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...steel representation of the Hebrew word for love (ahava) and ponder its ironies as they look out upon the divided city. The piece is from American sculptor Robert Indiana, and joins works by Moore, Pablo Picasso, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle and others. The garden itself was designed by a sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, in the 1960s. Its original intent was to display the collection of famed Broadway producer Billy Rose, but over the decades the aims have expanded considerably. See www.imjnet.org.il...
...such it plays up A BATHING APE's many successes while leaving any artistic, aesthetic or financial missteps well off the page. Still, what it does, it does well: if you're buying it as a coffee table book, you'd better make sure you've got an Isamu Noguchi coffee table to go underneath it. *A Bathing Ape is eye candy for graphic design students - a slickly produced, bling-laden look at a brand that's managed to forge a nexus between hip-hop style, Japanese animation and Warhol-inspired pop art while keeping the kids coming back...
What was the purpose of such headgear, beyond protection, identification and impressing the enemy? To transform, as the sculptor Isamu Noguchi pregnantly suggests in a short introduction to the catalog; to turn the mask, the effigy, into the man; to transcend death in the moment of challenging it. If one can imagine a philosophical hat, the conspicuous helmet would be it. --By Robert Hughes
...ARRESTED. ISAMU KANEKO, 33, software developer charged with creating a widely distributed Japanese-language file-sharing program similar to Kazaa; in Kyoto. An outspoken opponent of Japan's Draconian copyright laws, Kaneko is the first creator of peer-to-peer programs arrested there. He is charged with writing Winny, an application that allowed computer users to anonymously swap content, such as movies and video games...
...great sculptor Isamu Noguchi, Glimcher figured out a way of covering his stone sculptures with a fine layer of water, “so that it looked just like glass,” he recalled wistfully...