Bryan Hilley

An inverted ziggurat building painted white in Santiago that looks just like the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

A view of spiraling interior ramps show an array of small shops selling fashion, cell phone repair and more.

A shop window features a mannequin in a pleather bra and garters. Above her, a neon sign in yellow reads "Sex Shop."

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.

Since January I've been working on exhibition lighting recommendations and over the past three months I've been learning so much about light

A man installing sheets of paper printed with chocolate to a wall

"chocolate walls"

Drawing of a false prophet spouting heresy, from "Commentary on the Apocalypse" by Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, and illustrated in the 10th/11th centuries AD. (977x976)

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

www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/z...

The crown of Empress Eugénie, photographed before being stolen from the Louvre, top, and afterward, bottom, looking all squooshed

How it started / How it's going

Driving into work and seeing signs saying "De-icing efforts in effect"

A block of ice sits on the floor surrounded by microphones to amplify the sound of its melting

Perfect time for SFMOMA and Guggenheim to show Paul Kos's "Sound of Ice Melting" (1970).

Trump looks like that seagull that fell into a vat of curry.

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.

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.

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

‘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

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...

Hah! I hadn't heard about the venue change. But I completely agree. I just think about the actual time it takes to create a sculpture in the materials and manner they specify and it doesn't seem practical.

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'."

Two golden medals on display

Close up of Nobel medal

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.

Nan Goldin
"Heart-Shaped Bruise, New York City"
(1980)
🏛️ MoMA

Maurizio Cattelan
"L.O.V.E. [Libertà, Odio, Vendetta, Eternità / Freedom, Hatred, Revenge, Eternity]"
(2010)
🏛️ Piazza degli Affari, Milan

The Man From Plains Was Also a Painter

Tired of all those George W. Bush paintings? Here, have some Jimmy Carter paintings. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a...

The ❤️ impression

I am once again begging museums to put benches/some form of seating in front of videos. It is really just not that hard.

Shaped trompe l’œil painting mimicking an easel with a painting in progress complete with palette, studies, and back of another painting.

I can't remember if @mlobelart.bsky.social shared this previously, but it's been on a saved tab on my phone.

Antonio Forbera
"Le Chevalet du Peintre"
(1686)
🏛️: l'Institut Calvet d'Avignon

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

Bad Bunny is that kind of museum patron

Rest in peace, reina bsky.app/profile/elpa...

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"

An image macro meme showing Studio Ghibli co-founder and animator Hayao Miyazaki leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed and a cigarette in his mouth.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I'm at the Kennedy Center

I'm at the Trump Center

I'm at the combination Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

Portrait of a man tossing an apple while seated next to circus toys.

Michael O'Brien
"Rob Reiner"
1988 (printed 2011)
🏛️: National Portrait Gallery