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.
Jasper Johns: a radical look at a colossus of post-war American art
Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen
A brush with... Thomas J Price
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Giorgio Morandi to Alberto Giacometti
All glitz and glamour? Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum
A brush with... Sarah Sze
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Hokusai to Vermeer
It’s a wrap: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s final fabric project unveiled in Paris
Plus, Art Basel: are the buyers back? And Mary Beard on images of power
A brush with... Tacita Dean
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Cy Twombly to WG Sebald
Should the art world boycott China over its treatment of Uyghur people?
Plus, Van Gogh’s final months and master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler
A brush with... Philippe Parreno
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Francisco de Goya to Mary Shelley
The state of painting now
Plus, its enduring market appeal and new secrets revealed in a restored Vermeer
Instagram’s new sensitive content controls: what they could mean for the art world
The photo-sharing app has introduced new opt-out filters that censor the images they see—but most people don't even know they exist
Afghanistan: the threat of the Taliban to artists and heritage
Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells
A brush with... Glenn Ligon
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Stevie Wonder to Charles Dickens
A brush with... Alberta Whittle
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Kamau Brathwaite to Hilma af Klint
A brush with... Tino Sehgal
An in-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Beethoven to Watteau
A brush with... Oscar Murillo
An in-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Jannis Kounellis to Okwui Enwezor
Abuja, Miami, Seoul: gallery director Dolly Kola-Balogun maps out her path to African art’s world domination
The 27-year-old founder of Retro Africa talks about her expansion plans and how she is helping to build a contemporary art scene in Nigeria
Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
Ten teams from international universities and museums will visit the Dhi Qar region in October for further excavations
What happens when Instagram sponsors a mega museum?
Instagram is sponsoring the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Gala for the first time this year. Could this be a marriage made in heaven?
Great women in art history make a comeback: the New Woman at the Met and Aware in Paris
Plus, Rania Matar's photographic portraits
A brush with... Ellen Gallagher
An in-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Keith Haring to Moby Dick
Should the Science Museum stop taking money from oil companies?
Plus, Michael Landy's exhibition at Firstsite and artist Shahzia Sikander on a manuscript miniature
A brush with... Julian Opie
An in-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Egon Schiele to Raymond Carver
How a crypto and digital art fair is using Instagram to show—and sell—works
CADAF has opened its second online edition but the social media app—paired with QR codes and AR filters—is helping the fair to physically interact with visitors in Paris
Slavery: the groundbreaking Dutch exhibition confronting colonial history
Plus, Leonora Carrington's Surrealist children's book behind the next Venice Biennale and Rubens's landscapes reunited after 200 years
A brush with...Cristina Iglesias
An in-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Giotto to Björk
Sexism by numbers: Guerrilla Girls ask UK public to send in statistics of females nudes vs female artists at local museums
Feminist protest groups' Male Graze project is part of the contemporary art festival Art Night
Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs
Plus, Glasgow International festival and Cézanne at MoMA
A brush with... Michael Rakowitz
An in-depth podcast conversation on the artist's big influences, from T.S. Eliot to Leonard Cohen
Classicist Mary Beard on the infamous Roman emperor Nero
Plus, London Gallery Weekend and Nina Katchadourian on her adopted grandmother's embroidery
First the Louvre's pyramid, now the actual Pyramids—JR to create show-stopping project in Egypt
Street artist hints he might make a photo collage at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site as part of exhibition organised by Art D’Egypte