• Home
  • Reviews
  • Conversations
  • Archive
  • About

The Penitent Review

  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured

    Liverpool Biennial 2023

    June 29, 2023 Read More
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured

    On paying artists

    May 4, 2023 Read More
  • Crystal Bennes Featured Reviews

    Katy Hessel, The Story of Art Without Men

    March 15, 2023 Read More
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured

    Liverpool Biennial 2023

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

    June 29, 2023
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured

    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
  • Crystal Bennes Reviews

    Edith Dekyndt at Bourse de Commerce, Paris

    Crystal talks through some ethical concerns with the work of Edith Dekynd in Paris …

    February 22, 2023
  • Reviews Tom Jeffreys

    Bloomberg New Contemporaries

    Tom heads to the South London Gallery for the annual celebration of recent graduates.…

    February 5, 2023
  • Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Featured

    ‘Hinterlands’ at BALTIC, Newcastle

    Crystal and Tom discuss Hinterlands, a group exhibition on relationships between people and place at the BALTIC…

    February 4, 2023
  • Reviews Tom Jeffreys

    Giorgio Morandi at Estorick Collection, London

    How will taking painting classes affect Tom's response to Morandi's classic still-lifes?…

    February 3, 2023
  • Crystal Bennes Featured Reviews

    ‘Recycling Beauty’ at Prada Foundation, Milan

    Crystal visits Milan to explore how works of art have been transformed, deformed and reformed over time.…

    January 17, 2023
  • Archive Crystal Bennes Reviews

    ‘Fragile Earth’ at MIMA, Middlesbrough

    From the archives: Crystal reviews Fragile Earth at MIMA in 2019.…

    November 26, 2022
Older Posts

About TPR

About TPR

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

Read More

Subscribe & Follow

Newsletter

Must-Read Articles

1

Liverpool Biennial 2023

June 29, 2023
2

On paying artists

May 4, 2023
3

Katy Hessel, The Story of Art Without Men

March 15, 2023

Reviews

Conversations

Archives

  • Archive (12)
  • Conversations (12)
  • Crystal Bennes (5)
  • Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys (12)
  • Featured (5)
  • Reviews (14)
  • Tom Jeffreys (5)