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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 & 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 :) 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛

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

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

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

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

A story about a sleepover at the National Gallery, in pursuit of answers to a question: what is the POINT of ART?! read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/reviews/2024/overnight-museum & thank you, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠⁠for more info about how you can do that :)

A text where I write about why I no longer want to write about Diversity. The history of institutional diversity policy, the historry of it's failings, but also -- my speculations about its future. read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/divpol101 & thank you, as always, to our friends on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠⁠our support page ⁠⁠for more info about how you can do that :)

For real! The written version of the review is here; our book Poor Artists is available to pre-order here. mwah mwah mwah goodbye

Where do artists live? HOW do artists live? i don't know, but this is a story about an immortal cat, the last artists left in East London & a squat in the 90s that's still here today! read the text on TWP: thewhitepube.co.uk/london-2039

documentaries about chronic fatigue are boring and they should be horror films instead. You can find the written version of this text here and you can PRE-ORDER OUR BOOK POOR ARTISTS RELEASING OCTOBER 3RD HERE :D

A review of Sheena Patel's debut novel, I'm a Fan, and a short story about wish fulfilment, desire and how i really want to punch my Dad. read the text version here: www.thewhitepube.co.uk/im-a-fan & thank you as always to our friends on ⁠Patreon⁠! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to ⁠our support page ⁠for more info about how you can do that :)

A classic review! A straightforward review! You can find the written version on our website here!

This week's text is a love letter to a painting: Philip Guston's Painting, Smoking, Eating. It's also a love letter to limbo, chewing gum, dead time and unalienated labour read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/philip-guston & thank you as always to our friends on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to our support page for more info about how you can do that :)

but it's actually a review of Liverpool City Centre. The written version of the text is on our website.

We have a cheeky bonus guest episode from Art Assassins, a collective based out of South London Gallery. They’ve been investigating the role galleries play in public life and they’ve put their research together in this episode -- enjoy & we will catch u next week! If you want a peep at the transcript, it's available on the white pube website :) A 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's text is a review of SALTBURN!!! TL;DR i thought this film was not at all weird, just a normal and sexy time and this is NOT a thinkpiece. read it on the white pube dot com & thank you, as always, to our friends on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls go to our SUPPORT page for lil links n bits :)

I convince Zarina to delete her Twitter account and we say goodbye to our 20s in this New Years Resolution episode to kick off 2024. Proper reviews start next weekend but til then, there's this. YouTube if you prefer video; transcription if you wanna read instead. We're going to try to write lots of reviews this year to make up for writing a book last year so get ReadYyyyyyy :D

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 love love love u!

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'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