Faculty Room of Shin Banraisha, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 1998. Photograph by Michio Noguchi. Courtesy The Noguchi Museum.

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- The Noguchi Museum announces a two-week extension of the exhibition Shin Banraisha: A Cultural Memory. The exhibition is on view through April 15, 2007. The exhibition documents creation and destruction of masterpiece of post-war art and architecture. Some forty photographic panels, a model, and other items document the creation and destruction of the Shin Banraisha, a site-specific masterpiece of post-war art and architecture designed by Isamu Noguchi in collaboration with architect Yoshiro Taniguchi and interior designer Isamu Kenmochi. Created in 1952, the room and garden, located on the ground floor of a building at Keio University, in Tokyo, was destroyed by the University in 2003 in order to build a new law school. The only remaining trace of the work today is a “reconstruction” comprising artifacts of the original that have been incorporated into a newly created space. Shin Banraisha: A Cultural Memory raises important questions about such issues as the preservation of functional spaces and the primacy of the original work of art. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19600