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
What If Virtual Galleries Ruled the Artworld?Martin Herbertartreview.com29 September 2020With life under successive lockdowns, get used to art run on a medium-low setting
How Kris Martin’s ‘Idiot’ Inspired a Critic to Rewrite His Own StoryMartin HerbertArtReview25 September 2020‘Dostoevsky, I thought, had maybe changed him and, to a person as dissatisfied with their own personality as I am, might rewrite me’
What ‘Bad Art’ Really MeansMartin Herbertartreview.com18 September 2020Many of the shows we see we’ll only see once, much of what was interesting in them we might miss, and what we get back for that is the cheap, cynical thrill of dismissal
