ephemera

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The facility will include state-of-the-art, climate-controlled storage for the museum’s more than 250,000-object collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, tapestries and Cold War-era ephemera from the Soviet Union, East Bloc, China and other countries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 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

This is where the oils live, and the spices, and the half-forgotten jars of jam, olives, vinegars and other bits of kitchen ephemera that have been quietly waiting for their moment.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

“That’s just how his brain worked,” she says of his keen eye that transformed everyday ephemera into a valuable historical archive.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

"Oh yes, we can all bear it; and by so much we ephemera get back our lost significance, our sovereignty."

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth