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Great Escape: The Noguchi Museum

Spend an afternoon relaxing at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden.

If you haven’t been to the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, then you haven't seen one of the borough’s most unique exhibits.

Designed by internationally renowned Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi to display what he considered to be representative of his life’s work, the Noguchi Museum is housed in a converted industrial building connected to an interior garden.

This delicate concept provides Noguchi with an open-air sculptured garden housed inside a complex also home to ten galleries, all while still providing an intimate space in which to reflect on the artist’s sculptures and design.

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Located just a short drive away in Long Island City at 32-37 Vernon Blvd., even the building’s structure is considered one of the artist’s greatest works.

With those who enter feasting on a two-story, 27,000-square-foot museum, all while relaxing in an intricately figured garden with ground-floor galleries entwined within the permanent presentation of Noguchi's work, this weeks Great Escape will take you miles away from the city.

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Devoted to the preservation, documentation, presentation and interpretation of his personal collection, the Noguchi is the first museum in America established by a living artist to display his own work. 

Call 718-204-7088 for more information on the current Special Exhibitions or visit them online by clicking here.

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