Dumplings in Villa Crespo!

Spent the rainy evening eating dumplings (after significant research for a good dumpling place in BA) in the barrio (neighborhood) Villa Crespo

Fundación PROA

Went on a tour of PROA organized by the program on Friday. A new and modern art museum. It was hosting an exhibit on the Swiss artist Giacommetti (famous for surrealist works)

Very modern museum, kind of sticking out in its surroundings of La Boca

Giacommeti's most famous work on display at his retrospective at PROA (took this from the website)

View from the cafe on the second floor of La Boca

Super swanky PROA cafe

Walking through Caminito which is right next to PROA before heading home

Villa Ocampo

I visited Villa Ocampo, former private mansion of the Ocampos, an aristocrat family in Argentina converted into a cultural center in the name of Victoria Ocampo, a socialite and promoter of the arts etc.  I was treated to lunch by our family friend!

The guitars hanging from the trees are part of the current exhibit inspired by Maria Elena Walsh (singer-songwriter-poet for children), incorporated into the mansion.

Inside the mansion - another part of the exhibit

My dessert overlooking the garden. The mobile-like hanging pieces are another art installation part of the exhibit, inspired by a poem of Walsh's about the famous Jacaranda trees - a famous component of the spring Buenos Aires landscape.

Museo Xul Solar

On Tuesday I went to the museum of a 20th century Argentine artist, Xul Solar. We studied him in my art hist class so a few friends and I decided to check out his former home which now holds his works.

Solar was really interested in language and culture and invented a language, Neo Criollo, which unifies all the Latin American countries - a mix between Portugese and Spanish. You can see his interest in symbols/language(all the components of the face are made of symbol-like figures) in this painting, which I really like!

He made this piano, linking different keys to colors 

View of his patio - his house which he designed (studied architecture) is really maze-like.

Dulce de Leche Brownies

Making dulce de leche brownies with Lucy and Emily from scratch!

MALBA: Beatriz Milhazes

I went to MALBA again on Wednesday with "Cultural Projects" Class and loved this exhibit by this Brazilian artist

La Biblioteca Café

I went to a free 'Jam Session' (open mic night) at La Biblioteca Café last night

Saturday Picnic in the Bosques de Palermo

(got this picture from http://www.argentinaviajera.com.ar/espanol/buenosaires/palermo.html because mine didn't do the Bosques justice)

View from our picnic spot in the Bosques

Homemade guacamole, bread, cheese, salami etc.
Also that man you see in the background with the ice-cream bike kept walking/biking around yelling "Helado"

Uruguay: Montevideo Day 2

Started the day with the Guvrich museum - free entry on Tuesdays!

A piece by Gurvich, a famous Uruguayan artist from Lithuania by heritage

A self portrait in the museum (not a Gurvich piece)

"Without structure there is no art"

"Beso" (Kiss) by Gurvich

A typical Uruguayan soda - grapefruit flavor

Panchos con panceta (hot dogs with bacon) in Plaza Fabini for lunch

Subte - a free underground art exhibition in Plaza Fabini

Air discurso - the exhibit in Subte

The exhibit had something to do with motion and communication

Huge projections of people making demonstrative actions and the recording of the sounds of these motions

Back for more dulce de leche empanadas

Uruguay: Montevideo Day 1

Uruguayan flag

Along the coast

Dulce de leche and chocolate empanadas

French architecture

Plaza Fabini

Uruguay Food Truck

Plaza Independencia

The tango music section in a beautiful bookstore we found

Plaza Constitucion

Mercado del Puerto: meat market in the historic district

Sampling a Uruguayan classic called Medio y Medio - half sparkling wine, half white wine