Tom Whyman

Tom Whyman is a philosopher and author of ‘Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster’ (2021, Repeater).

Let Toddlers Destroy Art

Tom Whymanartreview.com20 June 2022

Philosopher Tom Whyman drags his two-year-old son away from a brush with disaster at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

What Does It Mean To Paint ‘Like an Artist’?

Tom Whymanartreview.com28 April 2022

It’s about more than the motions of putting a brush to canvas

How To Be a ‘Real’ Artist

Tom Whymanartreview.com16 March 2022

What Plato, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Werner Herzog, Iris Murdoch, Ai Weiwei, and Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder might teach us about artmaking and authenticity

The Stupidity of the Artworld’s Russophobia

Tom Whymanartreview.com08 March 2022

We 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 Artists

Tom Whymanartreview.com18 January 2022

Or why we now only have room for the easiest and most straightforward sorts of thrill

What Art Galleries Can Learn from Playgrounds

Tom Whymanartreview.com03 November 2021

Writer 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 2021

In 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