" -- on any metaphorical, alegorical, or aesthetic level whatsoever. But then, we're talking about a band that's named after Doug Hollis's 1982 installation in Magnuson Park titled, unsurprisingly, "Sound Garden".
Everyone I know calls it "The Donut".
I shot this just before sunrise on a Saturday morning. Acording to my advanced calculations, full moon was going to set during the blue hour behind the space needle if you were standing on the steps of the Asian Art Museum and looking through the hole in the donut....so at 5 AM I went out with all by gear only to find a ton of low lying clouds on the horizon. Crap, stymied again. I shot it anyway and think that it turned out a little better than the last time.
One problem with this shot is that you can either get the sculpture in focus, or the space needle, or neither. So this is two 5-frame HDRs (one with the needle in focus, one with the sculpture in focus) and then masked and merged together. Each was exposed between .8 and 13 seconds at f4, ISO 200 using the 85mm 1.8 lens. The lights in Volunteer Park make everything look green for some reason, though to your eye they appear to be fairly amber.
The next time the moon will set behind the needle/Black Sun during the blue hour will be in 2015. I'll be back.
Allen Bertoldi, 1979, Sculpture Park, Nassau County Museum Of Art, Roslyn Harbor, North Hempstead, New York, USA, sculpture. Photo 1 of 2.
This is the frequently photographed view from Volunteer Park of the Space Needle framed in the sculpture Black Sun, by Isamu Noguchi. It was very hazy, so not the best conditions for photography. I'd like to take a night shot here on a return trip.
More photos from Seattle are in my set
Isamu Noguchi's 'Red Cube' sculpture provides a stylish and stylised backdrop for my scaly buddy 'Komos'.
Komos created and performed by Joe Strike; fursuit designed and constructed by 'Artslave'.
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In front of the Marine Midland Building at 140 Broadway (Liberty & Broadway), Lower Manhattan.
Sunday November 6th 2016.
This photo captures “Avatar,” a sculptural masterpiece by Isamu Noguchi, displayed at The Kröller-Müller Museum. The artwork’s organic, abstract form is beautifully illuminated by natural light, highlighting the interplay between shadow and texture. A perfect blend of modern art and serene museum ambiance, evoking contemplation and artistic appreciation.
Allen Bertoldi, 1979, Sculpture Park, Nassau County Museum Of Art, Roslyn Harbor, North Hempstead, New York, USA, sculpture. Photo 2 of 2.
Art Deco cast stainless steel panel entitled News by Isamu Noguchi above the main entrance to 50 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
The 9 feet in diameter Black Sun sculpture by Isamu Noguchi at Volunteer Park encircles the far-away Space Needle. I was able to use my car headlights to provide some illumination for the sculpture, the Seattle city lights did the rest.
Texture by Mat texturonline www.flickr.com/photos/texturonline/7985412573/
Isamu Noguchi's scuplture "Cube" in fron of Marine Midland Building - 140 Broadway
Category: Office
Location: 140 Broadway, Downtown Manhattan, NYC
Built: 1967
Height: 688 ft (209.7 m)
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
On June 25, 2013, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Marine Midland Building as a New York City Landmark, under the name "140 Broadway".