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Martin Herbert

@martinherbert.bsky.social
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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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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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 artreview.com/the-year-ai-...
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The Year AI Captured Art
The 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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Procrastination house music on.soundcloud.com/5MIHfWXMVoHJ...
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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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Jaded Palettes
This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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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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
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ArtReview @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...
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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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I wrote this
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
For @artreview.bsky.social, I was mean to Tate and then offered them some 'advice'
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art artreview.com/gallery-week...
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Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025: The Best Bad Time
Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Artists rejoice! says @martinherbert.bsky.social. Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant! artreview.com/rip-figurati...
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RIP Figuration. Long Live the Body
Artists rejoice! Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant!
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
procrastination disco soundcloud.com/martinlherbe...
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On Deadline III
Listen to On Deadline III by Martin Herbert #np on #SoundCloud
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Same vibe
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
icymi (I did) this is great www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/a-wal...
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A Walker in the City by Linda Goode Bryant - Ursula - Hauser & Wirth
Linda Goode Bryant on David Hammons and the importance of public space
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Painters! Take note. This is what a good painting looks like
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A lot of abject art looks really nice now
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Fitbit: You got less than six hours sleep You are 100% ready to face the day Me: 😵🥱 sorry what
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Shazam but every time it hears Brian Eno it tells you who he stole the idea from
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Burnout level: vaping cbd flower in the break at my German evening class
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Singing is figurative, guitar solos are abstract, playing a guitar solo using a talkbox is blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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...
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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”
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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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Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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
Photo shows my book Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World. It has a map-effect cover with spreading blue and yellow blotches, mimicking both landmasses and bacteria. Picture notes it will be published June 2025.
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Putting this here for my own damn self, Brian Wilson walked so Judee Sill could run youtu.be/0feFedDW_iQ?...
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Judee Sill - The Kiss
YouTube video by donmussell12
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Behold my absolutely cursed writing-procrastination setup
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Me in 1984, age 11: whoa great album Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album Articulacy is overrated etc
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Art 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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Love 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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thanks margate for whatever the old fuck this is
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The burning questions being asked of my profession
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I 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...
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Can - Live 1973 - Paris Bataclan - Remastered
YouTube video by WF203
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Did the classic Dungeness area sound mirrors to outstanding fish sandwich to prospect cottage run
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
That 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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Pleased to announce I’ve joined intellectual shoegaze band Dolorous & Guitary. Please buy our debut album A Thousand Pedals
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wrote about Philippe Parreno's fairly epic show at Haus der Kunst in Munich for ArtReview artreview.com/philippe-par...
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Philippe Parreno: Between Difficulty and Possibility
In ‘Voices’ at Haus der Kunst, Munich it feels like something is being transmitted in a language halfway alien, halfway familiar
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
One 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
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025
current mood: things are going to get worse before they get worse
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Artists 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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Weird that nobody's written a book about the rewriting of art history over the past couple of decades & titled it Loose Canon
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The market decides
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Wrote about Samuel Hindolo for ArtReview’s Future Greats bsky.app/profile/artr...
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Operator would prefer not to
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Whenever 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
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
For ArtReview, I wrote about going back, and back. Hi to the gallery staff who got to know me quite well bsky.app/profile/artr...
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Define procrastination
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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Part 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’
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