Word: artisticness
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...five-minute drive away, Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands, is thoroughly unimpressed. Adelson, 73, is ensconced in a sofa-laden suite at his own casino, the shimmering gold Sands Macau, being fussed over by an overprotective bodyguard, an intrusive makeup artist and his doctor wife. The Sands has already been raking in a fortune in Macau for two years, and, after a recent expansion, it rates as the largest casino in the world. And he's just getting started. On a band of reclaimed land called Cotai, between Macau's two outer islands, Adelson is creating an Asian Vegas...
...Sacrifice,” itself consists of 24 different pieces, each a beautiful album leaf covered with a rendering of the Chinese mountainside. To make the leaves, Li Junyi forsook a standard brush for a gridded stamping technique that some have likened to the work of contemporary American artist Chuck Close. Li’s unusually geometric depictions of the landscape present a squarely classical subject through the lens of an entirely new technique. An accompanying label notes that Li created “Sacrifice” to commemorate students who died in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests...
...series of rose and clear glass panels, covered by a corrugated tin roof, were put in place by minimalist sculptor Taylor Davis.Two weeks after it arrived in the neighborhood, the shelter was smashed, leaving marks the size of bullet holes in the cracked panels.In the early 1990s, Israeli artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles designed a large sculpture of a throne, accompanied by an image of a galaxy, in Daheny Park, once a dumpsite. In the past few years, her work has routinely been damaged. And a controversial mural on a traffic rotary near Walden Street, for which artist Wen-ti Tsen...
...artist Michael J. Mure ’09 could lose $132—and Harvard Square will almost certainly lose a longtime landmark—when the Tower Records music store on Mt. Auburn Street closes this winter. The store has sold two dozen of Mure’s CDs over the past six months, and he was expecting payment in September. But in August, Tower declared bankruptcy for the third time in its 46-year history. And on Saturday, a liquidation company, the Great American Group, bought Tower off the auction block. “Everything from inflation...
...house has a genuinely lived-in feel, that's because its mastermind, the eccentric American artist Dennis Severs, resided here from 1979 until his death in 1999 as its historic inhabitants would have - without heat, electricity or running water. The California-born Severs shunned the 20th century, but by turning a dilapidated house into an artistic project he managed to bring the past back to life. His dream, he said, was for visitors to feel as though they had stepped into a painting. Fellow artists believe he succeeded; David Hockney called 18 Folgate Street "stunning," and actors regularly visit...