Night of the Museums :.
( Thursday, October 12, 2006 )
"The time is 2:22
And I hope your wish comes true"
"This Is Not A Love Song" by JULIANA THEORY
Last saturday was a very special night here in Buenos Aires, and one that other major metropolitan areas ought to take note of. It happens each year on the first Saturday of October, and it’s called la Noche de los Museos. A government sponsored cultural program which for a change, turn out to be interesting!
The idea is to open 76 of the government funded museums in town, for free, from 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. Many of these put on special surprises and presentations.
The museums span a wide range of types as well, from traditional art museums to various specialty venues (there are small museums in many government offices - so there were open exhibits at the central telephone exchange, the water department, and many others. Fascinatingly, some of these offbeat museums attracted major crowds - it was expected that there would be masses of people at the Bellas Artes museum, or at MALBA, but there was a half-block long lineup to visit the subterranean passages of the city.
In this cultural night out some comrades join me and Walpurgis to heard the Tormentos (Surf music) play the hit “con el diabolo in el corpo” in front of historic monument, and then we go to see a strange stripper doing Madonna covers in 8 bits quality with old videogames followed by a highly addicted guy who play his sampled machine with his dretz and use screams and sirens while he shout "huevos" in my face. Really poetic stuff...
The different art galleries was awesome, and it was really great to see together a wide range of weird people. You may ask, if so many people is interested in the culture by night, why we aren’t changing the museums schedules? Probably that could be a good point to start if we want to keep the Generation X away of the abundant stupidity…