The Best Of Friends
A special exhibition devoted to the long friendship and collaboration between visionary designer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller and acclaimed sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi opens at The Noguchi Museum on May 19, 2006. Fuller's emphasis on the humanistic use of science and technology strongly influenced the younger Noguchi. Although they collaborated on only one specific project, Fuller's Dymaxion car, for over fifty years, the two men together explored ideas that have particular relevance today, including the search for renewable energy sources, accessible designs, and "green" architecture. On view now through Oct. 15 at The Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City. Buckminster Fuller with his Portrait by Isamu Noguchi, 1929.

Photograph by Isamu Noguchi.