“Putting on a big desert art festival—it’s not cheap, but it’s not a billion dollars, and you get a lot of international exposure and goodwill…I am cautiously optimistic about the art scene. The programs from Vision 2030 that are most likely going to be cut are the construction projects like Neom and tourist infrastructure on the Red Sea.”
-Kate Seelye, vice president for arts and culture at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. [theartnewspaper.com]
