ArteBA — Buenos Aires’ Annual Contemporary Art Fair
May 18, 2012 by ande
Filed under Annual Events, Featured
ArteBa is one of Latin America’s largest contemporary art fairs. Taking place over the course of five days, the annual Buenos Aires’ event attracts over 120,000 art junkies from across the planet and provides visitors the chance to hobnob with the Argentine elite, artists and celebrities. Sponsored by The ArteBA Foundation and brought together [...]
El Museo de Bellas Artes: Fine Arts in Buenos Aires
May 17, 2012 by ande
Filed under budget travel, Featured, Museums/Galleries
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) is the home to Argentina’s largest national fine art collection. Situated along the greenery of Libertador Avenue in the ritzy neighborhood of Recoleta, the National Fine Arts Museum 1870’s façade alludes to the primarily 19th century European pieces found inside. Bella Artes is one of Argentina’s oldest museums [...]
Buenos Aires International Circus Festival
May 3, 2012 by ande
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The Buenos Aires International Circus festival, hosted by the Buenos Aires Culture Department in conjunction with the French Embassy and Institute Français, is a 12-day extravaganza dedicated to avant-garde circus arts. Acrobatics, trapeze, mime, adagio, aerial straps and physical theater shows take place in venues across the city with the big tops in Parque Patricios [...]
Telos: History & Myths of Argentine Sex Hotels
Typical telo customers The range of sex hotels runs from low-end, basic and frequented by prostitutes to full-blown luxury suites with two floors, a kitchen, garden and a pool table — there is a telo out there for everyone. Ask any group of Argentines, and a deluge of telo stories about their ‘friends’ soon arise. [...]
Getting it on Argentina – Telos, a National Institution
Sex Hotels Legal, non-taboo and as much a part of Argentine daily life as the national drink mate, football and family barbecues, there are approximately 180 sex hotels in Argentina’s capital, boasting an estimated 5,000 rooms and 3 million yearly clients. Commonly known by their lunfardo (slang) name telo —hotel backwards without the silent ‘h’ [...]
Feria del Libro: Buenos Aires International Book Fair
April 10, 2012 by ande
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The words ‘Book Fair’ have the potential to conjure up images of elementary schoolyards with tables of used paperbacks underneath kitschy tents. Whatever mental representation arises, it is completely deceptive when it comes to Buenos Aires ‘Feria International del Libro.’ This annual celebration of the literary universe and its purveyors is the Spanish-speaking world’s [...]
2012 Buenos Aires International Indie Film Festival
April 4, 2012 by ande
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Tickets are on sale for the 2012 Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, taking place from the 11th until the 22th of April. Known by its Spanish acronym, BAFICI, this is the yearly festival’s 14th edition. Buenos Aires’ largest festival will be bigger than ever with a total of 449 films screening in 11 locations [...]
Foto of the Week — Dorrego Corner
March 30, 2012 by ande
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Barbara Bush, daughter of former U.S. President George Bush, was famously robbed at the bar on the left and a large multinational coffee chain has since taken over the building in the center. Do you know what historic corner this is? Does the installment of a North American chain cafe here signify the beginning of [...]
Buenos Aires — A City of Books
Buenos Aires is the birthplace of many a prominent writer, but it takes a visit to fully unveil the enduring love of reading in South America’s city of books. Godfather of Argentine literature, Jorge Luis Borges famously said, “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones [...]
Buenos Aires St. Patty’s Day Celebration 2012
March 15, 2012 by ande
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The British in Argentina may not be too popular these days, but Argentines are happy to help the 500,000+ strong Irish descendants in the country party every March 17th. The Irish community‘s yearly St. Patrick’s Day celebration falls on a Saturday this year, which means the party in Buenos Aires promises to be huge — [...]
