UPDATE: Norman Foster and Hiroshi Sugimoto receive inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award

Famed architect Norman Foster and acclaimed contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto each formally accepted the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award during the Noguchi Museum's annual Spring Benefit in New York yesterday.

The award is presented to individuals whose work exhibits the multi-disciplinary and collaborative qualities reflected in those of iconic landscape architect and artist Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi was known for promoting the value of innovation, global consciousness, and Japanese/American exchange in his work.

More than 300 guests -- including artists, Museum patrons, UN officials, and other notable representatives in the arts and cultural community -- attended the event. Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, presented the award to Foster and Sugimoto during the awards program. Finally, the night ended with a silent auction of one of Sugimoto's black-and-white photographs from his Conceptual Forms series.

Check out some of the notable names in the event's VIP guestlist

VIP Guests 

• Tracy Capune, Astoria Kaufman Studios 
• James Carpenter, Artist 
• Jennifer Sage, Sage and Coombe Architects 
• Maria Cuomo Cole and Kenneth Cole, Benefit Committee 
• Susan Dunne, Pace Gallery 
• Donald Elliot, Noguchi Museum Trustee 
• Midori and Gerald Curtis, Benefit Committee 
• Christiane Fischer, Noguchi Museum Trustee 
• Lord Norman Foster, Isamu Noguchi Award Honoree 
• Aurelien Gallet, Artist 
• Rachael Horovitz, Film Producer 
• Hugh and Tiziana Hardy, Benefit Committee 
• Harold Koda, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
• Lucy de Kooning-Villeneuve and Isabel de Kooning-Villeneuve 
• Lucy Lamphere, Noguchi Museum Trustee 
• Jonathan Marvel, Noguchi Museum Trustee 
• Karen McDonald, Benefit Chair  
• Olivier Pechou, Hermès 
• Michael and Tara Rockefeller 
• Samuel and Beth Sachs II, Benefit Committee 
• Nicholas Sands, Collector  Mark di Suvero, Artist 
• Hiroshi Sugimoto, Isamu Noguchi Award Honoree 
• Karen Tan, Ambassador to the UN from Singapore 
• Kan Yasuda, Artist 
• Motohide Yoshikawa, Ambassador to the UN from Japan / Presenter of the Isamu Noguchi Award