In this informal, dinner-theater-style event, authors André Aciman and Caroline Weber, architect Annabelle Selldorf, and documentary filmmaker Sosena Solomon will explore indelible connections and inherited heirlooms, endangered archives and vanishing traditions—and what happens if we let heritage slip away.

The evening is also a celebration of World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) 60th anniversary publication, Irreplaceable: 60 of Humanity's Most Treasured Places (Rizzoli). Author and historian Amanda Foreman and WMF President and CEO Bénédicte de Montlaur will cohost the event, which promises elegies, manifestos, and love letters to the almost-lost.

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