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The White Pube
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 https://thewhitepube.co.uk
Episodes
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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…
The White PubePortrait of a Curator in London
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…
The White PubeReview: The Northern Boys
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…
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SOUND! (& Jai Paul Supremacy)
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…
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covid is obsessed with me
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…
The White PubeIn 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…
The White PubeThe Problem with Diaspora Art 2
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…
The White PubeAn interview with v buckenham
new series! our brains are soup while we are busy writing a book so we are outsourcing your entertainment and learning and art-thinking; please enjoy the first…
The White PubeReview: Mauro C. Martinez at Unit London
first exhibition review since march 2020??? must be bad. Writing about edgelord artist strategies and how much things cost. The written version of this is on…
The White PubeREVISITED: THE ULTIMATE WHITE PUBE REVIEW
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…
The White PubeREVIEW: Sound of the Underground @ the Royal Court Theatre
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!…
The White PubeGod 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…
The White PubeREVIEW: Jake Grewal, Now I Know You I Am Older @ Thomas Dane
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…
The White PubeInstagram 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…
The White PubeReview: Tai Shani @ Gathering
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…
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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…
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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…
The White PubeART 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…
The White PubeREVIEW: 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…
The White PubeREVIEW: Emergency, Daisy Hildyard
This week's text is a review! Of Daisy Hildyard's novel, Emergency: a DARK PASTORAL FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA. Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Read the…
The White PubeOur 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…
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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…
The White PubeMY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych
This week's text is about MY FAVOURITE PAINTING! (which is different to my favourite painter...) It's Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych, an…
The White PubeAn ANNOUNCEMENT! About our new Working Class Creatives Grant!!! funded by Creative Debuts!
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…
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Review: Prima Facie
Jodie Comer is the actress of her generation, pass it on!!! Writing about theatre and accents and Liverpool. Writing about truth and lies and change. You can…
The White PubeMy diagnosis has changed
I got COVID in January 2021 and I spent last year in a pit, stuck at home, no energy, in pain, dealing with the vague endlessness of Long Covid. In the middle…
The White PubeMy Favourite Painter
this week's text is about my favourite painter: Bhupen Khakhar :) You can read the text version of this here - thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/bhupenkhakhar/ n…
The White PubeReview: Stray
A review, an emoji, and an update on our writing schedule :o I hope you like cats because this week I talk about the newly released Stray, a game I waited so…
The White PubeREVIEW: Body Vessel Clay @ York Art Gallery
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…
The White PubeReview: The Long Dark
Another review that's not so much a review and more a reflection on disability. A game about needing things, a text about learning to want more. Survival game…
The White PubeREVIEW: Sun & Sea @ the Albany
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…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 023: Lottie Walker
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…
The White PubeLevel One Identity Art
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…
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REVIEW: Munch @ the Courtauld
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…
The White PubeReview: Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
A book review! A book you should all go and buy now. This week's review is on Tell Me I'm Worthless, the debut novel from Alison Rumfitt. A book about a…
The White PubeReview: Cloud Point at Paradise Row
This week's text is a review of Cloud Point, a group show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at Paradise Row. Read it here…
The White PubeReview: Everything Everywhere All At Once
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…
The White PubeREVIEW: RIP Germain, Shimmer @ Two Queens
This week's text is a review of RIP Germain's show, Shimmer, which was on at Two Queens in Leicester. read it here…
The White PubeReview: @BoschBot
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?…
The White PubePortrait of a Director of an Artist-led Space in Leicester
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…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 021: Rutendo D. Bradley
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…
The White PubeReview: @afffirmations
Apparently I'm just really into thinking about social media atm, so continuing on from the Chaotic Nightclub Photos review, in this episode I look at…
The White PubeAre white girls capable of making art that's not about themselves?
It's white girl art revisited! uh-oh. In 2019, I wrote a text that was read by way more people than I was expecting. It caused a stir, caused me nightmares…
The White PubeShenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, Ah No So It Go, Go So! @ Cubitt
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…
The White PubePortrait of a Moving Image Artist in London
This week's text is something a bit different. It's not a review, it's not an essay, it's kind of just a story. So it makes me nervous, but here we are all the…
The White PubeReview: Old
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…
The White PubeWho doesn't have a praise kink?
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…
The White PubeI'm Hungry
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…
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Learning to Cheat
Do you ever... cheat? I don't. No, I would never. Or I wouldn't. But then something happened that meant I started to cheat all the time. This week's text is…
The White PubeI ❤️ London
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…
The White PubeI hate Dishoom
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…
The White PubeReview: Beat Saber
This is a review of Beat Saber, a game I've been thinking about for years. It's a game I have only played once. When it was time, I sat down and wrote the…
The White PubeREVIEW: Inventing Anna
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…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 018: Tuğçe Özbiçer
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…
The White PubeReview: Uncharted 4
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…
The White PubeWhy museums are bad vibes
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…
The White PubeREVIEW: She Keeps Me Damn Alive, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley @ Arebyte
This week's text is a review of SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE, a game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. This text is (tbh) less a review, more a document or journal…
The White PubeA review of Pokémon Legends: Arceus
This week's text is a review of the new Pokémon: Legends Arceus game. When the game came out, I literally sat down and played it for 5 days without moving…
The White PubeReview: Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, Jasleen Kaur @ Touchstones
This week's text is a review of Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, a show at Touchstones by Jasleen Kaur and a group of collaborators from Rochdale. The written version…
The White PubeReview: Unpacking
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…