ephemera

While it has received a number of rave reviews, critics have called narrative art a false conceit and argued that the juxtaposition of masterworks with pop culture ephemera does not work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 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

It’s clear that “Forbidden Fruits” director and co-writer Meredith Alloway has marinated in plenty of ’90s teen movies and the kitschy pop-culture ephemera of that era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

In a similar spirit of upcycling, his exhibition shows Rose Salane’s newest project from Pompeii featuring rocks and other ephemera taken from the historic site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

In this large, airy land, politicians are truly but small fry from small places—inconsequential ephemera, who age in a heart-beat and die.

From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck

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

He should neither praise nor blame nor defend his equals; he should not strike one blow at the buzzing ephemerae of letters.

From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang

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

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

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

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