Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,429 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • Celebrating Chrysanthemums

    Celebrating Chrysanthemums

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares

    Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares

    Written and performed by Laura Benanti (Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Nobody Cares
  • A Night in the Stacks 2026

    A Night in the Stacks 2026

    Boston Public Library

    Patrick and I in our “Night Circus” attire
  • Yeston and Kopit’s Phantom

    Yeston and Kopit’s Phantom

    Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston / Book by Arthur Kopit / Based on Gaston Leroux’s “The Phantom of the Opera” / Directed by Robert W. Schneider (North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, MA)

    Curtain call at Phantom
  • ACRONYM: Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

    ACRONYM: Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

    The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)

    Attributed to Frans Francken II, Cabinet with Painted Panels from the Book of Esther, about 1620
    Rembrandt van Rijn, A Jewish Heroine [possibly Esther] from the Hebrew Bible, 1632-33
    Aert de Gelder, Esther and Mordecai, about 1685
  • Suzanne Jackson: What is Love?

    Suzanne Jackson: What is Love?

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Exhibition view
  • Operation Mincemeat

    Operation Mincemeat

    Music, lyrics, and book by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts / Directed by Robert Hastie (Broadway in Boston, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Operation Mincemeat
  • 90 YEARS

    90 YEARS

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Yayoi Kusama, LOVE IS CALLING, 2013
    Andy Warhol, Facsimile of Silver Clouds, 1966/2026
    Clarissa Tossin, Spent/Gasto 3, 2009-2011
  • Keith Haring

    Keith Haring

    New York City

    TVBoy, Keith Haring, 2026
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Museum of the Moving Image (New York City)

    Exhibition view, featuring What will Vanna wear tonight? billboard
  • Behind-the-scenes tour

    Behind-the-scenes tour

    Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (New York City)

    Jim Henson and Jon Stone, Oscar the Grouch, 1969 (first appearance)
  • Sunday Morning

    Sunday Morning

    Times Square Arts (New York City)

    Dustin Grella, Sunday Morning, 2026
  • Open Call

    Open Call

    Balcon Salon (New York City)

    Death? Dropped.
  • Oh, Mary!

    Oh, Mary!

    by Cole Escola / Directed by Sam Pinkleton (Lyceum Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Oh, Mary!
  • Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous

    Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous

    Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY)

    Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950, 1950
    Lee Krasner, Imperative, 1976
    Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, ca. 1942
  • Costume Art

    Costume Art

    Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY)

    Dolce & Gabbana, “Eupheme” dress, AW 2019-20 alta moda (center top); Bronze statuettes of Aphrodite with silver eyes, 3rd-1st century BCE (center bottom)
    Adam McEwen, Untitled (Nicole), 2004 (left); Gaultier Paris, Dress, SS 2001 haute couture (right)
    Ottolinger, Dress, Resort 2025 (left); Adriana Varejão, Parede com Icisões à la Fontana—Horizontal (Wall with Incisions à la Fontana—Horizontal), 2008 (center); Schiaparelli, Dress, SS 2026
    Robert Wun, “The Bleeding” ensemble, SS 2023 haute couture (left); Hands Weiditz the Younger, “The Holy Heart of Jesus and the Five Wounds of Christ’s Love,” from Devotissime Meditationes de Vita, April 5, 1520 (right)
  • The Superbloom Tour

    The Superbloom Tour

    Jessie Ware (Radio City Music Hall)

    Jessie Ware performs
  • The Art of Living

    The Art of Living

    Handel and Haydn Society (Symphony Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • The Door

    The Door

    by Magda Szabó

    “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”