Art in the night

We love Buenos Aires, right? We love that small children and old couples stay out until the wee hours of the night. We love the springtime air and purple blossoms lining Nuevo de Julio. We love the immense beauty and striking skyline at every corner of the behemoth. Naturally, there are many sociopolitical problems lurking around as well, not to discredit a large array of social needs, but Saturday night's La Noche de los Museos singled out directly one reason to adore this city.

We love this city because it provides events like Museum Night. On Saterday the 15th of November the 5th Museum Night brought babbling bands of pedestrians, extranjeros, portenos, young and old, to frolic about the city from 7pm-2am. During this time public transportation was free, provided it was collecitvo running between the 130 some odd museums, galleries, and congressional buildings taking part. Art, anthropology, music, and film, were just some of the activities connecting the dots throughout Capital Federal, all centered around el centro de los Museos, on Av de los Italianos in Puerta Madera. At 21:00 the German Film "Metropolis" was screen with live musical accompaniment. The film is a 1920s silent film, I expected a beautiful, but classical rendition of the soundtrack, in keeping with the old spirit of silent film. Instead a band much like the 1970's Italian group "Goblin" rocked, funked, and jazzed the audience into climactic paralysis. It was beautiful, and fun. Later, DJs from popular clubs around the city put down their beats.

Not that late nightlife is anything new around here, the point is precisely this: the city put on a brilliant event, involving many aspects of the cities art, music, and anthropological culture, they made it accessible to everyone, made it easy for people to come and go, and it was free. Furthermore, it happened in the middle of the night and everyone went.

We love this city why? Go and figure it out for yourself...