An experimental incubator exploring arts and global systems in today’s fragmented, technologically dominated world through critical essays, in-depth interviews, email dispatches, and more.
Founded by arts journalist and editor Reena Devi, this intangible, globally connected space is supported by commissioned work, collaborations, reader support, and sheer creative stubbornness. No investors, no ads, no patrons.
7 November 2025
Launched a brand new ad-hoc column, ‘The News Desk‘, responding to global news headlines with incisive, well-researched analysis on urgent issues in the art world and beyond.
Exclusive release via first surprise drop for paid members of Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi’s The Lightning Circle.
21 October 2025
The Multipolar Dispatch‘s latest unfiltered and unfancy email titled, ‘Step Aside, Mr Grey. We’re In My Red Room Now’, brought in 600 page views in an hour for both the platform and reenadeviwrites.com.
18 October 2025
Launched ‘Signals From A Multipolar Art World‘, a brand new interview series with breakthrough arts leaders from diverse parts of the globe.
The first interview featured leading Mongolian curator Gantuya Badamgarav.
17 October 2025
The Multipolar Dispatch‘s latest unfiltered, unfancy email titled, ‘Look What You Made Me Do (Reena’s Version)’, brought in 600 page views in an hour for both the platform and reenadeviwrites.com.
12 October 2025
“Anatomy Of A Dead Pitch: Can You Speak Rejection?” referenced in Desert Prose, United Arab Emirates-based journalist Katy Gillett’s popular Middle East media industry newsletter.
5 October 2025
Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi launched its own totally unfancy email dispatches with unfiltered takes on everything under the sun, especially the art world.
Along with useful links and unhelpful gifs, The Multipolar Dispatch is sent primarily to supporters, contributors, and collaborators.
3 October 2025
Launched ‘Anatomy Of A Dead Pitch‘, a series of critical essays using an exhibition, arts event, or artwork, either ignored or declined for publication, as an incision point for a post-mortem of today’s malaises.
26 September 2025
To support independent journalism that dares to speak from the margins, Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi launched its own Buy Me A Coffee page and paid membership.
All non-commissioned (unpaid) pieces on the website includes a contribution link. Commissioned (paid) work stays link free.
9 August 2025
Launched ‘Climate of Collapse‘, a trilogy of critical essays exploring our collective capacity to critique, to create, to advance, even as the very foundations of our public and creative life collapse and collide.
This series is entirely non-commissioned (unpaid).
10 June 2025
“Will The Art World’s Age of Average Cost Us?” referenced by German artist, filmmaker, writer Hito Steyerl in her latest critically lauded publication titled, “Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat“.
2 March 2025
“Will The Art World’s Age of Average Cost Us?” referenced by German artist, filmmaker, writer Hito Steyerl in her op-ed titled, “How Do You Get Artistic Freedom Back Into Art” for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s newspaper of record.
The text is based on a keynote speech Hito gave at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin on 30 January 2025.
7 January 2025
Veteran French art collectors Sylvain Lévy and Dominique Lévy commissioned Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi to write, edit, and publish a series of critical essays.
The essays explore their Paris-based DSLcollection within the context of technology, international art collections, fashion, luxury, and art.
29 September 2024
“Does The Art World Know It Has A Toxic PR Problem?” garnered close to 800 page views in a week.
Also shared by German artist, filmmaker, writer Hito Steyerl on social media.
1 June 2024
Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi‘s “Will The Art World’s ‘Age of Average’ Cost Us?” referenced in popular digital culture newsletter Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends.
10 May 2024
Launched ‘Creative Collapse‘, a two-part viral essay series confronting how creativity is being flattened and obscured in favor of safety and spin at this critical point in history.
This essay series is non-commissioned (unpaid).
29 June 2023
Official launch of Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi.
The platform features commissioned (paid) and non-commissioned (unpaid) essays, features, interviews, industry reports that dare to speak from the margins.
It also includes an archive of previously published industry reports and analyses for Artnews, ArtAsiaPacific, and the now-defunct CoBo Social.
Reena Devi. Writer. Editor. Founder. 
