Cosmopolitan Casino in Las Vegas will be showing a selection of LED installations by Tracey Emin, featuring animated versions of the artist’s illuminated text works scrawling themselves across the building’s enormous screens.  “It’s fantastic that the hotel wants to do this,” Emin says. “It’s not about selling things. It’s about love.” (more…)

Over the past several years, the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas has built a museum-caliber art collection, on view at the hotel’s CityCenter campus.  Featuring works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Henry Moore, Isa Genzken, Frank Stella and others, the center’s collection is intended to serve the city as a widely accessible collection of artworks, tucked away among the sights and sounds of The Strip.  “What makes a city successful? What makes people want to live there?” Says MGM CEO James Murren. “We do not have an art museum. I thought that was a big quality of life gap.” (more…)