Why Do We Still Find Vermeer So Fascinating?Tom Whymanartreview.com10 March 2023The Old Master gives us what we might think of as a philosophy, about the relationship between art and everyday life
The Doomed Project of ‘Smart Thinking’Tom Whymanartreview.com03 March 2023Philosophy is not here to help you do better at your job
England Is in Crisis. Enter Sir Grayson PerryTom Whymanartreview.com02 February 2023Cometh the hour, cometh the man. The artist and knight of the realm is on a quest to save the nation from its worst tendencies
Is This the Moment ‘Cancel Culture’ Comes for the YBAs?Tom Whymanartreview.com06 January 2023How online conspiracy theorists are drawing a line from Balenciaga’s bondage-themed photoshoot to the art of the Chapman Brothers
Should We Care What Hegel Really Thought of Art?Tom Whymanartreview.com13 December 2022And do we need more of the great idealist philosopher’s lectures on aesthetics?
Why Effective Altruists Fear ArtTom Whyman01 December 2022We don’t know how our actions will be received in the future – with art, that’s the whole beauty
Jimmy Carr’s Theory of ArtTom Whymanartreview.com28 October 2022The problem with ‘Jimmy Carr Destroys Art’ is that it never quite embraces its own sheer nihilistic pointlessness