Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Geoffrey Beene, Manolo Blahnik, Kenneth Cole, John Galliano, Sylvia Heisel, Rei Kawakuba, Christian Lacroix, Issey Miyake, Miuccia Prada, Jil Sander, Lorna Simpson, Philip Treacy, Yohji Yamamoto, designers; Holly Brubach, Robert E. Bryan, Jade Hobson Charnin, Amy Fine Collins, Lysa Cooper, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Thelma Golden, Adelle Lutz, Fern Mallis, Camilla Nickerson, Andrea Rosen, Cindy Sherman, Anna Wintour, Olivier Zahm

October 23-29, 1997
Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue
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A new play on the classic surrealist drawing game in which multiple people contribute to a drawing or text but conceal their contributions from each other until the last person has drawn or written his part, Exquisite Corpses allowed each participating artist to interpret a different part of the human body and then displayed the end results in conjunction with each other. Pairing up prominent fashion designers with contemporary visual artists, the teams worked to produce bold new design projects which surprised even their creators. Selections of the works were then sold as a benefit for Creative Time. Exquisite Corpses launched a year of projects that illuminated the depth of creativity in fashion design, honoring the discipline as an important artistic endeavor.

Jerald Frampton, Chris Hanson, John Klima, Ming-Wei Lee, Susan Leopold, Loren Madsen, Tom Nussbaum, Alyson Pou, Michael Sarff, Hendrika Sonnenberg, SUMO studio

October 2-December 20, 1997
Deutsche Bank Building, 31 West 52nd Street
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World Views enlisted the diorama-building techniques of several artists and architects in a project that produced ten original and diverse “worlds” in downtown Manhattan. Viewed through holes in a temporary wall built around the installations, the often surreal or whimsical spaces radically offset their monumental surroundings as each artist presented a microcosmic world contained within the macrocosm of midtown Manhattan. Using only natural light, each world was a unique interior perspective presented in an outdoor, public context. In an area of the city where great cultural and financial institutions exist side by side, World Views offered a literal opening through which to look into these respective domains.

World Views was conceived and organized by Deutsche Bank curator/consultant Liz Christensen and developed in partnership with Creative Time.