Floralis Genérica
2263 Avenida Presidente Figueroa Alcorta, Comuna 2, Buenos Aires, B1752, Argentina
Floralis Genérica is a 23-metre-tall steel and aluminium flower sculpture in the Plaza de las Naciones Unidas that opens its petals every morning and closes them every evening — a kinetic artwork that uses hydraulic mechanisms to track the sun like a real flower.
Fundación Proa
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929, La Boca, Buenos Aires
Fundación Proa is a contemporary art museum at the edge of La Boca — a converted Italian-Argentine house with a minimalist glass-and-steel extension that hosts exhibitions of international contemporary art at a level of ambition that rivals institutions many times its size.
La Boca & Caminito
Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Boca is Buenos Aires' most colourful neighbourhood — a working-class district at the mouth of the Riachuelo River where Italian immigrant shipyard workers painted their corrugated-iron houses with leftover ship paint, creating the rainbow streetscape that has become the defining image of the city.
MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)
3415 Avenida Presidente Figueroa Alcorta, Comuna 14, Buenos Aires, C1425, Argentina
MALBA is Latin America's most important contemporary art museum — a geometric glass-and-stone building in Palermo housing the Costantini collection of over 600 works by Latin American artists from the early 20th century to the present.
Museo de Arte Decorativo
1902 Avenida Del Libertador, Comuna 14, Buenos Aires, C1425, Argentina
The Museo de Arte Decorativo occupies one of the most beautiful private residences ever built in Buenos Aires — a French Beaux-Arts palace designed by René Sergent in 1917 for the Errázuriz-Alvear family, filled with their collection of European decorative arts, and donated to the Argentine state in 1937.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Av. del Libertador 1473, Recoleta, Buenos Aires
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is Argentina's most important art museum — a neoclassical building in Recoleta housing a collection of over 12,000 works that ranges from medieval European art through Impressionism to contemporary Argentine painting, with a particular strength in 19th-century French and Argentine art that reflects the historical relationship between the two countries.
Usina del Arte
1 Agustín R. Caffarena, Comuna 4, Buenos Aires, B1845, Argentina
Usina del Arte is a converted power station in La Boca that has become one of Buenos Aires' most impressive cultural venues — a 1916 industrial building of red brick and exposed steel that was abandoned for decades before being restored as a concert hall, art gallery, and event space in 2012.
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