RIYADH: Officials from the Saudi Ministry of Culture took part in the virtual preparatory meetings organized by Italy, the host of the 2021 G20 summit, as part of the work of the cultural track on the sidelines of the G20 agenda. The cultural track emerged during Saudi Arabia’s presidency of the G20 in 2020, which resulted in the establishment of the “Cultural Sherpa Track.”
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RIYADH A recent report revealed that 6.6 million tickets to go to movies were sold in Saudi Arabia during 2020, despite the imposition of precautionary measures to prevent coronavirus, and decreasing the number of seats available for booking in the halls.
According to the Cultural Status in the Kingdom 2020 report issued by the Saudi Ministry of Culture, based on data of the ‘General Authority for Audiovisual Media’, the number of movie tickets sold in 2020 exceeded those sold in 2019, reaching about 4 million in 2019.
This may be attributed to the increase in the number of showrooms in 2020 in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, and the opening of new ones in other cities, as the total number reached 33 showrooms in 2020, compared to 12 in 2019.
RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Culture has invited calligraphers to participate in a questionnaire to survey its efforts to develop their capabilities in the Kingdom. The “Cultural Exchange” survey was launched on Sunday via the link: https://surveys.moc.gov.sa/CE The survey comes as part of the art residency program for Arabic calligraphy, which falls under the “Year of Arabic
Antoine Vitkine’s
The mystery of why the
Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, didn’t appear at the blockbuster 2019 Leonardo da Vinci show at the Louvre in Paris is unraveled in a new documentary, set to premiere on French television on April 13.
In the film,
The Savior for Sale, director Antoine Vitkine speaks with anonymous sources who claim that the plan to exhibit the work fell through because the Louvre refused to bow to demands from Saudi Arabia to show the painting as an autograph Leonardo, reports the
The museum is said to have conducted its own scientific analysis of the $450 million work, which smashed every auction record in history with its 2017 sale at Christie’s New York. The Louvre disagreed with the auction house’s billing of the work as “the male