So Long, Guggenheim Las Vegas

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  05.13.08 | 6:22 PM ET

Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne bids farewell to the Rem Koolhaas-designed Guggenheim Museum, which closed Sunday. “Like a lot of Las Vegas marriages,” he writes, “the one between the Venetian Hotel and the Guggenheim Museum was born of some seriously misplaced optimism.”