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.

  • Országház

    Országház

    Budapest, Hungary

    Imre Steindl, Országház, 1885-1904
  • CipĹ‘k a Duna-parton

    Cipők a Duna-parton

    Budapest, Hungary

    Gyula Pauer and Can Togay, Shoes on the Danube Bank, 2025
  • Szent István-bazilika

    Szent István-bazilika

    Budapest, Hungary

    József Hild, Rotunda, 1851–1906
  • Szimpla Kert

    Szimpla Kert

    Budapest, Hungary

    View of the interior
  • Dohány utcai zsinagĂłga

    Dohány utcai zsinagóga

    Budapest, Hungary

    Frigyes Feszl, ceiling, 1854-1859
  • “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.”

  • Spoiler Alert

    Spoiler Alert

    Directed by Michael Showalter

    “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!”

  • Disegno #35

    Disegno #35

    Disegno, the quarterly journal of design

    “Why do we still fail to realise that difference adds depth and complexity, creating a more resilient system for all?”

  • Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

    Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

    by Dana Thomas

    “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.”

  • Nasturtium Breakfast 2023

    Nasturtium Breakfast 2023

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    The view of the Nasturtiums in the courtyard
  • The Well-Being Issue

    The Well-Being Issue

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “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.”

  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim / Book by Hugh Wheeler / Based on “Sweeney Todd” by Christopher Bond / Directed by Thomas Kail (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Sweeney Todd
  • Parade

    Parade

    Book by Alfred Uhry / Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown / Directed by Michael Arden (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York City, NY)

    Curtain call at Parade
  • 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.

  • Babylon

    Babylon

    Directed by Damien Chazelle

    “When in doubt, say something in French.”

  • Ride the Cyclone

    Ride the Cyclone

    Music, lyrics and book by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell / Directed by Sarah Rasmussen (Arena Stage)

    Curtain call at Ride the Cyclone
  • Art and Ideals: John F. Kennedy

    Art and Ideals: John F. Kennedy

    The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC)

    View of the exhibition
  • Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

    Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton / Additional lyrics by Amy Powers / Book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton / Based on “Sunset Boulevard” by by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. / Directed by Sammi Cannold (Kennedy Center)

    Curtain call at Sunset Boulevard
  • Pamela, A Love Story

    Pamela, A Love Story

    Directed by Ryan White

    “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.”

  • Interiors Special

    Interiors Special

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “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.’”