Talking About 9/11 Art, And How It Shaped Memory And Debate

“As befits an event with a truly traumatic status, 9/11 has proved difficult to approach in an uncontroversial way. No work of ‘9/11 Art,’ in fact, seems complete without some commentary on how it fails or does disservice to the true nature of the tragedy — though, of course, this true nature varies depending on who is doing the commentary.”