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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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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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Steven Leiber, 1957-2012
Steven Leiber, 54, art dealer and collector, died Jan. 28 in San Francisco after a year-long battle with cancer. Leiber occupied a niche, specializing in contemporary artist's books, reference material and ephemera-announcements, flyers, posters-as well as multiples and works on paper.
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Artist Mike Kelley Dead at 57
Artist Mike Kelley has died, age 57. The cause of death has not been announced. The news was reported by the New York Observer's Gallerist blog (which indicated that the cause was said to be suicide), and confirmed by A.i.A.
Massimiliano Gioni Will Curate the 2013 Venice Biennale
Italian Massimiliano Gioni has been appointed director of the 2013 Venice Biennale. The seemingly omnipresent 39-year-old is associate director of the New Museum in New York and artistic director of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Milan. He will maintain these responsibilities.
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Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 200
