The eleventh edition of Buenos Aires Photo, the most important art fair specialized in Photography in Latin America, will take place at Centro Cultural Recoleta from October 15th through October 18th, 2015. 

This exhibition brings together the works from more than 20 art galleries from Argentina and different countries.

The works by the finalists of the Buenos Aires Photo Award 2015 will be presented. There will be conferences and book presentations every day during the fair.

The Peruvian born photographer Luz Maria Bedoya will be the guest artist in this year´s edition, and the Argentine George Friedman will be the honored artist.

The works by Matias Kritz will be exhibited simultaneously with Buenos Aires Photo at Palacio de las Artes in Palacio Duhau, Av. Alvear 1661, with free entrance.

For more information on participating galleries, exhibited works and schedule of lectures ("Auditorio"), visit Buenos Aires Photo 2015 official website (in Spanish only).

Dates: October 15 - 18, 2015

Location: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junin 1930

Opening hours: 1.30 PM to 8.30 PM

Entry Fees:

General: AR$ 90

University students, children under 12 and pensioners: AR$ 45

Gallery Nights, the original circuit for art lovers around art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, presents this special edition of Gallery Day, that will take place in the neighborhoods of La Boca on Saturday, September 26th, 2015, from 3 pm to 6 pm.

This is a great opportunity to spend a fun afternoon visiting diverse exhibitions, and discovering the talents of emerging artists.

Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día once a month, between April and December.

The next edition will be held on Thursday, September 10th, 2015, from 7 pm to 10 pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from Plaza San Martín to Ayacucho and from Tucumán to Av. del Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

Gallery Nights, the original circuit for art lovers around art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, presents this special edition of Gallery Day, that will take place in the neighborhoods of Palermo and Villa Crespo on Saturday, July 11, 2015, from 12 pm to 4 pm.

Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día once a month, between April and December.

The next edition will be held on Thursday, June 18th, 2015, from 7 pm to 10 pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from Plaza San Martín to Ayacucho and from Tucumán to Av. del Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

The largest exhibition of Maori art and culture exhibited in America arrives in Buenos Aires on June 10, and will remain at Usina del Arte until July 10, 2015.

The exhibition, which until now has only been seen in Asia and in Chile, features an important representation of Maori art including tattoo artists, dance groups, conferences, live music and more than one hundred objects including wood carvings and pounamu jewelry, green stone, bone, bronze and linen. All the objects that will be exhibited have been created by students and tutors of the New Zealand Maori Arts & Crafts Institute (NZMACI), an organization that seeks to demystify this ancestral culture since 1926, protecting and promoting the arts and culture of this country.

The dance group Kapa Haka will travel to Argentina especially for "Tuku Iho". They are masters of traditional Maori performing arts. The group, composed of 12 Maori artists will perform at various venues in the city of Buenos Aires, from June 10.

There will also be demonstrations of "Ta Moko" or Maori tattoo.The tattoo is considered as a carving technique where an artist will display his work with chisels and pigment on face and body.

Program of Activities and presentations. All the activities are with free entrance to the public:

Wednesday June 10 

4 pm: Opening of the Maori Art and Craft fai “Tuku Iho” at Usina del Arte - Caffarena 1 & Pedro de Mendoza, La Boca.

Friday June 12

11 am: Start of the activities by Carvers at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario: Riobamba 985.

6.30 pm: Presentation of the Group Kapa Haka Maorí. at Usina del Arte - Caffarena 1, &. Pedro de Mendoza, La Boca.

Saturday June 13

6 pm: Inauguration of the photo exhibit “Live Legacy. Patrimony, Art and Reciprocity. Wich’i and Maorí people”. at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario: Riobamba 985.

7 pm: Presentation of the group Kapa Haka Maorí together with Pueblos Wich'í de Chaco at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario- Riobamba 985.

Sunday June 14

2 pm: Touch Rugby at El Rosedal - Av. del Libertador y Sarmiento – (It will be suspended in case of bad weather).

7 pm: 19h00: Presentation of the group Kapa Haka Maorí at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario- Riobamba

Tuesday June 16

6 pm: Presentation of the group Kapa Haka Maorí at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario- Riobamba 985

Friday June 19

6 pm Presentation of the group Kapa Haka at Usina del Arte - Caffarena 1 & Av. Pedro de Mendoza, La Boca.

Saturday June 20

6 pm Presentation of the group Kapa Haka at Usina del Arte - Caffarena 1 & Av. Pedro de Mendoza, La Boca.

Sunday June 21

2 pm: Farewell Presentation of the group Kapa Haka at Usina del Arte - Caffarena 1 & Av. Pedro de Mendoza, La Boca.

The exhibition of Objects and Crafts can be visited until July 10 at Usina del Arte, Thursdays and Fridays 2 pm to 8 pm, Saturdays and Sundays 11 am to 8 pm.

arteBA Contemporary Art Fair, that will take place from June 4  to June 7, 2015, is the most popular cultural event in the city of Buenos Aires and the most important one of its kind in Latin America. arteBA is an art exhibition where art galleries display their best artworks, offering the general public the chance to come face to face with truly unique collectors’ pieces. It is also an opportunity for the newer art centers from all over the region to present their younger artists and reveal the very latest trends, which are simply absent from other art fairs. 100 carefully selected galleries from Latin America, North America and Europe will exhibit works by the most outstanding contemporary artists at this great cultural event.

The Fair will be divided into several sections:

• Main Section: Established galleries chosen by a renowned selection committee.
• Cabinet: A specific area within the galleries booths in the main section of the fair. In Cabinet, one or more works by a single artist are exhibited. The aim of the section is to show important, unique, or emblematic works by modern and contemporary artists.
• Dixit Axion: This section will offer works by artists to museums and private collections through their galleries.
• U-TURN Project Rooms by Mercedes Benz: A curator invites galleries to present a specific project featuring up to three artists and selects each work to be exhibited.
• Solo Show Zurich: A curator invites six artists and their galleries to participate with individual exhibitions.
• Barrio Joven Chandon: Section for young Argentine and foreign galleries focused mainly on Latin American artists.
• Photobooth City: galleries present photographs by historical and contemporary artists.
• Isla de Ediciones Fundación Proa: sale of individual volumes and collections that provide theoretical support and information on contemporary art.

Dates and hours: June 4 - 7 2015 / 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Admission fees:
General: AR $120

Gallery Nights, the original circuit for art lovers around art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, presents this special edition of Gallery Day, that will take place in the neighborhoods of Palermo and Villa Crespo on Saturday, May 9, 2015, from 11 am to 3 pm.

Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día once a month, between April and December.

The next edition will be held on Thursday, April 16th, 2015, from 7 pm to 10 pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from Plaza San Martín to Av. Callao and from Tucumán to Av. del Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

On Thursday, December 11th, 2014, from 7 PM to 10 PM, Gallery Nights, the original circuit for art lovers around more than 30 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, presents this special edition, the last of the year, that will take place in the neighborhood of Palermo. Gallery Nights is organized by the art magazine Arte al Día, the second Thursday of every month between April and December.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. 

Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día, AdnCultura (La Nacion newspaper), and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires once a month, between April and December.

The next edition will be held on Thursday, November 20th, 2014, from 7 pm to 10 pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from San Martín to Ayacucho Callao and from Tucumán to Av. del Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

The Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presents the 11th Edition of La Noche de los Museos - Museum Night 2014, that will take place on November 15, 2014, from 8 PM until 3 AM.

Since 2004 one Saturday night the museums of Buenos Aires stay open all night offering different cultural activities, all of them free of charge, in the same way as in other 130 cities around the world.

During this special night visitors will be able to enjoy free guided visits, special exhibitions, as well as conferences, shows, theater performances, dance, screenings, video, multimedia, and diverse concerts of classical music, jazz, tango, folk, and rock, and move around the city on more than 80 bus lines that will offer free rides during the night, by printing this free pass.

Over 180 museums and art spaces will be participating in this edition.

For more information and complete program, visit La Noche de los Museos official website or download the full program in PDF (sites in Spanish only).

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco, the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) presents the exhibition "El Greco and the Painting of the Impossible", that will be inaugurated on October 28th, 2014.

The star of the exhibition will be the painting "Las lagrimas de San Pedro" (The tears of Saint Peter), from the collection of El Greco Museum in Toledo, Spain.

When in 1936 the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) acquired "Jesús en el huerto de los olivos" (‘Jesus in the Garden of Olives’) by Doménico Theotocópuli, "El Greco", it became one of the most relevant works from an ancient master at the Museum. Now, the MNBA joins the international homages dedicated to the artist with this exhibition, centered on three of his oil painting with a religious theme: "Jesus in the Garden of Olives" from the MNBA, "Jesus Bearing the Cross Uphill", from the collection of the National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD), and "The tears of Saint Peter", from El Greco Museum in Toledo, specially lent for this occasion.

MNBA: Av. del Libertador 1473, Recoleta

Dates October 28th, 2014 through March 1st, 2015

Opening hours:

Tuesday to Friday, 12.30 pm to 8.30 pm

Saturdays and Sundays, 9.30 am to 8.30 pm

FREE ENTRANCE

The tenth edition of Buenos Aires Photo will take place at Centro Cultural Recoleta from October 17th through October 20th, 2014. This is the only art fair specialized in Photography in Latin America.

This exhibition brings together 500 photographs by 150 artists from more than 30 art galleries from Argentina and different countries.

The works by the finalists of the Petrobras Buenos Aires Photo Award 2014 will be presented. There will be conferences and book presentations every day during the fair.

The Peruvian born photographer and New York resident Milagros de la Torre will be the guest artist in this year´s edition.

The works by Carlos Gallardo will be exhibited simultaneously with Buenos Aires Photo at Palacio de las Artes in Palacio Duhau, Av. Alvear 1661, with free entrance.

For more information on participating galleries, exhibited works and schedule of lectures ("Auditorio"), visit Buenos Aires Photo 2014 official website.

General: AR$ 70

University students, children under 12 and pensioners: AR$ 35

On Thursday, October 9th, 2014, from 7 PM to 10 PM, Gallery Nights, the original circuit for art lovers around more than 30 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, presents this special edition that will take place in the neighborhood of Palermo.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. 

The Palermo circuit of Gallery Nights covers the area surrounded by the streets of Santa Fé, Arevalo, Estado de Israel, and Gascón. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps and more information: Gallery Nights website.

An extraordinary exhibition of paintings from Le Marche region of central Italy on the Adriatic, similar to the one held in 2012, will be exhibited at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, from September 20th to November 30th, 2014.

Called "Meraviglie dalle Marche II", or Marvels from the Marche, this exhibition displays a valuable collection of paintings from an Italian region rich in natural beauty and artistic heritage, culturally important for the quality and number of artists who have contributed much to the pictorial art in Italy and the world. Most of the works are leaving Italy for the first time, and come from private collections and Museums in the region.

The paintings span more than 400 years of Italian religious art, with works from the Pre-Renaissance to the the 19th Century by Perugino, Tiziano, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni, Guercino and other lesser known but highly talented artists.

The exhibited works are by artists Andrea da Bologna, Carlo Crivelli, Pietro Alamanno, Perugino, Nicola Filotesio, Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano, Federico Zuccari, Filippo Bellini, Andrea Lilli, Domenico Tintoretto, Simone De Magistris, Guercino, Federico Barocci, Guido Reni, Claudio Ridolfi, Sassoferrato, Angelo Caroselli, Simone Cantarini, Bernardo Strozzi, Domenico Peruzzini, Ciro Ferri, Alessandro Vitali, Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Baciccio, Lissandrino, Luca Giordano, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Corrado Giaquinto, Anton von Maron, Francesco Podesti, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo.

Location:

Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo: Av. del Libertador 1902

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 2 pm to 7 pm

Mondays closed

Admission:

Wednesday to Sunday: AR$ 50

Pensioners with ID/receipt: AR$ 25
Children under 12: free

Tuesdays: Free

Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día, AdnCultura (La Nacion newspaper), and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires once a month, between April and December.

The next edition will be on Thursday, September 11th, 2014, from 7 pm to 10 pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from San Martín to Ayacucho Callao and from Tucumán to Av. del Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

On Thursday, July 10th, 2014, from 7 PM to 10 PM, Gallery Nights, the original circuit for art lovers around more than 30 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, presents this special edition that will take place in the neighborhood of Palermo.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. 

The Palermo circuit of Gallery Nights covers the area surrounded by the streets of Dorrego, Av. Santa Fé, Lavalleja and Gascón. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps and more information: Gallery Nights website.

Gallery Nights is the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, organized by the art magazine Arte al Día, AdnCultura (La Nacion newspaper), and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires once a month, between April and December.

The next edition will be on Thursday, June 12th, 2014, from 7 pm to 10 pm, in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Barrio Norte and Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

As always, there will be live music and free shows, and guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of Chandon champagne. Maps will be provided to the public so they can visit their favorite galleries and exhibitions at their own pace.

The traditional circuit of Gallery Nights covers from San Martín to Ayacucho Callao and from Tucumán to Av. del Libertador. There is also a free transportation service with fixed stops and a constant route to get to all of the spots in the circuit.

This event is totally free of charge.

Maps, participating galleries and more information: Gallery Nights website.

arteBA Contemporary Art Fair, that will take place from May 23 to May 26, 2014, is the most popular cultural event in the city of Buenos Aires and the most important one of its kind in Latin America. arteBA is an art exhibition where art galleries display their best artworks, offering the general public the chance to come face to face with truly unique collectors’ pieces. It is also an opportunity for the newer art centers from all over the region to present their younger artists and reveal the very latest trends, which are simply absent from other art fairs. 100 carefully selected galleries from Latin America, North America and Europe will exhibit works by the most outstanding contemporary artists at this great cultural event.

The Fair will be divided into several sections:

• Main Section: Established galleries chosen by a renowned selection committee.
• Cabinet LAN: A specific area within the galleries booths in the main section of the fair. In Cabinet, one or more works by a single artist are exhibited. The aim of the section is to show important, unique, or emblematic works by modern and contemporary artists.
• Dixit Petrobras: This section will offer works by artists to museums and private collections through their galleries.
• U-TURN Project Rooms by Mercedes Benz: A curator invites galleries to present a specific project featuring up to three artists and selects each work to be exhibited.
• Solo Show Arcos Dorados of Latin American Painting: Six Latin American artists participate compete with one work each for a purchase prize of USD 15,000 in the Latin American Painting Competition.
• Barrio Joven Chandon: Section for young Argentine and foreign galleries focused mainly on Latin American artists.
• Photobooth City: galleries present photographs by historical and contemporary artists.
• Isla de Ediciones Fundación Proa: sale of individual volumes and collections that provide theoretical support and information on contemporary art.

Dates and hours: May 23 - 26, 2014 / 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Admission fees:
General: AR $90