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By David Swarts

The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum, located within the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, will close Sunday, January 5, 2003.

Originally presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Art of the Motorcycle exhibit was moved to the Guggenheim at the Venetian and opened October 7, 2001. Due to popular demand and support from BMW Motorcycles, the exhibit was extended from its original closing date of June 2002 until January 2003, according to Guggenheim Communications Manager Kimiko Haight.

The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit will remain open to the public from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. through January 5.

As for the over 120 motorcycles in the exhibit, Haight says they will be returned to their owners.

The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, also located in the Venetian, will remain open with the exhibit Art Through the Ages: Masterpieces of Painting from Titian to Picasso.

According to Haight, over 560,000 patrons have visited the Guggenheim in Las Vegas.

For more information, call the Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas at (702) 414-2440 or go to www.guggenheimlasvegas.org.