Beyond Magical: REALISM, CULTURE, AND ART IN BUENOS AIRES
May 18, 2018
3 minutes
AS TOLD TO: AUSSY APORTADERA
PHOTOS:
TINA CUEVAS
Buenos Aires is one of the world’s largest cities—the “Paris of the South,” a remnant of European traditions and education, beating with the tango as its pulse into the modern age. The Old World peeks at every corner—some painted in bright colours and graffiti—that turn into streets lined with 19th century architecture; the New World stakes its claim on the art: the visual a depiction of Argentina’s emancipation in the 1800s, while its literature a diary of the mundane struggles strewn with otherworldly beliefs.
Tourists that
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