Bryan Hilley

@bbhilley

art nerd. "eagle-eyed museum worker" - ArtNews. (he/him).

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Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· 14d

Newman Zip

Overhead view of drained Reflecting Pool showing two individuals walking on its surface next to a blue linear line.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 22

She's golden as long as Tate still has their departing director boat fund

A notice posted in staff break rooms in the Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries asking for contributions toward the vessel for Nicholas Serota, the organization's long-serving director who was leaving to take up a $52,000-a-year part-time role.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 19

Adam Kurtzman "Giant Golden Hand" 🏛️ American Visionary Art Museum

An oversized golden hand sculpture with pointer finger and thumb clasped together almost pinching

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 18

Piero Manzoni's "Socle du Monde (Base of the World)" but make it a sandwich

Reddit post where two men on separate poles of the earth effectively turned the planet into a sandwich by placing pieces of bread on opposite ends of the world.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 18

Screenshot from ArtHandlerMag Instagram showing a Cypriem Galliard artwork consisting of a pyramid of beer to be drank by visitors and a Robert Pruitt artwork consisting of lines of cocaine for the viewer to consume. The post jokes that a show of these two artworks wouldn't have trouble finding art handlers to install it.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 18

#perfectlovers

Screenshot of Reddit post where the timers on two slow cookers diverged 4 minutes after cooking for 6 hours.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 14

Image of a forested area but with a blue cast and the green foliage appears pinkish.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 14

He dabbles in corrective vision too

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 14

Robert Rauschenberg "Automobile Tire Print" (1953) 🏛️ SFMOMA

In 1953 John Cage drove his Model A Ford in a straight line over twenty sheets of paper. The car’s front tire left a faint embossed impression, while the rear tire, which had passed through a pool of paint, deposited a juicy black tread mark that stretches in a diminishing line along the twenty-two-foot length of paper.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 8

And "Green" (2012) that evokes Alma Thomas. Featuring birds that return in Marshall's ongoing series Black Birds in America.

Painting of a close up of a tree top where the leaves combine with thick brush strokes reminiscent of Alma Thomas.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 8

Kerry James Marshall is undeniably an exceptional portraitist. But look at his Judd inspired work at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

A soaring stack of boxes mounted to a gallery wall, evoke the sculpture of Donald Judd. The boxes feature colors of the Pan- African flag and Swahili words that identify the principles of Kwanzaa, the African American celebration of cultural heritage, family, and community.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 7

On the level of Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue

A crowd of fans wearing red white and blue watch in agony as the US team plays against Belgium

Crowd of US fans throw their hands up in frustration while watching the world cup

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jul 1

Hyperspectral imaging textiles performed by John Delaney of the NGA. Photo courtesy of our contact collection photographer Brian Quinby.

In the dark three people gather around an ancient textile bathed in light. The center individual is seated holding a fiber optic sensor close to the textile.

Bryan Hilley @bbhilley· Jun 27

Not a visitor but scoured the web "The verso of the panel is painted with a simulated colored marble pattern, featuring a central blue circle bordered in white with a partly damaged inscription in elegant golden capital letters that reads “BENEDI/CAT. VIRG/O MARIA.”