A new exhibit by artist Haegue Yang “must be smelled to be believed”:
The New Museum will present the first New York solo exhibition by Haegue Yang (b. Seoul, 1971). One of the leading artists of her generation…
Concept bottles, unfortunately, but I would buy one in a heartbeat. From the Polish design firm Ah&Oh (and there are some wonderful closeups at their website) found via The Essence of an Author…Contained in a Perfume Bottle at Design Taxi. Shown are the bottles for George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe and Marquis de Sade; there is also a bottle for Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
Over the past decade the relationship between the visual arts and olfaction has moved beyond the boundaries of teasing, humorous and entertaining, to an expansive and distinct contemplation. [...] Olfactory Art is a contemporary modality of expression in which creators intentionally engage a very unique human sense in their practice - that of smell.
— From Olfactory Art: A New Genre at Psychology Today, with many thanks to Jennifer for the link!
A video by Lisa Kirk and Gabriel Jeffrey for the new Revolution fragrance.
Artist Lisa Kirk has launched Revolution, a fragrance created with perfumer Patricia Choux in 2008 for the conceptual art piece Revolution Pipe Bomb:
Through research gathered from interviews with anonymous journalists, activists, and political radicals, Kirk developed the Revolution fragrance…
"Reinventing the Rose: Is perception affecting your ability to stop and smell the roses?" article at Cosmetics Mag http://t.co/y6gT43iH Sunday SOTE? I'm wearing Parfums de Nicolai Eau Exotique (mango!) Chocolate: Vosges Pink Salt Caramel (not my favorite) TV: Sherlock Denise Hamilton looks at some recent perfume books (including Alyssa's & Denyse's) in the LA Times http://t.co/FbuPTNrq "Does the perfume industry have it wrong? New tests suggest most seductive scent is our natural one" at Mail Online http://t.co/iUfAzRE7