Ten Years Later: Ground Zero Remembered

On this tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Brooklyn Museum honors those who were lost and those who have suffered as a result of the attacks. On view in this gallery are works by the artists Michael Richards and Christoph Draeger. While Richards’s sculpture is a tribute to the African American aviators of World War II known as the Tuskegee airmen, in retrospect it can also be seen as a commemoration of all those who died in the World Trade Center attack, including Richards himself. Draeger’s giant jigsaw puzzle deals with memory in a different way, commenting on the dissemination of press images in the wake of a disastrous event. In addition, two reflection books on view contain comments from Museum visitors responding to images of Ground Zero exhibited for the anniversary of 9/11 in 2002.