The hall will also be filled with another, less tangible, suggestion of microbial life: an aroma that will change from week to week, conjuring the fragrant history of the Bankside area around the museum, from the Precambrian and late Jurassic eras to the Machine Age. Among the scent profiles Yi has created are those that represent more noxious periods in London history, including the smells of cholera and the bubonic plague.

— Artist Anicka Yi's Turbine Hall takeover starts tomorrow (and runs through mid-January) at the Tate Modern in London. Read more in The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi at The New York Times.

[Artist Anicka] Yi’s work is often olfactory, honouring the sense she thinks humans have neglected in favour of the optical. “I’ve always maintained that when you’re on death row,” she once said, “you should get last scents or last sounds, the same way you get last meals.”

— Read more in ‘I sculpt the air’ – does scent artist Anicka Yi plan to make Tate’s Turbine Hall smell like vaginas? at The Guardian. Yi's exhibit at the Tate Modern will open on October 12.