Exhibition – Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan

Discover how two artists seeking a new direction for modern art in the aftermath of World War II found inspiration in Japanese tradition. Trace the friendship, work, ideas and mutual influence of Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa, who both sought to balance tradition and modernity, Japanese culture and foreign influences, past and present.

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan considers the consequential friendship of two artists, one Japanese American but drawn to Japan, the other Japanese but influenced by the West, both in search of a new direction for modern art in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Learn more about the 2019 exhibit at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum:

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan