In a landmark partnership for a Saudi artist with one of the world’s top luxury automotive brands, Saudi painter and artist Shalemar Sharbatly has just completed her artwork, a painting on the world’s most expensive car, the Pagani Zonda, valued at 3.5
In a landmark partnership for a Saudi artist with one of the world’s top luxury automotive brands, Saudi painter and artist Shalemar Sharbatly has just completed her artwork, a painting on the world’s most expensive car, the Pagani Zonda, valued at 3.5
This year, Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr, one of Saudi Arabia’s fine arts trailblazers and most prominent figures, celebrates 50 years into her artistic journey.
Saudi director Haifaa Al-Mansour, who was recently elected a member on the board of the KSA’s General Culture Authority, has unveiled news of her feature film in the works around Saudi Arabia’s latest sociocultural developments.
Saudi Arabia’s reformative drive is trickling down to every aspect of the Kingdom’s public and daily life; nowhere more evidently than in the country’s grassroots arts and culture scene, once low key, and now progressively high profile.
In the past year, Saudi women saw reformative action by the country’s leadership catapult their growth both locally and globally across fields; most recently and notably in the country’s literary field and circles, which had long been taken over by the
“A man is a woman’s partner. Like she, he is required to evolve and accept [differences] so that they can, together, build a giving society on comradeship, not on the perception of women as physical beings,” said poet Thuraya Al-Arrayed.
The German ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Dieter Haller, accompanied by his wife, Nisreen Zerab, inaugurated the We Are All Art exhibition on March 27 in the company of a number of diplomats, businessmen and female abstract artists.
In recent months, Saudi women have broken all sorts of barriers and records through sheer spirit and willpower; nowhere more evidently than in the success stories of women overcoming physical disability with creative and cultural prowess.
