French judges have issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian ruler, and six senior officials of his ousted regime for killing and wounding a group of journalists in 2012, during the Syrian civil war. Marie Colvin, 56, a reporter for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, and Remi Ochlik, 28, a French freelance photographer, were killed when artillery struck a building in Homs where journalists had set up a makeshift media center. Three others were wounded. Colleagues suspected that Syrian forces had located the journalists by tracing their satellite phone signals, we noted this week.

  The Noguchi Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a special exhibition, Against Time, which presents works from the Museum’s original second floor installation of 1988. Curated by Matthew Kirsch, Noguchi Museum Curator and Director of Research, uses as its basis the catalogue The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), written by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) as a guide to works in the Museum in place...