Arad's

Ron Arad's latest installation promises cross-disciplinary alchemy, in which the design-as-art maverick takes not a back seat exactly, but more of a supporting role.

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What is remarkable is that, despite all this, the memorial that opens to the public this week is not only at its core similar to Arad's very first sketch for the design but is also a powerful tribute and a meaningful contribution to Lower Manhattan.

At The World Trade Center Memorial, Staying Above Ground Matters Paul Needham 2011

With the opening this weekend of architect Michael Arad's "Reflecting Absence" on the site of the former World Trade Center, there will at last be a dignified, physical place to remember the missing, one to complement our immense graveyard of digitized ghosts.

Cameras Defining the Chaos and Its Aftermath Richard B. Woodward 2011

It plays to a live score by Henrik Schwarz, Dixon and Âme of avant-house collective Innervisions, who will all then go on to play a second set of new music, accompanied by visuals created especially for Arad's exhibit.

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Mr. Arad's design pulled eyes down into the pits left by the towers.

New Era Set For 9/11 Site Sophia Hollander 2011

Sadly, while "Reflecting Absence," Michael Arad's newly opened World Trade Center Memorial, possesses some of these qualities, in the end it never coalesces into a convincing, engaging whole.

A Memorial We Want to Love Eric Gibson 2011

Photograph by François Halard On Ron Arad's 1990 polished steel table sits a bronze Cubist falcon by Russian artist Czaki and one of Catroux's signature Atlas sculptures.

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The letters of the names are 3.75 inches tall, which Schwartz notes is large for a memorial of this kind the names on Michael Arad's Ground Zero memorial are an inch-and-a-half tall.

In N.J., a More Modest Memorial Laura Raskin 2011

But the memorial's failure isn't entirely Mr. Arad's fault.

A Memorial We Want to Love Eric Gibson 2011

It makes use of Ron Arad's groundbreaking 360-degree Curtain Call installation to screen the 1920 German silent horror film The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, renowned for its creepy psychological thrills and distorted set design.

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