National Museum of Fine Arts Buenos Aires

The publicly owned National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires is the principal showcase for the art collections of Argentina. Its history appears to be a long struggle between, on the one hand, the desire of art lovers and collectors for an appropriate repository and, on the other, bureaucratic disinterest and inertia. (Recent allegations of corruption and profiteering at the museum's highest level have precipitated an overdue change in its leadership.)  
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FERIA DE MATADEROS
Buenos Aires
www.feriademataderos.com.ar

The gaucho spirit lives on at this Sunday-afternoon fair in the outlying barrio of Mataderos, a 15-minute cab ride from downtown B.A. It's the ideal place to soak up some rodeo-style horse antics, eat some choripan (grilled sausage on a bun; the Argentinean version of a hot dog), and wander the endless craft booths in search of a perfect sourvenir to t ake home.Good local restaurants where you can have a real deal steak.

Foraging
Buenos Aires:
Cowhide Rugs

Source NYT

Argentines love their steak, but it is hard to fully fathom the country's fascination with cows until you walk down Avenida Boedo in the working-class Boedo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
This is where you'll find the wholesale leather district, the prime place to pick up that most Argentine of home accessories — a cowhide for use as a rug — for less than $150

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