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Book a Hotel With An Art Gallery Included

It all sounds very convenient, and it does seem to be happening more and more: hotels are making a big deal about displaying impressive collections of art work, to the point where they're starting to sound like art galleries.

While we've never actually chosen a hotel based on the artwork, there must be someone who does, or there wouldn't be so many hotels going to the effort of hanging expensive stuff on their walls.

The NYT's The Moment blog just did a bit of cubicle dreaming about some appropriate hotel and artist match-ups that they'd like to see ... for example, they figure that the ultra-expensive Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi would make a great home to a few pieces from Damien Hirst, the English guy who covered a platinum skull with diamonds and called it "For the Love of God"--it sold again at auction in August for $100 million.

Whether or not his dead animals series (he went through a phase of cutting up creatures like sharks and cows and preserving them artistically in formaldehyde) would fit into the Emirates Palace is a whole other question.

The whole discussion of art in hotels arose from the news that the Eden Rock Hotel in St Barths is starting a series of art exhibitions, beginning with Richard Prince from Thursday. Will that entice extra guests to book in? They obviously think so.

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· Now Hanging: Art in St Bart's [The Moment NYT Blog]
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