Saudi Arabia is changing—rapidly. Under the sweeping reforms of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the country’s 32-year-old de facto leader, the kingdom’s first cinemas are due to open within months.

The ‘Momentum 25’ conference is taking place in Riyadh this week, at a definitive juncture for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Later this month, it will host a Formula One Grand Prix race for the third year in a row. But there's also a massive rave in the desert outskirts of the capital Riyadh in December, an Andy Warhol ...

Earlier this month, ARTnews sat down with Hafiz at the Athr Foundation in Riyadh. It was a busy time: the Ministry of Culture was hosting the first annual Art Week Riyadh, which Athr was participating ...

Saudi Arabian collector Basma Al Sulaiman is forward-thinking and passionate. I had the pleasure of meeting her during the opening of Art Basel Paris last year. What ensued were many fascinating ...

Saudi Arabia is launching a sprawling new state-of-the-art film studio just outside the capital city of Riyadh where ...

Saudi Arabia’s conservatism, and its traditional religious strictures, have hindered the birth of a widespread art scene. Like African-American dancers and jazz musicians who went to France in the ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — What is art and what is not in Saudi Arabia? We were hoping to answer that in the first monthly Casual Art Talk (CAT) I hosted in Jeddah on November 23, 2011. CAT is a small ...

Critics say these shifts are purely transactional, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman trading the appearance of an open culture to paper over a dismal human rights record and buy political capital ...

A picture taken November 3, 2022 shows Saudis attending the Noor Riyadh lighting festival held at Al-Salam Park in the Saudi capital Riyadh. - Noor Riyadh, brings light installations to more than 40 ...