
New York
“Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi”
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road
May 19–October 15, 2006
Curated by Shoji Sadao
Buckminster Fuller was a brilliant polymath who invented the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion cara fanciful, fuel-saving, three-wheeled automobile of the future. His friend and sometime collaborator Isamu Noguchi made a one-tenth-scale prototype of the groundbreaking vehicleits streamlined design part Machine Age, part Amazing Storieswhich will be featured in this exhibition of some forty models, sculptures, and photographs selected by Sadao, former Noguchi Foundation director and a longtime collaborator with both men. Noguchi is considered a reconciler of the aesthetics of East and West, but here we will see how Fuller’s influence fueled lifelong interests in other dualismsart and design, thought and utilityapparent in everything from Noguchi’s playground designs to his paper lamps. Don’t miss the Japanese artist’s chrome-plated(!) bust of Fuller, a tribute to their solid friendship.