merryfish

We are going to Las Vegas next week. Which exhibit do you think is more worthwhile: the Guggenheim Hermitage at the Venetian or the Monet Exhibition at the Bellagio. The cost is the same for each. Any thoughts?

Scarlett

Do you have a preference in artists ?
Personally, I would see Monet anytime I get a chance, but the Guggenheim can be Fabulous too!
I do like the Bellagio museum better if that helps

HowardR

Are you sure the Monet exhibit is still there? I thought it was ending in September. If it is still there, you can probably do both. Neither will take that much time.

ChristieP

I love Monet's work, so I di the Bellagio exhibit when I was there in June. Be advised that it is a SMALL exhibit! At $15, it was slightly under $1 to see each painting in the exhibit. But, they were Monets, and they were beautiful!

FainaAgain

If only you can afford to go to both financially - go for it, cut gambling time.

swalter518

I've seen many Monet exhibits but I still enjoyed this exhibit-it is relatively small but many of the pieces I have not seen before at either Chicago's Art Institute or in the Musee D'Orsay in Paris.

HowardR

There was an item in yesterday's NY Times Travel section that the Monet exhibit is indeed still there.

HowardR

Responding to swalters518's comment, all of the Monet paintings in the Bellagio exhibit are on loan from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which why you wouldn't have seen them at the d'Orsay or the Art Institute of Chicago (unless, of course, you went to the great Monet exhibit at the latter museum for that great Monet show in 1995.)

stormygirl

since I had seen the Monet's at the MFA in Boston we went to the Gug exhibit. It is really an amazing variety of work! And the walls are incredible, copper with magnets that hold the art up. I would also say that it depends on what you are most interested in for this trip....viewing a selection of one master's work to review how he changed styles and techniques or are you in the mood to review the works of a variety of masters and see the different techniques that they shared or wrestled with?

BTW the current Gug exhibit looks really cool if you have seen a lot of Monet in the past.

logandog

Going to see fine art in Las Vegas is like visiting a casino in Paris.
The Degas exhibition in Maui was so interesting that I never found time for the beach.