In a wide-ranging interview with Al Majalla, Michael Mainelli discusses Saudi-UK ties, investments in AI and renewable energy and describes Saudi Vision 2030 as 'amazing and ambitious'
Though it appears to trace the history of beauty, what really interests the curator of The Wellcome Collection is beauty's fabrication and its obsolescence.
The picture in Burlington House is beautiful for all the reasons The Guardian's Adrian Searle describes. She has the kind of serene self-possession that could drive men mad.
A new show at the National Gallery, entitled After Impressionism, includes almost a hundred paintings and sculptures by artists as fabulous as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, Klimt and Picasso
While national politics gets all the media coverage and limelight, it is often the most local issues that have an impact on the lives of those we serve
Many venerated 20th century painters, such as Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, and Piet Mondrian embraced the Cezannian doctrine
Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.
The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?
After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground