World Press Photo 2009 in Buenos Aires

Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on show around 80 cities worldwide, starting in Amsterdam as part of the prize-giving ceremony in April, until March the following year. This year's exhibition comprises 196 images selected by an international, independent jury from a total of 96,268 that entered the contest. During September 2009 they will be presented in Buenos Aires, at Centro Cultural Borges, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Argentina.
The exhibition comprises 196 photographs, including the prize winner and the ones awarded in every one of the 10 categories.
Since 1995, the Dutch organization World Press Photo offers international support to new photo journalists. The World Press Photo Exhibition is the best known of World Press Photo's activities.
The annual World Press Photo contest offers an overview of the way press photographers approach their work, bringing together pictures from all parts of the globe to reflect trends and developments in photojournalism.

Dates: September 7 through October 4, 2009
Location: Centro Cultural Borges, Viamonte & San Martín, Buenos Aires
Opening hours: Mondays to Saturdays, 10 AM to 9 PM. Sundays 12 noon to 9 PM.
Entry fee: AR$ 10

Exhibit on Teatro Colón Restoration Works


The center for the Interpretation of Restoration Works of Teatro Colón (Centro de Interpretación Vivencial) is now open to the public. In this space visitors can learn about the progress of the restoration works inside the theater through an audiovisual and multimedia exhibition.

The Center includes photographic exhibits, costumes, and scale models of various of the theater's historical stagings. It also features the screening of a documentary with detailed information about the program of restoration works in execution.

According to the Theater's authorities the restoration works, that were originally planned to be finished by May 2008, will be ready by the end of December 2009, and the re inauguration for the public is planned to take place on May 25, 2010.

The Interpretation Center is located on Viamonte 1180, and can be visited free of charge Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays, 2 pm to 6 pm.

Le Corbusier in Buenos Aires: The Poem of the Right Angle

The National Museum of Decorative Arts presents this exhibition organized by Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris, and Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.
Le Corbusier starts to write an art book by mid 1947, and publishes it in a limited edition in 1955 as "The Poem of the Right Angle".
Considered to the most lucid synthesis of Le Corbusier's personal maxims, The Poem of the Right Angle (Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit) is a series of metaphysical poems, accompanied by collages, paintings and drwaings.
Le Corbusier expressed his desire that the Poem reached the widest range of public possible. Fulfilling his will, Le Corbusier Foundation launched in 1989 a facsimile edition of the book. The Castillan edition (2007) made for the exhibition at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, thoroughly respected the one made by the Foundation.
This will be the first time that this work is exhibited out of Europe. The exhibition is complemented with the projection of the Electronic Poem, an audiovisual work Le Corbusier composed in collaboration with musician Edgar Varése for the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels Universal Exhibition in 1958, as well as the world premiere of the Choreographic Meditation, specially composed by Oscar Araiz and inspired in the Poem of the Right Angle.

Location: Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo. Av. del Libertador 1902
Dates: September 2 to October 10, 2009
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 2 pm to 7 pm
Entry fee: AR$ 5
Tuesdays: Free

Casa FOA 2009


Casa FOA, the most important yearly exhibition where decorators, architects, designers, and landscapers selected for their talent and prestige, showcase the local and international trends in architecture, interior design, and landscaping, will take place this year at Tribuna Plaza, at Hipodromo de Palermo in Buenos Aires.
Casa FOA was born in 1985 as an initiative of Mercedes Malbrán de Campos and a group of ladies with the purpose of raising funds for the Argentine Ophthalmology Foundation "Jorge Malbrán" (FOA). With a growing success, Casa FOA has become one the most important events in the country´s cultural agenda.
The strategic selection of the venues and the careful and profound restoration of the chosen buildings give every edition of Casa FOA an indisputable value for the community, making it possible to associate its name not only to Argentine design but also to the preservation of buildings of great historic and cultural value, like: Casa de la Moneda (1995), Hotel de Inmigrantes (2000), Monasterio de Santa Catalina (2001), Casa del Patio de la Reconquista (2003), Hotel Avenida de Mayo (1991), Puerto Madero Dock 5 (1993), Palacio Alcorta (1994), Tattersal de Palermo (1998) Apostadero Naval (2000), Terrazas de Buenos Aires (2002), Tribuna II Palermo (2004), Puerto de Frutos de Tigre (2008), among others.

Dates: September 4 to October 18, 2009.
Opening hours: 12 noon to 8 PM
Location: Tribuna Plaza, Av. Libertador 4401
Entry fee: AR$ 30
Casa FOA official website.