Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,399 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • “Let’s see, what else? Don’t go into debt over clothes. Hug your dogs while you have them. Know that you can skip most anything. You will fall in love eventually. Remember that. Also, the things you like aren’t weird. Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.”

  • Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

    Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

    by Jeremy Atherton Lin

    “I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life—it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”

  • The Cher Show

    The Cher Show

    Book by Rick Elice / Featuring the music of Cher / Directed by Gerry McIntyre (Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, ME)

    Curtain call at The Cher Show
  • 1776

    1776

    Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards / Book by Peter Stone / Directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus (American Repertory Theater)

    “Saltpeter, John.”

  • Fire Island

    Fire Island

    Directed by Andrew Ahn

    “You know a lot of people on Twitter think body positivity has gone too far.”

  • Villa del Balbianello

    Villa del Balbianello

    Lago di Como, Italia

    View of the chapel
  • La Traviata

    La Traviata

    Music by Giuseppe Verdi / Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave (Musica a Palazzo at the Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto)

    Curtain call at La Traviata
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venezia, Italia)

    René Magritte, The Empire of Light, 1954
  • Anish Kapoor in Venice

    Anish Kapoor in Venice

    Gallerie Accademia, Venezia (Venezia, Italia)

    Anish Kapoor, Shooting Into the Corner, 2008-2009
  • CHALKTRACES

    CHALKTRACES

    Città di Venezia, Italia

    Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
  • Marc Quinn: HISTORYNOW

    Marc Quinn: HISTORYNOW

    Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia (Venezia, Italia)

    Ulysses, 2nd century BCE (foreground); Marc Quinn, HISTORYNOW: Shaman Triptych, BBC News, 2021
  • These writings, when burned, will finally cast a little light

    These writings, when burned, will finally cast a little light

    Anselm Kiefer / Palazzo Ducale (Venezia, Italia)

    Anselm Kiefer, These writings, when burned, will finally give some light, 2022
  • Harry’s House

    Harry’s House

    by Harry Styles

  • Teatro La Fenice

    Teatro La Fenice

    Venezia, Italia

    Giannantonio Selva, Teatro La Fenice, 1792
  • Basilica di San Marco

    Basilica di San Marco

    Venezia, Italia

    Ceiling above altar, c. 836
  • Pedro Cabrita Reis: Field

    Pedro Cabrita Reis: Field

    Curated by Michael Short (Chiesa di San Fantin)

    Pedro Cabrita Reis, Field, 2022
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze (Firenze, Italia)

    Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504
  • Santa Maria Novella

    Santa Maria Novella

    Firenze, Italia

    Leon Battista Alberti, Santa Maria Novella, 1420
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Gallerie degli Uffizi (Firenze, Italia)

    Caravaggio, Medusa, 1597
  • Duomo di Firenze

    Duomo di Firenze

    Firenze, Italia

    Arnolfo di Cambio, Filippo Brunelleschi, Emilio De Fabris; Rotunda; 1296-1436