At a tavern suggested by his mentor Constantin Brâncuși (“brin-KOOSH”), this artist met his longtime friend Buckminster Fuller, of whom he sculpted a chrome-plated bust. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this set designer for Appalachian Spring. A museum in Queens honors this American artist of Japanese ancestry, who names a modernist glass-topped coffee table.
ANSWER: Isamu Noguchi
[10h] Noguchi co-designed Fuller’s Dymaxion car and drove it with Clare Boothe Luce and this actress. Noguchi removed the dedication from a painting that shows this socialite on a sidewalk and in the clouds in front of the Hampshire House.
ANSWER: Dorothy Hale [accept The Suicide of Dorothy Hale] (That painting is The Suicide of Dorothy Hale by Frida Kahlo.)
[10e] Noguchi’s frequent collaborator Shoji Sadao contributed to Fuller’s idea of a geodesic one of these structures. Inspired by Fuller’s designs, Epcot’s Spaceship Earth is made of two of these structures.
ANSWER: domes [prompt on hemispheres]
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