Further details on the new Saudi biennial, which will take place at the ancestral palace of Ad Diriyah, have been announced.
Philip Tinari, the director of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, will serve as curator. The team will also include Wejdan Reda, who runs the online cultural platform Sahaba.
The Ad Diriyah Biennale will take place in 2021, although the exact dates have not been confirmed, and will feature more than 70 artists. It is an initiative by the Saudi Ministry of Culture, and will alternate annually between the Ad Diriyah Biennale, devoted to contemporary art, and the Islamic Biennale, devoted to Islamic art.
“The Ad-Diriyah Biennale will offer a new platform for exchange between the Saudi and international art worlds, as well as an unprecedented chance for broad audiences in the kingdom to encounter global contemporary art,” Tinari said in a statement.
Born in the US, Tinari has lived in China since 2001. He joined the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in 2011 and is now its chief curator and director. The organisation, set up by the Belgian collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens, has since expanded into a location in the northeastern coastal town of Beidahe and in 2021 will open an outpost in Shanghai.
Ad Diriyah, on the outskirts of Riyadh, was the home of the Al Saud family in the 18th century. The vast Salwa Palace, built in the traditional style of the area, was the capital of the first Saudi state from 1744 until 1818, when it was destroyed by Ottoman invaders. It also bears particular significance as it was at Ad Diriyah that the ruler Muhammed Ibn Al Saud hosted the religious scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabism, and brokered the power-sharing agreement between the two families. The site now consists of the ruins of Salwa Palace, as well as a number of museums about Saudi history and life.
Terror attacks in Paris, November 13, 2015
- At 9.16pm, three suicide attackers killed one person outside the Atade de France during a foootball match between France and Germany
- At 9.25pm, three attackers opened fire on restaurants and cafes over 20 minutes, killing 39 people
- Shortly after 9.40pm, three other attackers launched a three-hour raid on the Bataclan, in which 1,500 people had gathered to watch a rock concert. In total, 90 people were killed
- Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the terrorists, did not directly participate in the attacks, thought to be due to a technical glitch in his suicide vest
- He fled to Belgium and was involved in attacks on Brussels in March 2016. He is serving a life sentence in France
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- Shortened leave to remain - refugees will receive 30 months instead of five years
- A longer path to settlement with no indefinite settled status until a refugee has spent 20 years in Britain
- To encourage refugees to integrate the government will encourage them to out of the core protection route wherever possible.
- Under core protection there will be no automatic right to family reunion
- Refugees will have a reduced right to public funds
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