Theaters
Everything, from Classic plays, vanguard productions, musical comedies, puppets for children and adults. Theaters are mostly concentrated in the center of the city. You can also find theaters in each neighborhood.

Entertainment, diversity and quality in each of the options Buenos Aires has to offer, make of the plays and productions one of the most important cultural activities. On Corrientes Avenue, and surrounding streets, you will find the main theaters. Musical plays, comedies, independent theater, etc

The Buenos Aires Theatre Complex has five theaters runned by the Culture Department: the "San Martín", "Alvear", "Regio", "de la Ribera" and "Sarmiento". Tickets can be purchased with credit card (Visa, Mastercard and Diners)

Movies
The international releases are shown mostly at the big movie chains, inside the shopping malls. Movie theaters in Buenos Aires offer several performances every day, starting at 1 pm and ending by 11 pm, with exception for Fridays and Saturdays, some theaters have a “late night” screening starting at 1 am.

Prices are between $ 10 and $ 20, depending on the day, time and theatre complex, and it is normal to get discount tickets at special times during the week.

Theatres where you can enjoy national (Argentinean) movies: Tita Merello Complex (Suipacha 442); Gaumount (Rivadavia 1535) and some screenings at the Cosmos (Av. Corrientes 2046).

Independant movies, films that are out off the commercial circuit and movie cycles are generally shown in cultural centers, foundations and movie clubs.

The Leopoldo Lugones auditorium in the San Martín Theater (Av. Corrientes 1430) offers film cycles with tickets at half the price of commercial theaters. You can get the detailed film programs in the box office of the theater. Programs include information on directors and actors.

More information:
www.filmcritico.com.ar

Museums
There are 129 museums, public and private, ten of those depend on the Culture Department of the City, and they preserve a valuable cultural heritage: Fernández Blanco Museum of Hispanic-American Art ; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of the City; Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art; Cornelio de Saavedra Historic Museum; Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts; José Hernández Museum of Popular Art; Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum; Pablo Ducrós Hicken Museum of Cinema; Carlos Gardel House Museum.

Every museum —private, national, or depending on the Government - are in the Buenos Aires Museum Guide. The book has maps, pictures, institutional info and cultural "trips" and circuits.

Centros Culturales
Special spaces for experimental proposals, theatre cycles, dance, movies... The city counts on a lot of cultural centers.
Theater and dance companies, music and plastic artists, photographers, among others, share their work with a dynamic and demanding audience.

These cultural centers share with the public more than just a theater hall or an art gallery. There, old masters converge with the new talents creating original shows whose staging demand months of hard artistic work and excellent technical support.Some cultural centers have also schools where students,in a few years, will be members of the staff centers’ theaters or companies.

Cultural centers also offer a great variety of workshops and courses, such as film criticism, cartoons, choir, folk dances, tango, literary workshop, and acting, among others.

Arte
Argentine masters as well as representatives of the avant-garde have their site in the art circuit of Buenos Aires. It is not difficult to find brushstrokes pertaining to Castagnino, Soldi or Berni during a visit to places devoted to the plastic arts, as well as installations by young contemporary artists or original photographic exhibitions. Art galleries, museums and cultural centers offer different proposals for experts, collectors and the general public. This ample offer is mainly concentrated in the neighborhoods of Retiro and Recoleta where you will find more than sixty galleries and several museums.

Anyhow, plastic arts have a room everywhere in the city. In La Boca, you may visit the house of Quinquela Martín where his lively portraits of the port activity during the first part of the 20th century are exhibited. Many artists chose the surroundings of the Riachuelo to locate their studios. Just walking through Caminito Road is enough to view some pieces of art of these artists.

Across the city —in Belgrano— you will see how new art spaces coexist together with other traditional institutions such as the Español Enrique Larreta Museum and the Casa de Yrurtia Museum.

In Palermo neighborhood, there are some alternative circuits where you can get to see good pieces of vanguard art, plastic arts as well as design objects. This neighborhood, called the "Soho porteño", offers, for example, lunch in a gallery, restaurants that have the work of a young artist as dessert.