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Deutsche Guggenheim Will Close This Year, Cites Changing Art World
The ever-expanding Guggenheim Foundation is, for a change, pruning one of its outposts. The Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin will close at the end of this year.
A relatively small space in the Guggenheim empire, the Deutsche branch has been located within the headquarters of the Deutsche Bank building for 15 years. It opened in the reunified city in 1997, making a much smaller splash than the Guggenheim Bilbao, which opened that same year.
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Ben Kaufmann Closes Berlin Gallery, Plans Career in Football
The spring art season in Berlin lacks an important component: Galerie Ben Kaufmann. The gallery represented international artists Matthias Dornfeld, Bernd Ribbeck and Florian Morlat, among others. Reached by e-mail, the 39-year-old Kaufmann told A.i.A. that keeping up with the gallery's demands had become too daunting. "Nearly one year ago, I was in Mexico City for business reasons; after that I was installing a show in Paris and was due for an appointment in L.A. It was too much, I needed a change," he said. "Our time at the gallery was great, but I always knew that I would need to get out of the art business one day." The gallery closed at the end of December, following a presentation of the floor plans of its current and former locations.
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'Turf,' A Super Bowl Pre-Game Art Show
With the spotlight on Indianapolis in the lead-up to Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, the city's art community is encouraging football fans to consider art viewing as a pre-game activity in addition to the traditional tailgate parties.
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Dorothea Tanning Dies, Age 101
Dorothea Tanning, artist and poet, died on Jan. 31 at the age of 101. Erudite and prolific for seven decades, Tanning often said she learned how to paint by gazing at paintings on her frequent visits to the Art Institute of Chicago. Her Surrealist figurative work in oil on canvas or watercolor on paper gave way in the 1950s to more atmospheric abstractions. Beginning in the late '50s, she also made biomorphic soft sculptures out of materials like wool, tweed, felt and fur.
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Roving Eye: Juan Downey Returns to New York
Last week, pioneering video artist Juan Downey's work finally arrived at the Bronx Museum from Tempe, where it had been on view at the Arizona State University Art Museum. It's the first museum survey in America of the Chilean-born artist (1940–1993). It took over two years of planning for the 100 works in his exhibition "The Invisible Architect" to make it here [where they are on view through May 20], after Arizona and the MIT List Art Center in Cambridge, Mass. A 27-foot trailer rolled up in front of our museum and parked there for two days, with some 11 wooden crates and pallets, 17 pedestals and four vitrines, and 30 monitors and DVD players, all taking over two hours to unload. The crates sat for 48 hours, acclimatizing to the galleries, a natural part of the process when art travels. Now that it's all unpacked several days later, we are installing the exhibition.
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Image courtesy the artist and Macarone Gallery.
In his sculpture and installation, Eli Hansen, who lives and works in Taco
