Aimee Dawson

Aimee Dawson is a writer and editor specialising in art in the digital sphere; social media in the art world; and Middle Eastern visual culture. She was formerly an editor at The Art Newspaper and writes the monthly column Insta’gratification about how the art world and social media collide.

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Online stock exchange for art opens its virtual doors

London- and Prague-based online art trading platform launches full website this month

I.M. Pei’s life and work celebrated to mark architect’s centenary

Chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design the Kennedy Library, he went on to build landmark museums across the globe

East Anglian sculpture park set to be created on university campus

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts launches project with controversial placement of works by Antony Gormley

Saudi Arabian artist’s first US solo show escapes shadow of 9/11

Abdulnasser Gharem says the US show allows him more freedom than he may have in Saudi Arabia

Banksy work cleared from vacant site and restored for public display

Toronto developer’s intervention raises questions about the practice of preserving street art

Saudi Arabian artist Gharem’s first US solo show escapes shadow of 9/11

Political and poignant, Gharem's art reflects on one of the defining moments of the 21st century

The customers were always right at Wiener Werkstätte

But then they did include Gustav Klimt, his Lady in Gold and his lover

Egyptian pharaoh rescued from watery Cairo grave—but which one does it depict?

Early reports identified it as a statue of Ramses II, but now scholars think it may be a later king

Dubai attracts auction players

Sotheby's advances, Christie's consolidates

Economist Rachel Pownall to present online art market report at Tefaf Spring in New York

Her recent survey of art and antiques dealers revealed that 67% expected their online third-party sales to increase

Will American buyers show up to Tefaf Maastricht?

With two new New York editions, and US collectors curtailing international travel for economic and political reasons, some dealers are sceptical—but remain hopeful

Objects of desire: what dealers are taking to Tefaf

Visitors can expect to see an eclectic mix at Maastricht

Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem to have first solo US show at Lacma

Former lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army is known for his politically and socially engaged works that draw on his Muslim heritage

Trump’s travel ban denounced by curators and artists

Institutional leaders say such restrictions would have grave consequences on exhibitions, research and the future of cultural exchange

JR's giant public art gets first show in Middle East

Video and photographic documentation of French artist's site-specific work will be on show at Doha's QM Gallery Katara

Egypt's Surrealists come out of the shadows

Exhibition at Reina Sofía in Madrid, which opened at the Pompidou last year, is first major survey of Art et Liberté group

Venice Biennale’s main exhibition to be ‘by the artists and for the artists’, curator says

Christine Macel’s presentation to include more work from Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia, with 103 artists showing for the first time

Rare Hebrew books and manuscripts acquired by National Library of Israel

Collection of the late Jack Lunzer to be displayed in new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building

The top ten museum acquisitions of 2016

From a $30m Gentileschi to the Beverly Hills home featured in the Big Lebowski, here's how institutions spent their cash last year

Three to see: London

From Malick Sidibé’s black-and-white photos of Bamako’s youth culture to Ken Price’s bright and colourful ceramics <br> <br>

Prizesnews

The Art Newspaper Russia announces nominees for fifth annual awards

Awards ceremony in February will reveal winners in five categories, including for museums, exhibitions and restorations

China’s Terracotta Warriors march back into the UK

Life-size sculptures to be the centrepiece of a major loan show at the National Museums Liverpool

Art History A-level back on the curriculum

High-profile campaign by leading art world figures helped save the subject

Japan pledges $11.4m for mosaic conservation project in Hisham’s Palace in Jericho

Project is part of wider programme to support cultural heritage in Palestine and Jordan Valley

David Hockney to design stained-glass window for the Queen in Westminster Abbey

British artist says work, to be unveiled in 2018, will be "a landscape full of blossom"

Design Museum aims for ‘Tate effect’ after move to west London

Institution funded by Terence Conran on the South Bank reopens in Kensington next week