Sotheby’s held its first Saudi auction in Diriyah, selling $17.3M worth of art, setting records for Arab artists, and ...

Meet the people driving the kingdom's ambitious cultural expansion and its transformation into globally-recognized art hub.

The historical mud-brick city of Diriyah in Saudi Arabia played host to an unusual crowd on Saturday night: art aficionados, ...

“This bringing together of the contemporary and the past really emphasises the change that Saudi Arabia is going ... to be widely prevalent in Islamic art. But the biennale in Jeddah features ...

Works by the Syrian artist Louay Kayyali and the Saudi Arabian artist Abdulhalim Radwi set records in the sale, which ...

Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artefacts are on display alongside contemporary art pieces, part of the kingdom's bid to transform its ultraconservative image.

Society Woman was among the top lots of the night, along with work from Banksy that fetched ... That’s not a lot of money for a major art auction or in moneyed Saudi Arabia.

The first edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale in 2023 attracted 600,000 visitors -- approaching the Venice Biennale Curator Muhannad Shono says combining contemporary art and religious arfefacts ...