Dakin Hart

Explores the place of rock and stone in human culture and history.

Ancient and Contemporary Art at the Noguchi Museum

Museum of Stones

Yeju Choi

Tom Sachs Guide

Tea Ceremony Manual is a complete, lavishly-illustrated guide to Tom Sachs' culture of tea, featuring the artist's step-by-step instructions on how to perform a tea ceremony. Inspired by niche manuals such as The Tea Ceremony, by Seno Tanaka, The Fundamentals of Judo, by Yves Klein, and Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, by Tage Frid, the book features a statement by the artist, an essay and haiku by Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart, a foreword by Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon, and substantial back-matter, including a visual index of all of Sachs' tea-related works and an array of contextualizing appendices. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, on view at The Noguchi Museum thru July 24, 2016 and traveling to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas thru Jan 2018.

Tea Ceremony Manual

Mark Dean Johnson

Matthew Kirsch

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Venues: Yokohama Museum of Art, January 12-March 24, 2019; The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, May 1-July 14, 2019; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, September 27-December 8, 2019. This exhibition is made possible through lead support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan

Changing and Unchanging Things

Juan Manuel Bonet

The first comprehensive publication on Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi, whose paintings and sculptures combine preindustrial minimalist and arte povera traditions with elements of Oaxacan and Japanese culture. Sodi has described his creative process as "controlled chaos" that makes "something completely unrepeatable and unique." In his most celebrated body of work, the artist mixes raw pigment with sawdust, wood, pulp, and natural fibers to create the dense surfaces of monochrome paintings. As the layers of material dry, fissured "landscapes" form without the guidance or intervention of the artist. Sodi's sculptural process reflects traditions of his Mexican heritage. At his studio, Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, he uses raw earth clay to create kiln-fired cubes, spheres, and bricks. Stacked into columns as minimalist sculpture or assembled as a field or wall, these projects range in scale from architectural installations to earthworks. Sodi also collects solidified volcanic magma from the Ceboruco volcano to make rock sculptures. These fragments are coated in a ceramic glaze and precious metals, uniting geological processes with art-making techniques. This book reflects Sodi's distinct material processes, with essays detailing his relationship to Oaxacan and wabi-sabi aesthetics, as well as his engagement with artistic traditions ranging from minimalism to arte povera to land art.

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