To celebrate the return of Prima Facie to cinemas from September 12-Dec 5, we have two tickets and a bunch of merchandise to give away to one person who comments a judge emoji on today's Instagram post 👩‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️👨‍⚖️ If you missed Prima Facie the first time it was in cinemas, or maybe you want to see it again because it is so good?, leave ya comment …

a text about slow art, and also My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and Tehching Hsieh, and sickness, but mostly slowness -- u can find the text version here & u can find book pre-order link here

This is a text about a specific painting: The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name by Noorain Inam, that I saw a couple months back at Noorain's solo show, Go back to sleep, it’s just the wind at Indigo + Madder. It's also a text about painting and imagining, your mind's eye and clarity, about feeling like things are over there but then also …

watching a film about distance and love in a week like this week! read the text on the website: thewhitepube.co.uk/laisul-otherside & FYI, CHEEKY PLUG: you can pre-order our book, ⁠⁠⁠Poor Artists, here⁠⁠⁠ (& ⁠⁠⁠here if ur in the US⁠⁠⁠). Thank you to our ⁠⁠⁠friends & supporters on Patreon⁠⁠⁠ -- if you'd like to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠pls see our suppo…

a review! I'm sick! what's new. you can find the written version of this on our website; you can pre-order our book here; pat yourself on the back for making it through another week on this hellplanet

thinking about Serban Savu's 'what work is' Romanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale read the text here: ⁠thewhitepube.com/work⁠ WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, ⁠⁠Poor Artists, here⁠⁠ (& ⁠⁠here if ur in the US⁠⁠). Thank you to our ⁠⁠friends & supporters on Patreon⁠⁠ -- if you'd like to support our work, ⁠⁠pls see our support page⁠⁠ for…

This week's text is a mini review of a group show in Strand News, the newsagent where i buy a peanut butter kit kat chunky almost every weekday. Ft work by: Athen Kardashian and Nina Mhach Durban, Eden Chau-Morrow, Marcus Jefferson and Xooset, and curated by Tom Mouna. read the text here: thewhitepube.com/strand-news WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-or…

I'm tired!!!!! you know the deal. the written version of this text is on our website.

a vignette about looking through windows, a love letter to the shrimp in Tai Shani's THE WORLD TO ME WAS A SECRET: CAESIOUS, ZINNOBER, CELADON, AND VIRESCENT @ the cosmic house read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/taishani-cosmichouse WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US). Thank you to our friends & su…

text version of this review here; our boat is going to be uploaded here; book cover reveal here!!!

This week's text is about houses, art and lying to estate agents. Read it here (thewhitepube.com/unreal-estate). You can support our work on Patreon, & thank you to all our patrons!

I have been writing about problems for a while so I think it is time to talk about solutions. This episode is about a project by Cassie Thornton that is about to make my life better. You can find the text version here, the Hologram here, our book pre-order link here if you're in the UK and here if you're in the US 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️…

A text about the student occupation of Goldsmiths, for Palestine. As mentioned, some links: - STRIKE OUTSET, sign the pledge here, FAQs - Goldsmiths 4 Palestine Here's a link to the text, scroll down to the bottom if you want links to any of the student orgs for the unis mentioned at the end -- they're all linked & i'll whack those up on ig stories…

If you want to see the written version of this, or the photos I took while I was running away, find both here; if you want to support twp and join our discord, info here; and if you want us to be on a best seller list because that would be quite funny, pre-order our book Poor Artists here 💋

This week's text is a story about a woman called Jane who wants to unlock her inner creative potential, through a boozy painting workshop. read the text version here: thewhitepube.co.uk/caterpillar-memories & thank you, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fo…

I've secretly been in France trying out a new residency at a place called The Mill. You can find the written version of this text on our website where there are also beautiful pictures I took because I am the world's greatest photographer enjoy, and as always, pre-order our book POOR ARTISTS if you want! it's coming out October 3rd so if you do it …

a super quick text about an exhibition! SHOW PONY, a group show at Islington Arts Factory, curated by Kelly Wu. read the text here: thewhitepube.com/show-pony

This week's text is some art criticism as dystopian business science fiction When did that transition from *Art* to *Creative Industry happen*, and what does it mean? Robert Peston VII, Business Culture Editor-at-Large for the Financial Times 4.0, is about to tell you! read the text version here: thewhitepube.co.uk/creating-incorporated & thank you…

Happy Easter I bet all of you are off work today you lazy gits!!!! this text is about WORKING ALL THE TIME and feeling CRAZY because of it. You can find the text version here and you can pre-order our book Poor Artists here and I hope you enjoy a day off work you really deserve it

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 ⁠…

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 c…

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 inf…

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 n…

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 l…

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 sp…

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…

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 hopef…

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, …

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 f…

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 o…

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. than…

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 Suppor…

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 Ko…

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 ar…

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 in…

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 t…

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] [Ai…

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