Social media
Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic
We asked the people behind the Royal Academy’s Twitter, the Met’s Instagram, the Uffizi’s TikTok and the Van Gogh Museum’s Facebook account what 2020 was like for them
Curate-it-yourself: French museums take to social media to ask the public what they want to see in their galleries
Spurred on by the pandemic, several institutions are inviting art lovers to choose works for display
Instagram overtakes Twitter as most popular platform for museums during Covid-19 pandemic
Our global Visitor Figures survey reveals huge growth in followings online as physical doors shut to the public in 2020
Censored? Shadowbanned? Deleted? Here is a guide for artists on social media
New York-based advocacy group Don’t Delete Art's comprehensive tips on how to comply with social media platforms' rules on art include advice from Facebook and Instagram staff
Can Clubhouse recreate those art world conversations we are all missing?
Our correspondent gamely makes her way through a full day of AMAA talks, NFT tips, IG debates, and more, so you don’t have to
Got space, need art: how Instagram helps art advisers during the pandemic
The hashtag #findartthatfits, an initiative of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, is part of an art advisory campaign to assist prospective buyers
The art world goes dating: Instagram account Freeze Magazine uses art memes to pair its followers
Social media replaces fairs as the third most successful sales channel for galleries in 2020, study reveals
Websites have replaced walk-ins as the second best way to sell art, but staying in top position is outreach to existing clients, according to Artsy Gallery Insights 2021 Report
Art history with a side of mayonnaise: Uffizi Galleries launches new Facebook cooking show
Weekly video series “Uffizi da mangiare” invites Florentine chefs to present recipes inspired by the Italian museum's collection
Gram today, gone tomorrow? Kenny Schachter predicts Instagram's future in 2021
The avid Instagram user and art world oracle forecasts the fortunes of the art world's favourite app
The top five Instagram posts that capture the art world in 2020
As we have all been staying at home more this year our screen time has sky rocketed—and the Instagram feeds have never been busier
Auctions, pledges and DMs: creative ways to buy and sell art on Instagram
Alternative sales models are springing up on the social media platform
'Instagram makes you feel part of the art world—but it's a lie': artist Rachel de Joode on art and the digital
Berlin-based multimedia artist talks about her new works on show at London's Annka Kultys Gallery
The Art Newspaper at 30: how has art criticism changed in the digital age?
Through blogs, websites and social media, there is more writing than ever on the arts. But whether it adds meaningful insight, or just noise, is a matter of debate
What's happening to free will and human agency? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to artist Jeremy Hutchison on Instagram today
On an Instagram Live chat, Hutchison wants to quiz the social media leader about algorithms and whether users on his platforms will get paid
Instagram turns ten: how the world's favourite photo app disrupted the art market
Dubbed "the world's new big art dealer" the platform is often used to spark interest in sales and helps artists and galleries to grow international brands
As US blocks TikTok, Italy's Uffizi claims the platform has doubled its number of young visitors
Experts predict that alternative platforms such as Byte App and Dubsmash will now go mainstream and museum's director says it is "ready to jump onto new social media"
Vancouver painter’s $100 Facebook portraits raise more than $150,000 for residency project
Proto-Riot Grrrl Jean Smith plans to launch space to support international artists
Secret censorship: what is behind Instagram’s ‘shadowban’ and how can artists fix it?
Everything creatives need to know about the social media platform's so-called "shadowbanning", from how to spot it to how to stop it
From self-censorship to activism: artists react to Instagram’s ban on ‘offensive’ art
An online show by gallery 42 Social Club provides invaluable information on the social media platform's draconian filters
Boner Lisa? Dating app Grindr launches art section
New "Circle" feature invites users to share their art and photography on the LGBTQ site
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
Plus, artist Rita Keegan on her postponed show and Julia Peyton-Jones on Leonardo. Produced in association with Christie's
Facebook and Instagram ban trading of historical artefacts
Heritage group Athar were part of a campaign highlighting the social media giants' “black market in antiquities”
'I have a 1% chance of being acquitted': Russian activist faces six years in prison for posting vagina drawings online
Police say the body-positive images, accompanied by captions like ‘Real women have body fat and it’s normal,’ violate pornography laws
How beret dare they: survey says artists are the most non-essential workers
Social media backlash prompts clarification from researchers after Singaporean newspaper poll paints artists in poor light
Social media crack-down: how Instagram ‘protects’ us from art
As the art world's use of online platforms increases, so does frustration around its draconian censorship of creative images
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has gained almost 200,000 social media followers since lockdown began—here's how
We speak to the museum's social media manager Claire Lanier about her digital engagement strategies in the age of Covid-19
What are some of Tracey Emin's favourite works? Musée d'Orsay invites artists to delve into its collection on Instagram
British artist chooses some of the Paris museum's sexiest art in new lockdown project