GAMBLING MECCA BETS ON ART

Reno’s new Nevada Art Museum is a four-story, sixty-thousand-square-foot black steel building that is reminiscent of a ship at sea. It is four times the size of its predecessor and includes a theater, several galleries, and a restaurant. As the Chicago Sun-Times‘s Scott Sonner reports, the museum’s June grand opening culminated a seven-year effort to replace the old museum, as Reno increasingly looks to the arts to help attract tourists in order to diversify its gambling-based economy.