Insta’ gratification is a monthly blog by Aimee Dawson, looking at how the art world and social media collide. Each article tackles a topic around the innovations and challenges that spring up when art enters the digital world.
The avid Instagram user and art world oracle forecasts the fortunes of the art world's favourite app
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
Alternative sales models are springing up on the social media platform
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
Everything creatives need to know about the social media platform's so-called "shadowbanning", from how to spot it to how to stop it
An online show by gallery 42 Social Club provides invaluable information on the social media platform's draconian filters
As the art world's use of online platforms increases, so does frustration around its draconian censorship of creative images
We speak to livestream novice Denia Kazakou, the founder of RedD Gallery, to get some beginners’ advice
We caught up with the Paris institution's head of digital communications, Niko Melissano, to get his advice on creating a mega-museum Instagram presence
Sketch London's app that brings to life David Shrigley's prints is the latest in a string of developments from institutions like the New Museum and the Tate
As the Musée d’Orsay in Paris appoints an Instagram-artist-in-residence, we look at the growing trend in museums for social media takeovers and collaborations
Here are our top tips to help you gain—and keep—new followers in the new year
The social media platform wants to "depressurise" the platform but the decision could cost creative influencers and artists dearly
We look at some of the best trending art campaigns by museums and those that have been a flop, plus how artists use them
Olafur Eliasson's show at London’s Tate Modern is the latest in an increasingly long line of exhibitions whose main take-away seems to be the perfect selfie
