Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,376 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Lea Salonga sings with the Boston Pops -
“Feels like being wrapped in kittens.”
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“It strikes me that the glory of art is the glory of survival, for survival is an inhuman property. It is an attribute of mountains and objects, of the worthless toys in the children’s bedroom at home that will outlive us all. That which is human decays and disappears, only in art does the quality of humanity favor survival. Only in art is a record kept of an instant, that the next instant does not erase.”
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“Today there are increasingly fewer mysteries in our scientific, overdocumented world. So—with even shimmering monoliths now humdrum—where can we turn to find the mystery in our lives? Perhaps the best place to start is the landscape in which they appear. Touch the earth, observe the clouds, consider the extraordinary statistical unlikeliness of evolution and chance which has led you to this exact moment, on a planet spinning at 1,000 miles an hour in a mostly uncharted universe. It makes you wonder, at least.”
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Sebastian Smee and Diana Seave Greenwald discuss a painting -
“I told Don I had to run to Paris because I thought you might kill yourself. He was fiddling with the remote. He told me, ‘Tell her hello, if you get there in time.’”
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“Moving in bubbles, using knowledge as esoteric power, and making shows about themselves rather than about the artists: seeing some prominent super-curators of younger generations at his graveside, I could not help but think how much [Kasper] König detested some of his profession’s currently rather ubiquitous traits. Yet, he of course had priceless advice for them all: ‘If something in a show is too small, make it smaller,’ he would say. ‘And if it’s too big, make it bigger.’”
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“Do you know what a cliché is? It’s a story so fine and thrilling that it’s grown old in its hopeful retelling.”
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The ensemble takes a bow -
Marie Watt, Sky Dances Light, 2024 -
“I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.”
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Salvador Dalí, Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life-Fast Moving), 1956 -
Curtain call at & Juliet -
“Hi, everybody. I’m Sue. And it’s time to Pump It Up! Are you ready? Let’s go!“
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DJ Maxine opens the night -
The ensemble takes a bow -
Curtain call at Titanic -
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This edition elaborates understandings of the party by considering the hidden, the invisible, and the underground as material and imaginary forces, where partying is not only festive and excessive, but manifests in forms of social and political organizing, cultural and subcultural conversation, the maintenance of safe spaces and the building of parallel structures against established institutional forms.
