Weeks earlier than my arrival, news broke that Riyadh would probably host the 2034 World Cup. On the day I arrived, it was introduced that the town would host the World Expo 2030. In Paris,Laurent Le Bon, president of the Centre Pompidou, andAmr Almadani, CEO of the Royal Commission for AlUla, signed a formal settlement to collaborate ona new modern art spaceto open in AlUla in 2027. Early this coming February, the third version of Desert X AlUla opens, as will, a number of weeks later, the second edition of the Diriyah Biennale, KSA’s first art biennale, in Riyadh. Then, in two to three years, Wadi AlFann (“Valley of the Arts”), a 40-square-mile site featuring monumental site-specific everlasting land artworks, will open at AlUla.

• Within the US, where he is based, Theaster Gates is well-loved for taking on ready-made supplies associated to the Black experience—a piano, a disused bank, the

Weeks earlier than my arrival, news broke that Riyadh would probably host the 2034 World Cup. On the day I arrived, it was introduced that the town would host the World Expo 2030. In Paris,Laurent Le Bon, president of the Centre Pompidou, andAmr Almadani, CEO of the Royal Commission for AlUla, signed a formal settlement to collaborate ona new modern art spaceto open in AlUla in 2027. Early this coming February, the third version of Desert X AlUla opens, as will, a number of weeks later, the second edition of the Diriyah Biennale, KSA’s first art biennale, in Riyadh. Then, in two to three years, Wadi AlFann (“Valley of the Arts”), a 40-square-mile site featuring monumental site-specific everlasting land artworks, will open at AlUla.

• Within the US, where he is based, Theaster Gates is well-loved for taking on ready-made supplies associated to the Black experience—a piano, a disused bank, the