Insta’ gratification
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.
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.
Unlike museums, art fairs’ energy is focused on events lasting a few days a year—but Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms give them a vital year-round presence
As part of the anniversary in July, the museum has launched 200 Creators
The platform is making use of its reputation as a visual search engine to collaborate with art institutions
Think TikTok is just silly videos for kids? Think again—the platform now has seriously useful features and content
Keen to capitalise on the social media channel's rising profile in the art world, the Peabody Essex Museum hired two dedicated creators in residence
The social media platform's lifestyle and education team has been offering services to companies like Sotheby's to help improve content and grow followings
Videos of bidding battles for the Queen frontman's possessions resulted in the auction house doubling its TikTok followers in less than a week
Many users are beginning to wonder if the platform's guidelines have any positive value
Celebrity artists are collaborating with Snap on its Lens filter, but artists working with causes such as Black History Month and Pride are creating the more powerful projects
Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform
AI chatbot software has made waves by creating convincingly human speech and text—could it transform communications in the arts?
Digital experts in the cultural field—Alec Ward, Adam Koszary and Chris Unitt—share their predictions for platforms this year
With the platform's new owner firing moderators, some artists are hoping for an end to censorship while others fear discrimination
More than a million users have left Twitter since business magnate took over the platform
Campaign demands that Meta stop tinkering and start listening to creators
As attacks on accounts surge, be careful what you click on
The photo app is keen on muscling in on the NFT world, but crypto creatives aren't convinced that it is the right platform
On Monday, Moscow branded the Meta company an "extremist organisation", effectively criminalising the use of Instagram and Facebook in the country
Social media site may allow users to reorder the images they post, but does it mess with the whole idea of Instagram?
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
Did art dealer Kenny Schachter's predictions for the app hold true?
The Yours to Make initiative includes an installation at London’s Saatchi Gallery created by digital artist and curator Zaiba Jabbar using Reels
Art space in Belo Horizonte found an innovative way to engage with its audience during the pandemic—and now it's here to stay
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
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?
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
Christie's and Sotheby's are starting to embrace what the social media platform has to offer
Rob Baker, the director of marketing and creative strategy at the Museum of Modern Art, shares his secrets to Instagram success
As physical spaces remain shut and audiences head online, Freeze Magazine and Guts Gallery explain how shows on social media could be the way forward
The hashtag #findartthatfits, an initiative of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, is part of an art advisory campaign to assist prospective buyers