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Show the packaging

There’re companies that are saying, “Well, couldn’t there be a little area at the end where you can show the packaging?”

— Chandler Burr talks about upcoming Art of Scent exhibit at the the Museum of Arts and Design's new Center of Olfactory Art, in Scent of a Museum at the New York Times.

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New Center of Olfactory Art at Museum of Arts and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design in New York has announced the creation of the Center of Olfactory Art, a museum department devoted to the art of fragrance and led by Chandler Burr, author of Emperor of Scent and Perfect Scent. Burr hopes to…

…place olfactory art within in the mainstream of art history and to show that scent is a legitimate artistic medium, the equal of painting, sculpture, architecture and music…

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The Art of Scent ~ upcoming exhibit in New York City

The Museum of Arts and Design will host The Art of Scent: 1889-2011, an exhibit curated by Chandler Burr, in November of next year.

The exhibit will feature “more than a dozen perfumes that have helped to define the lucrative aroma industry”…

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Chandler Burr talk at Chicago Humanities Festival

Chandler Burr will give a presentation on The Art History Of Scent: 1889 – 2011 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival:

Burr uses his rich historical, cultural, scientific, and economic knowledge of scent…

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Headspace, part 4

The fourth in the series documenting the Headspace symposium on “Scent As Design” that took place in March at the Parsons School for Design. If you missed them, here are part 1, part 2 and part 3. Part 4 is about 80 minutes long, and once again you’ll find a brief synopsis below the jump.

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