This Friday night, starting at 7pm, is another in the series of Gallery Nights held every Friday night in the fall in Buenos Aires.Gallery Nights is organized by the art magazine Arte al Dia and takes place in some of Buenos Aires’s swankiest neighborhoods:Barrio Norte and Recoleta.Over 60 galleries, museums, and cultural centers are open and free to the public for this one night of wine drinking, music listening, and general life appreciation.If it gets too cold, there is also a free transportation service that takes gallery goers from stop to stop, following the route from Plaza San Martin to Callao and from Tucuman to Libertador.

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If you visit Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, prepare to be amazed the minute you walk in the door. The first thing to greet your eye is the fantastic, perspective warping work by Patrick Hughes, where the painting actually appears to move as you do, and you can look down three painting lined corridors simultaneously. Even as you alter your position, the corridors seem to shift so that you can still see down all of them. Hughes was born in Birmingham, and is the creator of a technique known as “reverspective”, which is used to create an optical illusion on a three dimensional surface. If you want to see how the painting actually works, then I suggest that you view it from the side – the truth will amaze you even more.

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