“Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We’ll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,364 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Sara Cwynar, Alphabet, 2025 -
“In the Internet, there is a fountain of youth into which at first you drunkenly plunge your face, and then in the dawn light you see your reflection, battered by the years.”
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Kylie Minogue performs “Confide in Me” -
“Reality is something you rise above.”
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“The thing that makes life interesting is that it ends. The thing that makes love worthwhile is that it’s all we’ve got.”
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View of the Palace courtyard during The Nasturtium Party -
Curtain call at Smash -
“Art writing helps us to understand art which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and challenges in equal measure.”
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John Wilson, Study for the Young Americans, 1973 -
Vincent van Gogh, The Baby Marcelle Roulin, 1888 -
NEVERMIND takes a bow -
“What would it mean to practice negative capability in one’s own life? Perhaps it’s simply having a certain comfort with the messiness of existence—a determination to not be crippled by the thought that one either is, or isn’t, ever doing the ‘right’ thing. And an ability to celebrate, to wonder and not attempt to explain; to look at your child and think, ‘If I had decided to do something different in my life, even if it was ‘better,’ then this person might not exist.’ It is a way to realize that despite everything, there is really something very beautiful about the chaos of existence. Rather than try to find reason in it, we perhaps just need to embrace it.”
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Curtain call at A Man of No Importance -
Curtain call at Parade -
The ensemble takes a bow -
Curtain call at Something Rotten! -
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“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”
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Lilly Rose Valore strikes a pose
