Martin Herbert

For @artreview.bsky.social, I was mean to Tate and then offered them some 'advice'

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025: The Best Bad Time Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art

Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art artreview.com/gallery-week...

Admittedly encountering his work has often made me move

RIP Figuration. Long Live the Body Artists rejoice! Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant!

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

On Deadline III Listen to On Deadline III by Martin Herbert #np on #SoundCloud

procrastination disco soundcloud.com/martinlherbe...

Same vibe

A Walker in the City by Linda Goode Bryant - Ursula - Hauser & Wirth Linda Goode Bryant on David Hammons and the importance of public space

icymi (I did) this is great www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/a-wal...

Nailed it

Painters! Take note. This is what a good painting looks like

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

Shazam but every time it hears Brian Eno it tells you who he stole the idea from

I will take popcorn lung in exchange for facing this grammar with equanimity

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

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 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

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.

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

completely lost it emotionally to this song on first listen and every time since

YouTube video by donmussell12 Judee Sill - The Kiss

Putting this here for my own damn self, Brian Wilson walked so Judee Sill could run youtu.be/0feFedDW_iQ?...

They’re small but they do the job

Behold my absolutely cursed writing-procrastination setup

That sounds eminently healthy. I don’t want words or understanding getting in the way of experiencing music (one reason, aside from lack of ability, why I try not to write about it…)

Me in 1984, age 11: whoa great album
Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album

Articulacy is overrated etc

‘3% of art…’ just didn’t hit the same way

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

😂 ‘What Lo-Fi’ is born