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DESCRIPTION:Sep 20\, 2026 - Jan 10\, 2027\nOn December 7\, 1941\, the artis
 t Isamu Noguchi was driving in Los Angeles when he learned that Japan had 
 attacked Pearl Harbor. “With a flash I realized I was no longer the scul
 ptor alone\,” he would write. “I was not just American but Nisei. A Ja
 panese-American.” Three months later\, Noguchi arrived at an internment 
 camp on the Colorado River Indian Reservation\, looking to establish an ar
 ts-and-crafts program for internees. Born to an Irish-American teacher and
  a Japanese poet\, Noguchi fervently advocated for Japanese-American civil
  rights. “I felt this war very keenly\, and wished to serve the cause of
  democracy in the best way that seemed open to me.” Noguchi was not the 
 only artist affected. George Nakashima and his family were forcibly intern
 ed\; he used scrap material to continue his carpentry. In 1942\, the teena
 ge Ruth Asawa was incarcerated first in California\, then in Arkansas. She
  passed the time by drawing. United by this unfair treatment\, a shared hi
 story of resistance emerged\, from Noguchi’s lamps to Asawa’s wire scu
 lptures. This exhibition at the Barnes highlights the work of Japanese-Ame
 rican artists\, and how they shaped postwar American aesthetics through fu
 rniture and design.
LOCATION:Barnes Foundation\, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\
 , PA 19130\, United States
SUMMARY:Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America
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 gning-postwar-america
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