Culture
The Visual Arts Commission announced the opening of the exhibition, Bedayat: Beginnings of the Saudi Art Movement, on 27 January at the Saudi National Museum in Riyadh, where it will remain on view through 11 April. Tracing the emergence of modern art in the Kingdom, the exhibition explores the formative generations of artists closely, particularly focusing on the decades between the 1960s and the 1980s. Artists of that time worked amid profound social and economic transformation. With little institutional support,…