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New York City’s Noguchi Museum said on Wednesday it fired three employees after they violated its updated dress code by wearing keffiyeh head scarves, which have become an emblem of solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Across the world in protests demanding an end to Israel’s war in Gaza, demonstrators have worn the black-and-white keffiyeh head scarf, saying it identifies with Palestinian self-determination. Israel’s supporters say it is provocative and a sign of backing extremism. Natalie Cappellini, one of the three gallery attendants who was fired, took to Instagram to say the museum leadership was weaponizing the term “political” against the Palestinian cause. A New York City hospital fired a Palestinian American nurse in May after she called Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide” during an acceptance speech for an award.
Persons: City’s Noguchi, Israel’s, , Isamu Noguchi —, Natalie Cappellini, Instagram, Yasser Arafat, Israel Organizations: Palestinian, Reuters Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, Japanese American, Vermont, United States, Israel, York City, Palestinian American, South Africa
A New York Apartment With a Garden in the Kitchen
  + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Max Berlinger | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When Brock Forsblom and Jeremy Heimans first saw their future apartment, “it was the SoHo loft fantasy,” says Heimans, 46, an Australian entrepreneur and nonfiction writer. The rest of the former factory building, which was constructed in 1900 and at one time produced long underwear, is still inhabited by “septuagenarian artists,” Heimans says. In the pair’s previous apartment, a West Village rental, almost every surface, including the curtains and bathroom ceiling, was decorated with a vibrant pattern. “The energy there was that I had a thousand ideas,” says Forsblom, 38, who until recently worked as an interior designer. Ng brought in his colleague Jacob Esocoff as a collaborator — eventually resulting in the launch of their own firm, Ideas of Order, in late 2021.
Persons: Brock Forsblom, Jeremy Heimans, , , ” Heimans, Forsblom, Henry Ng, Foster, Ng, Jacob Esocoff, Organizations: Noguchi Museum, Partners Locations: Australian, New York, Queens, East Village, West
The Classic Noguchi Lamp as You’ve Never Seen It
  + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Allison Duncan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WE ARE WELL acquainted with Isamu Noguchi’s iconic Akari light sculptures. The lovely little frameworks of bamboo covered with off-white washi paper (whose design dates to 1951) are the sort of thing uncompromising incense fans own. But who knew that 25 of the more than 170 Akari iterations currently in production are screen printed with flourishes of color or pattern. The decorative printed additions range from pure abstractions (alternating bands of black and white) to simplified pictures (knocked-out bow ties) to Japanese design motifs. “The appeal of the colored versions is they have more cultural specificity than the unadorned ones but [still] achieve the timeless, placeless universality of Noguchi’s best work,” said Dakin Hart, senior curator at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, N.Y.
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