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RE"They turned their thumbs down so hard they almost broke their thumbnails” Isamu Noguchi described how his visionary ‘Play Mountain' concept was rejected by the Public Works of Art Project in 1933. Yet he kept pitching playscapes for New York City over the next forty years, adapting a contour design to soften hard edges, and was even awarded a patent but officials lacked the imagination and it never worked out for the artist, sadly, despite all the work he did. Decades later, his designs still look like they’re from the future. It turns out Noguchi was just way ahead of his time.
'Noguchi's New York' is on view through mid-September @noguchimuseum
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