Steve Wynn Buying Spree The Las Vegas billionaire casino owner Steve Wynn has been busy spending up to 30 million pounds in auction rooms during the past couple of months. A couple notable works he has purchased include the Ming vase that he gave to China and the JMW Turner painting that became the most expensive British painting to be sold.
He's often dismissed as a mere big game hunter bagging trophy artists, but one critic regards him as brilliant
"On the more glacial upper slopes of the art world he is often dismissed as a mere big game hunter, bagging trophy artists by the square meter of canvas, caring more for the famous name than for quality. But one art writer and critic, who also pays regular gambling visits to Las Vegas, regards him as brilliant, a marketing genius who spotted the slow death of the old casinos with their seedy image and reinvented them, first as family theme parks, then as luxury resorts." Guardian
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