Show and Smell: Five Moments of Art and Fragrance

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Taught by Jessica Murphy

Jessica Murphy is an art historian and museum professional with a longtime passion for perfume. She's been a contributor at the blog Now Smell This since 2007, and since 2015 she's been giving presentations about the cultural history of fragrance via the Institute for Art and Olfaction, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and other venues. Her writing about scent has appeared in Atlas Obscura and Viscose Journal and she's been interviewed by Vogue, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Decoder Ring, and other media outlets. She shares her thoughts on olfactory and visual topics at her Substack, Show & Smell.

 
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Cultivate and educate your senses in this “show-and-smell” session held at the Brooklyn Museum. We’ll make five stops in the galleries, sniffing specific fragrance notes and learning about overlapping moments in perfume history and art history.

Whether you want to brush up (pun intended) on Impressionism or find out what kind of fragrance a Renaissance noblewoman would have worn, this multi-sensory class will give your eyes and nose something to enjoy.

Attendance for this class is limited to 15. Details about exact meeting location at the Brooklyn Museum will be emailed to registrants the day before the class.

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