Riyadh

Al Olaya

12 galleries · 0 museums · 0 places

About this district

Al Olaya is central Riyadh's commercial core — towers, hotels, and gallery showrooms along Olaya Street and King Fahd Road where business and collecting intersect.

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Handwoven Sadu textile with traditional Bedouin geometric patterns in red, black and brown
Editorial

Sadu Weaving: The Geometry of Bedouin Textiles

The geometry the Bedouin wove, and the women who carried it in memory because nothing was written down.

On a loom you stake into the sand, Bedouin women wove the interior world of the Gulf — tents, dividers, camel trappings — and threaded through the wool a geometry that carried tribe, family and meaning. A story of Sadu: the patterns and their names, the women who transmitted them without a single written word, and the quiet work of keeping the craft alive.

A vast circle of fire burning on a dark plain at night — the outline of a city with four radial roads, drawn in flame.
Editorial

The City With No Ruins: What Is Left of Abbasid Baghdad

A caliph drew his capital in fire, the Mongols erased it, and a video game rebuilt it out of Isfahan and Samarkand. What actually survives of Abbasid Baghdad, where it is, and who else has tried to put it back.

Climb a viewpoint in Assassin's Creed Mirage and you see the Round City whole — double walls, four gates, the green dome at the centre. Nobody has ever seen that view. No excavated remains have been securely identified as any of it. This is what is actually left of ninth-century Baghdad, where you would have to go to stand in it, and why Ubisoft was the second team to rebuild a city that no longer exists.

EVA 2: The Alien Self Opens in Hanoi, Staging AI as Both Collaborator and Question

EVA 2: The Alien Self Opens in Hanoi, Staging AI as Both Collaborator and Question

Four young Vietnamese artists take over more than 860 square metres at L'Art Gallery, structuring the show around the four stages of how AI processes human data — recognition, classification, encoding, regeneration.

EVA 2: The Alien Self, a contemporary art exhibition exploring the relationship between human identity and artificial intelligence, opened on 17 July at L'Art Gallery in Hanoi's Lotte Mall West Lake. Structured around four stages that mirror how AI processes human data, the show runs until 25 July as part of Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2026.