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
Would It Ever Be OK To Destroy Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’?Tom Whymanartreview.com18 October 2022Art is implicated in the climate disaster whether it wants to be or not
Adam Curtis’s ‘TraumaZone’ Needs More Adam CurtisTom Whymanartreview.com14 October 2022(Or why you should read Svetlana Alexievich instead)
What Does It Mean To ‘Abolish the Family’?Tom Whymanartreview.com11 October 2022Family abolition seems like a timely idea – but what are we even abolishing here, anyway?