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This weekend in Buenos Aires An exhibition in Recoleta, a wander through San Telmo, a table you don’t want to leave. Choose the part that speaks to you. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.
On the calendar On the house Event
A work commissioned for the museum’s 130th anniversary. Give this first-floor exhibition a place in your next Recoleta afternoon.
Fri 25 Sept Free
On the house Event
Architecture as a way of looking at everyday life. A free exhibition at Bellas Artes, with public visiting dates from 23 September.
Fri 25 Sept Free
On the house Event
A family workshop turns the Museo Moderno’s exhibitions into a starting point for making something together.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event
Clothes, objects and images bring Frida Kahlo’s self-presentation into focus at MALBA. Build the afternoon around a proper gallery visit.
Fri 25 Sept ARS 14,000
Event
Seven works offer a concentrated encounter with Belkis Ayón’s printmaking, mythology and the figure of Sikán.
Fri 25 Sept ARS 14,000
On the house Event
A free exhibition revisits Tita Merello’s voice, screen presence and place in Argentina’s popular imagination.
Fri 25 Sept Free
Beyond the calendar
A little more of the city. Places selected from our city guide, alongside the dated events above. Check opening hours and reservations before setting out.
Build your itinerary Free entry Place
A bookshop inside a former theatre. Look up, browse a shelf, and let a quick stop become an unhurried visit.
Free entry Place
Leave the waterfront towers behind for paths, water and birds. A free outdoor plan with room to slow down.
Free entry Place
A green pause in Palermo. Follow a path, look closely at a leaf and give the afternoon a gentler pace.
Free entry Place
Painted facades and street life in La Boca. Make room for a daylight wander through this small, vivid corner of the city.
Place
Turn a Recoleta museum day towards the city’s living arts. Drop into the cultural centre for the programme that catches your eye.
Place
An old power station gives La Boca a different kind of energy. Pick a concert, visit or family programme before making the trip.
Restaurant
Pizza on Talcahuano, with a late finish. A straightforward reason to stop for lunch or turn an evening walk into dinner.
Pizza · Argentinian $$
Restaurant
A Palermo parrilla to build a meal around. Check the reservation calendar before fixing the rest of your day.
Parrilla · Argentinian $$$$
Restaurant
Coffee, a table and a little Avenida de Mayo theatre. Make Tortoni a deliberate pause instead of a photograph taken at the door.
Argentine $$
Restaurant
Give Palermo a long lunch on the corner of Borges and Guatemala. An old almacén address with a restaurant at the centre of the plan.
Argentine $$$
Place
A late-starting cocktail address on Quintana, for the point in a Buenos Aires evening when the conversation is only getting going.
Place
A basement bar behind a flower shop on Arroyo, with a drinks programme that looks to the port, migration and the city’s many influences.
Place
Leather, polo references and a burger worth making room for: a sociable hotel bar to begin a Retiro evening without rushing dinner.
Place
Palermo’s concert-and-club finish, for an evening chosen around the music rather than the dinner reservation alone.
