The White Pube

Vaping in the studio with a guy that runs an art school, but maybe not in the way you'd think.

read the full text here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/portrait3

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*for legal reasons, I didn't really. This text is part-review, part-short story, writing about Sam Cox's Doodle House in Kent. You can find the written version on our website, and if you want to support more weird writing, you can do so here.

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.

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I've written something weird again. Enjoyoyoyoyo. You can find the written version of this text here and if you want to support the weirdness (and also join our discord) see details here! if you can't support financially, sharing the text is a really really nice helpful lovely thing to do :) BINGOOOOOO

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/

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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!!!

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: art school is bonkers. It’s a weird place for weird people doing weird things (we spoke about that at length a couple months ago, in an ep about Art School Horror Stories)

If that's the way art schools are, where's the wriggle room? What other ways could arts education be set up? How else can we do this in a way that feels a bit more comfortable, productive, helpful and educational actually? Certain things get handed down and no one ever questions them. So the three texts do that questioning, and they are: 

Thomas Hirschhorn @ Kochi Biennial
Art Squool
Manifesto, Ane Hjort Guttu

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

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-)

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