But first I’ll be taking a proper summer holiday, sitting by the sea and eating tomatoes, before I begin my new role in September.

My last day as Director of Digital at @artreview.bsky.social was last week. It was a real privilege at ArtReview to commission widely and ambitiously with fantastic writers, covering the art world and so much more beyond it, alongside an incredibly talented team.

Thanks for amplifying the callout Marijam! Pleasure to have you and your latest book on our site too, fantastic work.

On the removal of over 500,000 books from the Internet Archive, after the courts ruled that free access was not in the financial interest of publishers, as @michelle-sc.bsky.social considered the wider implications for copyright law, for AI, and for regular readers artreview.com/the-internet...

What the rise in student fees means for education and the arts, as @briangdillon.bsky.social took on the ongoing ‘war on universities’ and wondered at how little has changed under the new government artreview.com/the-uks-arts...

Reporting from Istanbul on the Culture Route Festival, Kaya Genç on artwashing, gentrification and the difficult choices that young artists have been forced to make artreview.com/the-tangled-...

On the remarkable history of the 1928 Derzhprom building in the centre of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, which was partially destroyed last year by a Russian rocket, as Owen Hatherley argued that it represents a brief yet radical chapter in the history of resistance artreview.com/the-derzhpro...

Deepa Bhashti gave the bigger picture following a report revealing the rampant sexual harassment, misogyny and the appalling conditions faced by women working in the Malayalam film industry, even as their latest releases win plaudits at home and at Cannes artreview.com/after-malaya...

As the recent controversy surrounding Ana Gallardo’s touring anthology exhibition at Mexico City’s MUAC evolved, Gaby Cepeda reflected upon just how ill-prepared museums are when it comes to public debate artreview.com/what-muac-an...

Looking at 'State of Emergency', a new photobook by Max Pinckers that uses photographic reenactments to reflect on Kenya’s colonial history, Zoé Samudzi asked why Pinckers ultimately foregrounds the British historical narrative even as he seeks to transcend it artreview.com/a-kenyan-doc...

Here @jamiesutcliffe.bsky.social reflected on the politics and radical potential of videogames, as explored in 'Everything To Play For' by @marijamdid.com (published by @versobooks.bsky.social) artreview.com/saving-the-v...

It’s been a year of many extremes, both for me personally and in the wider world. I’m grateful to be working in a little corner of the art + media world that remains fiercely independent, critical, questioning and, importantly, fun. And expect exciting news from us in 2025…

You can explore the full series here, which I commissioned with the excellent @alexanderleissle.bsky.social, and I’ll follow-up with a wider selection from our main digital commissioning in a separate thread. artreview.com/category/the...

And finally from the Year in Review, Mark Rappolt on how in 2024 art institutions ‘seemed to find finding more-or-less radical ways of saying nothing; all the while foregrounding the idea that they were trying to say something’. artreview.com/why-cant-the...