Observing the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 in NYC

NEW YORK CITY,Spetember 7, 2011—On this solemn anniversary, New York City will host a number of events to remember 9/11 and commemorate the 2,983 individuals WHO LOST THEIR LIVES, as well as the many who have died since.

Part of PS1's September 11 exhibit, George Segal's sculpture Woman on a Park Bench © 2011 The George and Helen Segal Foundation.

“September 11” Exhibit

PS1, the Museum of Modern Art’s outpost in Long Island City, opens this major exhibition of 70 works that ask viewers to reflect on how 9/11 has “altered the ways in which we see and experience the world.”

Pieces by such seminal artists as Diane Arbus, Christo, John Chamberlain, Barbara Kruger, and Yoko Ono and John Lennon will be on display.

“The 9-11 Peace Story Quilt” Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

In conjunction with the exhibit “The 9-11 Peace Story Quilt,” the Sunday at the Met lecture will feature Faith Ringgold, who will speak about the Quilt, which she designed and constructed in collaboration with Grace Matthews and New York City students.

The Quilt “conveys the importance of communication across cultures and religions to achieving the goal of peace.”

Remembering 9-11 at the International Center of Photography

n conjunction with the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the ICP debuts this exhibition of photography and video that addresses the issues of memory and recovery from disaster and explores how New Yorkers and those across America responded to the tragedy.

The show is divided into five parts: Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17, an installation by Francesc Torres; photos from Eugene Richards' Stepping Through the Ashes; a five-channel video installation, “cedarliberty,” by Elena del Rivero and Leslie McCleave; Above Ground Zero, photographs and proof sheets by Gregg Brown; and excerpts from “here is new york: a democracy of photographs.”

World Trade Center, September 17, 2003, Brooklyn Museum, Image: Christoph Draeger

“Ten Years Later: Ground Zero Remembered" at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum will commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with this just-opened exhibit, which includes work by Michael Richards “Tuskegee Airmen Series” (1997), who was working as an artist-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at its studios in the World Trade Center and died in the attack on Tower One.

Also a focal point is “WTC, September 17” (2003), Christoph Draeger’s photographic jigsaw puzzle. Both will be displayed alongside two 2002 comment books filled with text and images by visitors who viewed images documenting 9/11 displayed on the first anniversary of the attacks.

September 11 Tenth Anniversary Memorial Ceremony at the NYC Fire Museum

The public is invited to an FDNY memorial service for the 343 members who perished at the World Trade Center in 2001. At the ceremony, FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge, who was killed at the World Trade Center, will have the bunker coat and helmet he was wearing that day dedicated to the Fire Museum.

The museum will also be free all weekend long, with extended hours, so that the public may visit the permanent collection, which includes the first permanent memorial to the fallen firefighters.