'There were lines down the street to get in. 'My wife Elaine and I were in Chicago, visiting relatives and friends, when the Degas show was at the Art Institute,' he recalled.
Over lunch in the dining room overlooking Bellagio's cypress-lined pool area, Wynn points out that the foreword was written in response to journalists from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal who basically asked him, 'Are you insane?' They couldn't believe that tourists would pay $10 (which goes to charity) to see important works of art, when they otherwise could use the money to feed a slot machine - or that tacky ol' Las Vegas ('Of all places') would embrace his flight of fancy. One of the subjects on which there is some general agreement - in spite of cultural, economic or social differences - is that of fine art.' 'There are few areas of universal agreement about what is truly lovely, graceful or admirable.
