His portrait, from 1966, shows him smoking a cigarette next to one of his roughly elegant minimalist sculptures of smashed-up car parts.

I'd seen them stuck like elegant sculptures, in a teak container, at Takashimaya, on Fifth Avenue.

"I believe, as my father did, that any automobile should look like it moves and should exude elegant automotive sculpture to enhance its purpose," he said.

This beautiful small museum dedicated to Noguchi's elegant Modernist sculpture and design has reopened after renovations.

The process of growth is complex and stimulating, on the evidence of the elegant sculptures and haunting masks here.

In any case, the lithe and elegant sculptures make an ideal focus for the parterre.

This elegant sculpture, originally built of steel, driftwood and fire systems, rises from the earth in the form of an abstracted bird.

"You may want to inspect the artwork, too," suggested Deanna, motioning to elegant sculptures and paintings scattered throughout the cafe.

When dancegoers entered the theater, they beheld nine toilet bowls arranged onstage like austerely elegant sculptures.

His elegant sculptures, resting quietly on a floor or wall, can suddenly reveal themselves as nooses, whips and traps.