#The Color Factory

It's about time a new immersive art museum engages both our brains and our social media feeds. That's what's happening at Color Factory Chicago in the basement of the Willis Tower. What's happening: A collection of art installments designed to explore our connection to color through vision, sound, touch and even taste. Flashback: The Color Factory started in San Francisco in 2017 and now has three locations: New York, Houston and Chicago. Highlights: The journey starts by picking a colored macaroon from a conveyor belt. From there, you taste candy, listen to tubas and even draw as you visit 15...

In McKinley Park rests a building across the street from a vinegar factory decked out in colorful artwork of characters and scenes from the video game series “Street Fighter” and “Mortal Kombat.” Aside from the mural work, the building itself is unassuming, but that’s before you realize the people within were behind the construction of Hebru Brantley’s iconic and colorful aviator-goggle-sporting ...