The list of artists who collaborated with sculptor Isamu Noguchi is long and impressive: Brancusi, Kahlo, Gorky, Graham, Cunningham, Ernst, Duchamp and many, many more.

A new exhibit at New York’s Noguchi Museum examines his life and origins as an artist in the context of his relationships with his initially more established colleagues in the world of dance, sculpture, architecture and the plastic and visual arts. Duchamp considered him an interesting thinker in the field of chess.