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! MALBA<br />
Until recently, Latin<br />
American art was not considered<br />
highly collectible by the commercial<br />
art industry. In the 1980s<br />
and 90s, however, Eduardo<br />
Constantini’s aggressive<br />
acquisition of rioplatense art<br />
started a worldwide reexamination<br />
of Xul Solar, Hélio<br />
Oitica, Roberto Matta, and others,<br />
making their auction prices<br />
reach record highs. His prizes<br />
now decorate the world-class art<br />
museum MALBA (see pp22–3).<br />
Jardín Japonés @ The images of koi ponds and<br />
bridges in the tourist brochures<br />
belong to the Jardín Japonés, a<br />
Japanese garden with bonsai<br />
trees, festive shrines, and<br />
pagodas. The garden, a gift from<br />
the city’s Japanese community,<br />
also contains a sushi café that<br />
serves impeccably fresh sashmi<br />
all day. d Map M2 • Cnr Avda. Figueroa<br />
Alcorta & Casares • 4804-4922 • Open<br />
<strong>10</strong>am–6pm daily; restaurant: <strong>10</strong>am–6pm,<br />
7:30pm–midnight Wed–Mon • Adm<br />
• www.jardinjapones.org.ar<br />
Jardín Japonés<br />
£ Museo Evita<br />
For a woman whose publicspeaking<br />
bombast and charisma<br />
rivaled her borderline-fascist<br />
husband’s, Eva Perón is remembered<br />
for her grace, beauty, and<br />
delicate health. Museo Evita, an<br />
elegant building, was formerly a<br />
lodge for Argentinian women<br />
who moved to <strong>Buenos</strong> <strong>Aires</strong> to<br />
find work, dedicated by Evita in<br />
1948. The ex-First Lady’s<br />
dresses, letters, and identity<br />
cards share space with propaganda<br />
posters and subtitled<br />
video clips captured at political<br />
rallies. d Map L3 • Calle Lafinur 2988<br />
• 4807-9433 • Open 2–7:30pm Tue–Sun<br />
• Adm • Free English-language tours<br />
available • www.museoevita.org<br />
$ Museo de Arte Popular<br />
Museo Evita<br />
José Hernández<br />
No other museum evokes the<br />
grand, diverse country<br />
surrounding the capital like this<br />
one, named in honor of<br />
Argentina’s own Homer, José<br />
Hernández (see p33), author of<br />
the 1872 folkloric epic poem<br />
Martín Fierro. Two levels of folk<br />
crafts, textiles, weaponry, and<br />
jewelry, produced from icy Tierra<br />
del Fuego to the sub-Amazonian<br />
jungles of Misiones, are assembled<br />
around a flowering garden<br />
inside this petite former hotel.<br />
d Map M2 • Avda. del Libertador 2373<br />
• 4803-2384 • Open 1–7pm Wed–Fri,<br />
<strong>10</strong>am–8pm Sat, Sun • Adm • Guided tour:<br />
4801-9019 • www.museohernandez.org.ar<br />
Around Town – Palermo 87
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