Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,374 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Winslow Homer, Long Branch, New Jersey, 1869 -
“Any adequate response to the mystery of existence must be poetic, for only the poetic can take on the ‘why.’”
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Kelli O’Hara performs with her combo -
The ensemble takes a bow -
“I never thought watching a white man reclaim his power could be so moving.”
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Patrick and I in our costumes as the Gardner Museum Heist -
Rufus Wainwright performs -
Daniil Trifonov and Matthias Goerne take a bow -
Overhead view of the exhibitors -
Curtain call at The Cher Show -
Allan Rohan Crite, Streetcar Madonna, 1946 In his home, Crite installed art densely and usually without labels, not unlike the Palace of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Allan Rohan Crite (top to bottom), Our Lady of the R. R. [Railroad] Station, 1953; The Tax Announcements (Old State House), 1954 -
“I’m talking about how we—and I mean here the ‘we’ of people who have experienced some kind of trauma, which I think is a very large category indeed—how we manage the serious burden that we carry, how we contain it, what spent fuel pool or dry cask storage we improvise for material that is even now still leaking its lethal isotopes.”
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Curtain call at Chess -
Curtain call at Oh, Mary! -
“Homosexuals always die in Hollywood movies. Most of the time, they kill themselves.”
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“One of the beautiful things about Lilith was we could be ourselves. There was such power in that.”
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Anna Tsouhlarakis, IF SHE WAS AT THE PARTY, SHE WOULD HAVE DUMPED MORE THAN TEA, 2025 -
“‘Compassion draws on mental resources and given that our mental resources are finite, we have a finite capacity for it,’ explains Adam Waytz, a psychologist and professor at Northwestern University. And because our tendency is to direct our empathy toward those we feel closer to, ‘we might fail to properly acknowledge the suffering of others’—to be unfair to groups we consider different from ourselves, say, or unethically biased toward those we favor.”
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“Anna and Tom had grown up with the notion that individuality manifested itself as a set of visual differences, immediately decodable and in constant need of updating.”
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“And so, finding that, for once, I was not sorry to be alone, I said to myself: I am happy. Perfectly happy, I repeated, as my eyes roamed wide over the brilliant desolate sea and the empty contours of the land. Were they, after all, searching for something that was lacking? I hardly knew.”
