Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,410 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Richard Morris Hunt, The Breakers, 1893-1895 -
Curtain call at Pretty Woman -
The ensemble takes a bow -
Raqib Shaw, The Retrospective 2002–2022, 2015-2022 (background); Small Adam, 2011 (foreground) -
A Baroque duo performs -
Curtain call at A Case for the Existence of God -
“I may be Black. I may be poor. I may even be ugly. But I’m here!”
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Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto, Environmental, 1993 -
A view from our seats -
“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.”
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“I was a lesbian for a while, you know, but it was all a bit too wet for me in the end. Men are so lovely and dry.”
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“Without ugliness, without imperfection, beauty spins frictionless; it gains no purchase on the world. Real, unabashed ugliness should be celebrated. One aspires to be beautiful, and one desires lovely things. But ugliness is the stuff of life.”
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“Insecure people are very dangerous, aren’t they? I’m secure. Make sure you put that in there.”
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Curtain call at A Christmas Carol -
“That day, we started the conversation that eventually led to the very personal essay Meyer has contributed to this issue of BLAU International. Recounting a brief history of a phenomenon he’s coined the ‘Gay Man’s Castle,’ Meyer insists on the transformative power of personal taste. He shows us how the homes of creatives, how their collections, how even the ceilings above their deathbeds can narrate histories of repression and liberation alike. And how paying tribute to the men who build those ‘castles’ far too often means remembering those we’ve lost. If you ever meet Meyer, you might thank him for this. But never, ever bring up Wuppertal. It will surely harsh his vibe.”
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“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”
