Robert McCoy remembers as a kid growing up in Las Vegas the suspense of waiting for an underground nuclear weapon test to occur. The biggest one he can recall happened while he sat in class at Robert O. Gibson Junior High School on West Washington Avenue ...
Ann Raskin sits under bright lights in the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center in Summerlin and wipes away tears while Alexander “Alex” Kuechel recites ...
The Ely Film, Art and Music Festival, which will also include tours of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, runs today through Sunday in the city 240 miles north of Las Vegas. This year’s festival will include a short and feature film contest ...
Rob Wilkerson has painted and repaired sky ceilings at Paris Las Vegas and his most recent project, the Miracle Mile Shops. He’s also worked on some soffits — material to cover the underside of roof overhangs — at Caesars Palace that he outfitted to look like marble, Bobby Flay’s Amalfi restaurant and Martha Stewart’s The Bedford ...
Comprised of 50 large-scale art pieces installed throughout a 200,000 square-foot multi-level venue, Transfix will invite visitors on a journey through psychedelic tunnels and past kinetic sculptures, fire-breathing artworks and hypnotic video installations.
Nearly a year ago, the original sign for The Plaza was found sitting in storage, where it had been gathering dust since its removal from the hotel’s east wall during a major renovation in 2011. Someone posted a picture on social media, tagging the Neon Museum in hopes it could save the historic sign. Coincidentally, the museum’s top executive ...
Once again, Life is Beautiful is presenting a robust visual arts program alongside its music, culinary and comedy offerings, and once again, it promises to leave a prettier Downtown Las Vegas in its wake.
The markings range from a heart with two names on the inside to vulgar phrases. There have also been dumpster fires, directional signs that have been bent, and cars that have crashed through a nearby fence.
The Louvre, The Museum of Modern Art and ... the Hard Rock? Hoping to expand their appeal beyond the slot machine and buffet crowd, some casinos are turning to fine art galleries or exhibitions to bring in new business from customers who might not ...
Time always flew in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World but it has lately seemed to catch up to the Potter pop cultural sensation. Those long lines outside bookstores are a long time ago now. The books stopped but the movies never did. The “Fantastic Beasts” prequels, now up to three with “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” have soldiered on, even if the fever surrounding Pottermania — at least ...
Steph Littlebird’s work revolves around the Indigenous artist’s identities — spiritual, cultural and gender. Littlebird, who is the First Friday featured artist for November, identifies as two-spirit, a masculine and feminine identity and a label used by Indigenous people to reference their gender, sexual or spiritual identities …
Sotheby’s auctions typically take place in locales such as New York, London, Paris, Milan and Hong Kong, and this weekend will mark the first time that one of the firm’s marquee auctions will be in Las Vegas ...