MK and Linda Salerno move into their loft on the top floor of the former Kunsthalle. LS transfers the content of her Soho studio of 30 years to the East Village and shows her paintings in the grand project room with its fifteen-meter ceiling adjacent to the couple's living quarters. Exhibitions of Qui Shi Hua, Allen Frame, and others follow, as well as concerts and screenings of avant-garde films. The unique space lends itself to various commercial uses - film, video, and fashion photo shoots, promotional parties for designers like Calvin Klein and fundraisers for New York art institutions - that help carry the costs for the cultural events.