Martin Herbert

Martin Herbert is Associate Editor at ArtReview.

Cian Dayrit’s Antiauthoritarianism

Martin HerbertArtReview Asia18 December 2023

‘Schemes of Belligerence’ at Nome, Berlin presents a seething counter-history of colonisation, revolution and militaristic control of the Philippines

Tolia Astakhishvili’s Unhappy Homestead

Martin HerbertArtReview17 October 2023

‘The First Finger (chapter II)’ at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin mixes the Tbilisi-born artist’s orphaned works with collaborations and standalone artworks by 12 other artists

Slow-Motion Omnidirectional Catastrophe

Martin HerbertArtReview Asia11 October 2023

Daido Moriyama’s Retrospective at C/O Berlin shows how the real world is scarier than photographs

What to Make of Harry Smith?

Martin HerbertArtReview04 October 2023

He defied convention and any kind of categorisation – and now he’s the subject of a major museum retrospective

‘The Slip’ Review: Not a Dead End

Martin HerbertArtReview29 August 2023

How one street in Downtown New York became a centrepoint of artistic invention

Contemporary Art’s Midlife Crisis

Martin Herbertartreview.com07 July 2023

Seen when young, unseen in middle age, seen again as you get older. Does that sound familiar? If so, you may be an artist

Death, Destruction and Heartbreak: The Remarkable Life and Work of Jessie Homer French

Martin HerbertArtReview08 June 2023

The self-taught California artist’s roots in the Hollywood film industry inform her mysterious paintings, which confront grief, memory and ecological ruin. Now, as she enters her eighties, the artworld is finally taking note