ST. LOUIS, MO- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the opening of Currents 105: Ian Monroe, an exhibition featuring a new body of work by the London-based artist and Washington University in St. Louis graduate. Through collage and sculpture, Monroe ex…
Victims’ Concerns put London 9/11 Sculpture on Hold
LONDON (REUTERS).- Plans to erect a sculpture in a London park using girders salvaged from New York’s World Trade Center, which was destroyed in attacks on September 11, 2001, have been put on hold after victims’ families complained. The memorial, desi…
September 11 Memorial to Have Limited Access to a Set Number of People for Years
NEW YORK (AP).- The Sept. 11 memorial will open in the World Trade Center’s footprints by the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks, but for years afterward access will be limited to a set number of people and mourners will be surrounded on all sides b…
Jon Stewart to Join 9/11 Memorial Foundation Board
NEW YORK (AP).- Jon Stewart is joining the board of the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial in New York. The comedian and activist was to be appointed to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum board at a meeting Thursday afternoon. The hos…
Architect for New York’s Ground Zero Skyscraper Working on Italian Bridge Project
ROME (AP).- Officials of a project to build a bridge linking the Italian mainland to Sicily say the architect for New York’s Ground Zero skyscraper is working on designs for a complex to be built on the Calabrian side of the span. Strait of Messina Bri…
Mystery Giver Leaves $10,000 in World Trade Center Donation Box
NEW YORK (AP).- An anonymous benefactor in New York City stuffed $10,000 in cash into a 9/11 donation box at the World Trade Center. Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, tells the New York Post that officials found 99…
World Trade Center Steel Column Installed at 9/11 Museum
NEW YORK (AP).- A salvaged 50-ton steel column was hoisted onto a support structure Tuesday at the World Trade Center site, where it will eventually serve as part of the entryway to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. A second column is expected to be raise…
World Trade Center Steel Columns to Be Installed at 9/11 Museum
NEW YORK (AP).- Steel columns salvaged from the rubble of the World Trade Center are heading back to ground zero. Two 70-foot columns taken from the wreckage of the north tower are being permanently installed Tuesday at the entrance to the Sept. 11 mu…
Jitish Kallat to Present Provocative Work of Art on Art Institute’s Grand Staircase
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, acclaimed contemporary artist Jitish Kallat turns the landmark Art Institute Grand Staircase into a meditation on religious tolerance, drawing on the museumʼs own history in concert with the most devastating terrorist atta…
Jitish Kallat to Present Provocative Work of Art on Art Institute’s Grand Staircase
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, acclaimed contemporary artist Jitish Kallat turns the landmark Art Institute Grand Staircase into a meditation on religious tolerance, drawing on the museumʼs own history in concert with the most devastating terrorist atta…