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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
The White PubeOn Yearning: Period Dramas & Hot ✨Vibes✨
This week's text is a Very Embarrassing essay about why i love period dramas & yearning. tl;dr, they've got Hot Vibes. and other things have those same vibe…
The White PubeReview: Apex Legends
This week's review on Apex Legends considers the narrative value of an elaborate first person shooter, or why I have just sunk 557 hours into a game that goes…
The White PubeA Year of Long Covid
Well, it's been a year. In today's episode, Gabrielle and Zarina sit down to talk about the impact Long Covid has had on Gabrielle's life, body, head, whole…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 017: Rasha Baraka
We are excited to begin 2022 by announcing the 17th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant... 🥁... Rasha Baraka. In this episode, we introduce Rasha's work…
The White PubeReview: Lubaina Himid @ Tate Modern
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 &…
The White PubeI am addicted to a game
Happy new year! For our first episode back for 2022, I've written about the games I've been addicted to over the years, whilst wondering carefully if addiction…
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Writers Grant Recipient 016: Molly Gough
We're ending the year by announcing the 16th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant... 🥁... Molly Gough. In this episode, we introduce Molly's work and she…
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Becoming A Disabled Game Critic
This week's text is a reflection on becoming disabled and how that has affected my writing. It's not what I want but maybe it's not all bad? And maybe thinking…
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Institutions & Identity
This text is an art thought essay about the museum as part of the Neoliberal political project, a re-write of our 2018 text 'the Problem with Representation'…
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Love Letter to the Art World
Gabrielle writing about art again? Oh my god, the world must truly be ending. This week's text is a Love Letter to the Art World. It is a love letter but I'm…
The White PubeWriters Grant 015: Polly Manning
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…
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Review: Sutapa Biswas @ Kettle's Yard
This week's text is a review of Sutapa Biswas's show: Lumen at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. It's also a lil bit different to my normal texts, bc it's written as…
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Review: The Forgotten City
This week’s review is The Forgotten City, a game about a place where nobody is allowed to sin or everybody will turn into gold statues - or so they say. It is…
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Review: 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab Saleh
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…
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Review: BLACKTRANSSEA
This week's review is on BLACKTRANSSEA, the new game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. It is currently on show at QUAD in Derby as part of Danielle's first solo…
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Review: Turner Prize 2021, Bumper Pack
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…
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Review: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
This week’s review is Kena: Bridge of Spirits, the recently released game from Ember Lab about a young spirit guide who helps troubled spirits move on. It…
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REVIEW: Manifesto, Ane Hjort Guttu
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…
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Review: No Longer Home
This week's review is No Longer Home, a small game about two people who have just finished an art degree and are now getting ready to pack up their flat and…
The White PubeWriters Grant 013: Andy Grace Hayes
We’re entering the SECOND year of The White Pube Writers Grant if you can believe it. We are very pleased to announce that the 13th recipient is fellow art…
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this exhibition doesn't exist
This week's text is a review of an exhibition that doesn't exist. 'Gab suggested I write a review of a fictional exhibition, one that doesn’t actually exist…
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Review: Red Dead Redemption 2
This week’s review is Red Dead Redemption 2, the 2018 game from Rockstar. I think about escaping into fiction and creating fiction as a way to escape. Part…
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Review! Ain Bailey: Version @ Wysing Arts Centre
This week's text on The White Pube is a review of Ain Bailey's show, Version, at Wysing Arts Centre over in Cambridge. In this review, I think about about…
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Review: Love Island Season 7
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…
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Review: Marble Arch Mound
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…
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Review: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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…
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Review: a rant! a reel! Camara Taylor @ Cubitt
This week's text is a review! of Camara Taylor's <a rant! a reel!> at Cubitt. It's the third show in Languid Hands' ongoing curatorial fellowship program…
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Review: 54 The Gate, Arcadia Missa Open Office (or: Critics Just Wana Have Fun)
This week's text is a review of 54 The Gate, an online show that is also a game, on Arcadia Missa's Open Office. it is also a text about how i just want art to…
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Review: We Dwell in Possibility
This week’s review is 'We Dwell in Possibility,' the new game by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis commissioned for this year’s Manchester International Festival…
The White PubeWriters Grant 011: DORA MALUDI
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…
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Review: Ghost of Tsushima
This week's review is Ghost of Tsushima, the 2020 video game about a Mongol invasion on the island of Tsushima set in the 13th century. Did I like it? Did I…
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Review: Cooking Sections @ Tate Britain
This week's text is a review of ~Salmon: A Red Herring~, the Art Now show by Cooking Sections, at Tate Britain. Talking about my split feelings; between being…
The White PubeBoycott Zabludowicz
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…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 010: NATALIE DUNNING
We’re so pleased to announce, the 10th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Dunning. This feels like a really special and emotional moment…
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Review: Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami
this week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs! read the text here
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Review: The Last of Us Part II
This week I've written about The Last of Us Part II and doing things in video games you don't want to do. I don't know if this is necessarily a review, it's…
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Review: Walter Price, Pearl Lines @ Camden Art Centre
This week's text is a review! of Walter Price's show, Pearl Lines at Camden Art Centre. This is the first show I've seen in person since last Autumn, and…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 009: NATALIE TAN
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…
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A text about The Anxiety-Free Cruise by My Brother, My Brother and Me
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…
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Review: Tales from the Silk Road, Baesianz & Nowness Asia
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…
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Review: the park
At 7.30 on Wednesdays, a Labrador Club meets up on the main field. If I time it right, which I usually do, on Wednesday mornings I run through a sea of…
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Review: Fall Guys
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…
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The Long COVID Episode
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…
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Review: The Dancing Face by Mike Phillips
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…
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 008: ORNA KAZIMI
Time flies, we’re now on the 8th recipient of the Writers Grant, and we are so happy to announce it has been given to Orna Kazimi. Orna sent us a short…
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Review: Mundaun
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…
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Can White People Ever Be Radical?
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…
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Review: Clawee, the remote claw machine app
For this week's review, I played on a live claw machine remotely and... I hated it. Not good, not cool, not fun at all. And also potentially dangerous for…
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Review: Maquette
happy Sunday the gang, I think this is my favourite game review I've ever written and I hope you enjoy it even if you don't play games. It's about Maquette…
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Review: NUTS
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…
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Review: Calico
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…
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Review: Art Sqool
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…
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Review: Run! BTS
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…
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Review: Death Stranding
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…
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Everything you need to know about funding
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…
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Kardashians & Kottagecore
Hello cowards and abominable entities, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This episode of our podcast is, quite frankly, a…
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The culture that saved us in lockdown
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…
The White PubeThe White Pube Origin Story
Hello friends and cowards, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. We used to have a podcast once upon a time when we were in…