Sat Nov 14 · 1:00pm

Curator Talk: Noguchi and Japanese American Internment During World War II

Peabody Essex Museum · Morse Auditorium · Peabody Essex Museum · Salem

Curator and Stanford art-history doctoral candidate Christina Hiromi Hobbs examines Isamu Noguchi's decision to voluntarily enter the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. The talk weighs his complex motivations, the consequences for his artistic practice, and the wider history of creative expression during the incarceration of Japanese Americans.