Archive for the ‘Museums’ Category
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires (MACBA) - Contemporary Art Museum Buenos Aires - has opened its doors to the public in the San Telmo district of the Argentinian capital.
Vila Sebastian Arquitectos are behind the attraction's design, which comprises a glass façade measuring 15m x 12m (49ft x 39ft) that ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Scientists in Buenos Aires have unveiled a new species of dinosaur related to the giant Tyrannosaurus, the smaller Velociraptor and existing birds.
Officials from the Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires dubbed the prehistoric creature Bicentenaria Argentina.
Researchers said the carnivorous beast was likely to be measured between 2.5 and 3 metres ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2012
The letter of intention leading to the creation of the Argentine Polo Museum in Buenos Aires (Museo Argentino del Polo) was signed on April 25th and will be located at the Campo Argentino de Polo, in Buenos Aires's Palermo district.
During the meeting, which took place at the Buenos Aires's national ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
From a new nonstop flight from Newark, New Jersey to a unique tour following the footsteps of the famed Evita Peron, Argentina is on a roll with adding new selling points to the already popular destination.
Last week, A Woman's View (www.womansviewtravel.com), a division of IsramWorld, reported a new series of ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Established in 2001, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, with several exhibitions and events planned to mark the occasion.
Thanks to an artistic exchange agreement with the Latin American Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Decades after The Beatles first surged onto the international music stage, fans in Argentina are flocking to a new museum dedicated to the 'Fab Four' that opened in the country's capital this week.
Museum creator Rodolfo Vazquez said he started his private collection after someone gave him the group's "Rubber Soul" ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Buenos Aires | Argentina
In 1961, Argentine painters Ernesto Deira, Rómulo Macció, Luis Felipe Noé y Jorge de la Vega, presented the exhibition Nueva Figuración at Galería Peuser in Buenos Aires. They continued to be involved for more than four years, forming one of the most relevant ...
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
It's not so much why go to Buenos Aires as why go home! Buenos Aires is filled with people who planned on staying for a couple of months, and just never got on that return flight (myself included). It's a rare city that manages to make well-traveled people fall in ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Malba, the Museum of Latin-American Art in Buenos Aires, opened their second big show of the year. The protagonist is Robert Mapplethorpe, an artist form the US best known for his photographs of male nudes and flowers.
Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) can probably be best described as a child of his time. He ...
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