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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 Exhibitions
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 Exhibitions
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 Culture
A family workshop turns the Museo Moderno’s exhibitions into a starting point for making something together.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event Exhibitions
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 Exhibitions
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 Exhibitions
A free exhibition revisits Tita Merello’s voice, screen presence and place in Argentina’s popular imagination.
Fri 25 Sept Free
On the house Event Exhibitions
The library’s conservators reveal how fragile documents survive for future readers.
Until 31 Dec Free
Event Exhibitions
Art and ocean science meet in a journey through deep water and polar landscapes.
Until 28 Feb Check price
Event Concerts
Valen Vargas brings the named cumbia programme to Niceto on Saturday.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
Falla and Lalo bring two different visions of Spain to the Colón’s orchestral stage.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
On the house Event Exhibitions
An exhibition looks beyond Martín Fierro to the many lives of José Hernández.
Until 31 Dec Free
Event Exhibitions
Rivers, forests and animals become collaborators in an exhibition about making and inhabiting worlds.
Until 28 Feb Check price
Event Concerts
Club 69 celebrates its anniversary with a Saturday night at Niceto.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
Lise de la Salle joins the Buenos Aires Philharmonic for Brahms, followed by Rimsky-Korsakov’s storytelling orchestra.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
On the house Event Exhibitions
A century of literary change is revisited through an unusually rich year of Argentine publishing.
Fri 25 Sept Free
Event Exhibitions
A broad selection from the Moderno’s collection traces Argentine art across generations.
Until 28 Feb Check price
Event Concerts
Bar Italia headlines Niceto’s Sunday evening programme.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
Event Activities
A cushion concert opens a playful route into opera for children and their accompanying adults.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
On the house Event Concerts
The National Symphony pairs orchestral music with soprano Verónica Cangemi.
Fri 25 Sept Free
Event Exhibitions
Digital fables, textiles and transformed materials imagine new ways of living with the forest.
Until 30 Apr Check price
Event Activities
A moving theatre experience turns the Colón’s backstage memory into stories, encounters and operatic fragments.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
Event Exhibitions
A large watercolour mural turns the Moderno’s entrance into a landscape of water and sky.
Until 28 Feb Check price
Event Activities
Four magicians bring illusion, humour and music to an afternoon at Konex.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
Event Activities
An evening theatre visit ends with wine, small bites and live classical music in the Salón Dorado.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
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 Activities
A bookshop inside a former theatre. Look up, browse a shelf, and let a quick stop become an unhurried visit.
Free entry Place Activities
Leave the waterfront towers behind for paths, water and birds. A free outdoor plan with room to slow down.
Free entry Place Activities
A green pause in Palermo. Follow a path, look closely at a leaf and give the afternoon a gentler pace.
Free entry Place Activities
Painted facades and street life in La Boca. Make room for a daylight wander through this small, vivid corner of the city.
Place Activities
Turn a Recoleta museum day towards the city’s living arts. Drop into the cultural centre for the programme that catches your eye.
Place Activities
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
Pizza on Talcahuano, with a late finish. A straightforward reason to stop for lunch or turn an evening walk into dinner.
Pizza · Argentinian $$
Restaurant Parrilla
A Palermo parrilla to build a meal around. Check the reservation calendar before fixing the rest of your day.
Parrilla · Argentinian $$$$
Restaurant Argentine
Coffee, a table and a little Avenida de Mayo theatre. Make Tortoni a deliberate pause instead of a photograph taken at the door.
Argentine $$
Restaurant Argentine
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 Food & drink
A late-starting cocktail address on Quintana, for the point in a Buenos Aires evening when the conversation is only getting going.
Place Food & drink
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 Food & drink
Leather, polo references and a burger worth making room for: a sociable hotel bar to begin a Retiro evening without rushing dinner.
Place Concerts
Build a San Telmo evening around a concert in this established live-music room.