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

Venice

  • Watermark: An Essay on Venice

    by Joseph Brodsky

    “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

  • A Haunting in Venice

    Directed by Kenneth Branagh

    “I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts, whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them, and live life somehow.”

  • Book Club: The Next Chapter

    Directed by Bill Holderman

    “Life is what you make of it. So do something. Do something brave. Do something unexpected. But do something, because you have four women in a jail cell who are desperately hoping for a reason to believe there’s still a reason to believe. So do something, goddammit, because this isn’t the end of the freaking story.”

  • “It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.”

  • La Traviata

    Music by Giuseppe Verdi / Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave (Musica a Palazzo at the Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto)

    Curtain call at La Traviata
  • Peggy Guggenheim Collection

    Venezia, Italia

    René Magritte, The Empire of Light, 1954
  • Anish Kapoor in Venice

    Gallerie Accademia, Venezia

    Anish Kapoor, Shooting Into the Corner, 2008-2009
  • CHALKTRACES

    Città di Venezia, Italia

    Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
  • Marc Quinn: HISTORYNOW

    Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia

    Ulysses, 2nd century BCE (foreground); Marc Quinn, HISTORYNOW: Shaman Triptych, BBC News, 2021
  • These writings, when burned, will finally cast a little light

    Anselm Kiefer (Palazzo Ducale)

    Anselm Kiefer, These writings, when burned, will finally give some light, 2022
  • Teatro La Fenice

    Venezia, Italia

    Giannantonio Selva, Teatro La Fenice, 1792
  • Basilica di San Marco

    Venezia, Italia

    Ceiling above altar, c. 836