The Art of Poker

People flock to the city of Las Vegas all year round. The city has been a center of luxury and gambling in North America for decades now. There are so many high end casinos and luxury hotels in Las Vegas and these establishments are always full. The city of Las Vegas truly never sleeps. That being said in the middle of all this there is an incredible art gallery right in the heart of this gambling paradise, connected to a casino no less.

The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art is a premiere exhibition site in the center of Bellagio Hotel and Casino. This Tilt.org poker gallery is hosting and showing some of the most compelling contemporary art of the world today. The gallery has gained enough notoriety and enough prestige to be able to enter into partnerships with other galleries and museums from around the world.

At the current time the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art is hosting the Figuratively Speaking: survey of the human form exhibition. This collection of fine art from around the world all has one single definitive theme; the human figure in art, painting and sculpture. The gallery presents over forty pieces of art work including paintings, photographs and sculptures not to mention video installations from over 29 artists. These pieces of art and the artists who created them are attempting to show and depict the human figure from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

Those pieces of art on display have been borrowed from fine galleries all over the country. Some from the MGM Resort Internationals that include some by Edgar Degas, Pierre-August Renoir, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Leger. These are some serious fulltilt download pieces of art by some of the world’s most famous artists. There are others who have lent the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston have lent the Gallery a few pieces from its permanent collection just as the San Diego based Museum of Contemporary Art.

There are other artists that are showcased there are the Bellagio gallery, artists that are again world renown for their depictions of the human figure and form. There are works by Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Bill Viola, just to name a few.
Beginning in April of 2011 the gallery will change its exhib
it from the “Figuratively Speaking” art it is showcasing currently to its next exhibit “A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney” This exhibit will showcase more than 30 pieces of artwork by noted masters such as Monet, Hockney, Chagall, Frankenthaler, Mangold, Rauschenberg, Christo, Muniz and many more.
Trained museum guides are available for guided tours five days a week Wednesday through Thursday on a first come, first serve basis. These tours provided by the gallery always begin right at 2 pm sharp and last for approximately 45 minutes or so. The current human figure art display will only be available until March 27th when it will be removed to make room for the new landscape exhibit.