smells at Cabinet

My favorite magazine; CABINET, opened since October last year a exhibition space and it happens to be right around the corner where I'm staying here in Parkslope (B'lyn). I was there on the last day of a exhibition. There was nothing to see.
It was a smellexhibition By smell-artist (smell collector?) Nadia Wagner. The keeper of the space handled me some very tiny pieces of paper that all had a very particular smell. Very delicate. One of them (forgot the name) quite strong and sweet has been developed especially to test gas masks. This smell lives around 15 minutes.
All other smells where more delicate , Oak moss and something that smelled a bit something between cantal cheese and shit. But light. Very good! This smell lives around 12 years.
I know so little about smell. The idea that a smell lives a certain time is so strange . How does that work? Sounds or images don't do that. Living thing do that!


I can wait to see the next exhibition;

Remember Waco, Texas? OK; The guy that David Koresh had succeeded was the man who started the cult. This was the Bulgarian inmigrant called Victor Houteff.
Jim Shaw (one of my favorite US artists) found a few years ago on a flea market in LA a big stack of his paintings......
More on this after the 20th, will try to make it to the opening.

Christophere Davison at nicelle beauchene

A small gallery on Lower East Side has this very nice and delicate show of small drawings by Christophere Davison from Philadelphia;
The small drawings are a bit children's book creepy. Or you could say; School of Henry Darger. The most influential outsider artist from the last 25 years (well..since he got discovered)


Liked them a lot.
thinking about children's-book creepy; I was watching some TV tonight and to my surprise there is now a 24h kids channel.
Sponge bob at 3 in the morning... Great if you have kids and come home early in the morning, I guess. (or is it just for for the stoned Americans?)
I'm disturbed by the idea that little children are still in front of the TV at that time... I'm sure in Europe this will not be tolerated.
They don't show porn during the day. I understand;OK. But isn't this the flip side of it?
Children program and porn is booth fantasy; one would be the negative the other would be the positive.
(actually there is no "adult-entertainment" eighty on this cable)