Carol Vogel reports on the Guggenheim museum’s decision to close its Berlin branch run in cooperation with Deutsche Bank:

After 15 years, Deutsche Guggenheim, an outpost of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, is closing at the end of the year.

The decision to end the partnership between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank was announced in Berlin on Monday morning. Neither the bank nor the Guggenheim gave a concrete reason for the decision, saying only that their contact expires at the end of 2012.

Guggenheim to Close Berlin Outpost (Arts Beat/New York Times)