You probably have not been to the Noguchi Museum yet, since it's only "kind of" in Long Island City -- it's way up Vernon toward the Triboro Bridge. In reality, it's maybe a 30 minute walk or 10 minute bicycle ride.

It's curator has a really cool house on Long Island, apparently, tells the NYT: In 1980, Ms. Rychlak began working as an assistant to the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who commuted between studios in Long Island City and the Japanese island of Shikoku. When Mr. Noguchi died in 1988, the Long Island City studio became a museum, and Ms. Rychlak became its registrar. Promoted to curator in 1997, she has helped cement Mr. Noguchi’s reputation with dozens of shows and publications in the United States and abroad. (The latest, about the collaboration between Mr. Noguchi and the industrial designer Isamu Kenmochi, runs through March 16.) She has also helped biographers understand Mr. Noguchi, a lifelong wanderer who, she has said, “was always running from something.”

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