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.
Instagram hacking: why is the art world a target—and how do you get your account back?
As attacks on accounts surge, be careful what you click on
Macron wins: what now for the French art scene?
Plus, Walter Sickert at Tate Britain and Gordon Parks at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The best of the Venice Biennale: our critics’ review
Plus, artists Francis Alÿs, Sonia Boyce, Shubigi Rao and Na Chainkua Reindorf on their national pavilion shows; and a Bellini masterpiece
Cube sculpture made of 24-karat gold and worth €10m pops up in Venice after first appearing in New York
Passersby are invited to touch the work—but it is only in town for one day
Venice Biennale 2022: the must-see pavilions in the Giardini
From America's African facelift to the scents of hope and fear, here are the exhibitions we loved at the heart of the big event
Venice Biennale erects scorched temporary 'pavilion' for Ukraine in the middle of the Giardini
The "meditative" space aims to put Russia's war in Ukraine at the heart of the exhibition—and at the forefront of peoples' minds
Photographer Edward Burtynsky on his Ukrainian heritage and our 'predator species running amok'
Plus, Winslow Homer at the Met and China's Russia problem
A brush with... Nari Ward
An in-depth interview with the artist on his greatest cultural influences, from The Staples Singers to Piero Manzoni
Review: Does the Whitney Biennial really reflect the world today?
Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery
A brush with... Cornelia Parker
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Noam Chomsky to Bernini
Wanted: Instagram, but for the cryptoverse
The photo app is keen on muscling in on the NFT world, but crypto creatives aren't convinced that it is the right platform
Has the art market recovered? A deep dive into the Art Basel/UBS report
Plus, an exhibition about wartime hideouts in Poland and Ukraine, and Mondrian’s final work Victory Boogie Woogie
A brush with... Mark Leckey
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Mike Kelley to the Mexican Muralists
World’s major museums resist TikTok surge—with a few notable exceptions
Our 2021 Visitor Figures survey shows that institutions are largely failing to adopt the world's most popular social media platform but those that do are reaping the rewards
Metropolitan Museum of Art director Max Hollein sets out his vision for the future
Plus, the "golden age" of Beiruti art at the Gropius Bau in Berlin and Meret Oppenheim's Surrealist white heels at the Menil Collection in Houston
A brush with... Ali Cherri
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Donna Haraway to David Hockney
How Donatello changed art history forever
Plus, the Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of rivers and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation opens in London
Russia has shut down Instagram—what now for its online art community?
On Monday, Moscow branded the Meta company an "extremist organisation", effectively criminalising the use of Instagram and Facebook in the country
What can the arts do to help Ukrainian refugees?
Plus, NFTs and more at Art Dubai, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s golden curtain in Toronto
Biggest-ever Art Dubai fair offers smoke machines, escapism and, of course, NFTs: here’s what sold so far
The event's 15th edition dedicated a whole building to the "rapidly expanding digital arts space"
Russia-Ukraine war seeps into Art Dubai fair
Georgian gallery lays down Ukrainian flag in its booth while fair says it will donate 25% of ticket sales to Ukrainian refugees
Art Dubai flexes city’s futuristic credentials with focus on NFTs and crypto
Art fair opens in the UAE this week with a new digital arts section and a series of talks on all things metaverse
Ukraine: the response of the art community and the risks of photojournalism
Plus, Chris Burden's unrealised projects and an in-depth look at F.N. Souza's Mr Sebastian at the Barbican in London
Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo '99%' ready as contractor promises 'theatrical' Tutankhamun gallery
Egyptian government officials say the long-awaited antiquities museum near the Pyramids of Giza will probably open in November this year
Artists’ studios: the fight for affordable spaces
Plus, photographing Paula Rego at work
A brush with... Ai Weiwei
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him
Warhol and Basquiat on the stage in London and Faith Ringgold's retrospective at New York's New Museum
Plus, Betye Saar remakes a mural in Los Angeles
A brush with... Allison Katz
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Degas to British sports radio
New Instagram feature could allow users to ‘curate’ their grid—but the art world is not so sure (even the curators...)
Social media site may allow users to reorder the images they post, but does it mess with the whole idea of Instagram?
'Aggressive, emotional, darkly humorous’: Louise Bourgeois’s closest collaborator on her late works
Plus, Desert X opens second Saudi Arabia edition and Gerhard Richter's 90th birthday exhibition in Dresden