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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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VIP Online Fair Re-Boots
Making a bold bid after a troubled first outing, VIP launches its second annual online-only art fair today. The fair will be online through Wednesday Feb 8.
VIP's 135 international exhibitors from 35 countries will offer 1,500 artworks in their booths, by over 1,100 artists, spread over six virtual halls. Galleries could choose large, medium, small or "emerging" booths, which accommodate varying numbers of artworks. Each exhibitor has unlimited backroom space, akin to the iPads often wielded by gallerinas at real-world art fairs.
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Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, a city with one museum and one major gallery, Nick Van Woert's mixed-media practice evolved from doodles, dra
