3312  BsAs Arts News for Tango Travelers

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:29:56 -0700
From: Brian Dunn <brian@DANCEOFTHEHEART.COM>
Subject: BsAs Arts News for Tango Travelers

Dear List,

I'm sharing with you a letter from the people at International Living I
recently received about current cultural happenings in BsAs. For those
dancers looking to fill the time between milongas with some cultural
enrichment, you'd be hard pressed to do better than these:

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"The Art of Living in BA"
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We're still in mid-summer here in Buenos Aires, but the cultural season has
begun. Last year we had more plays and musicals, more wine-tastings and food
shows, more new stuff in museums and galleries, than at any time in recent
memory. This year promises to be even better, especially in the museums.

Start with the blockbuster show of Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs in the
Centro Borges.
C-B is everyman's favorite photographer, shooting people and places, tragedy
and joy during the last 70 years of the 20th century. The Buenos Aires show
includes most, if not all, of the C-B exhibit I saw last year at the
Biblioteque National Mitterand in Paris. I went to that show two or three
times, and I'll probably do the same here. Every visit is a treat as these
treasures give up another detail, another insight. You can catch it here
until April 10.

Next door to C-B, in the same Centro Borges, is an exhibit of photos by
Argentine Horacio Coppola. Coppola's photos document Buenos Aires street
life in the 1930s; see what a peaceful, low-rise city Buenos Aires once was.
(We now have some twelve million people in the greater metropolitan area.)
You can find out more about both shows by visiting the website:
https://www.ccborges.org.ar/home.html (in Spanish).

The other big event here in Buenos Aires is the reopening of the Fine Arts
museum (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Recoleta. After six months and
millions of pesos, the refurbished museum features Argentine painters past
and present. European masters get the ground floor, with works by Rodin,
Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and more. But upstairs the
museum presents its heart and soul: the new Argentine wing. Start with 19th
century paintings of revolution, battles, and hunger. Continue to the Luisa
Maria Bemberg wing, then to early 20th-century works. End up in the modern
art room, with the best of Argentine contemporary art. Many of these
painters are still active. The museum opens at noon on weekdays and is
closed Monday.

For something more offbeat there's the "fileteo" show at the Museum of the
City, in San Telmo. "Fileteadores" decorate carts and buses, signs and
walls, and almost anything else that paint will stick to. Fileteo looks like
paint decoration gone wild, with doodles, swaths of color, swans, and
dragons. Besides names, places, and other practical information,
fileteadores often paint their favorite slogans. Fileteador Martiniano Arce,
for example, says that "Reality is an Effect Produced by Lack of Alcohol."
But the only way to know what I'm talking about is to look at the pictures:
https://www.carlosreyna.com.ar/fileteado/tango.html.

The musem's website is
https://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/cultura/museos/museociudad.php (in
Spanish). But note: the museum is located at Defensa 293 in San Telmo,
around the corner and down the block from the address given on the website.

Paul Terhorst
For International Living
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The company's website is www.internationalliving.com, and focuses on the
interests of those considering relocating abroad. I have no financial
interest in them.

All the best,
Brian Dunn
Dance of the Heart
Boulder, Colorado USA
www.danceoftheheart.com