The Swiss artist Urs Fischer suggests beginning our day together with coffee in the Village.
No, this is the Las Vegas version, tucked beyond an ocean of slot machines in the far corner of the timeworn, low-lit New York-New York Hotel and Casino on that notorious stretch of real estate called the Strip.
“There’s more to see here that’s interesting than some other newer places,” he says, leaning back on a metal bistro chair in front of the faux glassed-in storefront of a stage-set tenement building that showcases a top-hatted mannequin wrapped like a mummy, holding a wicker basket of prosthetic hands and feet.
“It’s artificial, but in a good way.”That, of course, is a matter of taste, as is the very notion of Las Vegas itself.
That’s where he lives with his two daughters — Charlotte, 15, and Grace, 8 — in a modest-sized but lushly gardened 1920s home near Dodger Stadium.
Persons:
Urs Fischer, ”, Fischer, Julian Schnabel, — Charlotte, Grace
Organizations:
That’s, Dodger
Locations:
Swiss, Manhattan, Greenwich, Red Hook , Brooklyn, Long Island City, Queens, Vegas, York, New York, Los Angeles