"The Sculptor and the Ashtray" and "Composition for Idlewild Airport"

The Noguchi Museum delves into two forgotten projects by Isamu Noguchi, conceived at the height of American modernism. The Sculptor and the Ashtray explores Noguchi’s efforts to design the perfect ashtray (a near-universal tabletop accessory in that era), and Composition for Idlewild Airport traces the story of Noguchi’s unrealized design for a monumental sculpture for the new International Arrivals Building at New York’s Idlewild Airport (now the John F. Kennedy International Airport).