The theater and black box space are tucked away in the back.
Ms. Kipp's video is installed in a newly constructed black box space, with a bench for viewers.
It has been a long time coming — André Bishop, Lincoln Center Theater's artistic director, has wanted a black box space since he came to Lincoln Center Theater in 1992.
The two-part program -- the Diva Project and the New Play Series -- had its debut last summer in George Street's 100-seat "black box" space.
The intimacy of the airy black box space is conducive to the effectiveness of "Breakfast With Mugabe," which tautly depicts a struggle of wills between the African ruler and Dr. Andrew Peric, a white Zimbabwean psychiatrist summoned to the presidential palace.
But in 2007 that's what happened for Stephen Karam, whose funny, searching three-hander "Speech & Debate" became a runaway hit as the inaugural production in a 65-seat black box space called the Roundabout Underground.
Svetlana Legetic, who runs Brightest Young Things, said she looked forward to converting the place into a "little surprise jewel box space where anything could happen," including "weird little special dance parties" and perhaps a glitter-spewing balloon canopy.
From the black box space on the ground floor to the explosion of color and form up above, "The Total Look" is just that: a total look at the brilliant vision of Gernreich, Moffitt and Claxton.
There is something of the same spirit in Yuken Teruya's LVMH series, paper bags from posh shops – Pucci, Christian Dior, Givenchy – which Teruya has fixed to the gallery wall in a row, making a sequence of diminutive box spaces.
The latest addition is Cooke Contemporary, a chic white box space with track lighting and a poured concrete floor in a renovated warehouse a block from the old 111 First Street complex.
