Rome
Rome Cavalieri
Anything less than a private tour with the hotel’s art historian just won’t do for these acquisitions. Displayed throughout the hotel, works range from Andy Warhol’s Dollar Signs to the Tiepolo Cycle, the US$8-million rococo series by the Venetian master, rivalling the breathtaking views of the Eternal City.
Via Alberto Cadlolo 101, 39-06-3509-1, romecavalieri.com
San Francisco
Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
The art gallery’s in your iPod thanks to podcast tours of this contemporary collection. Local artists explain their inspirations and methods – background you’ll likely need when contemplating works like Robin Mitchell’s Untitled, 2001: a composition of floating spheres with a meandering line, referred to as “the path,” running through the canvas.
757 Market St., 415-633-3000, fourseasons.com/sanfrancisco
Georgetown
Ritz-Carlton Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Abstract works by Marco Breuer, Sarah Morris and Seiko Tachibana highlight the collection at this boutique hotel inside a converted smokestack building. Head to the front desk to request a guided tour that ends in the restaurant under a triptych depicting fireworks over the Potomac.
3100 South St., Washington, D.C., 202-912-4100, ritzcarlton.com
Louisville
21c Museum Hotel
A rooftop edged with a flock of plastic red penguins sets the artistic tone at 21c Museum Hotel. And while the hotel boasts southern hospitality, it redefines the notion with provocative works like In the Absence of Voyeurism #6 and #7, located, naturally, in the restrooms.
700 W. Main St., Louisville, Kentucky, 502-217-6300, 21cmuseumhotel.com
