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.

  • Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery

    Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery

    Directed by Ally Pankiw

    “One of the beautiful things about Lilith was we could be ourselves. There was such power in that.”

  • An Indigenous Present

    An Indigenous Present

    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Boston, MA)

    Anna Tsouhlarakis, IF SHE WAS AT THE PARTY, SHE WOULD HAVE DUMPED MORE THAN TEA, 2025

  • Friendship Special

    Friendship Special

    Kinfolk Magazine

    “‘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.”

  • Perfection

    Perfection

    by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes)

    “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.”

  • Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

    Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

    by Christopher Isherwood

    “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.”

  • Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

    Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

    Directed by Simon Curtis

    “My favourite haunt if it weren’t for the prices. The last time I dined there, I asked for the bill and a pistol.”

  • Tower of London

    Tower of London

    London, England

    The Tower Remembers installation by Tom Piper, based on Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by Paul Cummins, 2014
  • The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical

    The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical

    Book by Kate Wetherhead / Music by Elton John / Lyrics by Shaina Taub and Mark Sonnenblick / Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell (Dominion Theatre)

    Curtain call at The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical

  • Cathedral of St. Paul

    Cathedral of St. Paul

    London, England

    Sir Christopher Wren, Rotunda, 1675-1710
  • Permanent collection

    Permanent collection

    The British Museum (London, England)

    Parthenon Marbles
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    Permanent collection

    Courtauld Gallery (London, England)

    Cecily Brown, Unmoored From Her Reflection, 2021

  • Starlight Express

    Starlight Express

    Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe / Directed by Luke Sheppard (Starlight Auditorium)

    The cast performs “Starlight Express Megamix”

  • Shakespeare’s Globe

    Shakespeare’s Globe

    London, England

    View of the theater from the pit
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    Permanent collection

    Tate Modern (London, England)

  • Westminster Abbey

    Westminster Abbey

    London, England

    Various, Transept, 1245–1269
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    Permanent collection

    The National Gallery (London, England)

    Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434
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    Permanent collection

    National Portrait Gallery (London, England)

    Master John, King Edward VI of England, 1547
  • A Single Man

    A Single Man

    Choreography by Jonathan Watkins / Music by John Grant and Jasmin Kent Rodgman / Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood (Royal Ballet)

    Curtain call at A Single Man
  • Tower Bridge

    Tower Bridge

    London, England

    Sir Horace Jones, Tower Bridge, 1886-1894
  • Cowley Manor

    Cowley Manor

    Cheltenham, United Kingdom

    George Somers Clarke, Cowley Manor, 1855–1860