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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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

Prizesnews

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

Reviewnews

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

Egyptnews

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

Artnews

Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying

Installation accompanies death objects exhibition

Artnews

Science fiction in the Holy Land

Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality

Artnews

The Art Newspaper's 12 best Christmas gifts

We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights

Artnews

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