A tentative Las Vegas arts and culture timeline

Indigenous culture

Petroglyphs and rock writings record Southern Paiutes and other Indigenous tribes passing through Southern Nevada for a thousand years up the last century.

1900-1950 population ( ) to 38,000

1906 Hotel Nevada, at Fremont and Main, first hotel in Las Vegas, now the Golden Gate Casino

1928 El Portal Theater, silent movies on Fremont Street

1931 Legalized gambling

1934 the Indian Reorganization Act provides a federal framework for Indigenous tribes to practice self-government, as sovereign nations.

1935 Helldorado Days, parades and many people dressing like cowboys and cowgirls

1935 Lost City Museum in Overton, Indigenous tribal cultures

1936 Boulder Dam

1936 Winged Figures of the Republic, bronze sculptures at Boulder Dam, Oskar J.W. Hansen

1941 El Rancho Vegas, the first resort on the Strip, designed by Wayne McAllister

1941 El Cortez Casino, on Fremont, designed by Wayne McAllister

1942 Opening of Nellis Gunnery Range

1942 Closure of Block 16 downtown brothel district

1944 The Huntridge Theater opens

1950 Drag races and hot rod clubs, The Sinners, the Crapshooters

1950 Desert Inn Resort on the Strip designed by Wayne McAllister

1950 Las Vegas Art League, in 1974 becomes the Las Vegas Art Museum

1951-1960 population 38,000 to 92,000, growth 142%

1951 First Atom bombs exploded at the Nevada Test Site

1951 First A-bomb-on-Fremont post card

1951 Vegas Vic sign on Fremont

1951 Las Vegas libraries directed to include art galleries. In 2023, CC Library estimated 80 exhibits per year were presented through this system.

1952 Sands Resort on the Strip designed by Wayne McAllister

1953 Floating craps game photo by Don English of Las Vegas News Bureau

1953 KLAS TV, Channel 8, first TV station

1955 Opening and closing of Moulin Rouge Casino

1955 UNLV receives initial funding from the State of Nevada, Maude Frazier

1956 Fremont Hotel on Fremont designed by Wayne McAllister

1957 Miss Atomic Blast photo by Don English of Las Vegas News Bureau

1957 Desert Decor, later Desert Art Supplies, on East Charleston, founder Jack Walkenshaw, later Jack’s son Del, later Del’s son James

1958 Stardust sign font by Kermit Wayne and Yesco signs

1959 Fabulous Las Vegas sign by Betty Willis

1959 LV Convention Center Rotunda designed by Adrian Wilson

1959 Folies Bergere production show opens at The Tropicana

1960 The Rat Pack performs at the Sands

1960 “Ocean’s Eleven” movie with the Rat Pack

1960 Strip casinos agree to begin de-segregation

1961-1970 population 92,000 to 240,000, growth 161%

1961 La Concha Motel on the Strip designed by Paul Revere Williams

1961 The Teenbeats band

1962 The Teenbeat Club, first teen nightclub in the US, Steve Miller, Keith Austin

1962 Self destructing large machines, designed for the purpose, slowly explode, at Jean dry lake, by Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle,

1963 Dickinson Library, UNLV, the appalling round library

1963 St Anne Catholic church by Elmo Bruner, exterior mosaics by Edith Piczek and her sister Isabel

1963 Casino de Paris production show at the Dunes, by Frederic Apcar

1964 The Beatles at the Convention Center

1964 Viva Las Vegas, movie with Elvis and Ann Margaret

1964 Art in the Park festival, Boulder City, Sara Denton

1965 opening of the LA County Museum of Art

1966 The Weeds, band, Fred Cole

1967 Guardian Angel Shrine, by Paul Revere Williams and Claude Coyne, exterior mosaics by Edith Piczek and her sister Isabel Piczek

1967 Nevada Arts Council, division of NV Tourism and Cultural Affairs, provides grants and general supports for the arts

1968 Learning From Las Vegas, the forgotten symbolism of architectural form, book by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steve Izenour

1968 KLVX Channel 10, Las Vegas PBS TV

1969 Nevada Watercolor Society

1969 Elvis at the Hilton (then The International)

1969 Double Negative, land art by Michael Heizer

1969 UNLV art gallery, Archie C. Grant Hall, first gallery at UNLV

1970 The Las Vegas Paiute tribe is recognized by the US Secretary of the Interior, as a sovereign nation.

1970 City, land art by Michael Heizer, completed 2022

1970 UNLV College of Fine Arts

1971-1980 population 240,000 to 438,000, growth 82%

1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, book by Hunter S. Thompson, movie in 1998

1971 Rita Deanin Abbey, mosaic at (downtown) Temple Beth Shalom

1971 Allied Arts Council, umbrella arts support group, to 1999.

1971 Clark County Community College, in 1991 becomes Community College of Southern Nevada

1971 Clark County Flamingo Library, remodeled in 1986, 1994

1972 KCEP 88.1 radio, non-commercial, urban contemporary

1972 Nevada Ballet Theater, Vasili Sulich, Nancy Houssels

1972 Judy Bayley Theater, UNLV, performing arts center

1973 Cultural Affairs department, City of Las Vegas, Patricia Marchese

1974 The permanent art collection of the County library gallery system, hundreds of local artists, ongoing

1974 Las Vegas Art League (1950) changes its name to the Las Vegas Art Museum

1976 Artemus W Ham Hall, performing arts center, UNLV

1976 Rainbow Company Youth Theater, City of Las Vegas

1976 Las Vegas Jazz Society

1978 Charleston Heights Arts Center, City of Las Vegas

1979 Liberace Museum

1979 Nevada Camera Club

1979 Bad Habits, first Vegas punk band, Eric Hill, Chris Moon, Eric Olsen, Joe Corbino

1979 Record Exchange, later renamed The Underground, punk music and culture, on Maryland Parkway near UNLV

1980 KNPR Nevada Public Radio, 88.9, classical music, Lamar Marchese

1980 Botanical Cactus Garden, Ethel M Chocolates, 3 acres, 300 species

1981-1990 population 438,000 to 708,000, growth 62%

1981 KUNV radio from UNLV, 91.5, founded by students, after a few years the most respected college radio station in the country

1981 Siegfreid and Roy headline at the New Frontier on the Strip

1981 Jubilee production show opens at the MGM, now the Horseshoe, costumes by Bob Mackie, the Sultan of Sequins.

1981 Flashlight, sculpture at UNLV, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, between Judy Bailey Hall and Artemus W. Ham Hall

1981 Arts Alive, magazine focused on Las Vegas arts, state funded, closed in 1992

1982 The Hair Zoo, salon and punk culture center, downtown. The direct lineage of the current downtown arts district begins here. Jerry Russo

1982 Page After Page, comic books, Len Pederson

1982 Nevada State Museum, opens at Lorenzi Park, a Las Vegas branch of what was until now, a Reno-based museum

1983 Martin Luther King parade, downtown

1983 Pinolla’s, punk club in a warehouse

1983 Social Distortion, Self Abuse, Panty Shields, at Vegas World

1984 the Ramones at UNLV

1984 Desert punk shows at Ann Road, Danny Breeden, Sean Sloan

1985 That’s Entertainment, punk club

1985 An Evening at La Cage with Frank Marino, drag show at the Riviera

1985 Caribbean Lifestyles, downtown, Stan Rankin, KUNV DJ

1985 Westwood Studios, video game development, Brent Sperry

1986 Jenny Holzer text presented on Caesars Palace sign boards, presented by the Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art

1986 Desert Sculptors Association, Lorenzi Park

1986 Las Vegas Central Library and Lied Discovery Museum, designed by Antoine Predock

1986 Desert punk shows at Losee Road, Corrosion of Authority, 5150, Danny Breeden, Sean Sloan

1986 The Newsroom, off 5th and Fremont, first downtown art coffee shop, Lenadams Dorris

1987 The Newsroom moves to Maryland Parkway, the first art coffee shop there, Lenadams Dorris

1987 Left of Center Gallery, North Las Vegas, permanent collection of African art and changing exhibits, Vicki Richardson

1987 Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art (NICA) opens in UNLV Donna Beam Gallery, moves to the Cannery strip mall, moves to the Arts Factory, Tom Holder, Jerry Schefcik

1987 LV Arts Commission, advises LV City Council

1988 Cafe Espresso Roma on Maryland Parkway, replaces The Newsroom

1988 Vintage Madness, artisan vintage clothes, downtown, Alan Clancy, the second downtown art space and business

1988 1200 people arrested outside the Nevada Test Site in protests coordinated by American Peace Test

1989 Mirage Resort volcano, designed by WET, Steve Wynn

1989 Donna Beam Gallery, UNLV, Jerry Schefcik

1989 Poetry Alive, weekly reading at Cafe Espresso Roma on Maryland Parkway, across from UNLV, Bonnie Wetherell, Jack Stevens, five readers

1989 10th Anniversary party of The Underground punk music shop, Wayne Coyner. The party was held at Bert’s Second Story, later renamed the Arts Factory. It was an alert to consider empty downtown as a potential opportunity for artists.

1990 Insight group art show, produced by Blair Dagle, at Bert’s Second Story, later renamed the Arts Factory. With the Underground event, this was the social birth of the arts district.

1990, Chumbawamba, anarcho-punk band, at Bert’s Second Story

1990 Iggy Pop at Calamity Jayne’s music hall

1990 Sonic Youth, Nirvana, at Calamity Jayne’s music hall

1990 Snow Mountain Pow Wow, sharing cultural arts, by the Las Vegas Paiute tribe, continues to the present day.

1990 Lied Children’s Museum, later the Discovery Children’s Museum

1990 Vaquero, sculpture by Luis Jimenez, at Harry Reid Airport

1990 art critic Dave Hickey and art historian Dr Libby Lumpkin join the faculty at UNLV

1991-2000 population 708,000 to 1,326,000, growth 87%

1991 250 people at Burning Man, located in the Black Rock Desert near Reno, after 90 attendees in Black Rock Desert in 1990.

1991 Benway Bop, new music, on Maryland Parkway, Ronn and Kelly Benway

1992 Southwest Contemporary, magazine, critical perspectives on contemporary arts

1992 Contemporary Arts Collective, many Vegas artists, many exhibitions

1992 Scope Magazine, James and Staci Reza, to 1998

1992 Underground testing of Atom bombs halted at the Nevada Test Site

1992 Double Down Saloon, P Moss, Scott Siegel

1993 Enigma Garden Cafe, 914 S. 4th Street, downtown, coffee, performance space, gallery, Julie Brewer, later with Lenadams Dorris, closed 2000. Following the Hair Zoo and Vintage Madness, Enigma was the third pioneer social art space in the arts district

1993 Da Joynt, hip hop music and culture, Maryland Parkway, by Eloff

1993 Cafe Copioh, on Maryland Parkway, Mike Gaza

1993 Cafe Rainbow, Maryland Parkway, Jerry Higgle, Marci Gehrig. Now with three art coffee shops, the Maryland Parkway art district was at its high point with more tables than paying customers

1993 the Committee for Public Safety, art collective, many artists, multi-media performance, poetry, music, video, 68 public events, 200 radio programs, producer Doug Jablin, KUNV DJ

1993 Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, high school for artists

1993 Treasure Island Resort, pirates’ ship sinks the cops’ ship, designed by Joel Bergman, Jon Jerde, Steve Wynn

1993 Cirque du Soleil opens at Treasure Island

1993 Viva Las Vegas, After Hours Architecture, book, Denise Scott Brown, Steve Izenour, Alan Hess

1993 The Magic Sign, book, by Charles F Barnard, a wide survey of classic Strip and Fremont signs and their designers

1993 Ventriloquists’ Museum, hundreds of puppets and dummies and automatons, Valentine Vox, at O’Shay’s, on the Strip,

1994 Game of Life, rave, at Bert’s Second Story, later renamed the Arts factory

1994 Lower Oakey Group, genesis of the Laser Vida art collective, three day multi-media event, at 1925 Oakey

1994 Sublime, FSP, at the Huntridge

1995 Huntridge Theater ceiling collapses a couple of hours before a Circle Jerks show. No one is injured.

1995 Leaving Las Vegas, movie, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Shue

1995 Las Vegas, Guidebook to Las Vegas Architecture, book, by Frances Anderton, John Chase

1995 Alternate Reality Comics, Maryland Parkway, Ralph Mathieu

1995 Main Studio Gallery, 1806 S. Main, the arts district moves next to the Strat, Joe Cartino, Ed Bigelow, with the Laser Vida art collective

1995 Urban Theater, Symposium, UNLV School of Architecture

1995 Literary Las Vegas, book, anthology edited by Mike Tronnes

1996 Club Utopia, electronic dance music on the Strip. Aaron Britt, Gino LoPinto, supported by locals until its discovery by tourists

1996 The Neon Museum installs its first refurbished sign

1997 Arts Factory opens, by Wes Myles

1997 Smallworks Gallery, in the Arts Factory, by Kathleen Nathan and James Stanford

1997 Sahara West Library opens with the largest gallery space in Las Vegas

1997 Las Vegas Art Museum relocates to the Sahara West Library gallery

1998 Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Bellagio Resort, Steve Wynn

1998 Public Arts Master Plan, published by City of Las Vegas.

1998 M-9 Atelier, first art gallery in Commercial Center, Jerry Misko

1998 Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, Harold Weller, sponsored by Andrew Tompkins, founder of Lady Luck Casino

1998 Viva Las Vegas, rockabilly music festival

1998 Lin “Spit” Newborn and Daniel Shersty murdered by Nazis

1999 Punk Rock Bowling and music festival

1999 NICA opens in the Arts Factory, with Chromaform show

2000 Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyolite outside Beatty, Nevada. founders Albert Szukalski, Suzanne Hackett Morgan, Charles Morgan

2000 Aria, on the Fremont Street canopy, by Jennifer Steinkamp in partnership with the City of Las Vegas

2000 Blue Man Group opens at the Luxor

2000 The Void, the Grid, and the Sign, Traversing the Great Basin, book by William L. Fox

2001-2010 population 1,326,000 to 1,903,000, growth 43%

2001 Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, inside the Venetian Resort, designed by Rem Koolhaas. Sheldon Adelson, closed 2008

2001 The Money and the Power, book by Sally Denton and Roger Morris

2001 LIED Library, UNLV, 302,000 square feet, by Wells Pugsley Architects

2001 Penn and Teller open at The Rio

2001 Dave Hickey receives MacArthur Fellowship

2001 The Magic Hour, the convergence of art and Las Vegas, book, edited by Alex Farquharson, with many contemporary artists

2001 LV Jewish Film Festival, Josh Abbey

2002 First Friday, strolling through the arts district, Cindy Funkhouser, Julie Brewer, Naomi Arin

2002 5ive Finger Miscount, art collective, Dray Dizzle, Kd Matheson, Alexander Huerta, Vezun, Amy Sol, Iceberg Slick (Emmett Gates), Dale Mathis, King Ruck

2002 The Poets’ Bridge, 30’ walkway with etched text by 20 poets, downtown, City of Las Vegas

2003 Percent for the Arts Fund, in alignment with national standards, a mechanism to fund public art, established by the City of Las Vegas.

2003 Cockroach Theater, becomes the Vegas Theater Company in 2013

2003 Dust Gallery in the Arts Factory, Naomi Arin, Jerry Misko

2004 Trifecta Gallery in the Arts Factory, by Marty Walsh, closed 2015

2004 Googie Redux, Ultramodern roadside architecture, book, by Alan Hess,

2004 The Vatican to Vegas, a history of special effects, book, by Norman M. Klein, scripted spaces and the illusion of power,

2004 Casino Center Cottages, art space, downtown

2004 The Killers, Mr. Brightside

2004 Beatty Days, 120 miles north of Las Vegas, three-day local culture celebration

2005 Vegoose music festival closes after 2007

2005 Dark Skies, three-day event at Primm dry lake, 600 attendees, Las Vegas Burning Man, re-creating a similar event staged there in 1962.

2005 The Get Back opens at the Beauty Bar, after-hours on First Friday, after opening at the Ice House in 2004, DJ John Doe, eclectic funk music mix

2005 Las Vegas Centennial celebrated with a valley-wide mural program

2005 Mesquite Art Center is included in the book, New Museum, by Mimi Zeiger. The Mesquite Center was designed by assemblageSTUDIO

2005 ZAP, artists commissioned to paint utility boxes, Clark County funded

2005 Atomic Museum, history of nuclear weapons and the Nevada Test Site

2005 Dam Short Film Festival, Boulder City, Lee Lanier, Anita Lanier, John La Bonney

2005 Sin City Sisters, drag nuns troupe, performance, fundraising, Vegas chapter of San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

2006 Black Mountain Institute, literary support foundation, Beverly Rogers

2006 Pinball Hall of Fame, now on the Strip, 700 pinball machines, Tim Arnold

2006 Burlesque Hall of Fame, downtown

2006 Sky is the Limit, on the Fremont Street canopy, by Haluk Akakce, City of Las Vegas and Creativetime

2006 Dr. Libby Lumpkin becomes director of the Las Vegas Art Museum

2007 Monument to the Simulacrum, sculpture by Stephen Hendee, at the Historic Fifth Street School, downtown

2007 Americans for the Arts, annual convention held in Las Vegas

2007 For Las Vegas, by Jenny Holzer, on the Fremont Street canopy, funded by City of Las Vegas

2007 Las Vegas Diaspora: the Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland, mostly former students of Dave Hickey, curated by Dave Hickey, at the Las Vegas Museum of Art

2008 Neon Reverb music festival, James Woodbridge, Thirry Harlin

2008 Erotic Heritage Museum, Harry Mohney

2008 Las Vegas Quilters

2008 Guggenheim Las Vegas closes

2009 Smith Center for the Performing Arts

2009 Las Vegas Museum of Art closes

2009 Joseph Watson Collection opens in the Arts Factory

2009 Sin City Gallery, the Arts Factory, Dr Laura Hinkel

2010 Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, designed by Frank Gehry

2010 P3 Studio at the Cosmopolitan Resort, artist residency, by the Art Production Fund of NY

2010 Blackbird Studios, art spaces on Commerce, downtown, Gina Quaranto

2010 Emergency Arts Center, on Fremont Street, art spaces with the Beat coffee shop, Michael and Jennifer Cornthwaite, the first downtown art coffee shop in ten years since the closure of Enigma Garden Cafe.

2010 London Biennale in Las Vegas, group show, last in 2020, Jevijoe Vitug Theabangguard

2010 3 Bad Sheep, art collective, Alexander P. Huerta, Alexander Sky, Eddie Canumay

2010 Photo Bang Bang, studio downtown, Curtis Joe Walker

2010 Las Vegas Natural History Museum, downtown

2010 Vegas City Opera, Ginger Land-van Buuren

2011-2020 population 1,903,000 to 2,699,000, growth 42%

2011 Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, UNLV

2011 Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, electronic dance music

2011 Absinthe production show at Caesars Palace, by Spiegelworld, Ross Mollison

2011 Nevada State Museum, in Springs Preserve

2012 Pipe Dream, sculpture at the Smith Center, Tim Bavington

2012 LV City Hall, new, includes a collection of commissioned public art

2012 A Public Fit Theater, Joseph Kucan and Ann-Marie Pereth

2012 The Mob Museum, downtown

2012 Battleborn, book by Claire Vaye Watkins

2013 Life is Beautiful, downtown pop music festival, Tony Hsieh

2013 James Turrell installation in City Center shop named Akhob, Louis Vuitton

2013 Discovery Children’s Museum, Symphony Park, by the Don W Reynolds Foundation

2013 Velveteen Rabbit, bar, downtown, Christina Dylag, Pamela Dylag

2013 Vegas Theater Company, formerly Cockroach Theater

2013 Bad Ink, punk tattoo TV series, Rob Ruckus, Dirk Vermin

2013 Mondays Dark, Mark Shunock, twice monthly stage performances for charity

2014 Big Blues Bender, music festival, A.J.Gross

2014 Mural by Sush Machida and Tim Bavington, exterior east wall of Emergency Arts Center on Fremont

2014 Writer’s Block bookstore, Fremont Street, Drew Cohen and Scott Seeley, the first bookstore on Fremont in its history except for the porn store during the seventies

2014 MAS Vegas exhibit, inside VAST Space Projects in Henderson

2015 Millennium Fandom Bar, cosplay, pop culture, downtown, Alex Pusineri

2015 The Broad Museum, downtown LA, contemporary art, Eli and Edythe Broad

2016 T-Mobile Arena opens

2016 Majestic Repertory Theatre, Troy Heard

2016 Seven Magic Mountains, installation at Jean Dry Lake, by Ugo Rondinone

2016 Tilting the Basin, Contemporary Art in Nevada, presented by the Reno-based Nevada Museum of Art

2016 Dream Machine, sculpture, treated aluminum, 26 feet tall, Wayne Littlejohn

2016, Big Rig Jig, sculpture installed at Ferguson’s on Fremont, by Mike Ross

2016 Small Space Fest, by the Weft in the Weave Collective, in Emergency Arts space on Fremont

2016 Priscilla Fowler Fine Art Gallery, downtown, Priscilla Fowler

2016 ReBar downtown, Derek Stonebarger

2017 Mayor’s Symposium on Urban Design, UNLV School of Architecture

2017 S.N.R.G., in Beatty, the Southern Nevada Regional Gathering, 500 people, produced by Southern Nevada Burning Man

2017 AMP, ongoing utility cabinet painting program begins on Maryland Parkway, funded by City of Las Vegas

2018 Radial Symmetry, sculpture by Luis-Varela-Rico, on Main Street

2018 Core Contemporary, gallery by Nancy Good at New Orleans Square

2018 Double Scoop online magazine of Nevada arts, Kris Vagner

2018 Esther’s Kitchen, downtown, James Trees

2018 Nevada Museum of Art (Reno) announces its expansion to Las Vegas

2018 Recycled Propaganda, gallery, downtown, Izaac Zevalking

2019 The Palms Resort reopens with works by Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami and others. Damian Hirst designs a bar called “Unknown” with an iconic shark work and dot paintings in addition to a hotel suite called “The Empathy Suite.”

2019 Through the Muddy, historical mural, Moapa Valley Community Center, Overton, by Gig Depio

2019 AvantPop bookstore in New Orleans Square, Sugar and Schwa Laytart

2019 The Art of Landscape, Symposium, UNLV School of Architecture

2019 Project Neon 1-15 expansion, includes two sculptures, Found Font, and Hot Dip, at Charleston and I-15, by PUNCH Architecture

2020 NUWU art and activism studios, downtown, Fawn Douglas, and partner AB Wilkinson

2020 ASAP gallery (Available Space Art Projects) New Orleans Square, Holly Lay, Homero Hidalgo

2020 Hellbound Horror, scary collectibles, Barbara and Jim McWilliams, New Orleans Square

2020 Atomic Tumbleweed, sculpture, stainless steel, by Wayne Littlejohn, also, ten engraved poems, 3rd Street Linear Park, downtown

2020 Allegiant Stadium opens

2021- population 2,699,000

2021 Office of Collecting and Design, a blissful space in New Orleans Square, Jessica Oreck

2021 Meow Wolf, physically immersive art space near the Strip

2021 Historic Westside Legacy Park, sculptures Living Black Pillars, by Chase R McCurdy, and a statue of President Obama, by Brian Hanlon, City of Las Vegas

2022 Duck Duck Shed, 50th anniversary of Learning From Las Vegas, symposium, Neon Museum

2022 Parkway of Broken Dreams, documentary about 90’s culture on Maryland Parkway, by P.J. Perez

2022 Nuwu Art Gallery and Community Center, Southern Paiute, Indigenous Latin American, African American, Fawn Douglas, and partner AB Wilkinson

2022 The Cloud House, community arts and crafts center on Nuwuvi land, Las Vegas

2022 LACMA, (LA County Museum of Art), ongoing fundraising generates $750 million for LACMA expansion, 350,000 square feet of new gallery space, scheduled for completion in 2024

2022 Larger Than Life, sculpture by Barbara and Larry Domsky, at Symphony Park

2022 Rita Deanin Abbey Museum, Robert R. Belliveau

2022 City, land art by Michael Heizer, opens to the public

2023 <lasvegasarts.org> Las Vegas arts in print media, 1990-2015. 850 articles online, Anthony Bondi and Amy Stewart Hale

2023 Centennial of Historic Westside School, parade and festival, by School Alumni and City of Las Vegas

2023 Slonina ARTSpace, at 901 East Fremont, art collective gallery, in the middle of the former Downtown Project, Robin Barcus Slonina,

2023 The Fontainebleau Resort opens with a multi-story Urs Fisher sculpture and two large murals.

2023 Nipton, Ca, purchased by Spiegelworld, Ross Mollison

2023 The Beverly Theater, indie, revival, art movies, live performances, 228 seats, Beverly Rogers, downtown

2023 LACMA and Las Vegas Museum of Art enter into an ENA with the City of Las Vegas for land in Symphony Park. Campaign for financing is not announced. $150m is proposed as the cost of the museum.

2023 Clark County purchases New Orleans Square, the de facto current Las Vegas arts district

2023 Punk Rock Museum

2023 The Sphere

2024 Ice Age Fossils State Park, Mammoth sculpture by Tahoe Mack, Dana Albany, and crew

2024 Earth Rise sculpture, downtown Overton, by Mark Brandvik, to be a gateway to Double Negative, land art by Michael Heizer

2024 In LA, the scheduled opening of the LACMA expansion, 300,000 square feet, under construction since 2020

2024 In LA, construction continues on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, 300,000 square feet of gallery space, estimated cost $2B, scheduled to open in 2025