¿Que pasa? I finally got out this week and had some fun!! Wednesday the modern art museum of Buenos Aires is free for students with Argentine student IDs. I LOVE my Universidad del Salvador student ID, it has gotten me discounts in Patagonia for entrance to Glacier National Park, in Puerto Iguazú for entrance to Iguazú National Park and free entrance to museums galore. Thanks USAL!
Malba is a smallish museum boasting 4 floors of very interesting artwork. Modern art isn't my favorite as I'm partial to older works in a more Degas, Monet or Renoir-like style. There were some famous artists represented in Malba like Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero and Antonio Berni. Unfortunately there were no cameras allowed inside the museum so I didn't get to take any pictures. My favorite piece was by Berni, one of the great names in Argentine art. Although I couldn't snap a picture of it, thanks to the worldwide web and google images the piece is below:
La Gran Tentación
The Great Temptation
A tour guide was talking to a group as I was admiring the picture. The piece of art is collage and paint mounted on 2 planks of wood about 15 feet wide and 20 feet tall. The piece is supposed to represent Berni's frustration with commercialism, note Cinderella in the top left with blue paint dripping down her face.
Thursday "Fantasmas de mis ex Novias" or "Ghost of Girlfirends Past" with Matthew McConaughey came out in Buenos Aires. My friend Cat and I went directly from class at 5pm to Abasto movie theatre to buy our movie tickets. We waited in line for 1 hour to buy 4 tickets for to the 10:30pm showing. Movie ticket purchases work differently than in the states. You don't just buy tickets, arrive when you want and sit where you can, OH NO. When you buy tickets, you approach the ticket counter and pick out your exact seat on a computer screen, you are buying assigned seats like in a theatre, for example Row G, Seat 9 and that is where you sit. Everyone sits in their seat because if you sit in someone else's seat they ask you to move!
The movie was very fun and silly, a typical romantic comedy-in English with Spanish subtitles, yes! Afterwards we went to my favorite bar, El Living, and spent the night lounging in leather arm chairs and watching 70s music videos on the big projector screen.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Live long and prosper,
Rocky
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