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1. ARIA_100718_007.JPG: Tony Cragg (British, b. 1950) – "Bolt," 2007, Stainless steel, 129 x 45 x 45 inches; "Bent of Mind" 2008, Stainless steel, 78 x 39 x 39 inches; "Untitled" (Tall Column) 2008, Stainless steel, 181 x 47 x 47 inches – ARIA's southern entry atrium Located within ARIA's southern entry atrium are Cragg's three towering columns – "Bolt," "Bent of Mind" and "Untitled." "Bolt," a 10-foot-high stainless steel sculpture, swirls upward from its narrow base in an imaginative bolt of lightning; "Bent of Mind" gives the illusion of an elegant silhouette of a face, as do many of his other works; and "Untitled" (tall column) presents a smooth, curving dialogue. Cragg has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the Turner Prize (1988), Shakespeare Prize (2001) and Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture (2002). His biomorphic, sculptural forms investigate the physics of materials, and spark a dialogue between man, material and the world.
2. ARIA_100718_087.JPG: Silver Road (2009) Maya Lin: Considered one of the most important public artists of the 21st century, Maya Lin's remarkable body of work maintains a careful balance between art and architecture, including large-scale, site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, and architectural works and memorials. Lin's commissioned works for ARIA's registration desk is a sculptured line inspired by the boundaries and topography of the Colorado River as it carves the desert landscape of the United States. This 84-foot, reclaimed silver cast of the Colorado River exemplifies both CityCenter's commitment to sustainability and the artist's commitment to the environment. Maya Lin was received numerous prizes and awards, including the Presidential Design Award and a National Endowment for the Arts artist award, among others. Lin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.
3. ARIA_100718_098.JPG: Henry Moore (British, b. 1898; d. 1986) "Reclining Connected Forms" 1969-1974 Roman travertine marble, 10 x 17 x 7 feet The Park between ARIA Resort & Casino and Crystals "Reclining Connected Forms," 1969-1974, a sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, is inspired by the fundamentals of the human experience – the primary theme of Moore's life's work. The sculpture measures approximately 10 feet tall and 17 feet long by 7 feet deep, and is an abstraction of a baby wrapped in its mother's embrace. The outer shell of the sculpture depicts the changing shape of a pregnant figure as it protects the new life growing within. Moore's work was traditionally inspired by the human body, organic shapes found in nature and the sculpture of ancient and exotic cultures such as Egypt, Sumeria, Africa and pre-Columbian Mexico. Surrealism, the modern European art and literary movement with a tendency toward abstract forms, also was a major influence. Moore was given his first major retrospective abroad in 1946 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He won the International Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948.
4. ARIA_100718_156.JPG: Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) and Coosje van Bruggen (b. 1942; d. 2009) "Typewriter Eraser, Scale X" 1998-1999 Stainless steel, fiberglass and acrylic polyurethane paint 19 x 11 x 11 feet 3rd edition with one Artist's Proof – Crystals Place Designed with the pair's approach to creating large-scale outdoor sculptures of popular commercial objects, the four-ton, 19-foot stainless steel and fiberglass sculpture depicts a giant blue and red typewriter eraser with the bristles of the brush turned upward in a graceful, dynamic gesture. This edition is the largest of three sculptures created of the form, beginning in the 1970s. Oldenburg is most widely associated with the beginnings of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His capricious and – at times – deconstructed forms of everyday objects transform the notion of how sculpture is viewed and made. Throughout his career, he collaborated with his wife Coosje on more than 40 monumental projects throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. As Quinn pointed out during our "art walk," an added layer of meaning, interpretation and irony is that many of the work's younger viewers -- and we're not talking kids but people under 30 -- may have no idea what a typewriter eraser is, or at least will not be able to readily identify it.
5. ARIA_100718_183.JPG: Masatoshi Izumi (Japanese, b. 1938) "Untitled" 2007-2008 Basalt 17 x 6 feet, approximately 8 tons – Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas' entrance Izumi's work celebrates harmony with nature by taking existing forms and altering them slightly to reveal an even more beautiful state. The sculpture, made of large pieces of intricately carved basalt (cooled lava), stands more than 16 feet tall and weighs approximately 8 tons. Born into a family of stone carvers in the town of Mure on the Japanese island of Shikoku, Izumi began working with stone in 1953. In 1964, he co-founded the Stone Atelier in Kagawa Prefecture, dedicated to new architectural and artistic uses of traditional stone cutting techniques. Izumi and his colleagues have realized some of the most ambitious architectural stone projects in Japan.
6. ARIA_100718_200.JPG: Jun Kaneko (Japanese, b. 1942) "Untitled, Triangle Dango" 1996 Glazed ceramic, 86 x 29 x 22 inches "Untitled, Dango" 2002, Hand-built glazed ceramics, 67 x 63 x 14 inches; and "Untitled, Dango" 1992, Glazed ceramics, 73 x 52 x 35 inches Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas' lobby Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, and now living and working in Omaha, Nebraska, Jun Kaneko has continually experimented with the technical aspects of the ceramic medium. His enormous dango forms, which soar as high as 11 feet, challenge the physical limitations of the material and are fired in giant kilns. Kaneko's sculptures, "Untitled, Triangle Dango," 1996; "Untitled, Dango," 2002; and "Untitled, Dango," 1992, are boldly glazed, monumental rounded monoliths displayed within Mandarin Oriental's lobby. The tallest of the three sculptures measures 7 feet tall. The name ‘Dango' is whimsical yet descriptive, meaning "Japanese dumpling." Additional works by Kaneko can also be seen on the second floor of Aria. Kaneko's sculptures have resulted in high-profile public sculpture commissions, among them the Phoenix Airport, a station for the Boston Subway, the Detroit People Mover and the Waikiki Aquarium and more. His work also has been featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Shigaraki Museum, and more than 30 others.
7. ARIA_100718_230.JPG: Jack Goldstein (American, b. 1945; d. 2003) "Untitled" (Volcano) 1983 Acrylic on canvas 96 x 96 inches Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas' Tea Lounge An influential postmodern artists of the 1970s and ‘80s, Jack Goldstein is recognized for his pioneering work in sound, film and painting. His highly polished paintings are based on photos of natural phenomena, focused on capturing the "spectacular instant." "Untitled" (Volcano), 1983, which measures 8 feet tall by 8 feet wide, hangs in the Mandarin Orietal's Tea Lounge in the 23rd-floor sky lobby. The painting depicts an explosive and vibrant image of an erupting volcano. Goldstein received his training at Chouinard Art Institute and was a member of the inaugural class of California Institute of the Arts, where he worked in post-studio art under John Baldessari, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 1972. Goldstein's paintings have received numerous grants and awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1992); The American Institute of Architecture (1990); the National Endowment of the Arts, Visual Arts (1983); the New York State Council of the Arts (1975); the Canada Council Grant, Visual Arts Award (1974); and the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts (1973).
8. ARIA_100718_310.JPG: Isa Genzken (German, b. 1948) "Rose II" 2007 Stainless steel, aluminum and lacquer, 26 feet tall, more than 1,000 lbs, 3rd edition – The Harmon Hotel's porte cochere One of Isa Genzken's best known and loved works, "Rose" -- a public sculpture of a single long-stemmed rose towering 26 feet above Leipzig, Germany's museum district -- inspired "Rose II," which stands within The Harmon Hotel's porte cochere. This work, a single-stem rose frozen in full bloom, weighs more than 1,000 pounds and stands 26 feet tall -- meaning that although this hotel won't be completed until later this year, "Rose II" is still visible, albeit at a certain distance. One of Germany's most prominent artists, Genzken's work ranges from sculpture to photography to painting, often combining personal elements with references to architecture, modernism and art history. Genzken studied at several art institutions including Hamburg College of Fine Arts, the Berlin University of Fine Arts and Dusseldorf Art Academy. Her work has been critically acclaimed; Genzken won the International Art Prize in 2004 and the Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize in 2002. Some of her works include "Urlaub," 2004, "Mutter Mit Kind," 2004, and "Kinder Filmen I," 2005.
9. ARIA_100718_352.JPG: Nancy Rubins (American, b. 1952) – "Big Edge" 2009, Stainless steel and aluminum water vessels, 51 x 75 x 57 feet – Presented in Vdara's main drive A sculptor and artisan known for her grandiose works created from salvaged and industrial consumer goods, Nancy Rubins created one of the most visually stunning commissions at CityCenter with a large-scale installation: "Big Edge." Cantilevered over Vdara's main drive and measuring approximately 57 feet wide and 75 feet long, Rubins' work of art at CityCenter is a composition of numerous aluminum rowboats, canoes and other small river and ocean vessels finessed into an eye-catching, gravity-defying form the artist calls "a blooming flower." The boats are connected with thousands of pounds of stainless steel wire cable forming a web-like structure, where compression and tension create what Buckminster Fuller referred to as tensegrity, making the whole stronger than the parts. Each boat was precisely placed according to Rubins' direction based on its color, shape and structural contribution to the whole. Rubins maintains the look, shape and feel of her chosen objects, so each reclaimed craft showcased in the piece is exactly as originally found. The commission is located on the exterior of Vdara Hotel & Spa and is one of Rubins' few works with a permanent home. Rubins has designed works of art from mattresses, trailers, hot water heaters, airplanes and small appliances since the 1970s. For more than 25 years, Rubins has exhibited extensively around the world in major solo and group exhibitions.
10. ARIA_100718_387.JPG: Robert Rauschenberg (American, b. 1925; d. 2008) – "Lucky Dream" 1999, Vegetable dye transfer on polylaminate, 8.5 x 14 feet – Vdara's lobby, adjacent to Bar Vdara On loan from Bellagio, LLC is "Lucky Dream' by Robert Rauschenberg displayed within Vdara's lobby. "Lucky Dream" features found images such as a trophy, Asian cranes and tigers and the Sistine Chapel. Rauschenberg's early works helped open the tracts of Pop Art in 1953 when he began his famous "combines" that incorporated everyday objects as sculptural elements into his work. In 1962 Rauschenberg made his first lithographs and silkscreens and was at the forefront of innovative print making thereafter. Rauschenberg, also a noted photographer, utilized his own photography in these silkscreen works, taken during a lifetime of travels. His technique of juxtaposing disconnected images with distinctive character presents what the artist has self-described as working with the "gap between art and life." Retrospective or survey exhibitions of Rauschenberg's art have been organized by many museums, including Amsterdam's Stedlijk Museum (1968), the Menil Collection (1991) and the National Gallery of Art (1991). In 1998, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York had a comprehensive retrospective of the artist's works, including 400 drawings, paintings and limited edition prints. His artwork spiraled up all the main floors of the museum and was touted as the largest retrospective to date for any artist at the Guggenheim.
11. ARIA_100718_397.JPG: Peter Wegner (American, b. 1963) – "Day for Night, Night for Day" 2009, Colored paper, die cut and suspended from steel compression frame, West wall – 34 x 10 feet, East wall – 45 x 10 feet – Vdara's concierge lobby * American artist Peter Wegner often comments on the notion of physicality through a fusion of art and architecture by creating towering sculptures from the most ordinary object: a sheet of paper. The physicality of paper is brought a step further, nestled into the facing walls of Vdara's concierge lobby. "Day for Night, Night for Day" is comprised of two wall pieces: one solar-themed and one lunar-themed, represented on the east and west walls in the lobby to correspond with the rising and setting of the sun. A hanging light sculpture designed by the Wegner is suspended between the pieces to encourage "dialogue" between them. "Day for Night" (above) soars to approximately 45 feet while "Night for Day" (below) reaches approximately 34 feet high. * This commission is Wegner's largest work of art to date. Wegner's work has been displayed in exhibitions on both coasts and internationally and he has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Bohen Foundation and Lever House, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Wegner received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.
12. ARIA_100718_416.JPG: Frank Stella (American, b. 1936) – "Damascus Gate Variation I" 1969, Fluorescent alkyd resin on canvas, 8 x 32 feet – Suspended over Vdara's reception desk American painter Frank Stella began his "Protractor Series" in 1967, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping within square borders, are arranged side-by-side to produce full and half circles painted in rings of concentric color. Both Stella's "Irregular Polygon" canvases (1965-67) and "Protractor Series" (1967-71) further extended the concept of the shaped canvas. For the reception desk at Vdara, CityCenter purchased one of artist Frank Stella's most prominent works: "Damascus Gate Variation I," named for the ancient circular Islamic city in Asia Minor. Created in 1969, Stella's work features a design of interlaced semicircles made of luminous colors of blue, red, orange yellow and white alkyd resin on an 8-foot-high, 32-foot-long canvas. Recognized for more than 45 years for his contributions to the forms of abstract expressionism, sculpture and the concept of the shaped canvas, Stella's work has been the subject of several retrospectives in the United States, Europe and Japan. In 1970, The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of Stella's work. An authority and critic in his own right, Stella presided over the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University from 1983-1984, which were published by Harvard University Press in 1986.
13. ARIA_100718_490.JPG: Antony Gormley (British, b. 1950) – "Feeling Material XXVIII" 2007, 4 mm square section mild steel bar, 8 feet tall, approximately 150 lbs – Suspended within ARIA's second level The human form has long been the theme of Antony Gormley's sculptural work, and "Feeling Material" is a further exploration in his continually developing series. Gormley's sculpture hangs suspended over ARIA's Promenade oculus, interacting with the architecture of the space on multiple levels. Using spiraling steel, Gormley aims not only to represent the silhouette of the human body but to visually convey the physical space it occupies; a still place at the center of an orbiting energy field. Gormley's works to date include "Field," "The Angel of the North," and "Quantum Cloud" for the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, England. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997.
14. ARIA_100718_515.JPG: Julian Schnabel Zeus, 1992 Julian Schnabel's baroque attitude is embodied in paintings that, over time, have combined oil painting and collage techniques, classical pictorial elements inspired by historical art and neo-expressionist features, abstraction and figuration. Tackling such big themes as sexuality, obsession, suffering, redemption, death and belief, he had employed a diversity of found materials including broken plates, diverse textiles such as Kubuki theater backdrops, tarpaulins, and velvet; a plethora of images, names, and fragments of language; as well as thickly applied paint, viscous resin and digital reproduction. His work is included in major international museums and private collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Broad Art Foundation in Los Angeles; and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Over the last decade, Schnabel also has directed three award-winner feature films, Basquiat (1996); Before Night Falls (1999); and Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007).
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Wikipedia Description: ARIA Resort & Casino
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ARIA Resort & Casino will be CityCenter's central feature. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the 61-story two curvilinear glass towers will house 4,004 rooms (including 568 suites) totaling 4,000,000 sq ft (370,000 m2). At its base will be a 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m2) casino and a three-story lobby that will use natural materials including lush foliage, wood, and stone. Within the reception area, artist Maya Lin is creating an approximately 133 ft (41 m) silver cast of the Colorado River, which will be her first work of art displayed in Las Vegas. Lin is incorporating reclaimed silver in the spirit of CityCenter's commitment to sustainability and in light of Nevada's standing as the Silver State.

The ARIA Resort and Casino is scheduled to open on December 16, 2009.

The resort will include a variety of casual to upscale restaurants, including New York's Masa, lounges, bars and nightclubs.

In the resort's 2,000 seat theater, Cirque du Soleil has partnered with CKX, Inc. and its subsidiary Elvis Presley Enterprises to create a permanent production celebrating the music of Elvis Presley.

All of the rooms and suites will have floor-to-ceiling windows and corner-window views (a first for Las Vegas), and will incorporate integrated technologies never before used in the hospitality industry. Corridors will allow in natural light through areas of enclosed glass, allowing for city and mountain views.

ARIA's 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m2) spa will include 62 individual treatment rooms, three spa suites (for couple's treatments, bachelorette parties or small group events), and a co-ed balcony overlooking the pool. Adjacent to the spa will be a full-service salon, barbershop, fitness room and group exercise studio.

A three-story 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2) convention center will include four ballrooms (three with fully functioning theatrical stages), 38 meeting rooms and a glass-curtain wall overlooking the pool.

At the north valet, artist Jenny Holzer is creating a 250 ft (76 m) LED sign to welcome visitors to the hotel.

The hotel will also include 900,000 sq ft (84,000 m2) for back-of-house areas, offices, and a subterranean parking garage.
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