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.

Collection

Museum studies

  • Curator Conversations

    by Tim Clark

    “…the writer and critic David Levi Strauss has observed: ‘One could say that the split within curating – between the management and control of public works (law) and the cure of souls (faith) – was there from the beginning. Curators have always been a curious mixture of bureaucrat and priest.’”

  • Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art

    by Helen Molesworth

    “Queerness is the pursuit of happiness embodied. Queerness is the pursuit of happiness registered as both a necessity and a virtue. Queerness is the statement—sexual, aesthetic, intellectual, and affective—that one’s happiness belongs to oneself and must be pursued as such.”

  • Living Museums: Conversations with Leading Museum Directors

    Edited by Donatien Grau

    For this ambitious inquiry, Grau traveled to Williamstown, New York City, Vienna, Oxford, Ampthill, Moscow, Berlin and London to speak to the people working behind the scenes in the Western world’s greatest museums. Focusing on the 1960s to the 2000s, Grau details the stories of these cultural institutions from the perspectives of those who know them.

  • The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues

    Edited by András Szántó

    “The museum is a healing agent. It allows people to understand their past and present and to imagine their future”