Episodes
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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠for more info about how you can do that :) 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛
Published 04/28/24
Published 04/28/24
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 now you'll forget and then a lovely present will come through the door and you'll be like wow I'm so nice to myself
Published 04/21/24
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
Published 04/14/24
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, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠⁠⁠for more...
Published 04/07/24
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
Published 03/31/24
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 :)
Published 03/24/24
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 about how you can do that :)
Published 03/17/24
For real! The written version of the review is here; our book Poor Artists is available to pre-order here. mwah mwah mwah goodbye
Published 03/10/24
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
Published 03/03/24
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
Published 02/25/24
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 :)
Published 02/18/24
A classic review! A straightforward review! You can find the written version on our website here!
Published 02/11/24
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 :)
Published 02/04/24
but it's actually a review of Liverpool City Centre. The written version of the text is on our website.
Published 01/27/24
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...
Published 01/20/24
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 :)
Published 01/14/24
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
Published 01/07/24
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...
Published 12/03/23
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...
Published 11/19/23
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 ask after you listen to the episode, you can do so here 3
Published 11/12/23
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.
Published 11/05/23
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...
Published 10/29/23
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...
Published 10/22/23
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...
Published 10/15/23