In early 1942, shortly after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, a directive that sanctioned the deportation of thousands of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to internment camps across the nation.
As an East Coast resident, the acclaimed sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi was exempted from this deportation. But nonetheless he voluntarily entered Arizona’s Poston War Relocation Center, hoping that he could use art to help ameliorate camp conditions. A new exhibit now on view at the Noguchi Museum in New York chronicles his initial optimism, subsequent disillusionment, and how the experience shaped his practice.
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