MALBA — Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires · Argentina · Founded 2001
The premier museum of Latin American modern and contemporary art — Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Antonio Berni, and over 700 works charting the art of a continent from 1900 to the present.
About MALBA — Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
MALBA opened in 2001 in a purpose-built building in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, designed by the Argentine architectural firm Gastón Atelman, Martín Fourcade, and Alfredo Tapia. The museum holds around 700 works spanning the full breadth of Latin American art from the early 20th century through the contemporary period — the most important institutional collection of its kind in the world.
The collection's international highlights include Frida Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) and other works; Diego Rivera's Retrato de Ramón Gómez de la Serna; major works by Antonio Berni, Tarsila do Amaral, Torres García, Wilfredo Lam, Matta, and Xul Solar. The museum also runs one of the most active film programmes in Latin America, with daily screenings of world cinema in its dedicated auditorium.
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