The White Pube (Gabrielle and Zarina)

This week's text is a review of Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, A No So It Go, Go So! at Cubitt. It's also the last show of Languid Hands’ curatorial fellowship programme at the gallery, so i am rly happy n glad to be writing about this show, and hope i've made it clear that I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!

read the text version here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sheneceorethacubitt/

& as per, thank you to our friends on patreon for supporting the writing :)

This week's text is a review of Inventing Anna, the newest Shondaland series about the Anna Delvey girlboss scam, on Netflix.

You can read the text version of this on thewhitepube.com/inventinganna

Thank you, as always, to our Patreon gang for supporting the writing and work! If you want to, you can support us on patreon.com/thewhitepube

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!!!

For the 21st recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant, we are very excited to support the work of Rutendo D. Bradley. Rutendo sent us an excerpt from the novel she started as part of her dissertation, ‘The Devil’s King,’ a project she is now hoping to work on full-time. The opening we read was so effective in its world-building, with its historical language and raw landscape, and its intense population of kings and knights and soldiers and the ways that they speak. The chapter also has this kind of fateful promise that this story is going to be different, it’s going to be important, just hold on — and we loved that, and we wanted to read more. So, with the help of Creative Debuts, we are glad we can support Rutendo with this month’s Writers Grant.

If you want the text version of The Devil's King, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :)

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

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

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

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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!

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 here: patreon.com/thewhitepube

I got a subscription to the National Theatre streaming service. More theatre reviews to come, but we're starting here with the Grenfell play. The written version of this is on The White Pube website.

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.

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

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 Patreon/Kofi/Paypal pals who keep The White Pube's weekly writing going!!!! See you on discord for the post-text debrief!!!

This week's text is about the Sound Voice Project at the Royal Opera House, down in the Lindbury Theatre. Three performances of works about voice loss.

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/sound-voice

The Sound Voice project's run at ROH has ended, but the old event link is here, and the digital version of the programme. SVP's website is here.

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

Kicking off the 2025 reviews with a book I think I might love: the 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time by American writer and activist Marge Piercy. You can find the written version of this on our website, you can support The White Pube here, and I'll see ya on the next one babYyyyy

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 within you.

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/noorain-inam-TULOFMN

& if u don't know, now u know: you can pre-order our book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Poor Artists, here⁠⁠⁠⁠ (& ⁠⁠⁠⁠here if ur in the US⁠⁠⁠⁠).

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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 all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx

Hello friends & enemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This second episode of our much-lauded podcast is a lil lockdown special where we chat about the bits o' ~culture~ that've been getting us through the hellscape that is 2020. We chat about Gab's freaky psychic connection with the radio, (romantically speaking) why Zarina loves period dramas, and like... maybe some actual book recommendations are in there. But tbh it's mostly chaos? A lot of wheezy laughing away from the microphone, and tryna hold in an enormous honking snort laugh while Gab tells a story about how she nearly proposed on a bungee jump in the Millennium Dome. All Quality, Top-Notch, Intellectual, high-brow Art Critic stuff. ok, that's all - ENJOYYYYYY!

[a note: Gab had to record her half of this episode on zoom, so the audio is a bit crackly. apologies to all the sensitive ears out there, she's already bought a new SD card so this should be a one-off tech-fiasco]

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> A transcription of this episode is available on our website thewhitepube.com

Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago

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! 

hi gang, it's gab. Sorry for the absence. I have been out of action because covid, and now I've got long covid, but my voice is finally strong enough that I can record the reviews I've been publishing over the past few months.

This is a review of the video game Calico in which you have a cat cafe and you can pick up horses. It's magic and calm and I wish it had been 10x longer. Please make a DLC specifically for me. Thanks. The written version of this text, which was originally published Feb 14, is on https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/calico

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 Lottie’s poems as well as the first chapter of the novel she’s working on: Wild Garlic. So, with the help of Creative Debuts, we are glad we can support Lottie with this month’s Writers Grant.

If you want to read the text version of Lottie's work, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :)

You can also listen to Beetroot Podcast, a poetry podcast hosted by Lottie & Marta Mcilduff, here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2y3dJQXNRjtXZeJSwkflhJ?si=f42d743214ec40c0

We’ve known each other since 2013 but now we know each other on quite frankly an unnecessary level after recording this episode lmao. Using a few decks courtesy of So Cards, we ask each other questions and end up discussing smoking, Zarina’s dream job, education reform, how our exes don’t exist, IBS in public, taxi drivers, becoming Jack Grealish, and of course, our shared praise kink.

You can find the transcription for today’s episode on thewhitepube.com/podcasts

sorry in advance for all the TMI 

& you can find out more about So Cards here: https://www.socards.org!

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see you on Sunday for the next review!!!

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

We’re very happy to announce that the 18th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant is... Tuğçe Özbiçer! Tuğçe is a London-based Turkish journalist, writer and photographer from Istanbul. We found real care and value in her writing, which reaches from searing human rights-focused articles to softer texts that reflects on lyrics, home and love. Not only did we feel this in Tuğçe’s work, but so did a friend who emailed us to back her submission, writing that ’I’m constantly in awe of the way she writes in a language that is not even her own. I’d love for your audience to be able to read her work too and for Tuğçe to realise that her stories are worth telling here.’ We agree and we hope you enjoy getting to know Tuğçe’s work as well.

If you want the text version of Arabesque, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :)

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 play, it's on until 25th Feb (here; https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/sound-of-the-underground/

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 :)

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 rather TOOLS. it's a conversation that gave me so many new thoughts and also new vocabulary! To talk about these thoughts (old and new) with -- so I'm really excited to publish this text because hopefully it'll give you (the reader/listener) the same feeling of new thoughts & vocab!

If you'd rather read this as text, it's up on twp's website, here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-thoughts/portrait-of-a-curator-in-london/

Thank you, as always, to our friends and supporters on Patreon!

& pls leave me a (secret star emoji somewhere, you know where hehehehhee) see u next week byeeeee! xxx

This week's text is about Imran Perretta's A Riot in Three Acts @ Somerset House, a lament for a dead city, mourning London.

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/riotin3acts

This week's text is a chunky art thought about the problems with London. Why is it so hard to be an artist, or an art worker, in London? Why is living in this city so fucking hard? What’s the problem with London, and WHY does it have a problem in the first place? WELL. I investigated. I spoke to: Haja Fanta, who works at HOME by Ronan Mckenzie; George Henry Longly and Prem Sahib, who run Ridley Road Project Space; Arman Nouri and Kwame Lowe, who work together as Kin Structures. I asked them a couple of questions, did some digging and now I'm here to tell you about the answers I found :)

if you want to read this as a text, it's on our website here

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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.

We’re well into the second year of The Working Class Writers Grant now and we are thrilled to announce Recipient #015 is Polly Manning. Polly sent us two texts that both got me right in the gut in different painful ways. One was a quick, sharp stab and a gasp; the other was an uncomfortable hug from the behind that got tighter and tighter until I felt sad and sick. Acute, emotional, affecting and bleak. I read both texts back to back and I immediately wanted to read more -  and that’s how I knew we’d found our next recipient.

Bio:

Polly Manning is a Welsh writer, and currently lives in the upper Swansea Valley in south Wales. Whilst she has worked in screenwriting and film direction, her main interest is in prose fiction - in particular, the short story. Her stories focus on life in rural and de-industrialised parts of Wales, with a particular interest in the ways in which young people find subversive meaning within these often 'bleak' realities. She is disinterested in the sentimental depiction of Wales as a mystical, Celtic wilderness detached from the miseries of capitalist neoliberalism, preferring to write stories about the people that actually live there. She is a Welsh-speaker, and currently working on a collection of short stories.

Links below if you want to read her work:

Read: Spider

You can find Polly on Instagram and Twitter

If you’re a working class writer, and would like to find out more info about our Writers Grant, pls visit the Writers Grant page on our webby for the FAQs and submission info! Thank you to Creative Debuts for funding the grant and allowing us to support working class writers in this way :)

Spoiler-free review of the best game I've played in literally months, and the first horror game I've ever played. I shouted out loud on my own at one point because I got so scared and somehow I'm still recommending you play it for yourselves. Mundaun was created by Hidden Field (Michel Ziegler) and published by MWM Interactive last month. You can find the written version of this review on the white pube dot com as per uzj. Hope you are all good! We'll be back with the /real/ podcast very soon. Long covid is long, my apologies. 

This week's text is a second portrait in our ongoing series, having a snoop and a natter, chatting to people around the UK for a sneaky peek into what creative life is like for people wherever they are. 

This text is a portrait of the co-Director of an artist-led space in Leicester, we go to a sports bar, eat Masala Mogo and chat about everything: from art as an alternative value system, to why charitable status is not always the answer, and why failure is good sometimes. 

you can read the full text here: thewhitepube.com/art-thoughts/portrait-of-a-director-of-an-artist-led-space/

you can also go back & read the first text in this series, Portrait of a Moving Image Artist in London, here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-thoughts/portrait-of-a-moving-image-artist/

that's all! happy sunday & thank you, as per usual to our friends and supporters on patreon. i always look forward to hearing what you think, especially on the lil TWP discord, so thank you for you constant support and feedback! 

Do you know Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights? Do you know the Twitter bot that just posts close-ups of the painting all day long? This week's review is Bosch Bot, thinking about a bot as a curatorial tool and just how much more  engaged I am with the painting via this mad Twitter presentation than I would be if I was stood in the Prado in Madrid squinting at it IRL. 

You can find the written version of this on our website: thewhitepube.com 

++++ follow Bosch Bot here: twitter.com/boschbot

Hellooooo podcast listeners, it's gab. long time no speak! Sorry for the absence. I have been out of action because covid, and now I've got long covid, but my voice is finally strong enough that I can record the reviews I've been publishing over the past few months. 

This review of Art Sqool was originally published March 7th, writing about the 2019 game I thought would allow me to feel the big stretch of the art school experience once again. Unfortunately, it did not deliver. The written version of this text is on our website https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/art-sqool

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! 

this week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mike Phillips' The Dancing Face. Originally published in the 90s, it has been republished this year, as part of a 6-book series selected by Bernadine Evaristo, called Black Britain: Writing Back. 

read the full text: thewhitepube.com/thedancingface

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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do you think it's possible to change the worst things about yourself? this week's text is about a mythological character from Chinese history and how we might be the same person. another big health update too! find the written version of the text here and get our book Poor Artists woooooo

This week's review is on Old, M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 release about a supernatural beach. It appears the filmmaker has a track record of exploiting disability for horror in his films but I don't often watch films so I personally had no idea. This text is me working that out 💀 

You can find the written version of this on The White Pube. Thanks for listening! And thank you especially to our Patreon/Ko-Fi/Paypal gang for supporting essays like this. 

Announcing the 11th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant: Dora Maludi!

Dora sent over a collection of poems, and they really stood out and grabbed us. Dora’s poems are like small concentrated squares full of infinite detail. She writes about writing; the writing process like vomiting. She describes scars like borders. She writes like she is speaking to someone over your shoulder. And she summons whole scenes out of sketches to create these acute and honest atmospheres. We’re so glad we can support Dora through this grant, and we hope you find a similar joy in her work too! And thank you to Creative Debuts for providing the funding that allows us to offer this grant!

Bio: Dora Maludi is a fine artist and poet from London. Her practice is centred around exploring the relationship between form, language and landscape through the means of sound, video, text and movement. Anti poetry, surrealist poetry and Dada techniques inform her writing style, with the notion of rejecting traditional forms being a thorough line in her artistic endeavours. Alongside this, she is currently working on a soundscape series exploring the theme of endings and writing poems towards her first collection.

Find Dora’s Soundscapes on Bandcamp here  

You can also find Dora on Instagram here 

Read Dora's poems on the Writers Grant page

You can find out more about the Writers Grant here 

It's my (ZM) first text of the year! kicking off 2022 with a review of Lubaina Himid's show at Tate Modern. It's also a text about good art, magic, dreams & stories - a love letter for some paintings that transported me. 

You can find the written version of this text here. 

Thank you to our Patreon supporters and thank you to all our listeners here - catch u next time xoxoxox

Posting this week's review here, while the podcast is on hold for a bit. So, in case you missed it, here it is on PODCAST PLATFORMS TOO This week's text is a review of Run! BTS, the variety show webseries from SOUTH KOREAN BOY BAND, INTERNATIONAL STARS, WORLDWIDE SENSATIONS.... BTS!

The text version of this is on our website here

& here's a video of me reading on IGTV too.

Hope you enjoy it, and if this review makes you wana watch it too, I've left links to my top 3 episodes in the lil footer!

This week's review is Fall Guys, the 2020 platform battle royale that went viral last summer. It's taken me a long time to write about it but I'm glad I waited til now! I won my first game 2 days ago and it clicked the review into place -- I use this text to talk about my absolute deep love of obstacle courses, Takeshi's Castle, and what it's like to win a survival of the fittest game as a sick person.

You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/fall-guys 

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Or, on why I want to be confused / why I love strangeness. Talking about On Ugliness: Medieval and Contemporary @ Skarstedt.

Read the text version here: thewhitepube.co.uk/on-ugliness

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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 & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx

I watched all 11 seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and now this funny little review exists. It's a text about chronic illness, reality TV, and finding relief in other people's issues. Hope you enjoy! The written version of this text is available on our website here > https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/rhobh < and as always, thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping The White Pube in motion. We literally couldn't do it without you, especially while I am so out of it with Long Covid. If you too want to support TWP on Patreon, head here 💜 

We’re so pleased to announce, the 9th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Tan. Natalie has a bi-weekly newsletter called Simmer Down, that reflects on food and memory, and she sent us some back issues (links below). After we started the /food page on our website last year, we've been hoping to be able to support somebody else's writing around the subject & then Natalie’s work came along. It is so sensitive, descriptive, atmospheric and personable. The writing feels all visibly based in the political and the historical too, which we found incredible value and energy in. It's really enjoyable writing to read, as both writers and wannabe food-eggheads ourselves. So we are really excited to be able to support Natalie and Simmer Down, and we hope you find the same joy in her work

Bio:

Natalie Tan is a cultural practitioner and writer based in London. Expressed with an unbridled passion influenced by the forever-classic emo tracks of the 2000s, she examines maladaptive wistfulness, traditions formed from migration, and the impact of colonialism on Hong Kong and its diaspora. She is the author of Simmer Down, an ongoing, bi-weekly reflection on food and memory, and is currently writing her first play on family, loss, and Hong Kong as part of Bush Theatre’s West London Playwrights’ Group. Her work has been included in diaCRITICS, Radio Slumber, and the Breakfast B Reading Series.

Links below if you want to read her work, listen to it, or follow Natalie online:

• Read Strawberry Jam-Tinted Glasses
• Read On the Reliability of Dumplings
• Read through the rest of the Simmer Down archive
• You can find Natalie on Twitter and Instagram

You can find out more about the Writers Grant here

This week's text is a review of the 2021 Turner Prize! We've never reviewed the Turner Prize before, and i don't know why?!? it's such a Moment™️. But this year, there has been so much noise about all the nominees being collectives, and I went up to the Herbert on a press trip to go have a look round with the rest of the press pack - felt like i literally HAD to review it lmao. SO here it is, a long chunky extended cut: mini reviews of the work being presented, as well as a run down of the wider TP vibe. Also, a soft proposition for the Turner Prize to be more like the X Factor, that i'm only HALF joking about. 

If you want to read the text version of this, please visit: thewhitepube.com/turnerprize2021

i also mention a few other text, linked here: 

BOSS's statement about being nominated

Juliet Jacques' article for Frieze, about what this year’s Turner Prize tells us about the arts after a decade of austerity.

Morgan Quaintance's eternally relevant essay, Teleology & the Turner Prize or: Utility, the New conservatism

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Happy weekend! & enjoy!!! :) 

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 of applying - pls do!!! more info on TWP's website, on the grants page: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/ where there's full submissions info & FAQs

If you want to sign up to Creative Debut's mailing list, here's the link tooooo: CREATIVE DEBUTS MAILING LIST

see u next week for a lil text baby & enjoy ur bank hol!!! xxxxx

We haven't recorded a chatty episode in literal months, so we have a quick catch up on what we've been doing since we last spoke to you - and then we just get into it. This is the Long COVID Episode. Gab got COVID as soon as 2021 struck, and it just hasn't gone. It's long COVID now and the number of symptoms have doubled. We talk through everything, we have a cry, and we sit in that puddle together. 

The transcription for this episode is available here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/the-long-covid-episode (written by Michael Lacey)

Thank you for listening :-(

This week's text is an essay called: Boycott Zabludowicz. 

Since 2014, there has been a call to boycott the Zabludowicz Collection, a gallery in London that is owned and funded by Zabludowicz Art Trust, and its associated institutions: Daata Editions and Times Square Space. The Zabludowicz Art Trust is financially associated with companies that have dealt arms to Israel's military, invested in property in Occupied Palestine, and that provide maintenance and services to the Israeli Airforce.

In this essay, I tell you why the boycott exists, why it is important and impactful, I tell you how the Zabludowicz Collection goes about operating despite the boycott, and then I explain some nitty-gritty practicalities about the boycott as #praxis. If you’re ready to dismiss this because you already know where you stand: just hear me out. I’ll even run you through both sides.

If you want to sign the BDZ boycott, and pledge to refuse your work, labour and the sale of your artwork to the Zabludowicz Art Trust, or visit any of its institutions, you can do so via this form.

For more information, please visit the BDZ website.

You can read the text version of this essay here: thewhitepube.com/bdz where you'll be able to find all the important links mentioned in the text. 

Normally, at the bottom of each text, we have a link to our Patreon. But if after this text, please consider donating the money you'd give to us  directly to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians).

I forgot to say: PLEASE COMMENT A TOOTH emoji on our instagram if you pass through here. my BRAIN IS FRIED. text version here

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October 3rd is fast approaching so the FINAL reminder: you can pre-order our book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Poor Artists, here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (& ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here if ur in the US⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠).

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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

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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 Centre]

[the podcast page on TWP homepage]

As always, thank you to our supporters on Patreon, apologies again that this isn't a new text! But hope you enjoy it all the same & make sure to stay tuned to the end for the ~special emoji~ to comment on the IG. byeee~ xxxx

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-)

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 well and what they could improve, and then they get to say ‘ok, now let’s do it again’. I wish writers got to do that! — But they do! I can do whatever I like!!! So, second time lucky. Here’s the Problem with Diaspora Art 2.

you can read the text here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/tpwda2

thank you, as usual, to our friends on patreon! 

If you made it to the end! first of all, love you, second of all! pls comment a 🥭 MANGO 🥭 emoji on the IG post/tweet about this text. ok, thanks! 

did you know all the long covid clinics in the UK were closing down in March? in this episode, I write about money and my PIP disaster and my last long covid clinic appointment, but I also write about a woman who gives birth to rabbits. You can find the text version on our website & you can get a copy of Mary and the Rabbit Dream on Galley Beggar's website 🐇

New series just dropped. We have been writing on The White Pube since 2015 but we only actually started this podcast at the end of 2020. There are a tonne of texts that we haven’t shared here. In this new series, we’ll be revisiting our old writing, reading it out and then discussing it. We’ll be chatting about whether or not we still agree with what we said. Does it make us cringe lol? If we were to write the same text now, what we would do differently? And of course, we’ll mention how the text was received and any related controversies that followed because god, there have been so many. These bonus episodes of the podcast will roughly be released twice a month — they’re gonna be throwbacks, exorcisms, apologies, and good times too.

For the first instalment, we revisit Gabrielle’s 2019 text ‘why museums are bad vibes.’ Spoiler: museums are even worse vibes here in 2022 💔

Find the transcript to this on our website here + we’re going to be uploading podcasts to YouTube now too!!!

Thank you to our Patreon supporters for being the best

TW: discussion of disordered eating

This week's text is about hunger. I don't know what it means anymore and that scares me, but it's ok because it is aimless, empty. 

Read the text version on the site: thewhitepube.com/misc/im-hungry/

and thank you! to everyone that supports us on Patreon, Ko-fi and Paypal!

This week, I played the remastered Uncharted 4 that was released earlier this year as part of the Legacy of Thieves collection for PS5. It's a very cool game but that's exactly why I didn't like it. In this text, I write about how much I prefer embarrassment over coolness as a quality in the culture I spend time with. Written version on The White Pube! Thank you to our Patreons! I somehow forgot to mention the emoji summary in this recording so of course it's 🧗🥵😎. Happy Sunday everybody!!!

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 discord) here: thewhitepube.com/support

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 :)

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 💋

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

Happy Sunday! This week's text on the White Pube is a review of the London spectacle dubbed 'a £2million SLAG HEAP'!!! it's: Marble Arch Mound!!!

This is also a text where i talk about public art after 11 years of consecutive Conservative governments, increasing reliance on private funding, and the wider corporatisation of the arts. i try to be an alien archaeologist from the future, and ask: if the Marble Arch Mound is a monument, what is it a monument to? and what does it tell us about the culture and people that made it? 

if you want to read the full text, go to thewhitepube.com/mound

The White Pube is proud to be reader supported on Patreon! If you would like more info about why or how, or even to chip in with the support and sign up to become our patron like in olden times, you can do so here: patreon.com/thewhitepube

this week’s text is a cute lil art thought! the title is not clickbait, it is genuinely the question I am asking: thinking around Beeple & NFTs, but also just like... everything.

read the full text: thewhitepube.co.uk/canwhitepeopleberadical

I went to London and back in a day and now my body is paying for it. A text about London Art Fair -> written version here -> give us £1 a month here -> and I'll see you on the next one

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  

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 

Hello allies and frenemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This time you don’t just have to put up with us telling stories and making each other laugh - this episode is actually USEFUL, thank GOD. It is the funding episode! And for it, we are joined by Anna Hart who is going to talk us through everything you need to know about (arts) funding (in the UK). When we were students paying 9 grand a year, CSM decided to allow us one teeny tiny lesson about art funding, and there were limited spaces in the class, ffs. Luckily, we both booked on. And thank god because it was led by visiting tutor and arts producer extraordinaire Anna Hart. She taught us so much in that one class and it’s always stuck out in our minds as being pretty foundational (Gab actually ended up working for Anna on AIR, who make art with people in places). We wanted to rope Anna into this podcast episode to do an explainer on funding because it’s tricky (like honestly what is it, how do I get some for myself, and where is the money coming from?). In this episode, Anna chats to us about the logistics of arts funding, the criticisms of it too, and offers some tips on writing a good application. Have a listen and hope it is useful!

> A transcription for this episode is available on our website 

> Find out more about Anna’s work with AIR

> Reach out to The Hour for artist coaching

> Here's the Successful Funding Application Library

> We are reader-supported by our Patreon gang, love you.

> And finally, the transcription for this episode is made possible due to sponsorship support from Creative Debuts

Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Guest: Anna Hart

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago

This week's text on the White Pube is a review of 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab Saleh.

tl;dr (& SPOILER): I think the decision to put on 3 separate solo shows, in the space that'd normally contain 1 solo show, at the same time is racialised. 

Read it here: thewhitepube.com/3for1camdenart

Hi podcast gang, I've been off sick with covid/long covid but I've been able to record audio for some recent reviews + uploading em now! 

This is a review of NUTS, the game in which you play a researcher collecting data on squirrels. Unfortunately, it broke before my eyes. But was still nice to see squirrels I guess? You can find the written version of this text here on our website: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/nuts

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

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!

We're going to start posting reviews here in between the big podcasts we do, hope you enjoy! This week's review is Death Stranding, the 2019 video game by Hideo Kojima that has completely changed the way I feel about the people in my life, the year we're facing, and the medium of gaming as a whole. I have written a spoiler-free review in an effort to bring other people to the game because I hope it can help you in the same way it has helped me: I'm left more prepared to face the challenge of 2020, and more able to process and accept what has happened. It is cool, devastating, uplifting and strange, and this review is somewhere between a wake and a love letter, written with 95 hours on the clock. Thank you Kojima Productions for making this.

The text version of this is on our website here:

& there's a video of me reading on IGTV too.

Our last review of the year so I'll see yas in 2021!

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

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)

This week's text is a review!

I'll be chatting about Tales from the Silk Road, a cluster of films curated by Baesianz, and hosted on Nowness Asia.  

At the time of writing, there are 3 films up: Inside Out, by Sarah Khan / Wake Island: Last Ruins, directed by Mohamad Abdouni / Reality Fragment 160921, by Qigemu.

While i talk about the films briefly, this is more a text to ease back in to talking about institutions, and how they affect the way we articulate a new and tentative collective identity. 

Read the full text here.

This week's text is a review of RIP Germain's show, Shimmer, which was on at Two Queens in Leicester. 

read it here: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/shimmerripgermain/

& as always, thank you to our friends on patreon! 

this week's text is a review of SPRAY, Ella Fleck @ Season 4 Episode 6

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/spray

here's a link to the gallery's website

Support our writing: ⁠⁠thewhitepube.co.uk/support

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this week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs! 

read the text here

an essay about readymades, found objects in art and whether that's a good thing (and what it all **MEANS**!)

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/found-objects

the emoji for this text is: 🔳◼️

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

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

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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.

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 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️

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 below for a chance to win two tickets to see it at any of the 700 locations it’ll be playing in, PLUS a hoodie, PLUS a badge, PLUS a signed play text. We’re also re-posting our Prima Facie review from 2022 for you to read on the white pube website/listen on our podcast. I really think Jodie Comer is the actress of our generation lmao. I said it then and I’m glad I get to say it again. See you in the comments and thank you to the lovely people at National Theatre Live for putting Prima Facie back on the big screen. I can probably count on one hand the amount of times we have done adverts so I hope you trust I back this completely!!

T&C's: The winner, who will receive one Prima Facie goody bag and 2x cinema tickets, will be picked at random on 10th September and contacted by DM. If we don’t receive a reply within 24 hours another winner will be chosen. One entry per person. Open to UK residents only. Prize is non-transferrable.

This week's text is about listening in on a crit :)

read it here: thewhitepube.com/the-crit

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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! 

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This week's text on The White Pube, is a review of a film! Manifesto, by Ane Hjort Guttu, which is aw a few weeks ago at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. This text is also a cheeky excuse to think a bit about art schools, and especially, my time at CSM (which is quite a while ago now bc i am literally geriatric).

You can read the review here: thewhitepube.com/manifesto-anehjortguttu

The only reason The White Pube can still exist is because some of our readers choose to support us each month on Patreon. If you wana, you can chip in a couple £s a month, if not no worries!!!! 

ok that's all, love u have a great weekend n see u in 2 weeks xoxox

I wrote this in ONE day do NOT judge me. Written version of the review is here. Our book Poor Artists is out now! in shops and in libraries and some people are just carrying it with them like a cool accessory. Get yours now !

A bit of a different one this week: I have written about the podcast I fall asleep to every night. It's Episode #328 of 'My Brother, My Brother and Me,' titled 'The Anxiety-Free Cruise.' I write about sleep, imagination, tabletop games, and joy. 

You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/mbmbam

Thank you to the Patreon gang for your ongoing support and love.

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! 

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/

This week's review is on Unpacking, a small pixel art puzzle game about unpacking items into rooms, available now on Switch, Xbox, PC/Mac. And so, I... didn't love it. But this text is about how, actually, I don't even want to love everything I play. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes love is too much, sometimes I only want things to be fine. 

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/games/unpacking

Thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting our weekly writing! 

This is 2nd episode in the our new series where we revisit the Big texts we wrote before we started this podcast! In this one, we revisit Zarina's 2020 text 'I hate Dishoom.' It caused... a ruckus online. How does she feel about it now? Was it even that deep? Did the owner of Dishoom get in touch and did they meet up to discuss it? Find out on the latest episode of the white pube podcast wooo & if you want the transcription for this episode, it's on our website here

thank you to our readers for supporting our work on Patreon, Kofi and PayPal. we love u the most  

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 the fact I've got the ick for Love Island itself. Season 7 has been rough but the roughness didn't begin here. I'm done with this show. I can't be dealing. 

Listen on this podcast or find the written version on The White Pube here. Thank you to our Patreon supporters for enabling this very specifically mad kind of writing. We love you a lot.