Walter Price Opens the TrapdoorMartin HerbertArtReview20 December 2022In ‘Pearl Lines’ at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, a dark and sanguine rendering of inequality and conflict emerges along gendered and racial lines
The Pitfalls of the Artist BiopicMartin Herbertartreview.com04 November 2022Misunderstood genius? Tick. Inspired by the muses? Tick. The formula, it seems, never grows old
The ‘Non-Art’ of Art FairsMartin Herbertartreview.com20 October 2022Audiences that can’t tell good from bad, artists who can’t either, gallerists who can’t get off the hamster wheel, and a general sense of burnout is a recipe for ‘abundant feelgood staleness’
Mark van Yetter’s Deadpan Broken NarrativesMartin HerbertArtReview17 October 2022‘Plunderbund Charity’ at Ebensperger, Berlin impresses – without didacticism – the self-seriousness of human beings and their varied divertimenti
The Clout Chasers of the ArtworldMartin Herbertartreview.com23 August 2022Is contemporary art’s recent moral tide just a ‘moment’?
The Joys of Looking at Art Outside ‘the Artworld’Martin Herbertartreview.com01 July 2022You’ll have to trust your critical faculties when nothing in the framing is telling you whether what you’re seeing is legit
What Does Rich-Kid Art Look Like?Martin Herbertartreview.com22 June 2022In an artworld reluctant to discuss class, there seems to be no way in without a master’s degree and a subsidised period of ‘emerging’
