Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

This guide to the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires follows the painter Antonio Berni, who traded canvas for the scrap metal, bottle caps and cardboard he saw in a Buenos Aires shantytown. From that trash he built a recurring character, a boy named Juanito Laguna, and gave him a whole invented childhood of reading, hunting and fishing amid factory skylines. You'll hear how Berni's turn toward garbage changed his standing as an artist, and how the museum itself came together from a private collector's donated paintings. Look for Juanito's fishing net before you move on to Kahlo and Rivera.