The Stupidity of the Artworld’s RussophobiaTom Whymanartreview.com08 March 2022We could be stopping oligarchs from using art to launder money; instead we’re banning Russian film directors and worrying about a statue of Engels
How the Pandemic Killed Our Respect for ArtistsTom Whymanartreview.com18 January 2022Or why we now only have room for the easiest and most straightforward sorts of thrill
What Art Galleries Can Learn from PlaygroundsTom Whymanartreview.com03 November 2021Writer Tom Whyman and his two-year-old son visit artist Albert Potrony’s ‘non-hierarchical’ playground at the BALTIC gallery
Why Would You Even Want to Have Sex?Tom Whymanartreview.com28 September 2021In Amia Srinivasan’s ‘The Right to Sex’, the philosopher lays out a world that is too bad for anyone to actually, wholeheartedly and unapologetically, have it
England’s Curse: National Psychodrama at the EurosTom Whymanartreview.com22 June 2021Broken football, the emptiness in Englishness, and what ‘Bring On Grealish’ really means
David Hockney’s Art of Doing the Bare MinimumTom Whymanartreview.com19 May 2021Is the artist’s London Underground redesign rebellious expression or aristocratic contempt?
Can ‘Hey Duggee’ Help Us Survive the Pandemic?Tom Whymanartreview.com30 April 2021How the atomisation of COVID-19 lockdowns has created a fear of the new – even in the world of CBeebies connoisseurs
