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    The state of arts funding in Scotland

    February 24, 2025 Read More
  • Featured Reviews Tom Jeffreys

    Bianca Hlywa, ‘Mute Track’ at St Chad’s, London

    February 17, 2025 Read More
  • Crystal Bennes Featured Reviews

    We Move As A Murmuration at Timespan, Helmsdale

    September 4, 2024 Read More
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured

    The state of arts funding in Scotland

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

    February 24, 2025
  • Featured Reviews Tom Jeffreys

    Bianca Hlywa, ‘Mute Track’ at St Chad’s, London

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

    February 17, 2025
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured Reviews

    60th Venice Biennale

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

    April 26, 2024
  • Crystal Bennes Featured Reviews

    We Move As A Murmuration at Timespan, Helmsdale

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

    September 4, 2024
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured Reviews

    Jumana Emil Abboud at Cample Line, Dumfriesshire

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

    November 29, 2023
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    Frieze London 2023

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

    October 17, 2023
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    Liverpool Biennial 2023

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

    June 29, 2023
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    On paying artists

    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…

    May 4, 2023
  • Crystal Bennes Featured Reviews

    Katy Hessel, The Story of Art Without Men

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

    March 15, 2023
  • Reviews Tom Jeffreys

    Andrew Black, ‘On Clogger Lane’

    Andrew Black’s On Clogger Lane is a sedimentary sort of film: built up through layers and time. Slow fades transpose one perspective over another, imbuing the work with a rich sense of the rural…

    March 4, 2023
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The Penitent Review is Dr. Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys. Together, and sometimes separately, they converse on art, artists and, occasionally, the art world.

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