Latin American Art
ArteBA (Buenos Aires)
Not as globally significant as MACO, but Buenos Aires’ annual art fair is the longest running in the region, and focuses almost exclusively on art from Latin America. The emphasis of the five-day fair is to showing off the diverse work of local artists to the estimated 120,000 visitors rather than simply creating a place for collectors to pick up new pieces. A big, and popular, section of each edition, named ‘barrio joven’ (young neighborhood), is reserved for emerging talent. After using the bicentenary of several Latin American nations in 2010 as a way to promote the region’s art history, 2011 will celebrate the fair’s 20th anniversary.
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