“I have always distrusted good people. I never believed as a child that goodness came naturally. I always suspected that beneath it lay some sort of payment for services past or still to come.”
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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Joseph Grigely, White Noise, 1996–2023 -
The ensemble takes a bow -
Curtain call at Cabaret -
“Life is what you make of it. So do something. Do something brave. Do something unexpected. But do something, because you have four women in a jail cell who are desperately hoping for a reason to believe there’s still a reason to believe. So do something, goddammit, because this isn’t the end of the freaking story.”
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Jinkx Monsoon performs with her band -
“I made it a point to greet it every morning, to be sure it was still doing its thing. For as long as it is waving, it gives me a sense of assurance that all is well. An unexpected, yet very real relationship had been unwittingly established, and it taught me that value of things is not determined by price, but through time and meaning.”
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Rashid Johnson, Antoine’s Organ, 2016 -
“This is Mr. Vignelli’s map, which everyone can see is an aesthetically pleasing map. And it’s made some lovely T-shirts for us at the MTA. But there is no relationship between the subway routes on this map and the city above. I’m a native New Yorker and I know what New York looks like, and it doesn’t look like this.”
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“…this idea of how we can individually and collectively reenact or instead metabolize and recover from trauma in our bodies is most intriguing. How being a trans woman successfully walking body after your transition, finally being heralded for your femininity by your peers after being physically threatened, endangered, and brutalized by the outside world for not blending in might just be a type of bodily recovery from a lifetime of such trauma.”
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Curtain call at Beautiful -
Curtain call at The Prom -
Curtain call at Evita -
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View from inside the memorial -
Various, Berliner Dom, c. 1454 -
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-1920 -
Various, St. Peter Cathedral, 1520
