“You obviously require a battle plan. My second husband, the general, always advocated attacking from the rear, which, although it did nothing to enhance our marriage, did bring him some success on the field.
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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The ensemble takes a bow -
Curtain call at The Band’s Visit -
“It’s always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.”
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Curtain call at Elvis: A Musical Revolution -
“It was a cold and rainy day in March. I went to Cristophe’s where I usually get my hair done, but Cristophe wasn’t there. He had mysteriously disappeared. In his place was a stranger named Rinaldo. I’ll never forget him. His eyes were steely gray. His hands were like ice. He said, ‘I’ll streak your hair and I’ll give you a body wave.’ He worked very fast and then, as he turned my chair around to face the mirror, I saw it. He permed me!”
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Julie Mehretu, Congress, 2003 -
Chris Burden, Transfixed, 1974 -
Costume from Serial Mom -
Chris Burden, Urban Light, 2008 -
“Both the Parthenon and Cinderella Castle try to physicalise myths, a means of building legacy that manifests as a fairytale and influences our perspectives of reality. It’s rare to find these kinds of wild optical manipulations employed in contemporary buildings, but it’s all too easy to see a similar desire to push a narrative through colossal and eye-catching buildings.”
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Anders Zorn, Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice, 1894 -
Curtain call at Here Lies Love -
Curtain call at Here We Are -
Curtain call at Merrily We Roll Along -
Curtain call at The Full Monty -
Curtain call at POTUS -
“Tackiness may require unabashed love, but it also rewards those who get the references—and the current mood. As Karl Lagerfeld once proclaimed, ‘Trendy is the last stage before tacky.’ The tack-o-meter is constantly adjusting. It moves with the times, chewing up the past to recalibrate our present tastes.”
