Aimee Dawson

London

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer, editor, podcast producer. Talks about art, social media, MENA, doggos. Formerly @TheArtNewspaper. Commissions: [email protected]

Articles

How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Aimee Dawson

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer and now an artist with a focus on the digital, Gretchen Andrew creates works that make the invisible impacts of technology visible. Her latest series takes aim at the unachievable beauty standards that are being created and perpetuated on social media. “When I grew up it was commonly said that celebrities and pageant queens made beauty standards ‘impossible’. Now, they are literally impossible,” Andrew says.
This new app aims to bring exhibition goers together-and invites anyone to be an art critic

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Aimee Dawson

Have you ever heard of Letterboxd? It’s a social network for discovering, reviewing and chatting about films. And what about Pokémon GO, the gaming app that uses GPS technology and augmented reality to show animated characters on a screen that players can “collect” while moving about the real world? Well, a new app for art exhibitions has launched that is a cross between the two.
An inside track on the Huntington’s rapid social media growth

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Aimee Dawson

While the same big names often dominate the top 20 most-followed museums on social media in our annual Visitor Figures report, it is interesting to see which museums have the highest percentage growth, year on year.
A brush with… Kent Monkman - podcast

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Aimee Dawson

Monkman was born in 1965 in St Mary’s, Ontario, and today lives and works between New York City and Toronto. He is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, in Manitoba, Canada, and uses the language of European and North American art to reflect on Indigenous experiences.
In pictures: Art Dubai’s Bawwaba section

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Aimee Dawson |Alexander Morrison |Gareth Harris

Meaning “gateway” in Arabic, the Bawwaba section of Art Dubai offers artists an entry point to the fair. It is made up of ten solo presentations of artists both established and less well-known. All of the works were made either in the past year, or especially for the fair. This year the section has been curated by Mirjam Varadinis, the curator-at-large at the Kunsthaus Zurich. “I felt this would be a good moment to reflect on the idea of co-existence,” she says.
Art Dubai is cementing its position as the region’s key art market

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Melissa Gronlund |Aimee Dawson |Ann Binlot

There are 30 new exhibitors at Art Dubai this year but the framework remains the same. The VIP crowds will sit in the lounge by the lapping waters of the Madinat Jumeirah’s lagoon; the Lebanese lunch options will be served up in large portions; and gallerists will listen out for what new accents and languages are coming en masse this year. But if Art Dubai opens in a familiar landscape, the context of art fairs has changed dramatically.
Podcast | Art Dubai 2025: is the city emerging as a global hub for digital art?

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Aimee Dawson |David Clack |Ben Luke |Margaret Carrigan

Welcome to In Focus, a new podcast from The Art Newspaper produced in partnership with the world's leading arts and culture organisations, institutions and events. In this episode, we're in partnership with Art Dubai, as the 18th edition of the art fair comes to Madinat Jumeirah.
Les musées moins suivis sur les réseaux sociaux en raison du boycott massif de la plateforme X

2 months ago | artnewspaper.fr | Aimee Dawson |Stéphane Renault

Le paysage des réseaux sociaux a connu d’énormes bouleversements au cours de l’année écoulée. Avec l’exode de X pour des raisons éthiques, la crainte d’une interdiction permanente de TikTok aux États-Unis et la montée en puissance de nouvelles plateformes, il est difficile pour les institutions telles que les musées de savoir où concentrer leurs efforts en matière de réseaux sociaux pour en tirer le meilleur parti.
Art Week Riyadh will "bring together the many layers of Saudi Arabia's art scene"

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Aimee Dawson

A week-long flurry of art exhibitions, talks and events will sweep Saudi Arabia’s capital this month. The inaugural Art Week Riyadh (6–13 April) will include presentations from more than 45 local, regional and international galleries, as well as exhibitions organised by private and institutional Saudi collections, and a public programme of talks, films, workshops and studio visits.
Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for region's ‘largest Ancient Egypt show in decades’

Mar 27, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Emily Sharpe |Aimee Dawson

Seven institutions in Egypt will loan more than 200 works to the Hong Kong Palace Museum later this year for a blockbuster show focused on King Tutankhamun, the young pharaoh who ruled Ancient Egypt from around 1332-23BC. Tutankhamun and the Secrets of Saqqara, billed as “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures in Hong Kong in recent decades”, is due to run for nine months, from late November until late August next year.