ephemera

The musician, curator, TV producer, visual artist and collector has an ongoing exhibition from her personal catalog of L.A. punk artifacts and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

This level of detail is the essence of his songwriting—by singling out the character actor from films like “Contact” and “Armageddon,” he shows how we fixate on ephemera as a way of avoiding existential terror.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The idea is to show ephemera that is beaten and weathered, says Worthington.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Games back then were rapt-audience monuments, not ephemera to glance at while futzing around group texts and prediction market apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Insects, like petals of roses, garnish a bush; the remains of ephemera make a bed of snow upon the soil.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."

From Time Magazine Archive

Verily for us, the ephemerae of thought, this unbroken continuity of the sun of Egypt has more of melancholy even than the changing, overcast skies of our climate.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines

Born of the sunshine, on a morning in late December, gray ephemerae danced and dipped and fashioned vanishing patterns against the green of the great laurel at the corner of Drift farmyard.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

A curious thing about that night was a swarm of ephemerae so dense that it was like a blinding snowstorm.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Above, against the slaty-gray cloud-wrack, four exquisite slender girl-forms appeared, with loose hair, silver-gray drapery and gauzy wings as of ephemerae, flying in pursuit of the cloud.

From A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

To talk of "relaxations," whether in cultural or political control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras.

From Time Magazine Archive