Projections: Visual Journalists Who Covered 9/11 Reunite to Reflect on the Images that Stunned Us and Changed Us
"I think for many journalists that day, it was beyond any disaster experience they had. When I got out of the subway, there was smoke coming from both towers. I didn't know of the second plane crash, so for me that was really confusing. As I got closer to the World Trade Center, there were probably thousands of people running toward me, trying to get away." So noted the photographer Stan Honda in 2021, recalling his experience covering 9/11. Honda will be among dozens of photographers and photography editors looking back on their roles on that day in a special weeklong series of Projections events, which you can join via Zoom from Sept. 6-11, at 7:00 pm ET.
Weekend Update: Chess as Art
If you missed watching the Marcel Duchamp birthday chess playoff at MoMA last month (above, with Chess Master Susan Polgar), you can get your own game on this summer, starting with an evening of chess at the Noguchi Museum and Garden tomorrow night. Scroll down for info. Readymade inventor Marcel Duchamp encoded the ultimate Dada strategy when he stated, in 1923, that he was quitting art and devoting himself to playing chess. The artist who championed wordplay, absurdity, and gender-ben...

