To see the new year´s flyer, click here.

Tango in Caminito, next to Proa, at Times online.

The English newspaper Times and bestselling city guidebook publisher, DK Eyewitness Travel, pusblish an article that recommends Buenos Aires, and specially Fundación Proa, in the top 10 cities to visit in 2009.

Also with Vilnius (Lithuania), Gdansk (Polonia), Seattle (USA), Bristol (UK), Fes (Morocco), Washington DC (USA), Copenhagen (Denmark), Cape Town (South Africa) and Vienna (Austria), the capital of Argentina is one of the highlights of the list.

“Buenos Aires – The old port district of La Boca will feature a major exhibition of France’s surrealist master Marcel Duchamp at the recently revamped Fundación Proa art gallery in February. In June the Puerto Madero docklands district opens the first-ever Fosters & Partners (led by Sir Norman Foster) design project in Latin America. The uber-hip residential space will be the centrepiece of a new cultural district. The bicentenary of Argentina’s independence from Spain is in 2010 but next year offers the chance to go before the hordes do”, says the article.

Fundación Proa communicates its opening times for this festive season:
Wednesday 24th and 31st December: 11 to 16 hrs. (las admission at 15 hrs.). Guided visit: 14 hrs.

During th, podrá these days you can visit Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work “of art”, with 123 works of the artist.
You can also have lunch and toast in the Cafe, Los Petersen at Proa, and visit out Library and Auditorium.
Thursdays 25th December and y January 1st: closed.

Info: 4104-1000

Cafe: 4104-1003

Library: 4104-1005
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Admission

General Public: $10
Students (with valid ID): $6
Retired people (with valid ID): $3
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PROA

Tue-Sun 11-20 pm.
Last admission: 19 pm.
Mondays closed

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Guided visits

Tuesdays – Fridays, 3pm and 6 pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 12hrs ,14hrs, 16hrs and 18hrs.

Proa: open to La Boca, the city and the world.

As part of its project to promote its new facilities and the neighborhood of La Boca, Fundacion Proa scheduled, from this week on, a program of visits of diverse public and private groups of Buenos Aires and the world. The initiative seeks to disseminate Proa, architectural and conceptually as a whole, “as an open, welcoming, which blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior.” (more…)

Tony Brook, Creative Director of Spin and President by UK of the International Graphic Alliance, was in Buenos Aires for Proa reopening and talked about the creation of the new branding of Proa, a process that he leaded in Europe with Proa team in Argentina. (more…)

A cargo de Christian, Roberto, y Lucas Petersen, la nueva cafetería de Fundación Proa está abierta al público de martes a domingo de 10 a 20 (lunes cerrado), en el tercer piso del nuevo edificio de Pedro de Mendoza 1929. (more…)

On Monday 8 December, public holiday in Argentina, Fundación Proa will be open, from 11 to 20 (last admission at 19). On Saturday and Sunday the Opening hours will be the same. (more…)

La inauguración del nuevo edificio de Fundación Proa y de la exhibición de Marcel Duchamp ya despertaron una enorme repercusión en la prensa, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional.

En ADN Cultura, Laura Casanovas señaló que la exposición Una obra que no es una obra ‘de arte’ constituye “la primera muestra individual sobre Duchamp en América latina, en el magnífico entorno del renovado y ampliado edificio de Fundación Proa en el barrio ribereño de La Boca”. (more…)