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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...

Jodie Comer is the actress of her generation, pass it on!!! Writing about theatre and accents and Liverpool. Writing about truth and lies and change. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube . Listen til the end for today's emoji + thank you for listening I love you

I got COVID in January 2021 and I spent last year in a pit, stuck at home, no energy, in pain, dealing with the vague endlessness of Long Covid. In the middle of January 2022, I posted a one year update podcast episode where I told you lot how bad Long Covid continued to be. BUT!! At the end of that month, I had an in-person appointment with the Long Covid Clinic in Liverpool where they did a test...

this week's text is about my favourite painter: Bhupen Khakhar :) You can read the text version of this here - thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/bhupenkhakhar/ n there are lil pics of the paintings I've described in this text, if you wana see the real things rather than my description hehe thank you to the patreon gan, as perrrrr - patreon.com/thewhitepube

A review, an emoji, and an update on our writing schedule :o I hope you like cats because this week I talk about the newly released Stray, a game I waited so long for. The written version of this text can be found on our website here . Thank you to our supporters ; we have been trying in earnest to get a podcast sponsor all year and I think we are un-sponsorable so if you are a regular listener pl...

This week's text is a guided meditation, a walk through Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art @ York Art Gallery. It's best experienced as audio, but just in case you're looking for it, the text version of this can be found on the White Pube dot com (here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/body-vessel-clay/ ) As always, thank you to our patreon friends! You can join the club he...

Another review that's not so much a review and more a reflection on disability. A game about needing things, a text about learning to want more. Survival game as chronic illness simulation. Also an account of my time in London. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube ! Thank you to all our supporters , and make sure you listen to the end for today's emoji :-))))) 

This week's text is a review of Sun & Sea , an opera about climate change, at the Albany as part of LIFT. It's also a text about heatwaves and the Second Body. You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sun-and-sea/ Thank you, as usual, to our friends on Patreon ! 

For the 23rd TWP Writers Grant, we’re excited to announce that July’s recipient is Lottie Walker. Lottie sent us a collection of poems and we were immediately smitten with their cleverness and dexterity. Lottie’s poems had a sharpness, this citrus kick that felt like salt on a wound. They stung us and in the same, offered a full complexity that we could chew on. We’re sharing that collection of Lo...

This week I'm thinking about all the identity art that just lets me know people with different identities exist and nothing more. Listen here or find the written version of this on the art section on our website where I have also added a p.s. with some more examples of Level One Identity Art. Wishing you shade and relief in this genuinely terrible heatwave. God help us all.  Thank you to our...

This week's text is about Munch's paintings, a lil walk through of when i went to see the masterpieces from Bergen show at the Courtauld and had a really nice time read it here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/munch/ and thank you, as usual, to friends on Patreon !  😱

A book review! A book you should all go and buy now. This week's review is on Tell Me I'm Worthless, the debut novel from Alison Rumfitt. A book about a haunted house; a book about fascism.  You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website Thank you to our Patreon+Paypal+Kofi supporters for keeping us in business !!!!! Join the discord here 

This week's text is a review of Cloud Point, a group show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at Paradise Row.  Read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/cloud-point/

Now the highest grossing A24 film of all time, this week's review is Everything Everywhere All At Once. I had an issue with the way it ended but I think that's on me 🤪 You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website & as always, thank you to our good looking genius supporters for keeping us in business we love you