Reads · 656 essays
Reads.
656 essays. Olfactory and visual art, curated by Penta.
Olfactory · 339 essays
Olfactory.
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Sissel Tolaas. Smellscapes.
A city can be redrawn in smell. Sissel Tolaas walks each street, collects each smell, and returns them to walls, paper and maps.
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Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan.
Marble statues are now white and cold. Trajan's Rome was not. An exhibition in St. Louis opens scent boxes to remind us.
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Dana El Masri. From Memory to A Sign.
Works from 2009 to 2026, fragments of nature gathered in many countries. Dana El Masri arranges them to find where home still lingers.
Read moreVisual · 317 essays
Visual.
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On Kawara. I Got Up.
A postcard a day, a stamp, a time of waking. Nothing more. And that is the work.
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Burberry. The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon.
A coat born to stand rain and mud. A century later it sits in a V&A case, still with its turned collar and belt.
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Fashion: the 18th century, a fantasized legacy.
Marie Antoinette's corset, postwar couture, a 2021 drag image. A century worn again and again.
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