i wonder if soil has heart. i wonder if blood, sweat, and tears do feed roots and flower fruit. if the earth itself has memory, and can she remember, somehow, all those who came…

“The very precariousness of queer archives unsettles the ways in which conventional historical narrative opposes the ‘public’ and the ‘private’, sets history against gossip, pits stories against shards.” ~ Catherine Lord, Inside the Body…

Prunella Clough at Thomas Dane Ally Fallon at Hales Gallery Nomenclature for the Time Being at Raven Row Audrey Amiss at Wellcome Collection One beautiful thing about visiting a lot of exhibitions in a…

“The wage system arises out of the individual ownership of the land and the instruments of labour. It was the necessary condition for the development of capitalist production, and will perish with it, in…

As its beautiful title suggests, something about drawing as an originary practice sits at the heart of Shahana Rajani’s brilliant exhibition, Lines that World a River, the latest iteration of which is at Nottingham…

Crystal’s round-up of recent exhibitions from Basel…

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…