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Film, design, music, museums and heritage are creating more than entertainment; they are giving Saudi talent new careers and audiences new ways to connect.
Jul 28, 2026
Most dairy-free labneh recipes are blended cashews with lemon juice, which tastes like nut paste. Culturing it properly is what produces the sourness, and it takes one extra day of doing nothing.
Aug 13, 2026
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s museums showcase its rich history, vibrant culture, and unique heritage, attracting tourists from around the world. In the first quarter of 2023, Saudi Arabia witnessed a remarkable resurgence in tourism, surpassing pre-pandemic levels by an impressive 64%. With 7.8 million visitors exploring the country’s treasures, it has firmly
May 18, 2023
Korean chipmakers led Tuesday's Asian sell-off after a three-day 12% slide in US semiconductor stocks, while Australia's central bank raised rates to an 18-year high on a 6-3 vote.
Nov 3, 2026
Greece handed over the remains of the 11th-century ruler on Saturday, and Sofia received them with a state ceremony, fighter jet escort and a 21-gun salute, in a swap for objects taken during the First World War.
Oct 3, 2026
David Robinson, who helped write OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, says 'the time for trial and error is over'. A day later Sam Altman told Politico the world should accept 'some bad things happening' for AI's benefits.
Oct 5, 2026
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, an Aramco initiative, announces that, for the first time, the First Place win for the STEM Racing World Finals at Singapore goes to Saudi team Lynx.
Oct 17, 2026
Dubai and Riyadh are hosting barista championships and single-origin tastings as third-wave coffee culture reshapes a region long defined by cardamom-spiced brews.
May 5, 2025
The show gathers nearly four decades of the filmmaker and artist's work, including his Golden Lion-winning film The White Album and the widely shown video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, alongside new paintings and sculpture.
Sep 26, 2026
Gen Z made matcha aesthetic, brands made it accessible, and now supply can't keep up. What happens when a trend grows too fast.
Sep 30, 2024
Solar panels integrated into the Grand Egyptian Museum show how cultural landmarks can cut operating emissions without compromising architecture or visitor experience.
Aug 3, 2026
Korea, which opens 1 October in the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery, is the British Museum's first major exhibition devoted to Korean art and history in more than 40 years, drawing partly on the late Samsung chairman's donated collection.
Oct 1, 2026
The cuisine of the country is the hardest one to find in it. A practical guide to the kinds of places that serve it properly, what to order first, and when the calendar does the work for you.
Aug 10, 2026
Once niche, modest fashion is now a USD 295 billion market, and the GCC's influence is reshaping global style. Major luxury brands are paying attention.
Jul 30, 2024
Resale margins are collapsing and collector demand is evaporating. After a decade of speculation and hype, the sneaker market is experiencing a fundamental reset.
Dec 15, 2024
Summer bookings show shorter trips, cooler destinations and a preference for experiences led by lifelong locals and traditional craftspeople. The multi country sprint is losing.
Aug 4, 2026
The film social network's majority owner Tiny is fielding offers from Sony, Netflix, Paramount, private equity firms and now the Times and A24, a field wide enough that dealmakers are calling the platform a phenomenon.
Sep 27, 2026
A 227,000 dollar Ambassadors Fund grant will train three village monitoring groups in Banten to guard the 1942 heavy cruiser, a war grave that has lost its bell, hull plates and rivets to looters.
Nov 3, 2026
Mountain villages, coral coastlines and nature-led hospitality are expanding the world’s picture of Saudi Arabia beyond desert and city landmarks.
Jul 28, 2026
Twitter's replacements are finally arriving. Threads hits scale, Bluesky goes public, and TikTok faces its biggest threat in years. Here's who's winning.
Feb 14, 2024
Ten cones rising to eighty eight metres, thirty galleries and twenty three thousand square metres of outdoor exhibition space. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is the last and biggest building by the architect who made a museum into an economic strategy.
Aug 22, 2026
The Zad Al-Mubta'ath program will combine academic advice with mental health, financial literacy, cultural guidance and digital security.
Jul 30, 2026
Comer received the first Outstanding Achievement prize for touring Prima Facie, Nottingham Playhouse's new play won best new play and Theatr Clwyd took two awards at the London ceremony.
Oct 12, 2026
About 25 pictures and manuscripts, including the whole Perugia altarpiece and the Urbino Diptych, will join the gallery's own Piero paintings in a show that beats the 2018 Hermitage record.
Oct 29, 2026
The Pangolin Shield goes up on the Strand next month, assembled from Indian police shields and rain shields over bamboo. Reuse in architecture usually argues about carbon. This one argues about meaning.
Aug 17, 2026
The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival begins on Friday with the East Coast premiere of a film about how Sylvester Stallone fought to write and star in Rocky, and runs to 12 October.
Oct 2, 2026
Semaglutide and tirzepatide went from diabetes treatment to celebrity shortcut to a genuine health story. What happens when one drug becomes a cultural moment.
Apr 20, 2024
Using things until they wear out has been rebranded as an aesthetic. The impulse behind it is sound, and the format it arrived in is the same machine that created the problem.
Aug 7, 2026
Elite action sport, music and city culture converge in New Orleans, offering a test of whether event-led formats can turn casual attention into durable fandom.
Jul 24, 2026
Anne Hathaway's Colleen Hoover adaptation took $32.6 million in North America, while Cruise's costly Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu satire managed $8 million and fifth place, his weakest opening in 19 years.
Oct 5, 2026
The Lebanese sound artist's Hyundai Commission, free and open from today until April, fills the hall with horns, hanging fabric charged with electricity and clay percussion that records the room.
Oct 13, 2026
Two new FBI agents, not Mulder and Scully, will staff a shuttered unit for unexplained cases, with Chris Carter on board as a producer and a cast that includes Steve Buscemi.
Oct 14, 2026
From the 1820s to the smartphone era, a new show on the Mezzanine Napoleon gathers photographs taken in, of and about the Louvre, including its wars, its workers and its storerooms.
Nov 3, 2026
Six people were arrested after the September theft at the Renoir Museum near Nice, and the French police chief says the group had already scouted a second museum on the Riviera.
Oct 15, 2026
The £30,000 prize shortlists an 800-page wartime diary from Kyiv, a Venice Biennale installation of unfixed film, an archive reworked with mirrors and a film on digital labour.
Oct 30, 2026
The video game adaptation topped the chart, though the real story was a three-hour A24 documentary with a surprise opening that only one non-music documentary has beaten.
Oct 19, 2026
Paramount's live-action reboot topped the preview-night chart with an $82 million budget on the line, while reviews landed somewhere between knockout and knocked out.
Oct 16, 2026
Opening at the Palais Galliera on 26 September, 'A Wardrobe of One's Own' uses garments once worn by Marie-Antoinette, George Sand and Rosa Bonheur alongside anonymous amateur photographs to show how borrowed menswear became a tool of emancipation.
Sep 27, 2026
A new site-specific installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs John Vanderlyn's 1819 panorama of Versailles with David Hartt's film of Paris's ring road and margins, scored by musician Jeff Parker.
Sep 29, 2026
The singer emerged in a black gown to perform 'I'm Alive' beneath the Eiffel Tower at Place Joffre, closing a public runway show that also featured Kendall Jenner, Heidi Klum and Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn as Paris Fashion Week opened.
Sep 29, 2026
Protein went from fitness afterthought to grocery store obsession. Now it's in your cereal, ice cream, and pasta. Why did one nutrient consume America.
Jun 18, 2024
Three days before the centenary of Houdini's death, a Texas exhibition shows the books he hoarded: a 1584 witchcraft exposé, a milk can poster and his own scathing notes on a rival author.
Oct 28, 2026
The fair that opened to collectors on Wednesday will now admit the public for one evening only, with ID checks and barriers, after a week of student unrest across France.
Oct 23, 2026
Critics have scored the Xbox prequel in the high 80s, its best result since Gears 3, but Steam buyers are about ten points less impressed. Here is what the campaign gets right and wrong.
Oct 6, 2026
The Swedish Academy honoured a body of work that moves between poetry, essay, translation and performance, and reached a laureate who was in Iceland, listening to the wind, when it called.
Oct 8, 2026
The former Celine and Burberry design director stripped the venue down to let the clothes speak, zhuzhing up lean jackets with raw edges and metallic logos over baggy, zesty-coloured trousers in his first collection since succeeding Nicolas Di Felice.
Oct 1, 2026
The 70th BFI festival began at the Royal Festival Hall with Simon Stone's film about the actor who played Hamlet while ill with AIDS, and an early review rates it 90 per cent.
Oct 9, 2026
The actress was found at a home in South Carolina on 16 August. Police say there are no signs of foul play, no cause of death has been released, and the investigation is open.
Aug 17, 2026
UNESCO-backed work across Pacific communities shows climate education becoming more useful when science is connected with local language, culture and lived knowledge.
Jul 24, 2026
Bain puts the shrinkage in the Gulf's luxury customer base at 15 to 25 per cent in early 2026 while the Americas surged. The industry's answer to losing aspirational buyers has been to stop trying to keep them.
Aug 18, 2026
Thismia daemona has no leaves, no chlorophyll and no need for sunlight. It surfaces only to flower, black with horn-like appendages and two orange patches that look like eyes, in an area smaller than a football pitch.
Sep 6, 2026
After years of isolation, neighborhoods are rediscovering the cafe, the bookstore, the corner club. The third place isn't coming back because of nostalgia. It's because we need it.
Jun 5, 2026
Brazilcore is spreading through sport, music and streetwear, but its most compelling expression comes from local creativity rather than copied symbols.
Jul 27, 2026
One doctor outdrew every health ministry in the region using a phone and a food list. The conditions that allowed it are structural, and they have not changed since he died.
Jul 18, 2026
The Supreme Council for Media Regulation ordered a blanket block on his audio, video and writing. The system kept spreading anyway, which raises a harder question than the ban answers.
Jun 8, 2026
A natural death, an official report and an ordinary second autopsy were absorbed into a story about silencing. The mechanism behind that is predictable, and it is worth understanding.
Jul 8, 2026
Home fragrance in the Emirates is not a wellness import. It sits on top of a bakhoor and oud culture that was already there, which is why a crowded market keeps making room for small local labels.
Sep 5, 2026
Contemplative practice has real benefits and a real adverse event literature that wellness culture has quietly declined to read. In a survey of 1,370 regular meditators, 22 percent reported particularly unpleasant experiences.
Sep 4, 2026
The early afternoon dip is built into the body clock, not caused by lunch. A short nap restores alertness without grogginess; a long one repays a bad night but costs you the evening. The times in between are the problem.
Jul 13, 2023
Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million for a voice-first matchmaker that promises fewer profiles, no swiping and more deliberate introductions.
Jul 21, 2026
