Isamu Noguchi at Lever House

Now at the Noguchi Museum, *Isamu Noguchi at Lever House* revisits the artist’s midcentury relationship with New York’s corporate modernism, anchored by his work for the Lever House plaza in Midtown. The exhibition traces how sculpture, architecture, and public space were negotiated in an era when “art in the city” was often brokered through private development. Lever House’s postwar presence helped set terms for later public art programs across NYC. The show’s quiet point is that Noguchi’s civic ambitions had to move through systems that were never neutral.