Martin Herbert

Martin Herbert is Associate Editor at ArtReview.

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

The Symbolic Value of Art in the Age of Boutique ‘Resort’ Gallery Outposts

Martin HerbertArtReview07 June 2023

A new show at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin presents paintings as an emblem of this commodification – but also a repository, for now, of potential ‘defence’

Cay Bahnmiller’s Emotive Encrustations

Martin HerbertArtReview22 May 2023

The late Michigan-born artist’s works are testaments to second (and third and fourth) thoughts – and abundant inner disquiet

Have We Reached the Endpoint of Revivalism?

Martin Herbertartreview.com05 May 2023

Art has long looked to the recent past for inspiration, but might the return of post-Internet art just be too much, too soon?

Cao Fei, MatryoshkaVerse, 2022. Double Channel HD video, 16:4.5, color with sound, 37min 38sec © Cao Fei, 2023. Courtesy the artist, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers

What Good Is a Paintbrush in the Climate Crisis?

Martin HerbertArtReview03 May 2023

The sunny allure of John Korner’s canvases depicting melting glaciers ultimately draws into question his choice of medium to convey the scale of the disaster

Isabel Nolan: Trying to Love an Awful World

Martin HerbertArtReview19 April 2023

“In our preoccupation with mediating the world, many arbitrary distinctions were drawn, and perhaps they were drawn a long time ago”

Yuri Ancarani Illuminates Our World’s Shadow Side

Martin HerbertArtReview12 April 2023

In a retrospective at Kunstverein Hannover, the artist’s moving-image feature films all articulately reveal an unvarnished reality