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From yesterday evening to dawn this morning, the ethereal September 11-light installation Tribute in Light beamed into the skies from its downtown perch. Designed by artists Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, architects John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi of PROUN Space Studio, architect Richard Nash Gould, and lighting designer Paul Marantz and produced by the Municipal Art Society and Creative Time, the lights were first seen in March 2002 for a month and then became part of the September 11 anniversary fabric, shining from dusk till dawn.

There is also contiuning debate about the best way to show victims' names - with or without signifying their occupation as emergency worker, etc.

The wonderful panorama of New York at the Queens Museum of Art will add The Tribute in Light to the panroma. Panorama of the City will replace its World Trade Center replicas with Tribute in the next few months. QM Executive Director Tom Finkelpearl tells Newsday, "The Panorama itself has got a big following and after Sept. 11 we received many calls asking what would happen to it." Two of the artists who helped develop Tribute, Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, are directing the new addition. Other facts about the Panorama:

Tomorrow night, might be as much about the complexity of the artistic process as it is a tribute to all those who attempt to realize public art.