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In the Land of Glitter and Gambling, Plans for an Oasis of Art

CityCenter will include a 133-foot-wide cast-silver representation of the Colorado River, designed by Maya Lin.

From The New York Times -- Interior Design, 3/11/2008 12:00:00 AM

In a boisterous town legendary for shining the spotlight on Elvis, Sinatra and Celine, it's a safe bet that few could have envisioned these names as Strip attractions:

Maya Lin. Henry Moore. Frank Stella. Jenny Holzer. Nancy Rubins.

And more. In Las Vegas. Really.

As unlikely as it may have seemed even to them, those celebrated artists are the headliners of an ambitious $40 million public arts program initiated by MGM Mirage, the city’s biggest resort corporation, with the goal of promoting Las Vegas as a destination for the art world.

Works by those and other artists, variously commissioned and acquired, are destined to dot an $8 billion, 76-acre development called CityCenter that MGM Mirage is constructing on the Las Vegas Strip. The site is expected to open late next year with a 4,500-room hotel-casino, five nongaming boutique hotels and residential towers, and a 500,000-square-foot retail district.

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