“My favourite haunt if it weren’t for the prices. The last time I dined there, I asked for the bill and a pistol.”
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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The Tower Remembers installation by Tom Piper, based on Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by Paul Cummins, 2014 -
Curtain call at The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical -
Sir Christopher Wren, Rotunda, 1675-1710 -
Parthenon Marbles -
Cecily Brown, Unmoored From Her Reflection, 2021 -
The cast performs “Starlight Express Megamix” -
View of the theater from the pit -
Farah Al Qasimi, Woman in Leopard Print, 2019 Cildo Meireles, Babel, 2001 Mark Rothko, Seagram Murals, 1958-1959 Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays, 1979–1982 -
Various, Transept, 1245–1269 -
Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434 -
Master John, King Edward VI of England, 1547 -
Curtain call at A Single Man -
Sir Horace Jones, Tower Bridge, 1886-1894 -
George Somers Clarke, Cowley Manor, 1855–1860 -
Eero Saarinen, TWA terminal, 1962 -
“Claims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue—‘slumming it,’ as it’s crudely called—are themselves pretentious. The assumption that dropping your aitches or asserting a love of a cheap beer over a fine wine, or processed cheese over a Parmesan, will make you seem unspoiled or somehow more gritty is classic downwardly mobile play-acting.”
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“Well, imagine if we only ever did what we were supposed to,”
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Curtain call at The Wiz -
“If you do a good play and it gets bad reviews and nobody comes it’s off in a week or two and that’s the end of it, it’s gone forever. If you do a film that’s not well received to start with, it turns out it can have a life after death.”
