What Does Art Smell Like? – The Atlantic
An upcoming exhibit at Tate Britain experiments with sensory experiences to deepen the way visitors perceive different works.
Category Archives: Scent Culture Monitor
Tate sensorium: What Does Art Smell Like?
An upcoming exhibit at Tate Britain experiments with sensory experiences to deepen the way visitors perceive different works. Continue reading Tate sensorium: What Does Art Smell Like?
Bespoke perfumes discussed by NYTimes.com
Once in a while the glamorous world of bespoke perfumes gets featured in the important papers.
A Bespoke Perfume Doesn’t Come Cheap – NYTimes.com
Audrey Gruss is founder of the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, which is seeking a scent that could be comforting to people with depression.
“Gagosian smell”
Anicka Yi is known for her interest in feminism, body politics, and sensory experience and thus a point of reference for reflecting on the sense of smell in art. Continue reading “Gagosian smell”
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Révélateur…
…uncovers the smell of the past. Installed in the Witte Dame building, it brings out a piece of Eindhoven’s history: the smell of the 1930’s Philips light bulb industry as this building rose to house its main factory. Grease, metal, wood, sweat were some of the smells that could be experienced in the Witte Dame’s past function…
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The smell of 1930’s Philips light bulb industry
Uncovering the smell of the past Révélateur uncovers the smell of the past and adds a contextual layer of information. Continue reading The smell of 1930’s Philips light bulb industry
Cross-cultural research makes a difference
Since ancient times there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible to put into words. The New Yorker presents an overview of more recent cross-cultural research challenging this belief: Culture, not biology, rules the relation between smell and language
