For most of the year an organization called Artealdia sponsors Friday night "open houses" at art galleries in various neighborhoods of Buenos Aires; it's known as "Gallery Nights." In January, Gallery Nights moves to Punta del Este, mostly in the area known as La Barra. About 25 galleries are open from around 8 p.m. until after midnight each Friday evening, with free champagne and some of the artists available to discuss their work and chat. On January 2, the kick-off party for the 2008 version of Gallery Nights was held at Lasarte Gallery, an artist-owned gallery in La Barra. We are friends with the artist, Mercedes Lasarte, so we went and mingled with the two hundred or so other invitees. Here's a shot of part of the crowd.
There's a locally famous modeling agency, Dotto Models, run by a 50-something year old guy named "Pancho" Dotto, that is based in Buenos Aires but has installed itself with many of the current models in a ranch along the coast a few miles from Jose Ignacio every summer for the last 20 years. Website: http://www.dottomodels.net/. (There are pictures of many of the current models, male and female. Gives you some idea of what Argentina and Uruguay have to offer for the younger set.) Dotto and about a dozen of his models were at the party. I picked out my favorite and asked for a pose, and got the following (one of Mercedes Lasarte's paintings as background):
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