Theaster Gates, Edmund de Waal, and Hanya Yanagihara named 2023 Isamu Noguchi Award winners

The Noguchi Museum has just announced three winners for the tenth edition of its Isamu Noguchi Award first established in 2014 to honor the core tenets of the visionary sculptor and designer’s artistic legacy. Edmund de Waal, Hanya Yanagihara, and Theaster Gates are the trio being honored by the soon-to-expand Queens-based institution. The museum says the award “illuminates how Noguchi’s ideals endure in contemporary culture as exemplified through the work of the honorees.” Winners join a roster of past honorees that to date includes Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, John Pawson, and Toshiko Mori, among other notable artists and architectural designers.“The Isamu Noguchi award is one of the highest honors I could receive,” Gates said, speaking of its namesake. “The complexity and purity of Noguchi’s practice, and the ambition of his public works, has always been true north for me. The philosophies, traditions and ways of working that underpin Noguchi’s practice continue to act as pillars and anchors of truth for me. I am humbled to receive this recognition and to be recognized amongst my colleagues Hanya Yanagihara and Edmund de Waal.”Read the full post on Bustler