Art O Mat at the Cosmo - Las Vegas, NV
N 36° 06.210 W 115° 10.410
11S E 664411 N 3996972
Located in a seating area on the food court level, near the pool table. Accepts $1 & $5 to dispense $5 pieces.
Waymark Code: WMD4VV
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2011
Views: 38
Link to the NY Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/arts/design/26vogel.html?_r=1)
LAS VEGAS: ART MACHINES
There won’t be any standing behind ropes to see the art at the Cosmopolitan, the new 2,995-room hotel and casino scheduled to open in Las Vegas on Dec. 15. Nor will there be any Rembrandts or Picassos or Monets on view. The place is being filled with all kinds of contemporary art, including light sculptures and constantly changing videos on its marquee, as well as inside the lobby. Guests can even watch work being made by artists in residence.
“It’s very Boom Boom Room,” said Doreen Remen, who, with Yvonne Force Villareal, runs the Art Production Fund in New York. Together they helped organize the hotel and casino’s smorgasbord of art. Ms. Remen was referring to the flashy penthouse of the Standard hotel in the New York meatpacking district that has become a hot spot for celebrity sightings and parties. “It has that same kind of fun and glamour,” she added.
The parking garages will also have art, in this case graffiti by names like Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf. And Clark Whittington, an artist from Winston-Salem, N.C., is planning to install six Art-o-mats, cigarette machines refashioned to dispense art. The machines, which first popped up in the ’90s, are stocked with original pieces of art submitted by a network of more than 400 emerging artists from around the world. Patrons pay anywhere from $5 to $20 for a token for the coin slot and in return receive a small work of art.
“Oftentimes it is the first piece of art an artist sells,” John Unwin, the Cosmopolitan’s chief executive officer, said in a telephone interview.
“It’s meant to be fun,” Mr. Unwin added, speaking of all the Cosmopolitan’s art. “It’s Las Vegas. It helps create stories for people to tell.”
Builder: unknown
Artists:
kettle
heironymus
What mediums are used?: wood, glass, misc
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