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The White Pube

By Gabrielle and Zarina

Reviews and essays on art, games, books, food, theme parks, whatever. Sometimes weird stories! Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente take turns spilling their guts and trying to right the art world's wrongs. You can find transcriptions on thewhitepube.co.uk
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The White PubeAug 01, 2021

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Overnight At The Museum
Mar 24, 202423:59
Diversity Policy 101
Mar 17, 202430:05
I tried a floatation tank

I tried a floatation tank

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

Mar 10, 202418:29
London 2039
Mar 03, 202425:43
Unrest
Feb 25, 202421:26
I'm a Fan, Sheena Patel // I Want to Punch My Dad
Feb 18, 202427:00
Poor Things
Feb 11, 202422:54
Painting, Smoking, Eating (Philip Guston)
Feb 04, 202416:32
The Largest McDonald's in Europe
Jan 27, 202418:04
Galleries, Get it Together! (a guest episode from Art Assassins)

Galleries, Get it Together! (a guest episode from Art Assassins)

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 >>

"Galleries, Get it Together!" is a collaborative podcast created by South London Gallery based art collective “Art Assassins”, Audio Artist Weyland Mckenzie-Witter and Researcher Dr. Patria Roman-Velazquez with the aim of exploring the question: "What does an equitable and community-led Gallery look like and what stories should be told?"
Through weekly gatherings over 9 weeks, the group set out to interview: artists, (both independent and institutional) art workers and friends and family both native and new to South London. The result is an amalgamation of conversations and sound bites from all over, sharing different perspectives but also setting out to answer the question with the intention of implementing change within cultural institutions. 
Despite the range of participants and contributors coming from different backgrounds it is made painfully clear that an immense change is needed across the London art sphere and so the Art Assassins titled their podcast: “Galleries, Get it Together!”

Image/graphics credit: Esme Wedderburn

Jan 20, 202424:48
Saltburn
Jan 14, 202418:06
Ins and outs

Ins and outs

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

Jan 07, 202447:56
I WENT TO THE OPERA! (Rigoletto @ the Royal Opera House)

I WENT TO THE OPERA! (Rigoletto @ the Royal Opera House)

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 and a mince pie w the people u love. hope u have a nice 2024 too! hope u r cosy and happy and warm love love love u!

Dec 03, 202320:51
Portrait of an Artists Co-op

Portrait of an Artists Co-op

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, and if you have any questions for our lecturer -- they may not get answered but please leave them in the IG comments too.

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!

Nov 19, 202332:28
How we got a book deal
Nov 12, 202353:13
The Maggot Man
Nov 05, 202329:50
ART! on the Underground!

ART! on the Underground!

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 potentially facing a ground invasion. Please email ur MP, if you haven't already, and ask them to call for a ceasefire & to stop the war in Gaza.


ALSO! on the subject of art x public transport: Banner Repeater is an artist-led contemporary art space & artists' publishing archive, they're based on platform 1 at Hackney Downs station -- at the moment they're doing some fundraising to cover running costs & repairs. You can buy an artist print, here's one of mine actually from back when i was an artist!!! -- very limited edition and rare! because the un-Publish project I did with them was my last project as an artist! If that's not ur bag, there are other prints available on their online shop. And if you'd rather just sling over a cute fiver and call it a day, they're taking donations on Open Collective. B/R are a non-profit and do some really cool work, & small orgs do not receive nearly as much public funding as they should! so **thank you** in advance for helping to support artist-led publishing!


Finally, **thank you to Jessica Vaughan from Art on the Underground for taking the time to speak to me -- our interview was the basis for this text.** If you've never noticed the art on the underground -- AotU have got an ART MAP!!!, but you can also have a look through their project archive.

Oct 29, 202339:25
No Sunday Text Free Palestine

No Sunday Text Free Palestine

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)

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Oct 22, 202301:09:32
Every Nando's is a Gallery

Every Nando's is a Gallery

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, and Viven Kohler — and we speak to Cape Town arts organisation Spier Arts Trust who run multiple artist development programmes sponsored by Nando’s. We hope you enjoy the conversations!! Full transcript on our website here 🌶 Leave a chilli emoji in the comments on our instagram once you’re done listening :D


Ty to Hyphen for putting us in touch w the nice people at Nando’s!!! If you can’t tell already, this is HUGE for us. huge I tell ya  

Oct 15, 202357:12
The Entire History of Art School
Oct 08, 202301:07:22
Portrait of a Different Kind of Art School
Jul 30, 202318:07
I stayed at Doodle House for a night
Jul 16, 202333:14
Welcome Pomodoro!

Welcome Pomodoro!

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!

Jul 09, 202319:18
The Bingo Review

The Bingo Review

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

Jul 02, 202334:15
Swimming Pools

Swimming Pools

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.

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Jun 25, 202311:24
Come Dine With Me

Come Dine With Me

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; any sign-ups and donations of any amount grants you entry to our discord server, ie. the best place on the internet. See ya next week with a new text!!!

Jun 18, 202336:33
ART SCHOOL!

ART SCHOOL!

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 room? What other ways could arts education be set up? How else can we do this in a way that feels a bit more comfortable, productive, helpful and educational actually? Certain things get handed down and no one ever questions them. So the three texts do that questioning, and they are: 

Thomas Hirschhorn @ Kochi Biennial
Art Squool
Manifesto, Ane Hjort Guttu


May 07, 202345:01
Portrait of a Curator in London
Apr 30, 202322:56
Review: The Northern Boys
Apr 23, 202320:06
SOUND! (& Jai Paul Supremacy)
Apr 16, 202347:21
covid is obsessed with me
Apr 08, 202324:39
In Conversation with... Holly Márie Parnell!

In Conversation with... Holly Márie Parnell!

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 but also beyond, about filmmaking as an act of love, engaging with text through the medium of film, shrinking your rig to try and make filmmaking a portable, inconspicuous practice as you relate to your subjects, and MORE! enjoy!


Cabbage is an intimate film made in collaboration with Parnell’s family, Cabbage looks at the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm. Taking place in the months leading up to an international move from Canada back home to Ireland - a country they had to leave a decade prior due to severe cuts in disability services - the film focuses on her brother David’s writings using eye tracking technology and her mother’s memories to explore how we shape a sense of self under the pervasive weight of unspoken assumptions and fixed definitions that get placed onto bodies. Dissecting layers of language, agency and power, the film is a subtle examination of how a human life is measured and valued.



Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage @ Sirius!

find Holly on Instagram, find David on Instagram, find Sirius on Instagram

Thank you, as always, to our friends & supporters on Patreon! You make the work we do possible and sustainable. The criticism & content we produce is completely independent, so if you'd like to help support our work, you can find out more on our support page.

Apr 02, 202348:32
The Problem with Diaspora Art 2
Mar 12, 202323:36
An interview with v buckenham
Mar 05, 202357:51
Review: Mauro C. Martinez at Unit London
Feb 26, 202324:30
REVISITED: THE ULTIMATE WHITE PUBE REVIEW
Feb 12, 202352:57
REVIEW: Sound of the Underground @ the Royal Court Theatre
Feb 05, 202322:02
God of War Ragnarök

God of War Ragnarök

! 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 impressed with the game. Written version on our website; support the white pube here

Jan 29, 202329:16
REVIEW: Jake Grewal, Now I Know You I Am Older @ Thomas Dane
Jan 14, 202317:10
Instagram has ruined the art world. What now?

Instagram has ruined the art world. What now?

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 honor 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 video, or read the transcript 📖 

This is the last thing we're publishing this year before we go on our annual December break (which we'll be spending in Ireland together writing the book shh). So, a big thank you for the 100,000+ listens this year, and thank you especially to our Patreon, Ko-fi, and Paypal supporters + everyone in our lovely discord!!!! :) If you enjoy the podcast, please tell your neighbour about it. Or your Nan. love from Gabrielle and Zarina x

Nov 27, 202201:32:05
Review: Tai Shani @ Gathering
Nov 20, 202222:02
Creatives Grant recipient 027: Sean Prentice

Creatives Grant recipient 027: Sean Prentice

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 :) 

Nov 18, 202210:08
Review: Sable

Review: Sable

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

Nov 06, 202227:20
ART SCHOOL HORROR STORIES

ART SCHOOL HORROR STORIES

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 Desperate which is about an art school in New York Becauseeee 🥁🥁🥁  this episode is sponsored by MUBI, our heroes, who are exclusively streaming the film. All of our listeners get 30 days free HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

* check The White Pube website for the transcription. We love you and we are sorry. But this was so funny we'll probably definitely be doing it again.

Oct 30, 202201:04:39
REVIEW: The African Desperate, dir. Martine Syms

REVIEW: The African Desperate, dir. Martine Syms

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 our accounts to see what jobs we do & how much we are paid for them. We are alsooo gonna follow this up with a podcast discussing people’s art school experiences so keep ya eyes peeled over on instagram @thewhitepube. But if you wana get in there early, you can anonymously tell us the weirdest thing that happened to you in art school here.


Oct 23, 202226:13
REVIEW: Emergency, Daisy Hildyard
Oct 09, 202219:28
Our biggest fight ever

Our biggest fight ever

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 captions on the video too. It's all fun and games and gossip but just,,, thank you for allowing us to do this job. I can't believe it's been that long. I really, really can't believe it. Thank you to the 30K monthly readers on the website, to the 80K on insta, the 20K on twitter, to our 705 Patreon people, and to YOU the growing podcast listenership as well :) thank you sooooo much!!! 

If you listened to this episode, please comment the following when we share it on insta: Hi The White Pube - It’s me, your only reader. For Months I have created the illusion that you are writing to a large audience. But here’s the truth: all these people reading are me. And now, for you to be convinced of this, I will send this message from all my accounts.

Oct 07, 202201:41:35
Museum Shitpost Statement

Museum Shitpost Statement

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 have you got us for our birthday?? in child years we just started year 4 at school. we probably love Fortnite. We sleep in a teeny tiny single bed. We grow up to become art critics, what)

Oct 02, 202210:12
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych
Sep 25, 202219:01
An ANNOUNCEMENT! About our new Working Class Creatives Grant!!! funded by Creative Debuts!
Sep 18, 202206:09