Guide to the Creative Time Archive 1973-2006 MSS 179

Descriptive Summary

Title:	Creative Time Archive
Dates:	1973-2006
Abstract:	Founded in 1973, Creative Time is a public art organization based in New York City. The organization has a history of commissioning, producing, and presenting public artworks of all disciplines. The material in the collection document all aspects of the creation, exhibition, and reception of these commissioned artworks, as well as invaluable financial records that reflect how the organization has sustained, promoted, and financially supported its mission.
Quantity:	56.0 Linear feet (81 boxes)
Call Phrase:	MSS 179

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Historical Note

Creative Time is a nonprofit arts organization founded in 1973 to support the creation of innovative, site-specific works by professional artists for public presentation in vacant spaces of historical and architectural interest throughout New York City. Its history of commissioning, producing, and presenting adventurous public artworks of all disciplines began in the midst of a significant period in which artists were experimenting with new forms and media that moved their works out of galleries and museums and into the public realm. At this time, New York's citizens were responding to the City's deterioration, which was prompted by the fiscal crisis, with the City Beautification movement. Additionally, the federal government, recognizing the significance of art in society, established the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to herald the role of artists and introduce uninitiated audiences to contemporary art. Creative Time derives its values from this historic impetus to foster artistic experimentation, enrich public space and the everyday experience, and forefront artists as key contributors to a democratic society.

Programs sponsored by Creative Time include both the visual and performing arts and are designed to encourage a dialogue between the artist and the community. By presenting new works by artists concerned in enhancing the viewer's perception of a particular environment, sharing with the public the creative process, and using densely populated locations lacking in cultural amenities, these new works have expanded the definition of public art.

Creative Time's reputation has not rested on having a readily identifiable home, but on an identifiable programming philosophy, which requires that it move around to take advantage of the city's richness of resources.

Their earliest programs invigorated vacant storefronts as well as neglected public spaces such as the Great Hall of the Chamber of Commerce in Lower Manhattan and the arches of the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage. Both landmarks are overwhelming in their visual impact and wealth of history they represent. Until Creative Time's tenancy, the Great Hall had been closed for several years, and the arches for over a century. From 1983 - 2001, Creative Time presented Art in the Anchorage and the imposing and dramatic scale of the Anchorage arches drew thousands to the majestic chambers to view annual exhibitions of emerging creative practices in art, music, theater, and fashion until its closure in 2001 due to national security.

Creative Time gained early renown for initiating Art on the Beach on two acres of landfill known as Batter Park City, an area targeted for future residential and commercial development. From 1978 to 1985, this site became a laboratory for artists of all mediums to develop large scale works and often collaborate as interdisciplinary teams bringing together architects, sculptors, performers, musicians. Open free to the public for three months every summer, this unique program presented site-specific sculpture and performances. An eagerly anticipated event on New York's summer calendar of cultural happenings, the event relocated to Hunter's Point Queens for the summers of 1987-1988. The success of Art on the Beach set a model for the presentation of temporary public art which has since been adopted nation wide by city governments and other arts agencies.

Creative Time's Citywide program was inaugurated in 1989 and provided a new forum for further investigation of the parameters of public art. Responding to the impact of censorship and the art community's isolation, Creative Time noticed a need for individual artists to control and initiate the presentation of their work in public places and for the public to have greater access to artists and their process. Creative Time soon spread its programs throughout New York City. Presenting projects on billboards, landmark buildings, buses, deli cups, milk cartons, ATM machines, and the Internet, among numerous other venues, Creative Time broadened the definitions of both art and public space throughout the 1980s and 90s. In particular, Creative Time encouraged artists to address timely issues such as the AIDS pandemic, domestic violence, and racial inequality.

From 1973-1986, Creative Time was under the leadership of Anita Contini and continued until Cee Scott Brown took over as director in 1987. Anne Pasternak stepped in as director in 1993 and continues in this position at present. Today, Creative Time continues to provide hundreds of emerging and established artists with unparalleled opportunities to create ambitious new works that expand their practices and foster career growth. Each year, Creative Time also offers millions of people rare encounters with contemporary art beyond racial, economic, and age factors, thereby enlivening the everyday experience of New York City. While Creative Time delights New Yorkers with skywriting over Manhattan and colorful sculptures in Grand Central Station, it also inspires with projects like Tribute in Light, the twin beacons that rose from Lower Manhattan. Creative Time's alumni community continues to grow as the world's leading artists join the roster next to Vito Acconci, Diller + Scofidio, David Byrne, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Red Grooms, Jenny Holzer, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Sonic Youth, and Elizabeth Streb, among thousands more. Lastly, Creative Time has remained committed to promoting collaboration within the creative community, frequently partnering with institutions like the Dia Art Foundation, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MTA Arts for Transit, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

References:

2. Unknown author, untitled Creative Time press document, unpublished, circa 1985.

3. Creative Time: 20 years of art in unexpected places.

4. Pasternak, Anne and Ruth A. Peltason, ed. Creative Time: The Book, 33 Years of Public Art in New York City (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007).

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Scope and Content Note

The Creative Time Archive is an extremely diverse collection that comprehensively documents the on-going history of Creative Time, the New York City-based nonprofit arts organization. The collection contains a wealth of materials that document the organization's commitment to and history of commissioning, producing, and presenting adventurous public artworks of all disciplines. The bulk of the printed manuscript material spans from 1973- 1994 but includes documentation through the present. Additionally, there is much media material, particularly from the 1990s through early 2000s.

Materials in the Creative Time Archive reflect the intensely experimental and collaborative environment in which these artworks were created, as well as the ever-developing, ever-changing New York City landscape from the 1970s to the present. In addition, the materials reflect a global perspective in their representation of the shifting nature of artistic relations with the world at large. Given the time-based nature of much of the art that Creative Time was presenting, the organization was thorough in their documentation and includes extensive production and promotional materials that document all aspects of the creation, exhibition, and reception of these commissioned artworks. The collection also includes invaluable financial records that reflect how the organization sustains, promotes, and financially supports its mission.

Numerous oversize items found at the end of each of the series include design plots, posters, oversize printed matter and other promotional materials housed in boxes and map cases.

The Creative Time Archive is divided into eight series:

SERIES I: Exhibitions and Projectsconsists of correspondence, artist proposals, permits, artist biographies, administrative and production documentation, original art, flyers, invitations, promotional material, catalogs, related press, among other documents relating to the creation, exhibition, and reception of these individual projects and exhibitions. Projects/ exhibitions are arranged chronologically by year. Besides looking at individual project folders, researchers should also request any general folders from a given year as they may contain additional documentation. Additional material may be found in Oversize series.

SERIES II: Grants, Development and Financial Correspondenceis divided into seven subseries and consists of financial records, grant proposals, budget documentation, correspondence, and ancillary supporting documentation. Originally arranged chronological by fiscal year, material has been re-organized to group chronologically by year as well as by grant funding agency. The content within individual folders reflects Creative Time's original order. Some projects corresponding to particular grant requests have been written in brackets in finding aid descriptions.

Subseries A: National Endowment for the Arts

Subseries B: NYSCA

Subseries C: DCA

Subseries D: Miscellaneous Grants

Subseries E: Development

Subseries F: Financial Correspondence

Subseries G: Funding

SERIES III: Slidescontains all slides from the Creative Time Archive. Slides have been arranged into binders by project chronologically by year, respective of the order as received from Creative Time. Each sleeve has been given a unique alphanumeric designation according to binder arrangement. Slide content primarily includes exhibition and performance documentation and the majority of slides were received with substantial annotation as to the project, artist, date, and photographer. Subdividers before each project provide names of most photographers and artists represented therein.

SERIES IV: Photographic Materialsincludes all negatives, transparencies, contact sheets, and photographic prints from the Creative Time Archive. These substantial holdings are ordered chronologically by year and separated by individual project. Projects have been separated according to different types of material-negatives, contact sheets, and prints (the few transparencies in the archive have been housed with the negatives). Photographic content primarily includes exhibition and performance documentation along with promotional photos, artist samples, and site/planning prints. Many prints and contact sheets include substantial annotation as to the project, artist, date, and photographer.

SERIES V: Video and Filmcontains the videotaped material from the Creative Time Archive. Titles are arranged chronologically by year. Compilation tapes are arranged chronologically by first year represented on tape. Material includes performances, news broadcasts, source material, artist samples, and other miscellaneous recordings. There is a small amount of film material. Description of each item includes a title (which has been derived from cassette or container annotations), date, the original format of video, and total running time (TRT). Researcher access is limited to Subseries A: Video Recordings - Access Copies.

Subseries A: Video Recordings - Access Copies

Subseries B: Video Recordings - Originals

Subseries C: Film

SERIES VI: Audioincludes audio recordings from the Creative Time Archive. Titles are arranged chronologically by year. Compilation tapes are arranged chronologically by first year represented on tape. Material includes performances, news broadcasts, speeches, source material, and other miscellaneous recordings. Researcher access is limited to Subseries A - Audio Recordings - Access Copies.

Subseries A: Audio Recordings - Access Copies

Subseries B: Audio Recordings - Originals

SERIES VII: Marcos Kurtycz - Mail Artmaterials consist of various mailed objects created by artist Marcos Kurtycz including postcards, correspondence, books, performance and exhibition flyers, posters, and many art objects sent between 1988 and 1990 to Debbie Levine and Cee Scott Brown of Creative Time. Kurtycz (1934-1996) was a Polish-born, Mexico-based artist who exhibited works and performed in Creative Time's "UP Tiempo!" program at El Museo del Barrio in 1988 [see program documentation in Series I, III, IV, V]. Additional mailed objects from Kurtycz may be found in Oversize Series.

OVERSIZE SERIEScontains oversize materials from Series I, IV, and VII and includes exhibition catalogues, magazines, building proposals, photographic materials (including negatives, contact sheets, and prints), blueprints, posters, and hand-drawn mock-ups for exhibition catalogue.

Series I: Projects, Programs and Publications

Series IV: Photos

Series VII: Marcos Kurtycz - Mail Art

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Arrangement

For the most part, materials are arranged by project and chronologically by year. Series I: Production related materials are arranged chronologically by year of production. Series II: Grant related material is arranged by type and then chronologically by year with subseries to separate the various grant funding agencies. Series III and IV: Photographs and slides are arranged chronologically by the year of the subject or production title that the materials document. Series V and VI: Video and audio recordings are also arranged chronologically by year of production title. Series VII: Marcos Kurtycz mail art is arranged chronologically by year.

All efforts were made to preserve the original arrangement of the collection.

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The Martha Wilson Papers (unprocessed)

The David Wojnarowicz Papers

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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers without restrictions. Appointments are necessary to consult manuscript and archival material.

Use Restrictions

Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. Please contact fales.library@nyu.edu. or call 212 998 2596.

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Access Points

People

Acconci, Vito, 1940-
Anderson, Laurie, 1947-
B., Beth
Basinski, William, 1958-
Beckley, Connie, 1951-
Brand, Bill
Brown, Cee
Carlson, Ann, 1954-
Champagne, Lenora
Contini, Anita
Diggs, Peggy
Diller, Elizabeth
Farley, Alice
Finley, Karen
Flanagan, Bob, 1952-1996
Forti, Simone
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo
Grooms, Red
Holman, Bob, 1948-
Holzer, Jenny, 1950-
Jones, Bill T.
Kalman, Tibor
Kelly, John, 1954-
Kurtycz, Marcos
Lutz, Adelle
Miralda, Antoni, 1942-
Oppenheim, Dennis, 1938-
Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006
Pasternak, Anne, 1964-
Perron, Wendy
Phillips, Liz, 1951-
Piene, Otto, 1928-
Reynolds, Hunter
Riggs, Marlon T.
Scofidio, Ricardo
Snyder, Huck
Station House Opera
Streb, Elizabeth
Ukeles, Mierle
Vawter, Ron
Wilson, Ann, 1931-
Wilson, Martha, 1947-
Wojnarowicz, David
Zwickler, Phil, 1955-1991

Subjects

AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
AIDS activists -- New York (State) -- New York.
Alternative spaces (Arts facilities) -- New York (State) -- New York.
Art -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Political aspects.
Art and state.
Art patronage -- New York (State) -- New York.
Art patronage.
Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Political activity.
Artists -- New York (State) -- New York.
Arts -- Finance.
Arts -- Management.
Arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.
Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 21st century.
Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th Century.
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
Creative Time, Inc. -- History.
Dance, Modern -- United States.
Experimental theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
Family violence -- Prevention.
Installations (Art)
Local transit.
Minorities in art.
Modern dance -- New York (State) -- New York.
Motion pictures -- United States.
Performance art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.
Performance artists.
Political activists.
Politics in art.
Public architecture.
Public art -- New York (State) -- New York.
Public art spaces.
Urban transportation.

Organizations

ACT UP New York (Organization).
Creative Time, Inc..
Dance Theater Workshop.
Fura dels Baus (Theater company).
Gran Fury.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
National Endowment for the Arts.
New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
New York State Council on the Arts.

Type

Acetate film
Advertisements.
Announcements.
Audiotapes.
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Blueprints
Calendars
Catalogs
Color photographs
Color slides
Contact Sheets
Correspondence
Design drawings
Financial Records
Grant proposals
Ground plans
Manuscripts
Manuscripts for publication
Membership lists
Minutes
Negatives
Newspaper Clippings
Poetry
Posters
Press releases
Programs
Reviews
Schematic drawings
Transparencies
Videotapes

Places

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Queens (New York, N.Y.)

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Administrative Information

Provenance

Creative Time donated their archive to Fales Library in September 2006

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Creative time Archive; MSS 179; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

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Container List

Series I: Exhibitions and Projects

Scope and Contents note:

This series consists of correspondence, artist proposals, permits, artist biographies, administrative and production documentation, original art, flyers, invitations, promotional material, catalogs, related press, among other documents relating to the creation, exhibition, and reception of these individual projects and exhibitions. Projects/ exhibitions are arranged chronologically by year. Besides looking at individual project folders, researchers should also request any general folders from a given year as they may contain additional documentation. Additional material may be found in Oversize series.

Crafts in Action - Galleria, 100 William St, Feb 19 - Mar 19, 1974

1974

Clipping - "Galleria" article from Architecture Plus magazine, Sep/Oct 1974

1974

Sail - 88 Pine St, Dec 18, 1974 - Feb 21, 1975

1974-1975

Publication - "20 Years of Art in Unexpected Places" retrospective brochure (1974-1994), published by Creative Time, 1994

1974-1994

Ruckus Manhattan - 88 Pine St, Nov 20, 1975 - Jan 20, 1976

1975-1976

Publications - "Red Grooms and Ruckus Manhattan", Judd Tully (1977); Ruckus articles: Senior magazine, Jan 27, 1975 (vol.108, no.1); Art and Man magazine, Apr/May, 1976 (Vol.6, no.6)

1975-1976

New York Sky Events - East Harlem, June 10 - 11, 1976

1976

New York Sky Events: Neon Rainbow - Central Park, June 26, 1976

1976

Anemones: An Air Aquarium - 88 Pine St, Oct 19 - Dec 31, 1976

1976

Anemones: An Air Aquarium - original flyer artwork

1976

Round: Sound for Concave Surfaces - US Custom House, 1 Bowling Green, Nov 19-21, 1976

1976

Custom and Culture 1 - US Custom House, 1 Bowling Green, June 29 - Sep 11, 1977

1977

Butler's Lives of the Saints - 88 Pine St, Dec 16, 1977 - Jan 28, 1978

1977-1978

Letter - to Chairman of the Awards Committee [Commission of Cultural Affairs] about Morley Cho

[1977]

Letter - recognition of tax exemption, from Internal Revenue Service

1977

Downtown Drive-In - Edison Parking Lot, July 28 - 29, 1978

1978

Art on the Beach 1 - Battery Park City Landfill, Aug 11 - Sep 17, 1978

1978

Press - general

1978

Publication - Art on the Beach retrospective program, published by Creative Time, 1985

1978-1985

Custom and Culture 2 - US Custom House, 1 Bowling Green, May 3 June 17, 1979

1979

Downtown Drive-in 2 - Edison Parking Lot, Aug 17-18, 1979

1979

Correspondence - general

Art on the Beach 2 - Battery Park City Landfill, June 14 - Sep 14, 1980

1980

Masstransiscope - Myrtle St Subway Station, Sep 17, 1980 - ongoing

1980

Projects at the Precinct House: Breaking In - First Precinct House, Oct 29 - Nov 15, 1980

1980

Correspondence - general

1980

Publication - Art on the Beach retrospective program (1980-1982), published by Creative Time, 1984

1980-1982

Projects at the Precinct - First Precinct House, Mar 11 - Apr 4 1981

1981

Windspun - Hunter's Point, Bronx, May 13, 1981 - June 1, 1982

1981-1982

Art on the Beach 3 - Battery Park City Landfill, June 20 - Sep 13, 1981

1981

Ruckus Manhattan Revival - Burlington House Lobby, 1345 Ave of the Americas, Dec 18, 1981 - Mar 31, 1982

1981-1982

Children's drawings and writings, Ruckus Manhattan Revival

1982

Correspondence - general

1981

Press - general

1981

Principles in Perspective - Chamber of Commerce, June 22 - July 9, 1982

1982

Art on the Beach 4 - Battery Park City Landfill, June 26 - Sep 12, 1982

1982

Projects at the Chamber - Chamber of Commerce, Nov 9 - Dec 18, 1982

1982

Promo - holiday greeting card, gift certificate

1982

Press - general

1982

Art in the Anchorage 1 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, May 19 - Oct 10, 1983

1983

Art on the Beach 5: Six Collaborative Projects - Battery Park City Landfill, July 9 - Sep 25, 1983

1983

Publication - Art on the Beach retrospective program (1985-1986), published by Creative Time, 1986

1983-1985

Press - on Brooklyn Bridge, press packet and articles

1983

Publication - The Diaries of Agatha Muldoon ed., published by Jane Greengold

1983

Correspondence - general

1983

Press packets - general

1983-1985

Press - general

1983

Walk-in Theater for Pedestrians - Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse, Jan 25 - Apr 12, 1984

1984

Art on the Beach 6 - Battery Park City Landfill, July 7 - Sep 16, 1984

[1984]

Touch Sanitation Show - Marine Transfer Station, 59th St, Sep 9 - Oct 5, 1984

1984

Nighttrippers - The Russian Baths, First Baptist Church, Oscar Hammerstein Opera House, Dec 1, 8, 15, 1984

1984

Promo - general

1984

Publication - Insights / On Sites: Perspectives on Art in Public Places [Creative Time article by Anita Contini], published by Partners for Livable Places, 1984

1984

Clipping - Di Suvero Lithograph sale for Creative Time

1984

Promo - envelope for Creative Time, designed by Anton van Dalen

[1984]

Art in the Anchorage 2 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, May 15 - June 30, 1985

1985

Publications - [Art in the Anchorage articles] Bijutsu Techo Monthly Art Magazine 8/85 (vol.37, no.549); Art in Action, published by Sogetsu-kai Foundation, Tokyo, 1985

1985

Art on the Beach 7 - Battery Park City Landfill, July 2 - Sep 13, 1985

1985

Original drawings - Art on the Beach 7

1985

Publications - [Art on the Beach articles] New Art Examiner magazine 8/85; Smithsonian magazine 12/85; Modo magazine no.76, 1985

1985

Publications - [Art on the Beach articles] Ear magazine, Fall 1985; Graffiti magazine 11/85

1985

A Drop in the Bucket - Franklin St park, Sep 5 - Nov 5, 1985

1985

Press - general

1985

Promo - Creative Time Benefit Art Sale and Party, Christie's

1985

Promo - The Creative Times (Vol.1, Issue 2)

1985

Promo - holiday greeting card, designed by Calvin Reid

1985

B. Holden to Diderot - US Federal Courthouse, Foley Square, Mar 10 - June 20, 1986

1986

Publication - [B. Holden to Diderot Article] Arts Magazine 10/86

1986

Art in the Anchorage 3: The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June 6 - July 13, 1986

1986

Jazz in the Anchorage [Art in the Anchorage 3] - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June 8 - 29, 1986

1986

Performance in the Park 1 - Central Park Bandshell, Aug 3 - Sep 14, 1986

1986

Press - general

1986

Correspondence - general

1986

Promo - holiday greeting card, designed by David Humphrey

1986

Press/Promo - Cee Scott Brown appointment as Executive Director, January 1987

1987

Gala Benefit - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June 1987

1987

Art in the Anchorage 4 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June - July, 1987

1987

Performance in the Park 2 - Central Park Bandshell, June 19 - Sep 11, 1987

1987

Art on the Beach 8 - Hunter's Point, Queens, July 24 - Sep 20, 1987

1987

Project Packets - Art on the Beach 8

1987

Publications - [Art on the Beach 8 article] Off Ramp magazine, Spring 1988 (vol.1, No.1)

1987

Press - general

1987-1988

Publication - Creative Time retrospective catalog (1987-1988)

1987-1988

In the WINTER GARDEN: Anggrek; Relay - World Financial Center Winter Garden, May 10-11, 1988; May 17-18, 1988

1988

Misfortunes of Desire Acted Out - Shea Stadium Parking Lot, May 17, 1988

1988

Art in the Anchorage 5 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June 10 - July 27, 1988

1988

Art on the Beach 9 - Hunter's Point, Queens, July 15 - Sep 18, 1988

1988

15th Anniversary Halloween Party, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Oct 29, 1988

1988

UP Tiempo!: Performing and Visual Artists of the Americas - El Museo del Barrio, Nov 4 - Dec 10, 1988

1988

Promo - Creative Time 15th anniversary fund and party mailing

1988

Promo - Spring and Summer Events mailing

1988

Publication - The First NY International Festival of the Arts program book, published 1988

1988

Misc - project proposal guidelines

1988

Planning/Correspondence - Battery Maritime Building project

1988-1991

Planning/Correspondence - Battery Maritime Building project

1988-1991

Publication - Battery Maritime Building reference book, compiled by NYC Dept of Transportation and Bureau of Planning and Research

[1988]

Proposal - for Battery Maritime Building, South Ferry Center for the Arts, by Creative Time and Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.

1988

100

Planning - Battery Maritime Building financial and legal records

1989-1990

101

Correspondence - general

1988

102

Citywide - April - May, 1989

1989

103

Poets in the Bars - citywide, Apr 6 - May 1, 1989

1989

104

Light Site-ings: Holland Tunnel Drive-In Billboard - Holland Tunnel, Apr 13 - 16, 1989

1989

105

Publication - Holland Tunnel Key newspaper

[1989]

106

Automotive Votive - citywide, May 6 - 29, 1989

1989

107

Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Do - citywide, June - Dec 1989

1989

108

Publications - [Kissing Doesn't Kill features] Outlook magazine, Summer '90 (no.9); Blueprint magazine, Jul - Aug '90 (no.69)

1989

109

Art in the Anchorage 6 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June 22 - Aug 13, 1989

1989

110

Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors 1 - 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Aug 13 - 16, 1989

1989

111

Video/Musica - 26 Avenue B, Nov 17 - 19, 1989

1989

112

It Was Only Art - citywide, Oct 1989

1989

113A

What's In a Flame? - Cable Building, Nov 23 - Dec 3, 1989

1989

113B

What's In a Flame? - Project Mock-Up

1989

114

Visual AIDS: A Day Without Art - Dec 1, 1989

1989

115

Public Information - citywide, "dates to be announced"

Correspondence - general

1989

118

Promo - Summer Events mailing

1989

119

Publication - Creative Time retrospective catalog (1989-1990)

1989-1990

120

Creative Time at Dixon Place - 64 East 4th St, Apr 24 - 26, 1990

1990

121

The Black Sheep - First Ave between 1st and Houston, May 1990 - Apr 1991

1990-1991

122

The Wilds and the Deep - Battery Maritime Building, May 25 - June 24, 1990

1990

123

Press Packet - South Ferry Center for the Arts, The Wilds and the Deep

1990

124

Art in the Anchorage 7 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, July 13 - Oct 7, 1990

1990

125

Publication - [Art in the Anchorage article] High Performance magazine, Spring 1991

1990

126

Original drawing - Nancy Rubins [Art in the Anchorage 7]

1990

127

Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors 2 - 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Aug 11 - 18, 1990

1990

128

Surgeon General's Warning - citywide, Sep - Nov, 1990

1990

129

The Bowery Concert - Sarah D. Roosevelt Park, Sep 15, 1990

1990

130

Clipping - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Oct 30, 1990

1990

131

Carbon Monoxide is a Lethal Gas - citywide, Oct - Nov 1990

1990

132

Press Release - "Creative Time refuses to sign restrictive NEA contracts", Oct 1, 1990

1990

133

Press Release - "Nan Goldin refuses to sign restrictive NEA contracts", Oct 1, 1990

1990

134

Love of a Poet - Battery Maritime Building, Oct 10 - 13, 17 - 20, 1990

1990

135

Day Without Art: Electric Blanket - The Cooper Union, 3rd Ave and 7th St, Dec 1, 1990

1990

136

Publication - "A Threnody for Street Kids" brochure, by David Levi Strauss

[1990]

137

Press packet - general

1990

138

Correspondence - general

1990

139

Publication - [Creative Time feature] Frame Magazine no.2, 1990

1990

140

Proposal guidelines - for Creative Time Citywide projects

1990

141

Promo - Summer Events mailing

1990

142

Publication - The Dance Theater Workshop New(s) in Revue, Vol.XXV Issue 3, Spring events 1990

1990

143

Sample letter to public officials on NEA Funding

1990

144

Press Release - Art Matters Inc., on support of visual arts funding, Feb 1991

1991

145

Visualize This - citywide, Apr 1991 - Apr 1993

1991-1993

146

Publication - [Visualize This article] i-D Magazine, no.97, Oct 1991

1991

147

Angels Have Been Sent to Me - citywide, May 1991

1991

148

Black Works - The Kitchen, 512 W 19th St, May 1 - 4, 1991

1991

149

Publication - [Black Works] Mickery: Pictorial II, 1988-199, published by Stichting Mickery Workshop, 1991

1991

150

The Most Exciting Women in Music - citywide, June 1991

1991

151

Publication - [Most Exciting… article] XS magazine, June 26, 1991

1991

152

Not Just the Parade - citywide, June 1991

1991

153

The Honeymoon Project - World Financial Center Winter Garden, June 7 - 30, 1991

1991

154

Suz/o/Suz - Kaufman-Astoria Studios, June 12 - 15, 1991

1991

155

Memories of New York Chinatown - 70 Mulberry St, June 23, 1991

1991

156

Art in the Anchorage 8 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, July 10 - Sep 7, 1991

1991

157

Sounds in the Anchorage [Art in the Anchorage 8] - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, July 10 - Sep 7, 1991

1991

158

Skin - Lincoln Center, Aug 23, 1991

1991

159

Wigstock - Union Square Park, Sep 2, 1991

1991

160

Masterpieces Without the Director - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sep 28 - 29, 1991

1991

161

Clean Needles Save Lives - citywide via television, Oct 1991

1991

162

As a Dream That Vanishes - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Oct 30 - Nov 24, 1991

1991

163

Fear of Disclosure: (In)visible Women - citywide, Dec 1, 1991

1991

164

Our Voices: Our Songs - 208 W 13th St, Dec 27, 1991

1991

165

Citywide - 1991 proposal guidelines

1991

166

Promo - Creative Time mailing holiday mailing

1991

167

Citywide - project listings

1991

168

Publication - ["Public Art in Manhattan" article] Domus magazine, no.723, Jan 1991

1991

169

Press packet - general

1991

170

Correspondence - general

1991

171

Publication - Creative Time retrospective catalogue, 1991-1992, published by Creative Time in 1993

1991-1992

172

Fear of Disclosure - 1991-1993 project info (see also individual projects)

1991-1993

173

Publication - "Just the Facts" domestic violence pamphlet, Jan 1992

1992

174

Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project - citywide via milk carton, Jan - Feb 1992

1992

175

Milk cartons - set of four milk cartons for Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project, Jan - Feb, 1992

1992

176

Use Mass Transit 1: A Billboard Project - citywide via billboard, Jan - Feb 1992

1992

177

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith - 33 Wooster St., Jan 24 - Feb 16, 1992

1992

178

Private/Public - New York City subway lines, Mar 26 - May 1, 1992

1992

179

Transitions, Inc. - citywide, May 8 - 9, 1992

1992

180

Sacrificial Ornament - Municipal Art Society, May 21 - June 27, 1992

1992

181

Publication - Sacrificial Ornament exhibition catalogue, published by Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1992

1992

182

Art in the Anchorage 9: Women's Action Coalition - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, July 10 - Sep 20, 1992

1992

183

A Surreal Soap Opera - 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Aug 20, 1992

1992

184

Press Release - from Dance Theater Workshop, 9th Annual Bessie Awards, Sep 9, 1992

1992

185

Accountability? - NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oct 1992

1992

186

Underdevelopment in Progress/ 500 Years - Soho 20 Gallery, 469 Broome St, Oct 1992, Sep 28 - Oct 23, 1993

1992, 1993

187

Two Spirits Speak Out - Grand Central Station, Nov 21, 1992

1992

188

Use Mass Transit 2 - citywide via billboard, Dec 1992 - Feb 1993

1992-1993

189

Day Without Art: We Interrupt This Program - citywide via television, Dec 1, 1992

1992

190

Fear of Disclosure: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - 52 W 8th St, citywide

1992

191

Clippings - misc NEA articles

1992

192

Correspondence - general

1992

193

Higher Ground - 268 Mulberry St, Jan 9 - 30, 1993

1993

194

Victory Music Series - New Victory Theater, Apr 3 - 24, 1993

1993

195

Hairy Tales - citywide, Apr 7 - 22, 1993

1993

196

Art in the Anchorage 10 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, June 4 - Sep 25, 1993

1993

197

Publication - [Art in the Anchorage 10, Ringside article] Lighting Dimensions magazine, Nov 1993

1993

198

Publication - [Art in the Anchorage 10, Ringside article] Dance Ink magazine, Winter 1993

1993

199

Publication - [Art in the Anchorage 10, Ringside article] Dans Tidningen magazine, No.4, 1993

1993

200

In Honor of Allen R. Schindler - citywide, July 1993

1993

201

42nd St Art Project - proposals, sketches, descriptions, etc, July 8 - Nov

1993

202

42nd St Art Project - production materials

1993

203

42nd St Art Project - promotional materials

1993

204

42nd St Art Project - press

1993

205

42nd St Art Project - press packet

1993

206

42nd St Art Project - correspondence

1993

207

Universal Family Album - 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Aug 14 - 15, 1993

1993

208

Day Without Art: We Interrupt This Program - citywide via television, Dec 1, 1993

1993

209

Just Outside the City - 1993-1995

1993-1995

210

Correspondence - big women photo

1993

211

Publication - Creative Time retrospective catalogue, 1993-1994, published by Creative Time 1995

1993-1994

212

Press Packet - Dumb Type

1993

213

Correspondence - general

1993

214

Body Politics - Great Hall, The Cooper Union, Feb 14 - 15, 1994

1994

215

Mass Transit 3: Hey Bozo… - citywide via billboard, May 1994

1994

216

Fear of Disclosure: Out in Silence and Not a Simple Story - citywide, June 5, 7, 1994

1994

217

Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - 45 Greene St, June 7 - July 1, 1994

1994

218

Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - sign/comment book

1994

219

Master Builder - Chelsea, July, Dec 1994

1994

220

42nd St Art Project - 42nd St Development Project, Inc. request for proposals booklet, May 16, 1994

1994

221

42nd St Art Project - Proposals, sketches, planning, etc, 1994

1994

222

42nd St Art Project - Production materials

1994

223

42nd St Art Project - promotional materials

1994

224

42nd St Art project - Haikus

1994

225

42nd St Art Project - media coverage, press packets

1994

226

42nd St Art Project - press

1994

227

42nd St Art Project - correspondence

1994

228

Publication/clipping - [42nd St Art Project features] Public Art Review magazine (Issue 10, vol.5, no.2); Philadelphia Inquirer (5/10/94)

1994

229

Art in the Anchorage 11: Mirage - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, July - Sep 1994

1994

230

Publication - [Art in the Anchorage review] - Dance Magazine (12/94)

1994

231

20th Anniversary Celebration - Apollo Theater, July 7, 1994

1994

232

First Annual Sara D. Roosevelt Park Summer Festival - Sara D. Roosevelt Park, July 10, 1994

1994

233

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Wild Style - 30 Lincoln Plaza, Aug 10, 1994

1994

234

Combat Zone: Campaign HQ Against Domestic Violence - 110 Mercer St, Oct - Dec 1994

1994

235

Proposals/Planning - Citywide panel proposal review, Nov 1, 1994

1994

236

Clippings - Day Without Art 1994

1994

237

Planning/Correspondence - Barney's New York Window Project

1994

238

Publication - [Creative Time feature by Alyson Pou] Movement Research Performance Journal no.9 (Fall/Winter 1994)

Correspondence - general

1994

241

Art in the Anchorage - proposals, planning, and production materials

1995

242

Deviant Craft - [Art in the Anchorage] planning/production materials

1995

243

Press packet - Vintage: Families of Value, a film by Thomas Allen Harris

1995

244

Rent-a-Body - citywide, Feb - July, 1996

1996

245

1-900-ALL-KAREN - international via telephone, Feb 16 - Aug 16, 1998

1998

246

Between Dreams and History - Ludlow and Rivington St, Oct 22 - Nov 14, 1998

1998

247

Art in the Anchorage 18 - Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, May 31 - July 29, 2001

2001

248

Untitled [Poster campaign] - citywide, Mar 11 - 25, 2002

2002

249

Winter in the Fall Benefit - Ritz Carlton, Battery Park City, Oct 15, 2002

2002

250

The Peace Piece - citywide, Mar 20, 2003

2003

251

Correspondence - general

2003

252

Imitation of Christ - citywide, Sep 8 - 15, 2004

2004

253

Promo - "Consumer's Guide to Times Square Advertising" handout, by Creative Time

2004

254

59th Minute - Times Square Panasonic Astrovision, Mar 7 - Jun 5, 2006

2006

255

Creative Time Book planning and notes

2006

256

Correspondence - general

2006

257

Undated/unidentified material - postcard; letter

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Series II: Grants, Development, and Financial Correspondence

Scope and Contents note:

This series is divided into seven subseries and consists of financial records, grant proposals, budget documentation, correspondence, and ancillary supporting documentation. Originally arranged chronological by fiscal year, material has been re-organized to group chronologically by year as well as by grant funding agency. The content within individual folders reflects Creative Time’s original order.

Subseries A: NEA Grants

NEA - Special Projects, rejection [Red Grooms, Ruckus Manhattan]

1974-1976