Walking Through Water and Light: Tokyo’s teamLab Planets | Place Spotlight
Most museums ask you to keep your shoes on and your hands to yourself. teamLab Planets, tucked into Tokyo’s Toyosu district, asks the opposite of you almost immediately: roll up your trousers, take off your shoes and socks, and prepare to wade, barefoot, through ankle-deep water lit from below by shifting fields of digital koi. […]
Nine Hundred Years of Appetite: London’s Borough Market | Place Spotlight
Most food markets are built for transactions. You go in, you know roughly what you want, you leave. Borough Market, tucked beneath the railway arches on the south bank of the Thames, has never quite worked that way, and that’s precisely its appeal. It’s a place designed, whether by accident or centuries of accumulated habit, […]
A House That Doesn’t Behave: Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return | Place Spotlight
There is a moment, not long after you walk through the front door of an unassuming Victorian house on the edge of Santa Fe, when the house stops being a house. A refrigerator opens onto a glowing tunnel instead of a shelf of leftovers. A fireplace turns out to be a passage into a neon […]
All Five Senses, One Building: Porto’s Wondersense Museum | Place Spotlight
We spend most of our waking lives looking at screens. We scroll, we tap, we stare. Even when we visit museums, the instinct is often the same — to hold up a phone and capture something rather than simply experience it. Wondersense, Porto’s newest and most unusual museum, is a deliberate and rather joyful rebuke […]