
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.
Six shows to see during Art Basel
Alleviate your fair-tigue with these exhibitions in and around the Swiss city
French museums kick off culture events to mark Euro 2016
Louvre-Lens among institutions hoping to turn football into footfall
Pakistani artist Ghulam Mohammad wins Jameel Art Prize
The exhibition of shortlisted artists is now on view at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, before starting an international tour
Five offbeat art spaces to seek out in Istanbul
From a soundscape in an abandoned car park to Orhan Pamuk’s imaginary museum brought to life
Palestinian Museum's first satellite show opens in Beirut
Activist fashion among exhibits at Dar El-Nimer art space
Update: Home of Cairo’s leading Townhouse Gallery demolished
Latest setback for non-profit space shut down by Egyptian authorities last year
London’s National Portrait Gallery to show the many faces of Pablo Picasso
Major exhibition of the Spanish painter’s portraits will reveal links to Old Masters—and a love for caricatures
Cairo art festival opens amid cultural clampdown
Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival is taking place in Egyptian capital but also Beirut
Empire is a dirty word but Tate Britain is not afraid of it
A show at the London museum tackles the artistic legacy of 400 years of British colonialism
How art is keeping alive the memory of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Five years after the uprisings in Cairo, the spirit of the protests lives on in cultural projects
Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying
Installation accompanies death objects exhibition
Science fiction in the Holy Land
Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality
The Art Newspaper's 12 best Christmas gifts
We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights
Katrina Palmer recreates London’s infamous Necropolitan Line at the Henry Moore Institute
Train connected Waterloo station with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey
Climate change activists to ‘seed bomb’ Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern
Organisers of Deadline Festival are protesting the museum’s sponsorship deal with BP