Bryan Hilley

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

Overhead view of drained Reflecting Pool showing two individuals walking on its surface next to a blue linear line.
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.
An oversized golden hand sculpture with pointer finger and thumb clasped together almost pinching
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.
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.
Screenshot of Reddit post where the timers on two slow cookers diverged 4 minutes after cooking for 6 hours.
Image of a forested area but with a blue cast and the green foliage appears pinkish.
Arm of glasses displaying Hemingway brand
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.
Painting of a close up of a tree top where the leaves combine with thick brush strokes reminiscent of Alma Thomas.
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.
A crowd of fans wearing red white and blue watch in agony as the US team plays against Belgium
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.
Close up view of painted medallion on the verso of the painting
Large statue depicts Messi falling to his knees with a smaller statue of the World Cup between his legs. Seen from behind the World Cup can be misinterpreted as his penis.
The Lincoln Memorial is seen from overhead as the blue coating of the drained Reflecting Pool continues to be applied
Video of a group of lightning bugs flashing in unison
Two panel comic, first panel shows a fan in a jersey saying "Come on England bring it home." The second panel reveals the fan is cheering on a news segment covering a London museum securing new foreign artifact.
Screenshot of an Instagram story showing four individuals looking at ancient textiles on a table. Overlaid text reads "fiber sampling with chemists from Duke's Warren Lab."
1949 New York Yankees baseball card of player "Knick" Knickerbocker.
A drawing that has been erased almost completely by hand.
Four Polaroid portraits of the artist David Hockney playfully posing
Painting of a silhouetted, nighttime landscape where beams of light rise over the horizon.
Scene from movie where a Wayne Thiebaud landscape is featured on a wall
Side by side slider showing differences between original Ansel Adams photograph and AI colorized version
A photographed reproduction of a Depression-era photograph by Walker Evans. The source photo is a famous portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of an Alabama sharecropper, staring deadpan at the viewer.
A man wearing a zippered shirt stands between two yoked cows
Planters grocery display with the slogan "To all a good nut"
Pictures of a joyous Nicole Kidman celebrating post divorce from Tom Cruise
Reddit post reading: "I work as an art handler in a major city. Their collection consisted of antiquities, things that would usually be reserved for museums. Think 2nd century BCE vases, figurines, etc. On the desk of the client, there was a small Athenian chalice painted in the iconic orange-figure-black-background style, developed around 500 BCE. Inside of it was paper clips, spare change, and chewed gum."
Textile artwork replicating Munch's "The Scream" with a Lichtenstein comic book painting.
A replica of the cylindrical droid R2-D2 from Star Wars but painted with traditional Hopi pottery designs.
Cartoon parody of a cubist painting showing an abstracted scene of a chaotic staircase where a person is descending against the pedestrian flow.
Date painting by On Kawara showing the date April 25 1983 painted in white text on a black background
A white granite stone with a thin indention at the top. Milk is poured into the indention creating a seamless top layer.
Disassembled pianos sitting in a room in the midst of being reassembled by Nam June Paik
Scene from The Simpsons where Ned Flanders wakes up at midnight on January 1st saying "January 1st. Better get on those taxes Neddie."
painting depicting Christ healing a blind man before a gathering of onlookers
Performance consisting of the interaction between two policemen mounted on horseback and museum visitors. The officers are members of London’s Metropolitan Police and exercised crowd control techniques on visitors.
Protest sign reading my cats have more accountability with two pictures of cats on it
A white male, the performance artist Chris Burden, looks dazed as he grasps at his left arm that has a bleeding bullet hole
People standing in line outside of a doorway
An artist squats and dusts yellow pollen into a field of pollen on the floor of a gallery
Poster for new Dune movie overlaid with Timothée Chalamet's negative comments about vallyey and opera
Image of a Bitcoin mining server inside of a tulip greenhouse with text overlay reading "Bring together Bitcoin mining and tulip farming"
A printed sheet designed to be cut out and assembled into a three-dimensional paper of the Statue of Liberty.
A man installing sheets of paper printed with chocolate to a wall
Scene from Succession where one character talks about suing Greenpeace
A block of ice sits on the floor surrounded by microphones to amplify the sound of its melting
Small white flute with repeating carved circle motif
Two golden medals on display
Photo of a person lifting their dress to reveal a heart shaped bruise on their upper thigh
Oversized marble dculpture consisting of a hand with all the fingers severed with the exception of the extended middle finger
Shaped trompe l’œil painting mimicking an easel with a painting in progress complete with palette, studies, and back of another painting.
Bad Bunny visited the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City and snapped a since-deleted pic with his hand on a stele carved with ancient insignia
Screenshot of a Reddit post showing Prada Marfa, a site-specific artwork modeled after a Prada boutique storefront in the Texas landscape. Above is text reading "this is not AI. I took this picture myself"
Portrait of a man tossing an apple while seated next to circus toys.
Print of an Aztec warrior crumpling immigration papers while pointing a finger at the viewer. Overlaid text reads "Who's the illegal alien Pilgrim?"
Picture of Biden and Harris seated in White House under Roosevelt portrait
Print of the winged personification of Melancholy, seated dejectedly with her head resting on her hand, holding a caliper and surrounded by other tools associated with geometry.