[watchmen]

Hey,

I was hoping someone could help me out!? I'm off to Vegas and wondered if there were any good places to pick up some art?? Or see some decent street art.

Any help will be much appreciated.

[Urban Cowboy]

You could get in touch with Get Up Gallery

getupgallery.com/

Unless they've moved it was just off Fremont Street in Downtown.

[watchmen]

Cool, thanks very much.

[trax51]

HI Watchmen,

Dont forget to stop at the Venetian Hotel on the Strip. Enter via the main entrance, go left and walk pass the poker area and the sport bet bar. You will find a burger restaurant called "RattleCan"... It has been decorated by Aiko and Friends, you will find work from Invader and other artist. And my stickers everywhere on the toilet wall ))
have fun
TraX

[watchmen]

Nice one TraX,

I love a good burger and looks pretty cool. I'll make sure I keep an eye out for your stickers.

Regards
Watchmen

[misterx]

The Rattlecan is closed.

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You need to get down and dirty in the Car Park and of the Cosmopolitan and Boulevard Pool for good reason!


When visiting the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, make sure you drive to parking garage level B5. Then hit B4, B3 and B2. You’ll likely want to see the rest of the resort/casino too, but start with the car parking areas. They are really worth a visit but it'll take some time to see them all.

My shots of some of Retna's work.





DETAILS:

While most casino parking lots are limbo spaces—somewhere between outside and in, often skipped altogether, and for good reason—the Cosmopolitan has decided to make its garage a reflection of the resort’s overarching “we’re not for everyone” aesthetic with Wallworks, a series of murals by prominent graffiti artists on sections of garage wall. Teaming up with the New York-based nonprofit Art Production Fund, the Cosmopolitan gave each floor over to an artist—from bowels to ground level: Baltimore’s Shinique Smith, legendary New York artist Kenny Scharf, LA writer RETNA and renegade-turned-icon Shepard Fairey.

Each floor’s works are totally different than the next, a product of the no-parameters approach APF and the resort took to the project.

In setting the artists loose, the Cosmopolitan managed to capture ideas rarely channeled into Strip casinos, like the spontaneity of Scharf’s freestyle landscape of smiley planes, slot machines and atomic mushroom clouds, or the political sarcasm behind Fairey’s bold, patterned work. Surely some will see these murals and be turned off, by their messages, their obliqueness or the very act of celebrating what some see as a nuisance, not an art form. To those people, I say, take another look. If that doesn’t do the trick, remember the Cosmopolitan’s simple, refreshing message that many a local resort would be loath to broadcast: We’re not for everyone. Maybe even not for you.

- lasvegasweekly.com

The newest additions are by Stephen Powers to their WALLWORKS art installations, look out for it around the Boulevard Pool (it's in the stairway to the Pool, on the 3rd floor...)



Then take it easy!

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This'll wet your appetite...

RETNA



Shinique Smith



Shep


Sharf



However don't be surprised if the majority of staff don't know much about it... we asked where to go but no one we spoke to could help, we just had to go and find it ourselves!

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[misterx]

Nice posts SPEEBE, thanks!

[Coach]

Great posts Speebe.

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Aug 22, 2013 10:26:58 GMT 1 Coach said:

Great posts Speebe.

I've had no internet access for the past two weeks... I've had a lot of catching up to do.

Thought i'd return to the forum with a BANG.

[watchmen]

Sweet, I arrived last night!!! That'll be my first port of call! Thanks