Art Exhibit at the Venetian

Where: 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S. [map], Las Vegas, nv, United States, 89109

8/05/2004 at 1:12 PM
Tags: Hotels

The Venetian's Guggenheim Hermitage Museum will host an exhibit called "The Pursuit of Pleasure" (like there isn't enough of that in Vegas right?) from now through January 16, 2005.  Drawn from the rich holdings of three of the world's great museums, The Pursuit of Pleasure explores images of leisure in Western art from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections (Vegas tourist translation in parentheses): music (rock) and dance (club scene), celebration (booze) and café (buffet); society (clubs) , flirtation (strippers) and romance (swingers), and gaming (casino) and sport (sports book), as represented in 37 works by artists as diverse as Max Beckmann, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Peter Paul Rubens (Pee-Wee?), Jan Steen, Titian, and Diego Velázquez.

Museum Hours are 9:30 am to 8:30 pm daily.  Admission is $15 adults, $12 seniors and Nevada residents, $11 students with ID, $7 children 6-12, under six free; $4 audio guide in English and Spanish.

Sorry, for the parenthetical translations, but we need to make sure the Vegas going audience can translate this to something they can relate to. We are off to tell our significant others the real reason we are going to Vegas next week, the Pursuit of Pleasure exhibit.