“Sculptures move because we move,” said Isamu Noguchi, one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum is showcasing Noguchi’s practice through the pioneering hand-held camera work of the American filmmaker Marie Menken. Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945-46), Menken’s first solo film, was shot with a hand-cranked Bolex camera in Noguchi’s Greenwich Village studio. Characteristically raw and impulsive, Menkens lets her lens slide up, down, and around Noguchi’s art, a technique of spontaneity that inspired a generation of avant-garde filmmakers. Showcasing the extraordinary magic of the shared artistic vision between Menken, Noguchi, and the Polish-American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski, whose 1953 score enhanced the film’s mystifying effects, “A Glorious Bewilderment” embodies the artists’ core beliefs: that “art postpones death” (Menken), that “bewilderment is glorious” (Dlugoszewski), and that “it is out of this mess that our poetry must come” (Noguchi). The exhibition features a curation of Noguchi’s sculptures alongside the film. —Nyla Gilstrap