Art

January 13, 2026

Meet the Winner of the Guggenheim’s Inaugural $50,000 Visual Arts Award

Aside from its prestigious fellowship, the Guggenheim now offers another honor for accomplished creatives: the Jack Galef Visual Arts Award. Made possible by a generous gift from the Jack Galef Estate, the new prize will recognize contemporary artists of exceptional talent every two years, providing $50,000 to its recipients. To inaugurate the award, the Guggenheim tapped Catherine Telford Keogh, whose interdisciplinary practice focuses on themes such as value, waste, consumption, infrastructure, biology, and commodification.

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January 8, 2026

Monumental Mural on Australia’s Old Grain Silos Honor Historic Copper Miners

Internationally renowned mural artist Smug recently completed a striking new large-scale artwork on Kapunda’s historic grain silos. The incredible work, which pays tribute to the region’s historic mining settlements, is part of the broader Silo Art Trail, an impressive collection of painted silos and water towers across Australia. Grain silos are a familiar sight across rural Australia, especially in major wheat-growing regions like New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia.

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January 7, 2026

14-Year-Old Art Prodigy To Open First Solo Exhibition This Spring

Last year, 14-year-old artist Andres Valencia was particularly busy—more so than the average teenager. In April 2025, the young prodigy released his very own art book with a Big Five publisher, and, a few months later, launched a limited-edition print collection with the renowned Mourlot Editions. This is already impressive enough, but this March, Valencia is about to meet yet another milestone that many artists dream about for decades: his very own solo exhibition.

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