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Bryan Hilley
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art nerd. "eagle-eyed museum worker" - ArtNews. (he/him).
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Yolanda López
"Who's the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim?"
(1981)
🏛️: SAAM
Print of an Aztec warrior crumpling immigration papers while pointing a finger at the viewer. Overlaid text reads "Who's the illegal alien Pilgrim?"
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Trump saying he "found" that Roosevelt painting like he's Indiana Jones
Picture of Biden and Harris seated in White House under Roosevelt portrait
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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L: Albrecht Dürer
"Melencolia I"
(1514)
🏛️: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

R: Bollards on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis
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. Two abstracted bollards at the curb cut of a sidewalk
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Text reading "Abuse of power comes as no surprise" in hand painted font, made famous by the campaign of Zohran Mamdani.
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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People helping people when the government won't
People loading food into bags in a parking lot
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Valeska Soares
"Fainting Couch"
(2002)
🏛️: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
A stainless steel chaise with a grid of holes on the top and a pillow at the head.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Patrick Bruce Oliphant
"Dick Cheney"
(2009)
🏛️ The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
Cartoonish sketch of a bald man in glasses holding a smoking shotgun
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Rachel Harrison
"Jack Lemmon"
(2011)

Wood, cement, polystyrene, acrylic, spray paint, mannequin, Dick Cheney mask, sweatshirt, sunglasses, glasses, butterfly net, and plastic lemon
Sculpture consisting of a colorful block of foam and a child mannequin wearing a Dick Cheney mask
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Also saw and handled indigo. Another natural source for blue dye and an integral component of Maya Blue.
Powdered indigo in a ceramic bowl Dried indigo leaves in a wooden bowl
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Visited the living museum Old Salem yesterday in Winston-Salem.

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing and handling cochineal. The beetles are used to make red dye, notably used in textiles from the ancient Americas.
Ceramic bowl holding dried cochineal beetles and red fabric made with dye from the insects
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Wonderful news!

Incidentally I saw one of these vessels yesterday when visiting Old Salem in Winston-Salem.

🏛️: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Ceramic on view in a museum on a pedestal underneath a vitrine
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Edited photo of David Hammons selling snowballs on the sidewalk. But instead he is selling six white softcover copies of the second deposition of Richard Prince.
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I was going to joke that they should have kept him nude like this scale model(?) on their site.

But aiming to be the "tallest statue in the West" means anyone underneath looking up will still get a show.
Metal sculpture of a nude male holding the world above him
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Lida Abdul
"White House"
(2005)
A government building that has knocked down by a US air strike. Only a few columns and a few walls of the building stand, all the rest has been reduced to rubble. A woman is painting everything in white, from the small stones to the entire column.
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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David Scheinbaum
"White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelley"
(1986)
🏛️: New Mexico Museum of Art
Dark view of rock cliffs at left and vegetation at right; sandy foreground with flowing water
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Cover of a Hugh Grant movie titled "The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain"
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Scene from TV show Succession where Greg, a young man, incorrectly shares details to a reporter. He then tries to back track it by claiming anonymity after the fact.
October 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Dash Snow
UNTITLED (HELL)
Gas station photographed at night where the neon sign for Shell has a burned out S leading the sign to read Hell.
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Bob Thompson
"Ascension to the Heavens"
(1964)
Abstracted painting of three figures in mid-air surrounding a reclining figure. On the ground a fifth figure watches.
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The state currently attacking teachers who allow students to use chosen names wants you to know a body of water now goes by a different name
Sign in Florida State Park which reads "Greetings from the Gulf of America"
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Chris Burden
"You’ll Never See My Face in Kansas City"
(November 6, 1971)
Black and white photo of a person wearing a ski mask over their face.
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Perfect for displaying
Tweet mentioning a challenge coin handed out by Kash with an image of said coin. Coin is shaped like Punisher skull logo but the teeth are revolvers, eyes are spiders, and other tacky representations.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Frogs also appear in "Split Nude With Frogs" (1996) [along with part of a Reclining Buddha (1996)?]
A tv monitor, with a reclining nude displayed on it, sits in a cast iron tub. Around the tub are ceramic frogs.
October 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Great work. Saw it in Miami last year.
Photo of a photo showing four people in suits standing before a sewer opening.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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New online personality quiz:

"Which hand-drawn condition report Warhol-Elvis are you?"

I'm the cheeky winking one.
Seve by three grid drawing of smiling faces
October 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM