The Penitent Review is often a place where we complain about aspects of the art world in ways that the usual magazines are less inclined to publish. But we also like art (sometimes)! So…

Tom and Crystal discuss corporate sponsorship, public funding, why the system sucks and how to improve it.…

Tom spends an hour in a cold, damp London garage.…

Crystal heads to Helmsdale to write about an exhibition on birds and collective care…

Crystal and Tom head to Venice for a (very) long conversation about the nature of representation and Palestine protests at the 60th Biennale…

Crystal and Tom visit rural Cample Line to discuss the work of Palestinian artist Jumana Emil Abboud.…

Crystal and Tom talk through their favourite works at Frieze London and wonder what happened to the chaotic energy of former iterations?…

Crystal and Tom discuss the 2023 edition of the Liverpool Biennial...…

Crystal and Tom talk about paying artists, badly-behaved institutions, a need for greater transparency when it comes to fees and why art work is work…

Crystal reviews The Story of Art Without Men and talks about why she has serious problems with its approach to feminist art history…