Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,399 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • The Nasturtium Party 2025

    The Nasturtium Party 2025

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    View of the Palace courtyard during The Nasturtium Party
  • Smash

    Smash

    Book by Rick Elice and Bob Martin / Music by Marc Shaiman / Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman / Based on the TV series / Directed by Susan Stroman (Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Smash
  • Art Writing in Crisis

    Art Writing in Crisis

    Edited by Brad Haylock and Megan Patty

    “Art writing helps us to understand art which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and challenges in equal measure.”

  • Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson

    Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    John Wilson, Study for the Young Americans, 1973
  • Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits

    Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Vincent van Gogh, The Baby Marcelle Roulin, 1888
  • NEVERMIND (Louis Creac’h, Robin Pharo, and Jean Rondeau)

    NEVERMIND (Louis Creac’h, Robin Pharo, and Jean Rondeau)

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    NEVERMIND takes a bow
  • The Faith Issue

    The Faith Issue

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “What would it mean to practice negative capability in one’s own life? Perhaps it’s simply having a certain comfort with the messiness of existence—a determination to not be crippled by the thought that one either is, or isn’t, ever doing the ‘right’ thing. And an ability to celebrate, to wonder and not attempt to explain; to look at your child and think, ‘If I had decided to do something different in my life, even if it was ‘better,’ then this person might not exist.’ It is a way to realize that despite everything, there is really something very beautiful about the chaos of existence. Rather than try to find reason in it, we perhaps just need to embrace it.”

  • A Man of No Importance

    A Man of No Importance

    Book by Terrence McNally / Music by Stephen Flaherty / Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens / Directed by Paul Daigneault (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at A Man of No Importance
  • Parade

    Parade

    Book by Alfred Uhry / Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown / Directed by Michael Arden (Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Parade
  • ACRONYM with Reginald Mobley, countertenor

    ACRONYM with Reginald Mobley, countertenor

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • Something Rotten!

    Something Rotten!

    Book by John O’Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick / Music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick / Directed by Toni Ruscio (Curtain Call Theatre)

    Curtain call at Something Rotten!
  • Mayhem

    Mayhem

    by Lady Gaga

  • Art as Therapy

    Art as Therapy

    by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong

    “Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”

  • The Big Dinner

    The Big Dinner

    Hosted by Big Jahnelle and Big Atlas (Dorchester Brewing Company)

    Lilly Rose Valore strikes a pose
  • Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom

    Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom

    Fabiola Jean-Louis / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)

    Installation view, Waters of the Abyss
  • Yarn/Wire with Nicoletta Berry, soprano

    Yarn/Wire with Nicoletta Berry, soprano

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Calderwood Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • Gypsy

    Gypsy

    Book by Arthur Laurents / Music by Jule Styne / Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim / Based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee / Directed by George C. Wolfe (Majestic Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Gypsy
  • The Velvet Party 2025

    The Velvet Party 2025

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    My outfit for The Velvet Party with my C’est mon plaisir pocket square
  • “Men, she suggested, should stop looking at clothes as signifiers of gender and class and just enjoy them.”

  • The Big Dinner

    The Big Dinner

    Hosted by Big Jahnelle and Big Atlas (Dorchester Brewing Company)

    Patty Bourée defies gravity