Martin Herbert
@martinherbert.bsky.social
Art critic, Berlin. Editor at ArtReview. Dachshund butler. Unfold This Moment, Tell Them I Said No, The Uncertainty Principle pub. Sternberg Press
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This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases, writes @martinherbert.bsky.social artreview.com/jaded-palett...
Jaded Palettes
This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases
artreview.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases, writes @martinherbert.bsky.social artreview.com/jaded-palett...
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Over the past 50 years, the artist John Smith has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it artreview.com/being-the-on...
Being the One and Only John Smith
Over the past 50 years the artist has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it
artreview.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Over the past 50 years, the artist John Smith has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it artreview.com/being-the-on...
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‘The Contractor’ finds Jesse Darling burnt out, ambivalent, showing up for work because there’s a job to be done and kids to feed artreview.com/jesse-darlin...
Jesse Darling Punches In
‘The Contractor’ finds the artist burnt out, ambivalent, showing up for work because there’s a job to be done and kids to feed
artreview.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
‘The Contractor’ finds Jesse Darling burnt out, ambivalent, showing up for work because there’s a job to be done and kids to feed artreview.com/jesse-darlin...
I wrote this
In the 13th Berlin Biennale, titled ‘passing the fugitive on’, the viewer is invited to think about almost everywhere but Gaza artreview.com/13th-berlin-...
13th Berlin Biennale Review: What Doesn’t the Fox Say
In ‘passing the fugitive on’, the viewer is invited to think about almost everywhere but Gaza
artreview.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I wrote this
For @artreview.bsky.social, I was mean to Tate and then offered them some 'advice'
Why is no one going to the Tate anymore? Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening artreview.com/why-no-one-l...
Why No One Likes the Tate Anymore
Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening.
artreview.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
For @artreview.bsky.social, I was mean to Tate and then offered them some 'advice'
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Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art artreview.com/gallery-week...
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025: The Best Bad Time
Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art
artreview.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art artreview.com/gallery-week...
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Artists rejoice! says @martinherbert.bsky.social. Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant! artreview.com/rip-figurati...
RIP Figuration. Long Live the Body
Artists rejoice! Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant!
artreview.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Artists rejoice! says @martinherbert.bsky.social. Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant! artreview.com/rip-figurati...
Had sleep paralysis last night, that thing where you can see the room but can't move. Didn't enjoy it, but I counted my blessings. At least I didn't fall asleep in a Gormley show
April 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Had sleep paralysis last night, that thing where you can see the room but can't move. Didn't enjoy it, but I counted my blessings. At least I didn't fall asleep in a Gormley show
procrastination disco soundcloud.com/martinlherbe...
On Deadline III
Listen to On Deadline III by Martin Herbert #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
procrastination disco soundcloud.com/martinlherbe...
icymi (I did) this is great www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/a-wal...
A Walker in the City by Linda Goode Bryant - Ursula - Hauser & Wirth
Linda Goode Bryant on David Hammons and the importance of public space
www.hauserwirth.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
icymi (I did) this is great www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/a-wal...
Painters! Take note. This is what a good painting looks like
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Painters! Take note. This is what a good painting looks like
A lot of abject art looks really nice now
March 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A lot of abject art looks really nice now
Fitbit:
You got less than six hours sleep
You are 100% ready to face the day
Me: 😵🥱 sorry what
You got less than six hours sleep
You are 100% ready to face the day
Me: 😵🥱 sorry what
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Fitbit:
You got less than six hours sleep
You are 100% ready to face the day
Me: 😵🥱 sorry what
You got less than six hours sleep
You are 100% ready to face the day
Me: 😵🥱 sorry what
Shazam but every time it hears Brian Eno it tells you who he stole the idea from
March 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Shazam but every time it hears Brian Eno it tells you who he stole the idea from
Burnout level: vaping cbd flower in the break at my German evening class
March 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Burnout level: vaping cbd flower in the break at my German evening class
Singing is figurative, guitar solos are abstract, playing a guitar solo using a talkbox is blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Singing is figurative, guitar solos are abstract, playing a guitar solo using a talkbox is blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction
ArtReview put up this old feature I wrote on Cerith Wyn Evans so here it is. No details but the interview I did for this was the most chaotic one I’d ever done, only bested when I interviewed Cerith again a few years later artreview.com/the-horny-an...
The Horny and Homicidal World of Cerith Wyn Evans
From 2006: “My old friend Leigh Bowery would ask: ‘Where is the poison?’ And that’s a question I keep asking myself”
artreview.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ArtReview put up this old feature I wrote on Cerith Wyn Evans so here it is. No details but the interview I did for this was the most chaotic one I’d ever done, only bested when I interviewed Cerith again a few years later artreview.com/the-horny-an...
Reading a cool article about the new art that's designed to be there in the background while you're looking at your phone
March 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Reading a cool article about the new art that's designed to be there in the background while you're looking at your phone
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Very happy to share the cover of Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable stories of those affected past and present. Three months to go, but you can preorder (please!) now. linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
March 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Very happy to share the cover of Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable stories of those affected past and present. Three months to go, but you can preorder (please!) now. linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Most new films seem to be 2hrs 40 mins and a lot of people hate that
BUT
Most new songs are 1min 49 secs
Most new artworks are 7.2 secs
So shut up, it balances out
BUT
Most new songs are 1min 49 secs
Most new artworks are 7.2 secs
So shut up, it balances out
March 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Most new films seem to be 2hrs 40 mins and a lot of people hate that
BUT
Most new songs are 1min 49 secs
Most new artworks are 7.2 secs
So shut up, it balances out
BUT
Most new songs are 1min 49 secs
Most new artworks are 7.2 secs
So shut up, it balances out
Putting this here for my own damn self, Brian Wilson walked so Judee Sill could run youtu.be/0feFedDW_iQ?...
Judee Sill - The Kiss
YouTube video by donmussell12
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Putting this here for my own damn self, Brian Wilson walked so Judee Sill could run youtu.be/0feFedDW_iQ?...
Behold my absolutely cursed writing-procrastination setup
March 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Behold my absolutely cursed writing-procrastination setup
Me in 1984, age 11: whoa great album
Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album
Articulacy is overrated etc
Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album
Articulacy is overrated etc
March 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Me in 1984, age 11: whoa great album
Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album
Articulacy is overrated etc
Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album
Articulacy is overrated etc