The Color Factory

The Color Factory in NY is a pop-up art exhibit that explores and displays each color. Housed in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, this exhibit features 16 participatory installations.

Visitors enjoy this multi-sensory experience which includes playing in an enormous ball pit. The Color Factory explores color in a vivid and creative way that’s fun for all ages. They museum has garnered criticism for being an “Instagram museum,” a museum geared towards millennials who visit museums to photograph themselves and share pictures on social media.

Co-founder Jordan Ferney has refuted these claims, stating that her goal “had always been to make something that was beautiful to experience, not photograph.”

The museum also created the Manhattan Color Walk, a unique map of colorful landmarks within Manhattan. The Manhattan Color Walk allowed visitors to explore neighborhoods through its creation of a colorful portrait of this diverse city.

Tiffany & Co. Coming to SoHo

If you love Tiffany & Co.’s little turquoise boxes (and you love what’s IN this boxes) then this news will excite you! Tiffany & Co. has recently announced that they plan to open a store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood next fall.

The shop will be situated right in the middle of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District and will open its 7000 square foot location in September 2012.  This new location will also help Tiffany & Co. to celebrate its 175th anniversary.  This site will be Tiffany’s third New York City location.  They actually started the store on Lower Broadway but then moved to Broadway at Prince St. in the 1850s.

Don’t tell Tiffany’s that there is a recession at the moment. Last month they reported that their second-quarter net income surged 30% across all regions.  And, they raised their full-year profit forecast based on these unexpectedly good results.  Recession? What recession says Tiffany! And now SoHo residents will be able to get into the act as well.