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.
Qatar blockade tests cultural relations
Museums hope to overcome embargo imposed by Gulf neighbours as deadline extended
Forged in war, revolution and turmoil, works head for Les Rencontres d’Arles
The annual photography festival assembles works that open up doors closed by political turbulence
Edinburgh Festival salutes their 70th year with a giant dragon
Edinburgh comes alive with 45 exhibitions city-wide
Shubbak, London’s Arab arts and culture festival, opens this weekend
This year’s programme promises to look to the future while reflecting on “fragility, resilience and challenges of artists in times of crisis”
Fontainebleau theatre restoration enters final phase
Focus will be on restoring the theatre’s machinery, the upper levels of the salons and the podium that houses one of France’s most important stage sets
Blockade of Qatar threatens cultural institutions
Moving works of art difficult and museum building projects may suffer
Must-see shows in Basel this week
From shit machines to abstract paintings made by one very artistic robot
Tate pairs off Weimar-era artists Dix and Sander for a discussion about the failed republic
The two exhibitions will evoke a dialogue about their shared themes
Rijksmuseum explores how botany helped give birth to photography
The New Realities of 19th-century photography shows key developments in scientific and artistic endeavour
Behnam Bakhtiar Award set up to promote Iranian art
Artists of Iranian descent eligible for biennial prize of €10,000 and solo exhibition in Monaco gallery
Santiago Sierra commemorates the Syrian war dead
Names of 144,000 people who have died to be read out over more than a week in four cities
Collaterals and extras: the Venice Biennale’s other shows
Don't miss the ambitious events outside the national pavilions and the main exhibition open across Venice
National anthems, national myths, national crises: pick of the Venice Biennale pavilions
Official pavilions in the Giardini and the Arsenale that are already talking points, plus national presentations across Venice that are part of the collateral programme
Tate survey exhibition reunites Giacometti’s Venice Biennale sculptures for first time in 60 years
This display aims to flesh out Giacometti's practice, which is not limited to his iconic bronze figures
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
Egypt revives major museum projects, six years after revolution
Political will is there but cash remains short
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