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While in Buenos Aires for the Fifteenth International Conference on The Image, you can explore La Boca and the Caminito Street Museum!


While in Buenos Aires for the Fifteenth International Conference on The Image, you can explore La Boca and the Caminito Street Museum!

Undoubtedly Buenos Aires' most colorful neighborhood, and certainly one of the best places to visit if you want to grab some great photographs of authentic Argentina, La Boca is a favorite haunt for artistic and creative types. In fact, many of these same folk will take their art outside and onto the streets, decorating balconies and patios with amusing sculptures of tango dancers and other characters.

Much of the fun here for visitors is exploring the Caminito Street Museum, a colorful pedestrian-friendly zone that has functioned as an open-air museum and art market since 1959. Painted a patchwork of colors, this string of bright and extremely photogenic buildings offer quality crafts and souvenirs, sculptures, and, for the footloose, free open-air tango demonstrations (the area is in fact named after a tango).

A little more formal is the Quinquela Martín Museum of Fine Arts (Museo Benito Quinquela Martín) with its excellent collection of works by notable 20th-century Argentinian artists.

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