Noguchi Museum in Queens Honors Yohji Yamamoto and Danh Võ

The Noguchi Museum, the Long Island City institution built around Isamu Noguchi's own studio and garden, has chosen the designer Yohji Yamamoto and the artist Danh Võ as this year's honorees for its Noguchi Award. The pairing puts a couturier and a sculptor side by side under the name of a man who refused to keep art, design and the built environment in separate rooms. For a city whose cultural prizes tend to cluster in Manhattan, it is a reminder that one of New York's most quietly serious museums sits across the East River.

With reporting from Surface.