Arts & Humanities
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Athletes Don’t Leave Your Aryballos at Home!
Aryballos in the form of three cockle shells, 6th century BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art) This week is an installation of Greek words contributed by the Greek perfumer Christina Koutsoudaki. Christina has been a professional perfumer for over 20 years, and originally trained as a chemist at the National University of Athens, Greece and in…
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Scent of a Woman
Detail ‘5318008’, photo courtesy Kofi Paintsil and the artist Tasha Marks. This month is women’s history month, so we are paying aromatic tribute to the power of the female body. Specifically our boobies!! We’ve uncovered a unique artist and her work recently and are excited to share it with you. It is becoming clear the…
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Scents of Plates
Image courtesy Tessa Liebman: Methods and Madness Decay Dinner with Guerilla Science “Cured and Charred” quick cured mackerel; charred scallion, leek ash, kimchee vinaigrette, stonecrop as part of the menu for the 2 night pop-up Decay dinner with Guerilla Science You are sitting in your room, study, office or bedroom, and someone starts cooking. Ten…
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Scent in Concert with Play
Portrait of Arianna Khmelniuk courtesy Brandon Polack “Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good.” Lucia Capacchione Surprise is one of the most exciting and inspiring moments we have as humans. As a child peekaboo rewards us with the strongest…
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The Scent Seller
(image: Pietro Longhi, The Scent Seller, ca. 1741. Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice) When it comes to words and perfume, generally the words are devised around strictly hedonic terms, to “like” and to “not like”, and a rainbow of positive, market-driven descriptors. Is it possible to reconsider and add new dimensions to the seductive act of artifically…
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