What we have learned: Art, Place and Mass Trauma. A conversation with Clifford Chanin, Miguel Arraiz and Todd Stone.

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED: ART, PLACE, AND MASS TRAUMA Thursday, October 29, 2026 THE QUESTION What have artists, architects, and institutions learned, over twenty-five years of working with places of mass trauma, that can help others living through grief, loss, and rebuilding? This is the question at the center of a conversation between Todd Stone, whose paintings have documented this site since the morning of September 11, 2001; Miguel Arraiz García, the architect who designed the Burning Man Temple 2025, a structure built each year to hold the grief of thousands, then burned to the ground; and Clifford Chanin of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, whose institutional work has shaped how this site's story is told to the world. THE SETTING The 80th floor of 3 World Trade Center, home to Top of the World, Silverstein Properties' exhibition on the history of the World Trade Center's rebuilding, and a natural extension of Witness Downtown Rising, Stone's exhibition of one hundred paintings on the…