Word: ephemera
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...estate liquidator quickly rendered the paper shredder almost unnecessary. "There's a strong market for ephemera," she told us. "I can sell whatever you don't want to keep." We went through the boxes carefully, taking out what was personal or meaningful. The material we otherwise would have tossed has since brought in more than $500 and is still selling. Not a record-breaking amount, to be sure, but enough to make a point: as we baby boomers tackle our parents' personal effects, including the paper trails of a generation taught to save everything, we could be throwing away cash...
...Auctions in Nashville, Tenn., "many people are drawn to the attention to detail in penmanship, expression and beauty of paper that reveals a slower way of life." And eBay, along with eBay drop-off centers for those who don't want to run an auction themselves, has made selling ephemera easier than ever...
Then there's the Internet. It is possible to word-search, online, Lincoln's collected speeches, his known activities on each day of his life, his incoming correspondence and other ephemera at the Library of Congress and a vast array of primary sources from the 19th century, including letters, diaries and memoirs...
This exhibition, organized by art critic Sid Sachs, features two new video installations, a recreation of a stage set for a dance performance, and other collected ephemera from Rainer’s career, as well as video monitors screening five of Rainer’s films and footage from early dance performances. The exhibit is designed to provide an all-encompassing view of this jane-of-all-trades, as choreographer, poet, political activist, feminist, filmmaker, and visual artist...
...tower, seen by Spiegelman just seconds before its collapse. The image appears in every episode of "No Towers," but noticeably smaller each time. This ultra-modern, terrifying vision finds its counterpoint in the nostalgia and comfort of the series' other major motif: old newspaper comics. Explaining that these "unpretentious ephemera from the optimistic dawn of the 20th century" were "the only cultural artifacts that could get past my defenses," Spiegelman works them into the strips in new and unexpected ways. Rudolph Dirk's Katzenjammer Kids, two of America's earliest cartoon troublemakers, now appear as the twin towers personified...