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"Framed as “America’s Most Exceptional Grocery Store” by Santa Fe–based Meow Wolf, Omega Mart is a 52,000-square-foot art installation that masquerades as a big-box grocery store and contains four giant themed areas plus 60 additional installation-filled rooms, terrains, and portals created by more than 325 artists including Beach House, Brian Eno, Amon Tobin, Shrine, and Android Jones. I started in a supermarket-style space stocked with over 100 custom products — Wake Up Please! Energy Drink, Whale Song Antiperspirant/Antidepressant, Nebula Loaf, and Americanized Beef among them — then explored the Dramcorp Offices on the second level, a Tron-inspired look inside a fictional family-owned corporate entity behind Omega Mart; The Factory, which showcases Dramcorp’s mysterious operations and bizarre production procedures used to make the store’s signature products; and the Projected Desert, an immersive two-story video projection artwork. Tickets are available online, and Omega Mart (along with the hidden bar Datamosh) follows a schedule of Monday–Thursday 3–10 p.m., Friday 3 p.m.–midnight, Saturday 10 a.m.–midnight, and Sunday 10 a.m.–10 p.m." - Susan Stapleton