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Steve Wynn Goes Shopping at Art Basel, Comes Home With Stallone Painting

Where: 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
December 4, 2009 at 2:54 PM | by MsRebecca | 0 Comments

Art has never been the first thing we seek out in Vegas, although we bet the galleries at the Bellagio and Wynn are decent places to escape when the sound of the slot sonatas starts to send us batty. But the news of Steve Wynn’s latest acquisition has us rethinking our art aversion. While in Miami for Art Basel this week, Wynn purchased a painting by Sylvester Stallone. Uh huh. Rocky. Rambo. Sly. Judge Dredd. He paints.

Apparently, Stallone has been a part-time painter for 30 years, but his foray into the Art Basel world puts him in the professional category. What else do you call it when you sell your painting to one of the most famous collectors in America for $40,000? Wynn took a shine to an abstract piece, while another art gallery bigwig bought a Stallone self-portrait for $50,000.

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View The Artwork of CityCenter at The Bellagio (Or Just Wait Until It Opens)

Where: 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
September 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM | by Erika Pope | 0 Comments

An early sketch of the Vdara at CityCenter.

12 +7, Artists and Architects of CityCenter, a new exhibition at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art provides a glimpse of work by the geniuses from whose visions sprang the multi-billion-dollar resort complex slated to open in December.

The exhibition features architectural drawings and models, as well as artists’ sketches of sculptural works to be featured in and around the sprawling CityCenter complex. Additionally, the gallery also showcases actual paintings and sculpture by some of the artists whose work will be on display, if not the specific pieces themselves.

Truthfully, there’s enough original, finished art on display to merit a dedicated gallery show. Yet we overheard one gallery patron observing that this sort of display would be a better fit if housed in the CityCenter sales pavilion (where it could be viewed for free, presumably) rather than in a gallery that requires you to buy a ticket to enter it. Seeing as all the actual art work of CityCenter will, ultimately, be able to be seen for free, this grumbler has a point.

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