Your Weekend Starts Now: City Cultural Institutions Mark 9/11 Anniversary
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For this week's "Your Weekend Starts Now," NY1's Arts reporter Stephanie Simon takes a special look at some of the many ways artists and cultural institutions are marking the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center terrorist attack.Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: "Where Does The Dust Collect Itself?"
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Starting September 8, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council presents Xu Bing's installation "Where Does the Dust Collect Itself?" The work uses dust collected from the streets of Lower Manhattan during the aftermath to create the outline of a Buddhist poem. It is at the Spinning Wheel Building on West 22nd Street.
New Museum: "Home: A Chant"
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Also interested in the dust is artist Elena del Rivero. Her work "Home: A Chant" at the New Museum in the Bowery is made of World Trade Center debris that blew into the windows of her Cedar Street loft.
The large-scale installation opens on September 7, and admission on September 11 is free.
WTC Memorial Site: "Ashes To Ashes, Dust To DNA"
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Florist and volunteer emergency medical technician Mikey Flowers captured incredible images while volunteering at the World Trade Center site. They are compiled in his book "Ashes To Ashes, Dust To DNA."
He will be doing a book signing the WTC Memorial site at 20 Vesey Street on September 8 from 4-6 p.m. Flowers donates his proceeds from the book to 9/11-related charities.
NYPD Detective's 9/11 Photos
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For the first time, photographer and former NYPD Detective John Botte is showing his photographs from September 11th and its aftermath. The exhibit is being presented by the Morrison Hotel Gallery but is being shown at Calumet Gallery on West 22nd Street and it opens on September 4.
SVA: "Here Is New York: Revisited
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The School of Visual Arts presents “Here Is New York: Revisited,” a tribute to the impromptu display of photographs in a vacant SoHo storefront in 2001 that became known as “Here Is New York.” About 300 of the 5,000 images will be on view at the Westside Gallery on 133/141 West 21st Street from September 6-17.
The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
"Healing Hearts
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Starting Thursday at Sciame Construction at 14 Wall Street, see the "Healing Hearts" pen and ink drawings by Canadian artist John Coburn. In 2002, 3,000 copies of his book "Healing Hearts" were published for victims' families. This free exhibit requires reservations.
"Grace: 10 Years Since"
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Bertrand Delacroix Gallery presents "Grace: 10 Years Since," a light sculpture installation by Pietro Costa, on view at 314 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The sculpture’s fourth showing commemorates the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The show runs from September 10 to October 15.
Online Exhibit Of WTC Photographs
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For nearly 20 years, photographs hung in the stairwell that connected the two floors of Windows on The World, some soared as high as 17 feet. Called "Point of Departure" by photographer Charles Moretz, they had been commissioned in the early 1980s by Guy Tozzoli, president of the World Trade Centers Association and the creator of the WTC. Now, Moretz has recreated them as "Genius Loci," featuring select archival photographs from "Point of Departure" as well as his larger body of work of the Twin Towers.
"September 11" at MoMA
September 11, 2001–January 9, 2012
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MoMA presents images of the event itself, as well as art made directly in response to the attacks. "September 11" features more than 70 works by 41 artists and occupies the entire second floor of the museum.
Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis
Last chance to see the new bittersweet comedy about a prominent New York doctor, “Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis” runs through September 3. It will have performances Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., Wednesdays to Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre at 410 West 42nd Street. Tickets are $42.50 and can be purchased through Telechargewww.Telecharge.com
Last Chance To See "Pompeii"
Explore the last days of Pompeii through hundreds of artifacts before the volcanic eruption at Discover Times Square. Tickets are $20-$26 and the exhibition runs through Monday. Visit www.discoverytsx.com/pompeii for details.