Documentary Screening: Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper

Next date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026 | 05:15 PM to 07:00 PM

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Join us in celebration of Isamu Noguchi’s birthday, November 17, for a special screening of this timeless retrospective on his life and career!

Come early to mix and mingle, enjoy a lantern-decorating activity inspired by Noguchi’s artistic legacy, and check out our landmark exhibition, Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror, featuring his galvanized steel sculptures.

Beverages will be available for purchase to enjoy during the screening.

Synopsis: This program is a timeless retrospective on the life and career of Isamu Noguchi, whose binational heritage sent him back and forth between Japan and America seeking a new artistic synthesis. He started his career in Paris as Constantin Brancusi’s apprentice. He made his name in New York. And, after World War II, he brought a fresh modernist wind to Japan, putting his mark on Japanese ceramics, gardens, and paper lanterns. His late masterworks—rough stone monoliths that echo both Brancusi and the Zen garden of Ryoanji—marry East and West in an absolutely original way. (56 minutes) -Synopsis from the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Museum.

Directed by Bill Smock for PBS.

If you can no longer attend after you RSVP, please let us know in advance so that we can offer your seat to another guest, as space is limited.

Please call 407.246.4278 or email noelia.veras@orando.gov if unable to register.

Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is organized by the Art Bridges Foundation. Generous support provided by Art Bridges.

Isamu Noguchi with Black Sun in Seattle, 1969. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 03985. Photo: Frank B. Denman. © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St., 32803, View Map