This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases, writes @martinherbert.bsky.social artreview.com/jaded-palett...

Over the past 50 years, the artist John Smith has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it artreview.com/being-the-on...

‘The Contractor’ finds Jesse Darling burnt out, ambivalent, showing up for work because there’s a job to be done and kids to feed artreview.com/jesse-darlin...

I wrote this

For @artreview.bsky.social, I was mean to Tate and then offered them some 'advice'

Why a contracting market – whisper it – might actually be good for the art artreview.com/gallery-week...

Artists rejoice! says @martinherbert.bsky.social. Forget fashionable taste! You no longer have to struggle to be relevant! artreview.com/rip-figurati...

Had sleep paralysis last night, that thing where you can see the room but can't move. Didn't enjoy it, but I counted my blessings. At least I didn't fall asleep in a Gormley show

procrastination disco soundcloud.com/martinlherbe...

Same vibe

icymi (I did) this is great www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/a-wal...

Painters! Take note. This is what a good painting looks like

A lot of abject art looks really nice now

Fitbit: You got less than six hours sleep You are 100% ready to face the day Me: 😵🥱 sorry what

Shazam but every time it hears Brian Eno it tells you who he stole the idea from

Burnout level: vaping cbd flower in the break at my German evening class

Singing is figurative, guitar solos are abstract, playing a guitar solo using a talkbox is blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction

ArtReview put up this old feature I wrote on Cerith Wyn Evans so here it is. No details but the interview I did for this was the most chaotic one I’d ever done, only bested when I interviewed Cerith again a few years later artreview.com/the-horny-an...

Reading a cool article about the new art that's designed to be there in the background while you're looking at your phone

Very happy to share the cover of Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable stories of those affected past and present. Three months to go, but you can preorder (please!) now. linktr.ee/oliverbasciano

Most new films seem to be 2hrs 40 mins and a lot of people hate that BUT Most new songs are 1min 49 secs Most new artworks are 7.2 secs So shut up, it balances out

Putting this here for my own damn self, Brian Wilson walked so Judee Sill could run youtu.be/0feFedDW_iQ?...

Behold my absolutely cursed writing-procrastination setup

Me in 1984, age 11: whoa great album Me in 2025, age 52: whoa great album Articulacy is overrated etc

Art is great, the artworld is terrible. Pretty sure that when I’m dead & have expended many thousands of words on it, that’s all I was trying to say

Love to read hifi magazines where they’ll take a £2,000 turntable and talk about how they can now hear new details in that incredible modern masterpiece the soundtrack to Pirates of the Carribean

Thanks margate for whatever the old fuck this is

The burning questions being asked of my profession

I remember being absolutely furious that I wasn't allowed to go to this gig because I was five weeks old and in a different country www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIpz...

Did the classic Dungeness area sound mirrors to outstanding fish sandwich to prospect cottage run

That sound you hear is countless writers muttering curses at Word as they try to figure out how to turn off the AI 'copilot'. Fuck off microsoft

Pleased to announce I’ve joined intellectual shoegaze band Dolorous & Guitary. Please buy our debut album A Thousand Pedals

Wrote about Philippe Parreno's fairly epic show at Haus der Kunst in Munich for ArtReview artreview.com/philippe-par...

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

One sign of getting old is when you realise that neither your wife or your child know how to balance your turntable’s tonearm. I have to write some detailed notes

current mood: things are going to get worse before they get worse

Artists are always saying ‘let’s meet at my show and you can have a look’ but when I say ‘let’s meet at that one place that sells art magazines and you can have a read’ they don’t want to

Weird that nobody's written a book about the rewriting of art history over the past couple of decades & titled it Loose Canon

The market decides

Wrote about Samuel Hindolo for ArtReview’s Future Greats bsky.app/profile/artr...

Operator would prefer not to

Whenever I introduce myself at a public talk I use the same cadences that Sonny Rollins used on the intro to Live at the Village Vanguard and so far not one person has noticed

For ArtReview, I wrote about going back, and back. Hi to the gallery staff who got to know me quite well bsky.app/profile/artr...

Define procrastination

Part of my learning-German practice is using translated recipes. When I told my wife that Jamie Oliver was useful in teaching me to cook, she said ‘I saw him drunk on German tv so many times’

It’s taken me til now to learn that Duke Ellington’s real name was Marmaduke Ellington

Friend of mine has used Artforums for placemats for at least 25 years

It’s me, an eight year old in a German supermarket