Bader AlShenaifi, senior director at Riyadh Art and lead of the programme, tells us how public art spaces are transforming the Kingdom's capital ...

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 ...

The Egyptian artist Ahmed Nawar and the Bahraini-Saudi artist Faisal Samra will be featured in “Dialogue of Forms” at Hafez’s ...

There is no greater symbol of thriving in the desert than the camel. The hunter-gatherers who roamed the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago certainly thought so. High up on desert ...

The Museums Commission inaugurated on Wednesday the fourth Saudi edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South (BIENALSUR) at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

RIYADH: When you think of cities around the world famous for their art, Riyadh does not instantly spring to mind, but with Saudi Arabia’s cultural revolution beginning in earnest, all that will change ...

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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists in northern Arabia discovered monumental rock art and tools that reveal how early people adapted to desert life ...

On Saudi Arabia’s fledgling cultural scene, artists tread a precarious path to put the kingdom on the international art map, while the spectres of censorship and bureaucracy still cast long shadows.