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.

  • Cost of Living

    Cost of Living

    by Martyna Majok / Directed by Alex Lonati (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at Cost of Living
  • Design Special

    Design Special

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “Growth is often associated with moving on. It’s a commonly posed question, for example, whether one should ever vacation in the same place twice. If travel broadens the mind, the argument goes, then a travel itinerary should be as broad as the horizon. There’s such a lot of the world to see: Why go back again?”

  • Max Raabe and Palast Orchester

    Max Raabe and Palast Orchester

    Celebrity Series of Boston (Symphony Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • eternal sunshine

    eternal sunshine

    by Ariana Grande

  • Arghavan Khosravi

    Arghavan Khosravi

    Newport Art Museum (Newport, RI)

    Arghavan Khosravi, Untitled, 2020 (right); The Pain, 2020 (right)
  • Newport Casino

    Newport Casino

    Newport, RI

    McKim, Mead & White, Newport Casino, 1879
  • The Breakers

    The Breakers

    Newport Mansions

    Richard Morris Hunt, The Breakers, 1893-1895
  • Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman

    Music by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance / Book by Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton / Based on “Pretty Woman” by J. F. Lawton / Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell (Broadway in Boston, Boston, MA)

    Curtain call at Pretty Woman

  • Harry, Haydn + Mozart

    Harry, Haydn + Mozart

    Handel and Haydn Society (Symphony Hall)

    The ensemble takes a bow
  • Answered Prayers

    Answered Prayers

    by Truman Capote

    “Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.”

  • Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West

    Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)

    Raqib Shaw, The Retrospective 2002–2022, 2015-2022 (background); Small Adam, 2011 (foreground)
  • Art in Tune 2024

    Art in Tune 2024

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    A Baroque duo performs
  • Watermark: An Essay on Venice

    Watermark: An Essay on Venice

    by Joseph Brodsky

    “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

  • A Case for the Existence of God

    A Case for the Existence of God

    by Samuel D. Hunter / Directed by Melinda Lopez (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at A Case for the Existence of God
  • Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

    Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

    by Lisa Morton

    “The unusual name was supplied by [Elijah] Bond’s sister-in-law, medium Helen Peters, who asked the board for a name and watched as it spelled O-U-I-J-A (although there’s also been speculation that the name is a combination of the French and German words for ‘yes’).”

  • The Color Purple

    The Color Purple

    Directed by Blitz Bazawule

    “I may be Black. I may be poor. I may even be ugly. But I’m here!”

  • Affinities: On Art and Fascination

    Affinities: On Art and Fascination

    by Brian Dillon

    “Stared at as closely or keenly as possible, even the most elegant, precise, or selfsame forms are revealed as monsters.”

  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City, NY)

    Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto, Environmental, 1993
  • The Celebration Tour

    The Celebration Tour

    Madonna (TD Garden)

    A view from our seats
  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers

    Directed by Alexander Payne

    “There’s nothing new in human experience, Mr. Tully. Each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but man’s every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime is on display right here all around you. So, before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present.”