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Stephen Alan Weinberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut on January 27 th, 1942.His father, Michael, decided shortly after Steve was born to change the family name to Wynn. Steve Wynn 'raped a woman who then gave birth to his daughter in a gas station bathroom and fired another employee for refusing his sexual advances', according to police reports. Steve Wynn’s Career. Following the death of Steve’s father, Michael Wynn in 1963, the family plummeted into financial crisis and heavy debts as Michael left behind betting debts that accumulated to $350,000. Since Kenneth Wynn was only ten years old then, the responsibility of providing for the family fell upon Steve’s shoulders. Profit-turning runs in the Wynn family blood, natch. It was daddy Steve Wynn who helped transform Las Vegas from just another desert rest stop to the hedonistic, skank-filled mecca it is today. We’re not hating, we’re just blaming Mr. Wynn for all those wasted boozy nights of our youth. Steve Wynn’s $48 million Beverly Hills home.

Steve Wynn is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, art collector, and visionary credited with transforming the Las Vegas Strip into an international destination. While he is known as an iconic businessman and developer, Wynn’s driving force is a deep passion for beautiful art, whether it be paintings, sculptures, design, or even artistic performances. Wynn channeled this passion into creating many of the grand attractions and landmarks that dot The Strip today.
In 1952, at 10 years old, Steve Wynn caught his first glimpse of Las Vegas on a visit with his father. Thus began Wynn’s whirlwind romance with the area and all of its possibility. While his father was enamored with gaming, Wynn was most enchanted by the visual experience of The Strip — the flash, the lights, and the vibrant energy it radiated. He also saw opportunity.
Steve Wynn has always been captivated by visually enticing things. With an intrinsic understanding of art and design’s ability to stimulate the human mind, Wynn dedicated himself to creating a legacy of hotels and resorts that would elevate his guests’ experience and spark their emotions.
One of his first ventures was the Golden Nugget Casino, which featured 31 Alaskan gold nuggets strewn across the hotel. Reflective of the casino’s name, the pieces themselves served as their own attraction, drawing visitors to a dazzling collection that couldn’t be found anywhere else. In the evenings, dinner guests indulged their senses in the smooth sounds of Frank Sinatra, who headlined the cabaret.
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In 1989, Wynn built his first ornate resort named The Mirage. The Mirage’s appeal was overt visual excitement. Its entrance dawned an extraordinary volcano that erupted each night in a spectacular display. Visitors were captivated by performances of Cirque du Soleil and Siegfried and Roy. Several years later, Wynn built Treasure Island, which featured a massive pirate ship in a large man-made lagoon. Guests were invited aboard the ship for treasure hunting adventures while passersby were delighted by nightly pirate performances that lit up the sky.
At the time of its construction in 1996, the Bellagio was the most expensive hotel in the world. Clocking in at $1.1 billion dollars, Wynn’s masterpiece of a resort illuminated the strip and exuded pure elegance. He aimed to provide Bellagio guests with a first-class experience that was a stark contrast to the vapid, seedy ambiance of Vegas he recalled as a child. This experience would be luxurious, classy, and cultured, with boundless high-end boutiques, extravagant entertainment options, and awe-inspiring artwork. Wynn believed that art would permanently alter the legacy of Las Vegas.
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The Bellagio, in and of itself, was a work of art. It became known for offering sensational entertainment like the Fountains of Bellagio. This mystifying water show takes place daily in front of the hotel and is open to the public, not just guests. Visitors indulge in luxe fashion from the world’s most iconic brands, dine at five-star restaurants, and play for high stakes. The greatest high-end experience the Bellagio had to offer, however, was (and still is) its art gallery.
The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art marked the first time Wynn gave explicit attention to his love of sophisticated art. While art had always been a focus point for him in crafting the intended guest experience in his resorts, this gallery displayed Wynn’s personal collection of art produced by some of the most notable artists in contemporary and modern art. A painting or sculpture spoke volumes, projecting messages that impacted the mind and soul of those who viewed it. Wynn wanted to make this experience accessible for everyone, not just those who could afford to personally own fine art. This is why the elegance of the gallery space was at the heart of Bellagio’s concept. Wynn spent hundreds of millions of dollars to bring the enchantment of Renoir and Monet, the delicacy of Degas, and inspiring vibrancy of Warhol to the Bellagio experience.
In the early 2000s, Wynn reinvented himself yet again with the opening of the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Las Vegas. After selling Mirage resorts to MGM in 2000, he saw this as an opportunity to infuse his love of art into the design of these new ventures.
A lover of Picasso, Wynn initially planned on naming his Wynn Las Vegas resort “Le Rêve” (French for “the dream”) after the painter’s notable piece that Wynn owned. Wynn amassed a curated collection of fine art just for the hotel, including a $23.5 million dollar Renoir titled “In The Roses.” He later placed Jeff Koons’ striking sculpture, “Tulips,” at the rotunda where the Wynn and Encore resorts meet. The stainless steel creation, depicting exuberant multicolored balloon tulips delicately wrapped around one another in a bouquet, serves as a sought-out attraction for the resort.
Wynn has masterfully used art, in its many forms, as a means of attracting and enticing guests throughout his career, and the Las Vegas Strip is his greatest exhibit. The crown jewel of this exhibit was the Bellagio.
Having applied his passion for fine art as his choice medium in painting the Las Vegas Strip with grandeur, Wynn asserted his presence as a stakeholder in the art collecting industry. No longer was The Strip merely a destination for gambling; it was now the pinnacle of refinement and sophistication. Upon retiring from the hotel industry in 2018, Wynn moved his expansive collection of fine modern and contemporary art to Wynn Fine Art, his professional gallery.
The galleries span from California to Florida, and feature some of the most idolized artists of the twenty-first century. Wynn has always shown his art to potential buyers — famously poking his elbow through Picasso’s “Le Rêve” by accident while showing it to a guest — but the space has allowed him a venue to interact with fellow art aficionados on a new level.

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So, check it out. Here's how 2020 began for me.

I was invited by Scott McCaughey to play guitar with the Minus 5 as part of the 20th annual New Year's Eve show put on by The Sadies at the Horseshoe Lounge in Toronto. Linda was on drums and Sadies' guitarist Dallas Good sat in on bass with us for the evening. It was a really fun night and great to be part of such a wonderful and cherished tradition up north of the border. Dallas and his brother Travis were joined at various points in the evening by their father, uncle and mom, all of whom had also made records and toured for well over a half century.

We finished our set, a mixed bag of songs from the back pages of the Minus 5, Baseball Project, Dream Syndicate and my own solo albums as well and then we settled in to enjoy the Sadies set. It was the culmination of a wonderful, chilly few final days of 2019 spent in that beautiful and vibrant city. The countdown to midnight began, champagne glasses in hand and at the stroke of midnight, we all sipped, hugged, kissed, raised toasts and then Dallas said this from the stage:

'I don't know. I've got a feeling that 2020 is going to be the best year ever.'

Oh well. You can't get 'em all right.

I had a lot of plans this year. Just like all of you did. There was a new Dream Syndicate album, an 11-CD solo box set, a collaboration with Psychic Temple and also a solo acoustic record I had made in Austin a month earlier. And four records set to be released in 2020 also meant that there would be a lot of touring ahead, taking the new music from town to town just as I have done since I was 22.

The Dream Syndicate was particularly excited about playing South by Southwest in March for the first time and we had a slate of seven really great shows ahead of us in Austin. After that, Linda and I were scheduled to travel up to the Arctic Circle for the Sun Station Vadso festival , playing our own songs and also backing up one of our heroes, Peter Perrett of the Only Ones, joined by our friend (and former Pogue) Cait O' Riordan on bass. I was going to follow that with my first-ever solo acoustic house concert tour of the US, a nice nomadic adventure I had been looking forward to for some time. Some Dream Syndicate shows and a few solo tours along with a Baseball Project recording session booked for August at Mitch Easter's studio in North Carolina were set for later in the year

Plans. As the great philosopher Mike Tyson once said, 'Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.'

You all know the rest. We all know the rest.

I was lucky to have the four records in the can, giving me new music to promote and talk about and share with all of you. I was proud of each of those records and did all I could do to spread the word without the advantage of touring and promo jaunts.

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Linda and I also learned the ropes about streaming concerts and did around 20 shows from our living room and rehearsal room down the road here in Queens. It was a whole new way of doing gigs from the tech learning curve to the weird sensation of singing into an iPad and knowing (hoping) there were people around the world watching in real time. A new way to connect and keep up the chops and it went from being terrifying and confusing to actually being a lot of fun in its own very unique way.

And now it's 2021. I'm starting the year off with 'Strummer and Jones,' a new single on Bandcamp that I recorded with Linda in Port Antonio, Jamaica back in 2013. It's a whimsical ditty about my record collection in the formative year or two before the Dream Syndicate. I've wanted to put it out for years and Bandcamp makes it all so easy and immediate. I'll be putting more archival releases up there in the coming months.

Also, Linda and I will be doing a series of gigs in January and February called The Impossible Tour. Two shows every Sunday that will take place 'in' some of our favorite venues around the globe. Okay, in reality we'll be at The Chimp Factory (aka our rehearsal room) but we have a very good imagination and we hope you do as well. The shows will be up on Stage It, the good people who hosted my last two streaming gigs in recent months.

And then? Who knows! I guess the answer would be 'nobody knows' but I do hope to get back out on the road before the year is over with all or any of the various projects that went into mothballs in 2020.

Most of all, I hope you all are healthy, doing whatever it takes to stay happy, entertained, creatively engaged and overall, just hanging in there. The predictions of the wonderful Dallas Good aside, 2020 was probably not the best year of all time. Let's hope he was just off by one year.

See you down the road, be it real or virtual. Happy New Improved 2021, everybody.

Kevyn Wynn

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