Culture type
The Wanderer
The best thing was not on the list.
You book one thing and leave the rest open, you push doors that look closed and the best afternoon of the trip is always the one nobody planned. You also miss things, regularly, and you have decided that is an acceptable price.
Your evening
Walking a gallery district on opening night and following whichever crowd looks most interesting.
Your room
If you only book one thing this year, make it LX Factory in Lisbon: a nineteenth-century textile complex under the bridge, now studios, galleries and a bookshop in a printworks.
Your cities
Three cities for this type
80Portugal
Lisbon
A private collection worth a detour, a power station full of art and fado in a back room
83Mexico
Mexico City
The best anthropology museum on earth, murals on government walls and galleries in Art Deco houses
86Germany
Berlin
Three opera houses, five museums on one island and a club that never asks the time
Your rooms
Five bookings for this type
LandmarkFreeLisbon · Alcântara
LX Factory
A nineteenth-century textile complex under the bridge, now studios, galleries and a bookshop in a printworks
GalleryFreeNew York · Chelsea
Chelsea gallery district
Around two hundred galleries in old warehouse floors, all free, all changing every six weeks
GalleryFreeCopenhagen · Vesterbro
Kødbyen galleries
The white meatpacking halls, now a dense block of galleries, bars and studios
LandmarkVenice · Castello
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
A patrician house museum with a ground floor rebuilt by Carlo Scarpa to let the water in
LandmarkFree galleriesEdinburgh · Southside
Summerhall
A former veterinary school with thirty rooms, running the sharpest end of the fringe