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• Andean artist Antonio Paucar wins Artes Mundi prize in Wales

  15-01-2026 21:00
  Artist and beekeeper who highlights eco crisis plans to spend £40,000 award on building cultural centre in PeruAn artist and beekeeper from a remote corner of the Andes has won one of the UK’s most prestigious contemporary arts awards and plans to spend the £40,000 prize on building a cultural centre in the Peruvian mountains.Antonio Paucar was declared the winner of the biennial Artes Mundi prize after presenting work ranging from a spiral made of alpaca wool to a video of him
  
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• Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief

  15-01-2026 17:00
  Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like LouvreThe head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum does not need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it does not become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris.In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus
  
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• ‘Bigger and lower’: bull in Dutch painting once had much larger testicles

  15-01-2026 14:43
  Experts at the Mauritshuis in The Hague believe Paulus Potter toned down The Bull to respect 17th-century sensibilitiesThe Bull by Paulus Potter is one of the star paintings at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, a bucolic image of animals and a farmer.But new research suggests the painting has unexpected hidden depths: conservators restoring the artwork say the bull’s testicles were originally much larger, and appeared to have been halved in size by the artist to respect 17th-century sensibilit
  
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• The Louvre Has Raised Ticket Prices By Half For Non-Europeans. Here’s What To Know.

  15-01-2026 14:01 via apnews.com
  “The museum said the 45% price hike to 32 euros ($37) from 22 euros is part of a national ‘differentiated pricing’ policy announced early last year that’s coming into force across major cultural sites. … The change affects visitors from most non-EU countries, including the United States.” – AP
  
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• Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

  15-01-2026 09:00
  Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creationsOne rainy afternoon last winter, sitting under a blanket with a cup of tea, I found myself Googling paintings by Chaïm Soutine. It’s a pastime I’ve indulged ever since visiting an exhibition of his portraits of hotel staff on the French Riviera during the 1920s – paintings that combine such a mixtu
  
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• ‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures

  15-01-2026 08:00
  For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she looks back at the ‘fearlessness and wildness’ of her life and times Continue reading...
  
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• My New Novel: “The Disciple”

  15-01-2026 05:35 via artsjournal.com
  My forthcoming novel, The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age, may be my best book. A prequel to The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York (2023), it’s already available via pre-order. (And if you order both books, you get a discount.)My story tracks the prodigious American
  
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• Seeking Senior Audience Services Manager for Box Office Operations

  15-01-2026 01:41 via artsjournal.com
  TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE SUBMIT A COVER LETTER AND RESUME. Seattle Theatre Group is seeking a highly skilled and successful candidate to provide strong leadership and oversee the smooth operation of the audience services department. The ideal candidate should have extensive knowledge of Ticketmaster’s suite, including HOST, Archtics, TM1, and Account Manager.
  The right candidate must demonstrate a proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service to both int
  
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• Handel and Haydn seeks President and Chief Executive Officer

  15-01-2026 01:38 via artsjournal.com
  Organization Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) is the oldest continuously operating performing arts organization in the United States. Founded in 1815 in Boston, H+H has remained a cultural leader for more than two centuries, advancing a mission and vision to inspire, elevate, and connect through transformative performances of Baroque and Classical music, and to bring the joy and rigor of this repertoire to audiences across Greater Boston and beyond. It remains steadfast in its commitments to quali
  
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• Churchill’s desk and rare artwork among items donated to UK cultural institutions

  15-01-2026 01:01
  Items worth £59.7m allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives as part of Arts Council England schemeWinston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli’s desk, a painting by Vanessa Bell and a rare artwork by Edgar Degas are among the items of cultural importance saved for the nation this year.The items, worth a total of £59.7m, will be allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives around the UK as part of Art Council England’s cultural gifts and acceptance in
  
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