“One of the things I’ve learned is never to hoard ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they’ve gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,263 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant
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Spoiler Alert
“I don’t care where you have to go and find one I don’t care if you have to drive to Ikea and buy one. I don’t care if you have to go to Jennifer Convertibles. Give my husband a bed!”
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Disegno #35
“Why do we still fail to realise that difference adds depth and complexity, creating a more resilient system for all?”
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
“Real luxurious people hate status. You don’t look rich because you have a rich dress. When you look at a person, do you see the spirit or the sexiness or the creativity? Just to see a big diamond, what does it mean? It’s all about satisfaction. I think it’s horrible, this judgment based on money. It’s all an illusion that you look better because you have a symbol of luxury. Really, it doesn’t bring you anything. It’s so banal.”
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Nasturtium Breakfast 2023
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The Well-Being Issue
“For the less zealous, a silent city may come with trade-offs. Enforced quiet—imposed, say, through city-wide regulations—is far from a cure-all. Not only would it limit activity and deflate the vitality of urban life, but it would inevitably shrink that third space between home and work. The street—the liminal zone of travel, meetups and play—would be reduced to quiet desolation.”
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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Parade
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Living Museums: Conversations with Leading Museum Directors
For this ambitious inquiry, Grau traveled to Williamstown, New York City, Vienna, Oxford, Ampthill, Moscow, Berlin and London to speak to the people working behind the scenes in the Western world’s greatest museums. Focusing on the 1960s to the 2000s, Grau details the stories of these cultural institutions from the perspectives of those who know them.
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Babylon
“When in doubt, say something in French.”
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Ride the Cyclone
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Sunset Boulevard
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Pamela, A Love Story
“I know something even more than my wildest dreams are just around the corner. I believe in true love. I believe God has a plan. A raw, honest life is the only way… I love living in the mystery.”
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Interiors Special
“The lonely have often found comfort outdoors. In The Living Mountain, an unfussy meditation on Scotland’s Cairngorm mountains, Nan Shepherd writes: ‘Often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.’”
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What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
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Miss Congeniality
“That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.”
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I Married a Witch
“Every man who marries, marries the wrong woman. True suffering cometh when a man is in love with the woman he cannot marry.”
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Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
Meret Oppenheim, New Stars, 1977-82 -
Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art
hinde Wiley, The Archangel Gabriel, 2014 -
Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict
“When the nuns came to be blessed by the Patriarch, who on special holy days, went by my house in a motorboat, I detached the phallus of the horseman and hid it in a drawer. I also did this on certain days when I had to receive stuffy visitors, but occasionally I forgot, and when confronted with this phallus found myself in great embarrassment. The only thing to do in such cases was to ignore it. In Venice a legend spread that I had several phalluses of different sizes, like spare parts, which I used on different occasions.”
