Monet gives fresh face to casinos, galleris, Las Vegas - 2004-03-07
Claude Monet stands there and stares you in the eye. He's old, with a long, white, patriarch's beard. Seen in his infamous garden, he seems prepared to step out of an almost life- size picture on the wall, suffused with authority and serenity and wearing the mantle of high art.
But art, both classic and contemporary, is becoming simple to discover in Las Vegas, which now exhibits world-class work, particularly paintings, in galleries, museums and, yes, hotel-casinos.
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