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Unexpected beautySerenity prevails in a unique museum in Queens, New York
“The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York is itself a work of art. Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), a Japanese-American sculptor, was responsible for the conversion of the low slung 1920s industrial building and its garden, as well as all of the objects on display. This section of Queens, home to stone masons when he chose it for his studio, remains ungentrified. The building, with its mysterious angles and shafts of light, staircases and even birch trees popping up in unexpected places, is visually exciting. Yet above all serenity prevails. The museum has been a place of pilgrimage for the artist’s Eastern and Western admirers pretty much since it opened in 1985. (On Sundays a minibus leaves hourly from the Asia Society in Manhattan. At $5 it is cheaper than a taxi and nicer than the subway. The only pity is that it does not take reservations.)”
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