Get Out!: smoked meats, cinema, and surreal visions

Buenos Aires offers a packed cultural agenda this week, from a smoky riverside meat fest to progressive rock nostalgia, art-house cinema and a major contemporary exhibition. Whether you’re craving ribs, revisiting Steve Hackett, or diving into French New Wave, there’s plenty to explore across the city and beyond this weekend. Smoked Meats Championship March 28, noon to midnightRibs al Río (Av. Rafael Obligado 7010)Tickets AR$ 32,000  Ribs al Río restaurant is hosting the fourth annual Federal Smoking Championship on March 28 at its Costanera Norte location in Buenos Aires. This twelve-hour event features six expert pitmasters competing for prestigious titles, judged by both industry specialists and the attending public.  Guests who purchase tickets online receive a substantial tasting menu including a kilogram of ribs, French fries, drinks, a seat overlooking the River Plate and the chance to vote in the competition. Steve Hackett revisits his days in Genesis March 29, 8 p.m.Movistar Arena, Humboldt 450Admission AR$ 80,000 Legendary English guitarist Steve Hackett is alive and kicking at 76, with solo tours, seminars and special shows with Genetics, an Argentine tribute band of prog giants Genesis, where Hackett contributed from 1971 to 1976. French New Wave: Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Linklater  March 29 , 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.Cine York (Juan Bautista Alberdi 895, Olivos)Free admission (first come, first served) Nouvelle Vague À bout de souffle The beautiful Cine York in Olivos honors the French New Wave’s seminal film with a double, high quality program: a 4K version of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, followed by Richard Linklater’s homage Nouvelle Vague, a not-so-fictional version of the shooting of Godard’s 1960 opera prima. “Cinema is something between art and life,” the French master once stated. And this program aims to capture that very same tension. Dark Continent: surrealism and women artists March 20 to August 2Buenos Aires Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA) — Av. San Juan 328, CABA Cristina Schiavi’s ‘Deseo Opaco’ Nicola Costantino’s ‘Lágrimas de cristal, según Man Ray’ Curated by Leandro Martínez Depietri, this group exhibition brings together more than 85 works by Argentine women artists and gender-diverse individuals who have appropriated and transformed Surrealist strategies to interrogate authority, desire, the body, and the collective. The exhibit features more than a dozen artists, including Raquel Forner, Juana Butler, Cristina Schiavi, Nicola Costantino, Liliana Porter, Fernanda Laguna and Grete Stern. Far from a chronological narrative or one centered on the patriarchs of Argentine Surrealism, “Dark Continent” invites us to explore territories historically obscured by hegemonic discourse, exploring the unconscious, the materiality of the body, domesticity, violence, and myths.