Desert X Reveals Artists for Controversial Saudi Arabia Exhibition

The inaugural edition of Desert X AlUla in Saudi Arabia, an outdoor sculpture exhibition co-curated by Raneem Farsi and Aya Alireza with Desert X’s artistic director Neville Wakefield, has named the artists who will show site-specific works in the country’s northwest AlUla region. The artists who will participate in the exhibition, which is set to open January 31 and will position works amid ancient rock formations in the Saudi Arabian desert, are Lita Albuquerque; Manal AlDowayan; Z