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    guardian(s) / (un)guarded: notes on Edinburgh Art Festival 2026

    August 14, 2026 Read More
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    Postcard from London / notes on abstraction

    August 4, 2026 Read More
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    Rehana Zaman, ‘Soft Fruit’

    March 21, 2026 Read More
  • Crystal Bennes 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
  • Archive Crystal Bennes Reviews

    Museums as History Makers

    From the archives: Crystal on the role that museums play in collecting contemporary design.…

    November 26, 2022
  • Archive Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    Conversations on Art and Science, part 4

    From the archives: Crystal and Tom discuss the key ideas, challenges, and possibilities of art-science collaboration. Part 4: Finding a Home…

    November 26, 2022
  • Archive Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    Conversations on Art and Science, part 3,

    From the archives: Crystal and Tom discuss the key ideas, challenges, and possibilities of art-science collaboration. Part 3: Transforming research into art.…

    November 26, 2022
  • Archive Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    Conversations on Art and Science, part 2

    From the archives: Crystal and Tom discuss the key ideas, challenges, and possibilities of art-science collaboration. Part 2: Producing New Knowledge…

    November 26, 2022
  • Archive Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys

    Conversations on Art and Science, part 1

    From the archives: Crystal and Tom discuss the key ideas, challenges, and possibilities of art-science collaboration. Part 1: The Question of Instrumentalisation…

    November 26, 2022
  • Reviews Tom Jeffreys

    Art Encounters biennial, Timişoara

    From the archives: Tom digs out an unpublished review of the Timişoara biennial from 2019.…

    February 6, 2019
  • Archive Conversations Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys Reviews

    57th Venice Biennale

    To Venice! The waters are rising, the palazzos are sinking, the art is expensive, and the mood is, err, buoyant. Kind of. …

    May 12, 2017
  • Archive Tom Jeffreys

    In conversation with Jussi Kivi

    From the archives: Tom chats to one of Finland's most subtly influential contemporary artists.…

    July 1, 2016
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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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