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WE'RE BACK! This week's text is... not a review? Sort of a review? Sort of a short story, too. It's about Come Dine With Me. Content note for food chat, sick chat, shit chat, and accidental weight loss. You can find the written version here and if you want to support more of this weirdo writing, please consider giving us £1 a month on Patreon or Kofi , or doing a one-off dono on Paypal...

This week we've got a magazine episode! Three texts that discuss potential possibilities for Arts Education, which is like a really fancy nice way of saying: art school is bonkers. It’s a weird place for weird people doing weird things (we spoke about that at length a couple months ago, in an ep about Art School Horror Stories ) If that's the way art schools are, where's the wriggle ro...

This week's text is a Portrait of a Curator in London! It's the third in my portrait series, where I talk to art workers about their lives, their jobs, the work they make! and then I tell you alllllll about it. The curator in this text has got so much to say about everything: the art world's exceptionalism, the curator as interlocutor, about how institutions are not destinations, but r...

Hahaha I've lost the plot, but this is always when my best writing happens. It's party time. This week's review is The Northern Boys, a rap trio of old white men. You can find the written version of this text here and I did a really tired video version if you want to SEE me rap. Thank you to our lovely supporters & make sure you listen to the end to find out the Emoji Of The Week 8...

Apologies! for no new text, but we have another magazine episode for you. To celebrate Jai Paul's first live show n his set at Coachella, this ep features old texts that are about ✨SOUND✨ -- including my 2019 text ABOUT JAI PAUL!! the texts: [ Jai Paul ] [ Alexandra Pirici @ the New Museum ] [ Symphony for 20 rooms @ Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen ] [ Ain Bailey: Version @ Wysing Arts Centr...

little bit of a different episode this week because I am really not with it, bear with 😭 thank you to our Patreon , Paypal and Kofi supporters for tiding us over. see you next week xxx

ZM in convo with Holly Márie Parnell ! A filmmaker, a friend, a really lovely person !!! This podcast episode was mostly recorded at a live event a couple weeks ago at Sirius, an arts centre in Cobh, Ireland. Sirius are showing Holly's film, Cabbage, in the gallery until 15th April. We are also joined by Gabrielle and David, in audio form. We chat about loads of things: about the film itself b...

In 2018, I wrote an essay called the Problem with Diaspora Art. It set me off on a trajectory of thinking about the way art institutions interact with people of colour (as well as the fundamental politic that drives those interactions). 5 years on, I have complex feelings about this 2018 text. I often feel jealous of dancers: they get to do a run through, take a step back and assess what they did...

new series! our brains are soup while we are busy writing a book so we are outsourcing your entertainment and learning and art-thinking; please enjoy the first of many interviews with interesting people we know, starting with v buckenham ( website , twitter and instagram ) and if you prefer your podcasts with bells and whistles and visuals, there is > a YouTube version of this < where you ca...

first exhibition review since march 2020??? must be bad. Writing about edgelord artist strategies and how much things cost. The written version of this is on the art section of our website. Can't believe I had to write about art again. I'm so mad.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE! of the ultimate White Pube review: a 2016 text Gab wrote about Jesse Darling's show, The Great Near, at Arcadia Missa. You can watch the video version of this on youtube: https://youtu.be/i_hlpuscENY    & thank you as usual to our friends on Patreon! Find out more about how you can support us (& get cheeky sneaky access to the top secret & v exclusive TWP...

This week's text is a review of Sound of the Underground, a play on @ the Royal Court Theatre. Written by Travis Alabanza! co-created by Debbie Hannan! Starring icons from the UK's queer club scene! i loved it!  read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/sound-of-the-underground/ thank you to our supporters on Patreon ! & if you want to have a peep at this p...

! before you listen ! there are spoilers for the endings of both 2018 and 2022 games . I hope the scary gamers don't come for me. Enjoy this review of God of War Ragnarök, writing about narrative structure and fate. I've actually done a video version of this text spliced with scenes from the game if you wanna SEE what it looks like. I showed Zarina who had no concept of God of War and she was v im...

this week's text is a review of Jake Grewal's Now I Know You I Am Older @ Thomas Dane. Less a review-review, more a text where the art is coincidental or circumstantial. about the  sun! and the landscape! and the sky! and i don't really know what the sublime is!! read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/jake-grewal/   thank you to all our friends on patreon ! 

Social media is not a fair space to showcase art but as much as artists want to delete their Instagram accounts, they feel like they have nowhere else to go. So what now? In this episode, we speak to Kim Foale ( Geeks for Social Change ) and artist h onor ash to discuss the big secret project we are working on that we hope will provide an answer. 🎞 You can also watch this podcast in the form of a...

This week's review is Tai Shani's exhibition at Gathering, the new space in London. Guest read by me, GDLP, because ZM has the flu, the text is about saints and bread and hallucinations in the body as well as in the gallery. You can find the written version on our website . Thanks for listening and see ya next week! 

bonus episode! Here is a gift: some good poems by Sean Prentice , just for you. Sean is the 27th recipient of the Creatives Grant funded by Creative Debuts. See you in 2 days with the next review :) 

My last text of 2022! It's a review of Sable but it's also a text about disability and deviance. You can find the written version on our website and I made a video version to round the year out. Thank you everyone for your support this year. I feel like a different person to who I was in January. Thanks for bearing with me!!! Thank you for letting me be a writer. It means the world. GDLP xxxxxxx

We asked our audience for the weirdest things they witnessed in art school and, unfortunately, they delivered. Today's episode is Art School Horror Stories, discussing bodily fluids, animals, weird students and weird tutors. We filmed this one so if you want to see our facial reactions, enjoy lmao. Before and after discussing The Incidents, we also talk about Martine Sym's new film The African Des...

This week’s text is a review of The African Desperate, the new film by Martine Syms about an art school in upstate New York starring Diamond Stingily.  You can read the review on our website here:  thewhitepube.co.uk/misc/theafricandesperate/ The African Desperate is streaming exclusively on MUBI now. ** Get 30 days free .** This text was commissioned by MUBI, and as usual, you can check...

This week's text is a review! Of Daisy Hildyard's novel, Emergency: a DARK PASTORAL FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA. Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.  Read the text version on TWP here: thewhitepube.co.uk/misc/emergency/ As usuallll, thank u to our friends on patreon ! 

We recorded an Ask Me Anything to celebrate 7 years of The White Pube. We get INTO it. We talk about Zarina's day job, the few days we worked for the Brexit festival, going viral, health, the future, what we would do if the other one died, and of course, our biggest fight ever. We actually filmed this one so if you want to watch it with some visual illustrations, the link is here and there are cap...

This text is a little bit........different. But not that different really because it is still a piece of criticism. Listen to the end for an explainer if you are very confused and think that I really think these things. I definitely definitely don't. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube dot commmmm our beautiful website that turns SEVEN YEARS OLD in 10 days holy moly (what ha...

This week's text is about MY FAVOURITE PAINTING! (which is different to my favourite painter...)  It's Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych, an altarpiece from 14th Century Siena.  To read the text version of this (and peep the painting mentioned), go to thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/blessed-agostino-novello/ MERCH: https://www.weareprintsocial.com/the-white-pube & as us...

We are happy to announce the 25th recipient of The Working Class Creatives Grant is Tomisin Adepeju, a Nigerian-British filmmaker based in London. This is the first recipient since we opened up the writers grant to a more general creatives grant, and we loved the work Tomisin sent in. This is just a lil bit of info - raising awareness & marketing the new Creatives Grant. If you were thinking o...