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Florencia Battiti and Cintia Mezza
August 2006
August 2006
We are about to venture into the fascinating world of the famed La Boca artists. This dossier reviews the gravitations of the modernization process of Argentine art throughout the last one hundred years, and the role that its growing cultural institutions played along the way. This investigative work has been authored by Florencia Battiti, and assisted by Cintia Mezza.
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Sebastián Casares
On August 25, the Buenos Aires governor Don Emilio Castro passes Law 654, which creates the first Justice of the Peace office in La Boca. Sebastián Casares will be the first man in charge of the office. This way, a new neighborhood is born with its own official listing, having previously been considered a part of San Telmo city.
