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What is Tomorrow’s Mysterious Guggenheim Press Conference About?

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Tomorrow morning IN THE AIR and scores of other curious arts journalists will go to the Guggenheim to attend “the launch of a new initiative linking artists, curators, educators, and audiences around the world.” What could this “global cultural exchange” be? Nobody seems to know, but we’re going to make some wild guesses.

— The Guggenheim and Gagosian are partnering to open a new museum in Beijing, the Guggosian.

— The Guggenheim will rent out its atrium for an exhibition of every single BMW Art Car.

— The Guggenheim ceases construction on previously secret Guggenheim Mars due to disputes with Martian labor unions.

— The Guggenheim ramp will be replaced with one of those airport moving sidewalks, in order to get more people through the space and increase ticket sales.

Maurizio Cattelan to hang scale model of the Guggenheim inside himself.

— It’s really a new Tino Sehgal piece, “Press,” to see how many journalists they can get to show up for a mysterious announcement.

— The Guggenheim will open a new museum in every single Frank Lloyd Wright building in the world, by 2014.

— The Guggenheim will move to a new building alongside the Low Line, and rent its Upper East Side building to the Metropolitan Museum.

— To expand upon the successes of its BMW Guggenheim Lab while assuaging allegations that it perpetuates gentrification, the museum will launch the Toyota Guggenheim Meth Lab.

— In an effort to outshine MoMA’s current Kraftwerk concert series, the Guggenheim announces year-long Spinal Tap performance residency.

Check in tomorrow to find out what the press conference was really about.

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  1. More likely, they will be launching Googleheim.

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