Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,429 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • 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
  • La O di Giotto

    La O di Giotto

    Firenze, Italia

    Helidon Xhixha, La O di Giotto, 2017
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    Palazzo Pitti (Firenze, Italia)

    Carlo Dolci, Saint Rose of Lima, 1668
  • Rules of Civility

    Rules of Civility

    by Amor Towles

    “For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”

  • The Society Ball 2022

    The Society Ball 2022

    Handel and Haydn Society (Symphony Hall)

    The gala musical performance
  • The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2

    The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2

    by Matthew López / Inspired by “Howards End” by E. M. Forster / Directed by Paul Daigneault (Speakeasy Stage Company)

    Curtain call at The Inheritance, Part 2
  • Head Over Heels

    Head Over Heels

    Music and lyrics by The Go-Go’s and Belinda Carlisle / Conceived by & original book by Jeff Whitty; adapted by James Magruder / Based on “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” by Sir Philip Sidney / Directed by Brian Boruta (The Umbrella)

    Curtain call at Head Over Heels
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous

    Drop Dead Gorgeous

    Directed by Michael Patrick Jann

    “My mom gave me this 9-mil for my 13th birthday. Yeah. I’ll always remember what she put on the card, ‘Jesus Loves Winners.’ That’s why no matter what I do, I aim to win.”

  • Disegno #32

    Disegno #32

    Disegno, the quarterly journal of design

    “Like a time-capsule, the photographs of the interiors of the Nakagin Capsule Tower units—shot by Noritaka Minami over the course of many years—transport me back in time to the Tokyo of the 1970s, where I spent my childhood. More immediately, they take me slightly less further back, to a time eight years ago when I rented a unit in Tower B.”

  • Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

    Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

    Directed by David Mirkin

    “Aw, look, poor thing—they won’t let her shop. Yeah, like those salesgirls in Beverly Hills aren’t bigger whores than she is.”

  • On Booze

    On Booze

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    “I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy—why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion.”