Hola!
Today was an art day! We hit the MALBA(http://www.malba.org.ar/web/) first which was a wonderful collection of modern art including Jackson Pollock, Rothko, Paul Klee. We had lunch at a cafe next door which was quite chic. We began with a champagne apertif, and then I ordered lomo. I am not sure what cut of beef it is, but I think tenderloin. It was served with the classic chimichuri sauce. Cooked to perfection. It was the best meal I have had so far! I included a pic here.
We then to this amazing sculpture of a flower in Recoleta that opens and closes with the sunrise and sunset (light). Below I included some back ground on it and the architect especially for my dear friend Arcy as I thought of you today.
"Researching the Flower of Buenos Aires, another Argentine architect - Eduardo Catalano - emerges as the artist. And not just any architect, but yet another designer sparked to artistic complexity by Walter Gropius. Catalano completed his architectural studies at HarvardB-School-Isnt-What-It-Used-To-Be in 1945 and later move to the USA in 1950 to join an amazing faculty at North Carolina State University that included Buckminster Fuller, Matthew Nowicki and Lewis Mumford. The hyperbolic parabaloid roof of his 1954 home was a product of this creative environment. Unfortunately, the house was demolished in 2001 like so many tiny masterpieces of modernism by underrecognized architects around the USA."
After that we went to the Museo National de Bellas Artes (http://www.mnba.org.ar/). It had an incredible European art collection, impressive locale artists and photo exhibit. Again, I was in heaven.
We returned to the flea market in Recoleta and picked up a few more trinkets for pennies. I feel like I will come home with all new jewelry to dawn. At the market were some of the most wonderful postres (desserts). I included a pic to get your mouth watering.
Exhausted I think we are going to pick up empanadas and spend the eve in in our candlelit courtyard and open our $2 bottle of malbec.
Tomorrow we hit the San Telmo antique market and a tango show.
3 comments:
Isn't lomo pork?
The pastries look so good, greta pics!
lomo means ¨cut¨ literally is is beef, pork or chicken or any meat cut. And to note Parilla means grill. They have these big wonderful open grills here.
I have many more pics of cakes and torts for you. The gastronomica pics are getting a bit crazy! BA truly is the Paris of S. America.
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