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Photograph a work in MALBA and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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MALBA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your MALBA walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The illustrative demo shows Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam in Vatican City. The demo and collection images illustrate Lensmark and are not MALBA collection works.

What the MALBA collection covers

MALBA, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, follows modern and contemporary art across Latin America. Its catalogue brings together artists including Tarsila do Amaral, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Collection history

The museum opened in September 2001 with a founding donation of 220 works from Eduardo F. Costantini. Painting and sculpture sit alongside prints, drawings, photography, installation media, textiles and design in its account of Latin American art.

Its collection strengths include twentieth-century Latin American art, Latin American avant-gardes, surrealism and art-politics movements, and abstraction and concrete art.

  • Abaporu

    Tarsila do Amaral

    Date
    1928

    Tarsila do Amaral painted Abaporu in 1928. MALBA connects it to Brazilian modernism and the Anthropophagic movement's effort to transform European influences through Brazil's Indigenous history.

    Read the museum record

  • Autorretrato con chango y loro

    Frida Kahlo

    Date
    1942

    Kahlo's 1942 self-portrait is painted in oil on Masonite. MALBA links her Tehuana hairstyle to Mexican cultural identity and identifies the painting as part of Colección Malba.

    Read the museum record

  • Baile en Tehuantepec

    Diego Rivera

    Date
    1928

    Rivera's 1928 painting shows women in the traditional clothing and hairstyles of Tehuantepec. MALBA's exhibition account credits it to Colección Eduardo F. Costantini, distinct from the museum's own collection.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

MALBA permits personal, non-commercial photography in its galleries without flash. Professional photography enquiries go to its press office; museum spaces are not available for photo or audiovisual productions unrelated to its exhibitions, whether commercial or non-commercial. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. MALBA photography policy

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