Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale
What can visual art teach us about scent, stench, and the mysterious substance known as ambergris? Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age. more
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Illustrations from the books of one of London’s leading ornithologists, who became a curator and preserver at the Zoological Society of London at the age of just 23.
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French artist known for his Pointillism paintings. He co-founded Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris, where he met and was inspired by the Neo-impressionist painter Seurat.
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At the intersection of surfing and medieval cathedrals, from the contents of a suitcase, Melissa McCarthy stages a plot that walks its way across paranoia, language, and the pursuit of knowledge. more
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