The White Pube

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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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

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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

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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

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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