Nancy Rubins’ “Big Edge.”
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from the bar to my room. It’s well worth stopping by the concierge desk at the Aria for a walking tour map of the collection. The showstopper is Rubins’ “Big Edge” – a bouquet of real boats, metal and often colorful, full-sized canoes and rowboats, exploding in the middle of the traffic circle between Aria and Vdara. I returned several times to a bench in a tiny pocket park with shade, water and trees. Here you can watch the crowds trying to make sense of Moore’s massive “Reclining Connected Forms,” an abstract marble sculpture that suggests a human form – but not really. The park provides a good view of people lifting their eyes to take in Lin’s graceful “Silver River,” a depiction of the flowing length of the Colorado River in shiny silver that looks almost molten and flowing, that stretches over the check-in desk at the Aria. The official fine-art collection doesn’t provide all the visual delight in the resort. There are wonderful touches everywhere, from the wall of water and rainbow fountains by the taxi stand at the Aria to the fantasyland cakes that decorate Jean Philippe Patisserie. Watch out for surprises such as the series of Christopher Walken paintings outside the Deuce
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