California Light and Space artist James Turrell is featured in a new show AlUla, where he will build a major new commission.

Photograph by Matthieu Paley 7 min read In the world of the desert ... plain just north of the AlUla valley—and drew water from cisterns designed to capture rain as well as more than a hundred ...

The theme for Desert X AlUla 2024 – on until 23 March, the latest land art exhibition from the California-founded Desert X organisation – is making the invisible visible, with the title ‘In the ...

To explore that which cannot be seen – that’s the mysterious and ethereal mission of Desert X AlUla 2024, the third iteration of the international, open-air art exhibition that takes place in AlUla, ...

Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia are very sacred pilgrimage sites for Muslims across the world. Every year millions of ...

Every artwork and exhibition within the AlUla Arts Festival has a material or conceptual connection to the historic landscape ...

For ancient peoples living in and around the AlUla Valley, the sandstone mountains rising from the desert were not just ... wind, and rain with remarkably little deterioration—so rich that ...

AlUla has always been a bastion of culture, hospitality, business, and creatives coming together. And with the world’s eyes on this desert oasis, it’s doing what has always done, shine in its ...

Upon visiting the site in 2020, Turrell found that the sandstone formations recalled his ongoing work at Roden Crater in Northern Arizona. “I was very familiar with that kind of landscape and ...

Desert X AlUla Visitor Centre is a modest structure, designed and rapidly built, drawing from two local references: an archetypal walled garden, expressed in the ruled symmetrical geometry and ...

There’s a desert oasis that’s beckoning all to explore ... in the Medina Province you will find AlUla. AlUla is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famed for its ancient history, natural beauty ...