As promised, last Friday, December 12, 2025, we at the Art Authority Museum, along with Maria Nevelson and the Louise Nevelson Foundation, brought back a small part of what the world lost on September 11, 2001.
In a ceremony exactly 47 years after the dedication of Louise Nevelson’s “Sky Gate, New York” at the World Trade Center in 1978, we (literally) unveiled and re-dedicated our meticulously and respectfully reconstructed version.
We are so proud to have been able to bring this small but important part of the lost Past into the Present, making it available to all as we journey into the Future.
The re-dedication ceremony, Zoom based (of course), was honored by the presence of many of those who have preserved and remembered enough of that Past so that we were able to bring this small part back.
First and foremost was granddaughter and co-host Maria, giving us poignant insights from both her home and the World Trade Center Memorial. We also were further inspired by:
- Alan Reiss who would pass by the original work every day on the way to his office at the Port Authority, where he has now worked for the past 41 years
- Karen Tobia who was at the original 1978 dedication, working in the World Trade Center executive director’s office
- Amy Weinstein who has been preserving the history of 9/11 for nearly 25 years now, most as a curator at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
The ceremony, now part of history in its own right, was recorded and should be available soon for all to view on the Art Authority Museum website.
Watch this space.