It started as a promising California art biennial. It's now a partnership with a government linked to human rights abuses and the killing of a journalist.
. Those two booty-shakers would likely be arrested at Tantora the moment their sets were over. The annual report from Freedom House, the nonprofit that ranks global states in democratic rights and civil liberties, lists Saudi Arabia as the eighth worst of 195 countries around the globe. The kingdom is tied near the bottom with Somalia and Sudan.
Still, Saudi Arabia is in trouble. Oil, source of most of the kingdom’s immense wealth, is in doubt as a permanent economic driver in a world where catastrophic climate change is pushing investment toward alternatives to fossil fuels. Short term, things are fine. Long term, cultural tourism and other business projects must pick up the slack.
A roster of artists has not yet been announced. Why any artist would want to participate in securing the longevity of a barbaric medieval idea of absolute monarchy remains a mystery. Money is, of course, behind all of it. The crown prince spends big on art. He was identified by the Wall Street Journal as the 2017 buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’sthe world’s most expensive painting at $450 million. MBS personally endows the Misk Art Institute, with headquarters in Riyadh, a platform for new art.
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