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...eight museums, the man is so little known in the U.S. that one baffled well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, thinking the museum had selected an Italian architect, Tony Gucci. In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture, of Frank Gehry's voluptuous Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, MOMA has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version of the glass-and-steel box that the museum first championed in the 1930s, years before that style was adopted for corporate headquarters everywhere...
This past August I worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. While there, one day I was guarding the main entrance gallery, watching for visitors who were getting too close to the works of art or that had passed by the ticket office without leaving their oversized bags and bottles of water. There was one man, rather old and cantankerous, who turned his back to me when I politely said, "Sir, you must check your water bottle back at the lockers." When I more firmly asked him again, he turned back to face me, full water...
...Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Luxury designer shops, from Louis Vuitton and Gucci to Armani and Dior, are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, which is inside the Venetian, the Bellagio houses another impressive gallery, which showcases works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There is even a push to move the Montreal Expos to town. Real estate companies are racing to Manhattanize the place by building high-rise condos in the middle of vast, cheap desert...
...such as Alain Ducasse, Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, that it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. Luxury shops - Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Armani, Dior - are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Venetian, home to the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, the Bellagio houses a gallery that shows works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A good chunk of Vegas' growth is driven by people under 30, the ones who can spend money until at least 7 a.m., apparently with no significant stomach problems. Peter Morton...
...Cant was busily assembling his wild lampshade and birdcage sculptures in London. Sadly, none survives, but Cant was at the epicenter of the movement's "chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table," to quote the Surrealists' literary hero Lautr?amont, and exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim's London gallery...