The White Pube

A story about a sleepover at the National Gallery, in pursuit of answers to a question: what is the POINT of ART?! read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/reviews/2024/overnight-museum & thank you, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ ! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠⁠ for more info about how you can do that :)

A text where I write about why I no longer want to write about Diversity. The history of institutional diversity policy, the historry of it's failings, but also -- my speculations about its future. read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/divpol101 & thank you, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ ! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠ for more info ab...

For real! The written version of the review is here ; our book Poor Artists is available to pre-order here . mwah mwah mwah goodbye

Where do artists live? HOW do artists live? i don't know, but this is a story about an immortal cat, the last artists left in East London & a squat in the 90s that's still here today! read the text on TWP: thewhitepube.co.uk/london-2039

documentaries about chronic fatigue are boring and they should be horror films instead. You can find the written version of this text here and you can PRE-ORDER OUR BOOK POOR ARTISTS RELEASING OCTOBER 3RD HERE :D

A review of Sheena Patel's debut novel, I'm a Fan, and a short story about wish fulfilment, desire and how i really want to punch my Dad. read the text version here: www.thewhitepube.co.uk/im-a-fan & thank you as always to our friends on ⁠Patreon⁠ ! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠our support page ⁠ for more info about how you can do that :)

A classic review! A straightforward review! You can find the written version on our website here !

This week's text is a love letter to a painting: Philip Guston's Painting, Smoking, Eating. It's also a love letter to limbo, chewing gum, dead time and unalienated labour read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/philip-guston & thank you as always to our friends on Patreon ! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to our support page for more info about how you can do that :...

but it's actually a review of Liverpool City Centre. The written version of the text is on our website .

We have a cheeky bonus guest episode from Art Assassins , a collective based out of South London Gallery. They’ve been investigating the role galleries play in public life and they’ve put their research together in this episode -- enjoy & we will catch u next week! If you want a peep at the transcript, it's available on the white pube website :) A note from Art Assassins >> "Gal...

This week's text is a review of SALTBURN!!! TL;DR i thought this film was not at all weird, just a normal and sexy time and this is NOT a thinkpiece. read it on the white pube dot com & thank you, as always, to our friends on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls go to our SUPPORT page for lil links n bits :)

I convince Zarina to delete her Twitter account and we say goodbye to our 20s in this New Years Resolution episode to kick off 2024. Proper reviews start next weekend but til then, there's this. YouTube if you prefer video; transcription if you wanna read instead. We're going to try to write lots of reviews this year to make up for writing a book last year so get ReadYyyyyyy :D

I WENT TO THE OPERA! and it was amazing, and i love my job and i have so much to say and i cannot wait to tell you about it. read the text version of this here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/rigoletto-royaloperahouse/ & if i don't see u until next year, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! love you, hope you've had a nice 2023, and that u get to spend a bit of time having a lil rest an...

Welcome to our Sunday Lecture series. This week's guest lecturer is from the Artists' Co-op. If you could save your questions for the end, and put your hands together and give our guest a warm welcome! Read the text on the White Pube dot com: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-thoughts/portrait-of-a-co-op/ Leave a teacher/graduate emoji in the comments on ⁠ our instagram ⁠ once you’re done listening,...

we've been meaning to record this story for the past year and a half but we actually just got so busy writing the book and we shouldn't really be messing about uploading podcasts about it because it STILL isn't done 🤡 if you want the transcription for this episode, check the podcast section of our website. if you wanna support our work, which hopefully won't sound as ridiculous an...

I've written FAN FICTION about a REAL ARTIST. You can find the written version of this text here, and you can see which artist I'm talking about in the axe to hot dogs to maggot pipeline video that inspired the fiction here on YouTube or TikTok . Apologies.

This week's text is about all the art on the Underground, London's public transport network. A kind of love letter to it all, but also thinking about art's role in public life! Read on the website: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/art-on-the-underground Israel continues to commit horrific acts of violence and genocide against the Palestinian people, Gaza is still under blockade and poten...

Read the text version or access all the links/citations/references on the White Pube dot com: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/free-palestine/ LINKS: 1: Palestine Solidarity Campaign // Email your MP 2: Find your MP, Local Councillors, London Assembly Members (or regional equivalent) 3: Boycott Zabludowicz (TWP text from 2021) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵...

Did you know Nando’s has the biggest collection of contemporary Southern African art in the world? In this week’s SPECIAL episode, we have partnered with Nando’s to look into their massive patronage of the arts. Over the past 20 years, they’ve purchased over 28,000 thousand pieces! Why??? We meet with 3 artists in South Africa who have benefitted from this support — Nkosinathi Quwe, Colijn Strydom...

From Medieval times until, like, now! Did you know: the BA Fine Art has only been around since 1972. What happened before that? The apprentice in the Master's workshop, the guilds, the Academies, the technical colleges and Bauhaus: how did we get here? Where did art degrees come from and how did artists learn to be artists throughout the entirety of art history? Read the full text here: The En...

Vaping in the studio with a guy that runs an art school, but maybe not in the way you'd think. read the full text here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/portrait3 thank you, as always. to our friends on Patreon ! if you'd like to support more weird writing on twp, you can find out how to ⁠here⁠ .

*for legal reasons, I didn't really. This text is part-review, part-short story, writing about Sam Cox's Doodle House in Kent. You can find the written version on our website , and if you want to support more weird writing, you can do so here .

This text is a story about a horse called Pomodoro who goes on a residency and has a little existential crisis about the nature of art as a kind of work. Read the text version here . Thank you, as always, to our friends and supporters on Patreon ! If you'd like to find out about how to support our work and writing, please visit the support page . thank you!

I've written something weird again. Enjoyoyoyoyo. You can find the written version of this text here and if you want to support the weirdness (and also join our discord) see details here ! if you can't support financially, sharing the text is a really really nice helpful lovely thing to do :) BINGOOOOOO

This week's text is about swimming pools and paintings -- a semi-review of Alina Grassman's show, Florida Räume, at Niru Ratnam. Read the text here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/swimming-pools/ & thank you, as always to our friends on patreon . If you'd like to find out more about how you can support the writing we do here at TWP, go to our Support page . 🏊🏾‍♀️🏊🏾‍♀️🏊🏾‍♀️🏊...