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...York City had to give up four highly esteemed drawings because they are no longer considered "modern." This is due to a quirk in the will of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a co-founder of the museum and the donor of the drawings, two each by Van Gogh and Seurat; she felt that 50 years after her death (which came in 1948) the works in question would be better off in dustier institutions like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago so that MOMA could continue its unimpeded focus on the new. Of course...
...them get rid of those silly Dalis? While for me personally the debate didn't cut quite as close to the bone as did the fuss over Riley Weston, it did serve to remind me that I have yet to produce a masterwork of my own and that Van Gogh was 37 when he died...
...sample the Bellagio's attractions were several TIME staffers, who this week appraise the hotel and the city's attempts to draw a new audience to the desert. TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who surveyed the Bellagio's $300 million collection, which includes paintings by Picasso and Van Gogh, says the venue was no deterrent to enjoying some "very good" works. "I've seen art in restaurants," he says, "so why not in hotels?" Film critic Richard Corliss, who says he loves Las Vegas for its "concentration of kitsch," attended the opening-night performance of the new Cirque...
COMING SOON Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir and Cezanne...
...Fifth Avenue facade without having fingers wagged in its face, why shouldn't Steve Wynn, the modern-day Mike Todd or P.T. Barnum of Vegas, the man with more clout in the gambling-and-hotel business than anyone alive with the possible exception of Donald Trump, run Van Gogh and Picasso on the billboard for his new flagship hotel, the Bellagio, which cost $1.6 capital-B billion to build and decorate and opens to the public this week...