
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.
A brush with... Charles Ray
An in-depth interview on the artist's cultural experiences and influences, from Anthony Caro to Huckleberry Finn
Wonder women: curator Cecilia Alemani on what we can expect at the female-dominated Venice Biennale this year
Plus, Van Gogh’s self-portraits in London, and the story of when Dalí met Freud
A brush with... Dayanita Singh
An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke to being photographed by her mother
Bacon and beasts: an in-depth look at the visceral new show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco
Why did the €471m Caravaggio villa fail to sell?
Plus, artists create their own monuments at Goldsmiths CCA in London and Michael Armitage on Sane Wadu at the newly opened Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute
Trolls and toxicity: is Instagram where the art world goes to hate?
Meta—the owner of Instagram—is being investigated for knowing that its platforms negatively effect the mental health of its users, but doing little about it
The Year Ahead: the best exhibitions to look forward to in 2022
Plus, who will be the art market’s winners and losers?
Social butterfly: How Instagram transformed in 2021—and how the art world responded
Did art dealer Kenny Schachter's predictions for the app hold true?
From NFTs to LFTs: 2021's biggest art stories—and what they mean
The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars
A brush with... Kehinde Wiley
An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from Richard Dyer to John Singer Sargent
Disney at the Met—but is it art?
Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London
Afghan artist wins $100,000 prize for video that reflects on life amid never-ending conflicts
Ukraine's PinchukArtCentre awards Aziz Hazara the Future Generation Art Prize 2021 for his five-channel film installation depicting children in Kabul
A brush with... Isaac Julien
An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from Aimé Césaire to Glenn Ligon
Art fairs: how did they begin and where are they going?
Plus, Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain and Marco Brambilla's VR work at Pérez Art Museum in Miami
A brush with... Pablo Bronstein
An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from the architectural drawings of Piranesi to the novels of Émile Zola
Fraud: the case of Inigo Philbrick
Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
A brush with... Candice Breitz
An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from the work of On Kawara to growing up in Apartheid South Africa
Big money, new collectors: the low-down on the New York auctions
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
A brush with... Billie Zangewa
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Jane Campion to Vincent van Gogh
Paintings and African art to dominate at Abu Dhabi Art
Emirati art fair expects lots of US collectors as international visits to Dubai Expo give "a really good indication that people have the confidence to travel again"
M+ finally opens in Hong Kong—but is it censoring its displays?
Plus, the revamped Courtauld Gallery and Black American Portraits at Lacma in Los Angeles
Millennialgram: is Instagram's new $390m campaign enough to lure Gen Z crowds away from TikTok?
The Yours to Make initiative includes an installation at London’s Saatchi Gallery created by digital artist and curator Zaiba Jabbar using Reels
15 seconds of art: Brazil's Instituto Inhotim embraces Instagram
Art space in Belo Horizonte found an innovative way to engage with its audience during the pandemic—and now it's here to stay
Contemporary art meets Ancient Egypt: new sculptures at the Pyramids of Giza
Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet's portrait of Zacharie Astruc
Is Paris really taking London’s art crown?
Plus, Marlene Dumas at the Musée d'Orsay and Christian Boltanksi remembered
JR blows the top off Egypt’s Great Pyramid: first look at Cairo show of contemporary sculpture
First exhibition of its kind at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site includes works by local and international artists, including Lorenzo Quinn, Gisela Colón and Sherin Guirguis
Can the art world really change its wasteful ways?
Plus, Mark Rothko’s late paintings at Pace’s new London space and Nicolas Poussin at the National Gallery
Sound warfare: Sung Tieu explores the mysterious Havana Syndrome affecting US officials
The Frieze Artist Award winner discusses her new video premiering this month
Our pick of exhibitions to see during Frieze London
From sensuous sculptures by Noguchi to a rare outing of Italian Futurist masterpieces
Anicka Yi fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with giant floating robots and millennia-old odours
Family of "aerobes" will respond to the space and people around them using electronic sensors positioned around the vast venue