Article: Being Burnet; Twin Cities real-estate titan and art collector Ralph Burnet throws himself - and a lot of controversial art - into a new luxury hotel on Hennepin Avenue.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: Mary Abbe; Staff Writer

Forget the Impressionist reproductions and floral still lifes that usually line hotel rooms. Ralph Burnet's Chambers hotel, scheduled to open Sept. 10 at 901 Hennepin Av. S. in downtown Minneapolis, is going to be a boutique "Art hotel," with a capital A for art and attitude. In the lobby of the 60-room luxury hotel, guests will encounter a huge abstract painting by British artist Gary Hume, a hyperrealistic bust by young American artist Evan Penny, a cascade of 3,000 steel blades by Subodh Gupta from India, and a black-edged vitrine containing a bull's head in a watery formaldehyde solution by Damien Hirst, the provocative Brit. ...

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