Reposted by Martin HerbertArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2025In the cursed year 2025, art staged the increasing centrality of a technological revolution that most people didn’t ask for but can’t escape artreview.com/the-year-ai-...artreview.comThe Year AI Captured ArtThe year in art: In the cursed year 2025, art staged the increasing centrality of a technological revolution that most people didn’t ask for but can’t escape 053
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Procrastination house music on.soundcloud.com/5MIHfWXMVoHJ...soundcloud.comojnojoieqnkqknefwq_ver3Writer 000
Reposted by Martin HerbertArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 07/11/2025This ‘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...artreview.comJaded PalettesThis ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases 0134
Reposted by Martin HerbertArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Over 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...artreview.comBeing the One and Only John SmithOver 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 0153
Reposted by Martin HerbertArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025‘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...artreview.comJesse 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 041
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 01/08/2025For @artreview.bsky.social, I was mean to Tate and then offered them some 'advice' 091
Reposted by Martin HerbertArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art artreview.com/gallery-week...artreview.comGallery Weekend Berlin 2025: The Best Bad TimeWhy a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art 0102
Reposted by Martin HerbertArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Artists rejoice! says @martinherbert.bsky.social. Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant! artreview.com/rip-figurati...artreview.comRIP Figuration. Long Live the BodyArtists rejoice! Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant! 031
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Had 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 150
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025procrastination disco soundcloud.com/martinlherbe...soundcloud.comOn Deadline IIIListen to On Deadline III by Martin Herbert #np on #SoundCloud 050
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025icymi (I did) this is great www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/a-wal...hauserwirth.comA Walker in the City by Linda Goode Bryant - Ursula - Hauser & WirthLinda Goode Bryant on David Hammons and the importance of public space 130
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Painters! Take note. This is what a good painting looks like 170
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Fitbit: You got less than six hours sleep You are 100% ready to face the day Me: 😵🥱 sorry what 020
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Shazam but every time it hears Brian Eno it tells you who he stole the idea from 060
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Burnout level: vaping cbd flower in the break at my German evening class 130
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Singing is figurative, guitar solos are abstract, playing a guitar solo using a talkbox is blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction 140
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 19/03/2025ArtReview 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...artreview.comThe Horny and Homicidal World of Cerith Wyn EvansFrom 2006: “My old friend Leigh Bowery would ask: ‘Where is the poison?’ And that’s a question I keep asking myself” 1202
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Reading a cool article about the new art that's designed to be there in the background while you're looking at your phone 160
Reposted by Martin HerbertOliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Very 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 2155
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Most 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 081
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Putting this here for my own damn self, Brian Wilson walked so Judee Sill could run youtu.be/0feFedDW_iQ?...youtu.beJudee Sill - The KissYouTube video by donmussell12 130
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Behold my absolutely cursed writing-procrastination setup 180
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Me in 1984, age 11: whoa great album Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album Articulacy is overrated etc 1100
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Art is great, the artworld is terrible. Pretty sure that when I’m dead & have expended many thousands of words on it, that’s all I was trying to say 1240
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Love to read hifi magazines where they’ll take a £2,000 turntable and talk about how they can now hear new details in that incredible modern masterpiece the soundtrack to Pirates of the Carribean 180
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Thanks margate for whatever the old fuck this is 010
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The burning questions being asked of my profession 2100
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I remember being absolutely furious that I wasn't allowed to go to this gig because I was five weeks old and in a different country www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIpz...youtube.comCan - Live 1973 - Paris Bataclan - RemasteredYouTube video by WF203 170
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Did the classic Dungeness area sound mirrors to outstanding fish sandwich to prospect cottage run 1100
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025That sound you hear is countless writers muttering curses at Word as they try to figure out how to turn off the AI 'copilot'. Fuck off microsoft 0100
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Pleased to announce I’ve joined intellectual shoegaze band Dolorous & Guitary. Please buy our debut album A Thousand Pedals 060
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Wrote about Philippe Parreno's fairly epic show at Haus der Kunst in Munich for ArtReview artreview.com/philippe-par...artreview.comPhilippe Parreno: Between Difficulty and PossibilityIn ‘Voices’ at Haus der Kunst, Munich it feels like something is being transmitted in a language halfway alien, halfway familiar 0101
Reposted by Martin HerbertStrategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport. 162450526
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/02/2025One sign of getting old is when you realise that neither your wife or your child know how to balance your turntable’s tonearm. I have to write some detailed notes 180
Reposted by Martin HerbertBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025current mood: things are going to get worse before they get worse 241841175
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Artists are always saying ‘let’s meet at my show and you can have a look’ but when I say ‘let’s meet at that one place that sells art magazines and you can have a read’ they don’t want to 1323
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Weird that nobody's written a book about the rewriting of art history over the past couple of decades & titled it Loose Canon 470
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Wrote about Samuel Hindolo for ArtReview’s Future Greats bsky.app/profile/artr... 0112
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Whenever I introduce myself at a public talk I use the same cadences that Sonny Rollins used on the intro to Live at the Village Vanguard and so far not one person has noticed 060
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 14/01/2025For ArtReview, I wrote about going back, and back. Hi to the gallery staff who got to know me quite well bsky.app/profile/artr... 0173
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Part of my learning-German practice is using translated recipes. When I told my wife that Jamie Oliver was useful in teaching me to cook, she said ‘I saw him drunk on German tv so many times’ 090