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Soaring above the entrance to 50 Rockefeller Plaza, this dynamic plaque symbolizes the business of the building’s former tenant, the Associated Press. One of the major Art Deco works in the Center, it depicts five journalists focused on getting a scoop. AP’s worldwide network is symbolized by diagonal radiating lines extending across the plaque. Intense angles and smooth planes create the fast-paced rhythm and energy of a newsroom. News is the first heroic-sized sculpture ever cast in stainless steel and the only time Noguchi employed stainless steel as an artistic medium.
Above 50 Rockefeller Plaza main entrance.
Source: Rockefeller site
"Portrait de Suzanne Ziegler" (1932), exposition Isamu Noguchi "Sculpter le monde", LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 2023.
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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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.
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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Detail from Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube. The sculpture is located in front of 140 Broadway, between Liberty and Cedar Streets.
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I have made many experimental versions of “tsukubai,” including this one for this garden. The water is introduced from within and recirculated. What is created is a fountain, contrary to the traditional “tsukubai.”
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Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube, lower Broadway, Manhattan NY.
(I didn't notice the matching shirt until I got home.)
Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube, New York city, in front of 140 Broadway, with my two little twins, Lina and iLiès
Hoy hace Isamu justo dos añitos en casa!
El día es horrible, llueve, hay tormenta, mi pc está estropeado y tengo que sacar toda la informacion, he quedado y se me está haciendo tarde, pero tenía que subir al menos una foto para felicitarle estos 2 años que llevamos juntos.
Y además estoy muy feliz, porque hoy ha llegado alguien a casa... la mayoría sabréis ya quién es, pero antes de que le veáis tengo que hacerle unos cambios... Espero poder la semana que viene ;)
My agenda today is actually here at 140 Broadway, where two well-known "Wall Street" outdoor art displays are located. This "Red Cube", technically a rhombohedron rather than a cube, was designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1967, just when the office building seen behind, was completed.
The Red Cube is rather popular with tourists, though the thousands of bankers, lawyers, accountants, traders and office workers who come across it everyday seem rather indifferent about it.
New York is a great place for walkin-around photography. I always suggest using a wide-angle lens to shoot buildings and architecture. Now, many people complain that it can distort lines and change the angles. This does not really bother me so much, because I think many people can take this wide-angle view in their mind and then re-calibrate everything to make sense. For example, that black building is obviously a square building with right angles, even though the top of it seems to have a 110 degree corner. Honestly, I don't think 95% of viewers even think about it. They just see the photo and it "feels good" to them. I often have professional photographers come comment on my wide-angle architecture shots when the walls are not 90 degrees perpendicular to other objects. My response is, I'm sure to them, quite childish, since I usually say, "Who cares?"
Besides, using a wide-angle lens is usually the only way to get the whole scene inside of a rectangle, which, itself, is an arbitrary viewing shape.
from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
Black Sun by Isamu Noguchi at Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington.
Photographed with a Ricoh Diacord L with a Rikenon f/3.5 8cm lens using a red filter. The film is Fomapan 100 developed in Rodinal 1:50.