’September 11’ Show Has Hulking Steel, Blowing Paper: Interview
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It seems impossible: a dynamic, thought-provoking art show about the terrorist attacks on New York that’s likely to offend no one. Yet Peter Eleey, curator of the exhibition “September 11” at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, may have pulled off just that.
With pieces as varied as a hulking sculpture made of scrap metal by the artist John Chamberlain and the photograph of a stray piece of newspaper by Diane Arbus, the exhibition aims to address the memory of 9/11 while sidestepping explicit visual representations of the twin towers or the day itself.