Bryan Hilley
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art nerd. "eagle-eyed museum worker" - ArtNews. (he/him).
From r/AskReddit: People working in ultra-wealthy households, talking $50m plus types, what is the most out-of-touch thing you've witnessed?
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Peter Huestis
5 days ago
Verso of Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross: First Station:
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Duane Koyawena (Hopi/Tewa) & Joe Mastroianni "Hopi R2" (2019)
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The Guardian
13 days ago
German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88
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German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88
Prominent contemporary visual artist explored range of techniques across six decades of work The German artist Georg Baselitz, whose expressive paintings and sculptures stirred controversy before winning him global acclaim, has died aged 88, local media reported have reported. Baselitz, born Hans-Georg Kern, was among Germany’s most prominent contemporary visual artists with a body of work stretching over six decades across a range of techniques. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/30/german-artist-georg-baselitz-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Correct! Laib in his own words: "I work first with a small machine, but most of the rim and everything I grind by hand with sandpaper and water, which is a lot of work."
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16 days ago
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"Describe your perfect date." "I'd have to say April 25th, because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."
18 days ago
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Wolfgang Laib "Milkstone" (1978) 🏛️: MoMA
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20 days ago
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Pianos really had a reckoning in the 1960s
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21 days ago
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And for some people barriers and signage are not deterrents
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22 days ago
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I am up at 4:30 EST to attend a webinar on museum lighting
22 days ago
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New Josh Kline "Skittles" flavor just dropped
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27 days ago
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28 days ago
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Max Chavez
29 days ago
The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.
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Post your favorite museum paintings of doctors healing people
30 days ago
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In our collection
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about 1 month ago
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The hat makes sense
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about 1 month ago
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Sarah E. Bond
about 1 month ago
Which Iranian sites have been damaged? An important new GIS DH project maps the historic & archaeological sites damaged (69+ so far) by US-Israeli strikes in Iran.
heritagewatch.camelab.net
The Society of Iranian Studies is working with the Center of Ancient Mediterranean Landscapes & EAMENA.
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Moby Dick
5 months ago
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
https://share.google/MI8axvrDBAWCd7YCU
about 1 month ago
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Public transit wins this morning: • new bus model with built in chargers • overhearing dispatch on the radio wish all drivers a happy Friday and appreciation for the work they do
about 1 month ago
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Tania Bruguera "Tatlin’s Whisper #5" (2008) 🏛️ Tate
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about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy
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about 2 months ago
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Roman Ondak "Good Feelings in Good Times" (2003) 🏛️Tate performance work comprising a line of people, queuing for nothing.
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about 2 months ago
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Happy spring!
about 2 months ago
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Andrew Russeth
about 2 months ago
RIP Calvin Tomkins, the great art writer of postwar America. His lucid writing speaks for artists, while welcoming all interested readers into the world of contemporary art. He was 100.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Calvin Tomkins, Who Chronicled Generations of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 100
Calvin Tomkins, a longtime New Yorker art writer and the biographer of Marcel Duchamp, has died at 100.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/calvin-tomkins-dead-marcel-duchamp-new-yorker-1234778225/
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about 2 months ago
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Put a contemporary speculative bubble inside your historic speculative bubble
about 2 months ago
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"I don't want to be working in oil, or tempera, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore.' All respect to all the portrait and landscape people out there." - Paul Delaroche on seeing his first daguerreotype (1839)
2 months ago
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What's My JND? 0.0090 Can you beat it?
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
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2 months ago
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Carolina A. Miranda
2 months ago
I'm in Santiago and I made it to South America's Guggenheim. (It was on the life list.) Really, it's a spiral mall, or caracol, an architectural type typical of Chile that came about in the '70s. In this one, you can get your cell phone fixed, get your nails done and buy dildos.
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Since January I've been working on exhibition lighting recommendations and over the past three months I've been learning so much about light
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Jesse Locker
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/z...
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From the boston community on Reddit: Has enough time passed to where we can discuss this honestly without judgement yet?
Explore this post and more from the boston community
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/z9G1LcYWwj
3 months ago
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Jesse Locker
3 months ago
How it started / How it's going
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Driving into work and seeing signs saying "De-icing efforts in effect"
3 months ago
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Perfect time for SFMOMA and Guggenheim to show Paul Kos's "Sound of Ice Melting" (1970).
3 months ago
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Kevin Buist
4 months ago
Trump looks like that seagull that fell into a vat of curry.
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Hyperallergic
4 months ago
Since 1986, Don Miller’s 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy.
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40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural
Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy.
https://hyperallergic.com/40-years-on-dc-artists-revisit-don-millers-mlk-mural/
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The circle motif reminds me of a Nasca llama bone flute in our collection. Flute Nasca (Peru) (100 BCE-800 CE) 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches
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4 months ago
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Peter Huestis
4 months ago
It's always fun when x-radiography and infrared reflectography reveal artists changing their minds, whether adjusting a hand here, refining a profile there, or in this case, reducing the size of a bull's gigantic cobblers:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘Bigger and lower’: bull in Dutch painting once had much larger testicles
Experts at the Mauritshuis in The Hague believe Paulus Potter toned down The Bull to respect 17th-century sensibilities
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/paulus-potter-the-bull-mauritshuis-dutch-painting-testicles
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Them: "Don't let this distract you from the fact they haven't released all the Epstein files." Me: "Don't let this distract you that we're six months out and there's no evidence of anyone receiving any of the $ 30,000,000 budget for Trump's 'Garden of Heroes'."
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4 months ago
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In 2016, UNC unveiled a Nobel Prize medal exhibit honoring the Aziz Sancar and Oliver Smithies. Both were in attendance with their Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology.
4 months ago
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Nan Goldin "Heart-Shaped Bruise, New York City" (1980) 🏛️ MoMA
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4 months ago
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Maurizio Cattelan "L.O.V.E. [Libertà, Odio, Vendetta, Eternità / Freedom, Hatred, Revenge, Eternity]" (2010) 🏛️ Piazza degli Affari, Milan
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Peter Huestis
4 months ago
Tired of all those George W. Bush paintings? Here, have some Jimmy Carter paintings.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a...
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The Man From Plains Was Also a Painter
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/design/jimmy-carter-paintings-auction-worth.html
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Jillian Steinhauer
4 months ago
I am once again begging museums to put benches/some form of seating in front of videos. It is really just not that hard.
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Bad Bunny is that kind of museum patron
4 months ago
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