Contemporary Art: Visionary in Theory, Archaic in PracticeMartin Herbertartreview.com04 February 2021In an age of rentable, disposable virtualised culture, why contemporary art stubbornly resists dematerialization
What the ‘White Cube’ Means NowMartin Herbertartreview.com21 January 2021The uniform, sterile backdrop of art galleries persists – a pristine void for commerce’s ritzy, phantasmic figure – but is there a silver lining in its endurance?
Ross Bleckner: Painting the Inexorable Nature of ChangeMartin HerbertArtReview14 January 2021Once painter-laureate of the AIDS epidemic, the artist’s new works offer moments of melancholic contemplation
Keeping Up With the Kids: a New Year’s Resolution for Art CriticsMartin Herbertartreview.com08 January 2021Art is an evolving language: one that, if you’re not careful, you can unlearn as well as learn
The Punch-Drunk Goodwill of Artworld Christmas CardsMartin Herbertartreview.com23 December 2020A collective dropping of cool, reserve and power games
Is Contemporary Art Frightened of Fear?Martin HerbertArtReview29 October 2020Horror cinema is booming; contemporary music is filled with frightfests. But art? Not so much
Online Art Fairs: Once More, With FeelingMartin Herbertartreview.com16 October 2020The champagne-fuelled anxiety is gone – now it’s ominousness, even nostalgia, when you log in to Frieze’s viewing rooms
