“Everything is sculpture,” said the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi. “Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.” Influenced by Constantin Brâncuși, Noguchi spent his life making abstract art that felt drawn from nature. But New York was his home—he moved there in 1922 and always returned. In the 1940s, Noguchi worked at 33 MacDougal Alley, where he created his famed “interlocking” stone sculptures. Over the years, he tried to make several public spaces his own, including an unrealized “Contoured Playground” for Central Park. In 1961, Noguchi began work on a “water garden” for Chase Manhattan Bank, and seven years later he installed Red Cube in the Financial District, a tilted red rhomboid pierced by a circular silver tunnel. At his namesake museum, this exhibition explores Noguchi’s relationship with the city. —Elena Clavarino