PANEL DISCUSSION
presented in collaboration with The Vera List Center

ZERO CULTURE
What’s Happening with the Arts at Ground Zero?
Monday, December 12, 7:30 PM

The New School
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 W 13th St, 2nd fl NYC
8, free for students

Panelists:
Tom A. Bernstein, President and Co-founder, Chelsea Piers
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Hans Haacke, artist
Mike Wallace, historian and director, The Gotham Center for New York City History
Bob Yaro, President, Regional Planning Association

Moderator:
Paul Goldberger, Dean, Parsons The New School of Design

Why have culture and memorial diverged? Why must we choose one or the other? The acceptance of a master plan for the World Trade Center site in 2003 has not made it immune to intervention, discussion and debate. The ongoing challenges to rebuilding the site, focused on issues of design and security, have most recently polarized the areas of culture and memorialization. Culture, ordinarily the bedrock of remembrance, is estranged from the current planning, and even thought by some to desecrate the site.