Saudi Arabia
As Saudi Arabia wins bid for 2030 World Expo, a new book lifts the lid on the Kingdom’s push to be a key art world player
Publication examines how the conservative Middle Eastern state is pouring resources into its culture sector
Ithra Art Prize worth up to $500,000 awarded to Saudi artist Obaid Alsafi
Palm trunk work located in AlUla addresses environmental issues
Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Biennale announces programme for 2024
After Rain exhibition, featuring 92 artists, is organised by curator Ute Meta Bauer
Is Saudi Arabia the next big cultural powerhouse?
Plus, Michelangelo at the Albertina in Vienna and Julianknxx at the Barbican in London
The Week in Art | Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts?
We ask leading art world figures about their hopes and concerns, and discuss what the future has in store for museums, the art market and artists with our long-term contributors Cristina Ruiz, Georgina Adam and Louisa Buck
New museum in Saudi Arabia bolsters collection after inking partnership deal with Centre Pompidou
The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region
Saudi Arabia announces two new major museums as part of AlUla heritage site
An institution for contemporary art and another dedicated to the incense trade route are the first "cultural assets” launched as part of the region's 15-year plan
Centre Pompidou to open contemporary art museum in Saudi Arabia
The Paris institution's latest outpost is part of drive to rebrand the Middle Eastern state
Does the West really care about human rights and art washing?
As the art world continues to do business in authoritarian regions, some question its claim to being a force for universal good
In pictures: Inside the mirror-clad desert venue hosting Saudi Arabia’s first Warhol show
Exhibition makes comparisons between artist's obsession with fame and contemporary society’s all-consuming social media usage
France makes art inroads in Saudi Arabia with Centre Pompidou project allegedly on the horizon
The outpost would be the gallery's latest international satellite and the latest of many France-driven arts initiative in the Middle Eastern country
Former Musée Guimet chief Sophie Makariou to oversee cultural development of AlUla in Saudi Arabia
French government signed multi-billion dollar deal with Saudi regime in 2018
Heritage protection foundation Aliph expands with office in Saudi Arabia
The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh
Can art actually help improve Saudi Arabia's abject human rights record?
Culture is being used by Saudi Arabia to project an image of a state that “enriches lives, celebrates national identity and builds understanding between people”
Andy Warhol exhibition to be staged in the Saudi Arabian desert
The show—described as an "introduction" for many in the region to the late gay artist—is being organised by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
Revealed: the first photograph of the Louvre's Leonardo book that was spiked over Salvator Mundi fiasco
The story of the "Léonard de Vinci. Le Salvator Mundi" publication that was withdrawn from sale
Former Whitechapel director Iwona Blazwick and #artistsupportpledge founder Matthew Burrows receive Critics’ Circle awards in London
The pair were honoured for their contributions to the art industry
Saudi Arabia reportedly building gallery to house Leonardo's Salvator Mundi
The painting has not been seen in public since it was allegedly bought by the Saudi Crown Prince for $450m in 2017—but the art historian Martin Kemp suggests it may soon be brought "into the light"
Artist and poet Ashraf Fayadh is freed after more than eight years in Saudi prisons
A religious court sentenced him to death for blasphemy in 2015. Saudi artist Ahmed Mater says times have changed and this would be unlikely to happen today
Exhibition traces the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad in unprecedented detail
Show about the Hijrah—Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina—at Saudi Arabia’s Ithra Museum will go on a five-year world tour
Artists and writers call on Joe Biden to denounce Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses in meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed
The US president will travel to the oil-rich nation he once labelled a “pariah” and meet with its leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
From Whitechapel to Saudi Arabia: Iwona Blazwick takes up a new post as AlUla public art supremo
Drive to rebrand Middle Eastern country as a cultural destination underpinned by human rights concerns
teamLab pushes on with plans for major new digital art museum in Saudi Arabia
Tokyo-based technology art organisation attends groundbreaking ceremony in Jeddah
Saudi Arabian pavilion: Exhibition rings the changes
Choice of artist Muhannad Shono for the national pavilion is a sign itself of the country’s social and political shift
British museums including Tate and V&A not part of UK government's new Saudi culture deal
The partnership, signed in February, will focus on collaborations in the film, museum and heritage sectors between the two nations
Making works in the wilderness: artists of Desert X AlUla explain how they took on the testing terrain
On the occasion of the Saudi outdoor art exhibition's opening, four artists—Zeinab Alhashemi, Dana Awartani, Shezad Dawood and Stephanie Deumer—discuss their projects in the desert
'Aggressive, emotional, darkly humorous’: Louise Bourgeois’s closest collaborator on her late works
Plus, Desert X opens second Saudi Arabia edition and Gerhard Richter's 90th birthday exhibition in Dresden
Accessible to all or elitist artwashing? Desert X opens second Saudi Arabia edition
The open air exhibition in the ancient heritage region AlUla spearheads the Middle Eastern nation's attempt at rapid cultural transformation in line with government's 2030 goals
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries signs arts agreement with Saudi Arabia
Ceremony signing a memorandum of understanding took place at the Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia-led campaign puts Arabic calligraphy on Unesco heritage list
Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries