Saudi Arabia has commissioned Spanish artist Domingo Zapata to paint the world's largest mural in Riyadh's Diriyah “cultural ...

With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the ...

A dozen Riyadh-based dancers in cream-colored clothes moved to the blended guttural sounds of a South African Xhosa song, a Sufi chant, and a Fijiri folk song from the Arabian Gulf. Their asynchronous ...

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 ...

As the kingdom tightens its purse strings, French stakeholders have been working to protect their interests amid competition from the English-speaking world.

A Casual Art Talk hosted in the Edge of Arabia education room (all photos by Ahmed Darwish unless otherwise noted) JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — What is art and what is not in Saudi Arabia? We were hoping to ...

A Safeya Binzagr painting brought in $2.1 million, notching a new benchmark.

P.S. Have feedback or tips on Riyadh's culture scene? Send them my way at contactus@al-monitor.com. Abed Al Kadiri at the opening of “Cities Under Quarantine” at SAMoCA, Riyadh. (Courtesy of SAMoCA) ...

“‘I’m an independent journalist using his pen for the good of his country,’” said Visiting Scholar in Middle East Studies Alia Al-Senussi ’03 MA’04, quoting the murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal ...

The arid deserts of north Arabian Arabia do not seem to be the kind of climate early humans would have loved, but new finds are rewriting that hypothesis. Archaeologists have found life-size camel, ...

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 ...