Tokyo Opera City Gallery has one of the best art spaces in the city, and a program that ranks it with The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo near Kiyosumi in eastern Tokyo and the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi.
At TOCG in Shinjuku, curators are able to play creatively with the gallery, as they have done with exhibitions of photography by the Turner Prize-winning Wolfgang Tillmans (2004); architecture shows such as Toyo Ito's "The New Real" (Fall 2006), for which a new, curved floor was installed; and broader collections like DaimlerChrysler's (Winter 2006).
For "Melting Point," the exhibition running there till Oct. 14, the entire gallery has been used to display works by three artists known for creating immersive experiences. Jim Lambie, Kiyomichi Shibuya and Ernesto Neto all produce mind-bending installations at the TOCG that are not so much deeply ponderous as lightly contemplative.