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Continue reading →: It’s over…
The holidays are over, the new year has begun. Summer has started. And, Buenos Aires is empty. How a huge city like this, always so busy and loud, can become so quiet and empty in such a short period has always been a mystery to me. Right now the city…
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Continue reading →: It’s Christmas eve…
Its Christmas eve. If you now imagine yourself a dark day, possibly snow outside, cold, the open fire, a huge christmas tree, lights, candles, the whole family present-including even your mother in law-, and a turkey, then you are mistaken. Today is probably the hottest day of the year. One…
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Continue reading →: What was that!?
Did it ever happen to you, when you were at a concert, that at the end, when the singer says thank you and goodbye, the audience does not start yelling, clapping and begging for a 2nd round of songs, but instead, ‘en masse”, turn their heads towards the exits and…
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Continue reading →: Caravaggio, a classic.
Another classic is visiting us in Buenos Aires. This time it is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). He was an Italian barok painter, trained in Milan under Simone Peterzano. He moved to Rome where he was considered the most famous painter of his time. He was very successful during his…
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Continue reading →: The crying tree
If you thought that with the Ceibos, the Jacarandas and the Ceiba Speciosa, you know all about Buenos Aires botany I must disappoint you. Here is another tree, one of the most common and most striking trees in Capital. Today, apart from the little bit of purple left on the Jacarandas,…
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Continue reading →: Alberto Giacometti
The name sounds like music. He was a Suisse sculptor, probably most known for his bronze, long and skinny, men and woman. A lot of his work is property of the Alberto and Anette Giacometti foundation, which lends out several works to different museums, either long or short term. Now…
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Continue reading →: Urban Art
MOS (Meeting of styles) are back! It is an international festival of urban art, founded in Germany in 2002, that travels the world. After cities like London and New York (and many others), they pass through Buenos Aires a second time. Both the ministry of culture as the ministry of…
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Continue reading →: Vive le Roi! (Leve de Koning!)
November 15 is the day of the dynasty, the day we Belgians celebrate our monarch. Our royal dynasty is quite recent, Albert II is only our 6th king. Belgium was founded in 1830. Although he has no real powers to run the country, the king does have an important symbolic…






