{"id":290237,"date":"2026-09-20T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290237\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:28:07","slug":"philadelphias-barnes-has-japanese-artists-from-internment-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290237\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2019s Barnes has Japanese artists from internment camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNoguchi to Asawa\u201d traces the impact that internment camps had on six Japanese American artists: sculptor Isamu Noguchi, furniture maker George Nakashima, sculptor Leo Amino, fiber artist Kay Sekimachi, sculptor Ruth Asawa and Fujita.\n<\/p>\n<p>The six did not work together, nor did they form any kind of collective. Some knew others in this group, some did not. Kang said all shaped American culture and fine art, and their wartime confinement had a lasting impact on their work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many histories of these artists, this period of their life is treated as an isolated, terrible, traumatic, unfortunate incident that then they moved on from,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat I was trying to trace is the vestige of that experience, to see how grief and damage and injury are still part of these works, with the beauty, with the exquisite aesthetics. You cannot disentangle them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNoguchi to Asawa\u201d traces the impact that internment camps had on six Japanese American artists: sculptor Isamu Noguchi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6858,120464,69,71,70,16488],"class_list":["post-290237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-barnes-foundation","tag-japanese-americans","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}