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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 and bread and hallucinations in the body as well as in the gallery. You can find the written version on our website. Thanks for listening and see ya next week! 

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 you in 2 days with the next review :) 

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 video version to round the year out. Thank you everyone for your support this year. I feel like a different person to who I was in January. Thanks for bearing with me!!! Thank you for letting me be a writer. It means the world. GDLP xxxxxxx

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, discussing bodily fluids, animals, weird students and weird tutors. We filmed this one so if you want to see our facial reactions, enjoy lmao. Before and after discussing The Incidents, we also talk about Martine Sym's new film The African Desperate which is about an art school in New York Becauseeee 🥁🥁🥁  this episode is sponsored by MUBI, our heroes, who are exclusively streaming the film. All of our listeners get 30 days free HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

* check The White Pube website for the transcription. We love you and we are sorry. But this was so funny we'll probably definitely be doing it again.

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 read the review on our website here: thewhitepube.co.uk/misc/theafricandesperate/

The African Desperate is streaming exclusively on MUBI now. **Get 30 days free.** This text was commissioned by MUBI, and as usual, you can check our accounts to see what jobs we do & how much we are paid for them. We are alsooo gonna follow this up with a podcast discussing people’s art school experiences so keep ya eyes peeled over on instagram @thewhitepube. But if you wana get in there early, you can anonymously tell us the weirdest thing that happened to you in art school here.

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 text version on TWP here: thewhitepube.co.uk/misc/emergency/

As usuallll, thank u to our friends on patreon! 

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 festival, going viral, health, the future, what we would do if the other one died, and of course, our biggest fight ever. We actually filmed this one so if you want to watch it with some visual illustrations, the link is here and there are captions on the video too. It's all fun and games and gossip but just,,, thank you for allowing us to do this job. I can't believe it's been that long. I really, really can't believe it. Thank you to the 30K monthly readers on the website, to the 80K on insta, the 20K on twitter, to our 705 Patreon people, and to YOU the growing podcast listenership as well :) thank you sooooo much!!! 

If you listened to this episode, please comment the following when we share it on insta: Hi The White Pube - It’s me, your only reader. For Months I have created the illusion that you are writing to a large audience. But here’s the truth: all these people reading are me. And now, for you to be convinced of this, I will send this message from all my accounts.

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 are very confused and think that I really think these things. I definitely definitely don't.

You can find the written version of this on The White Pube dot commmmm our beautiful website that turns SEVEN YEARS OLD in 10 days holy moly (what have you got us for our birthday?? in child years we just started year 4 at school. we probably love Fortnite. We sleep in a teeny tiny single bed. We grow up to become art critics, what)

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 altarpiece from 14th Century Siena. 

To read the text version of this (and peep the painting mentioned), go to thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/blessed-agostino-novello/

MERCH: https://www.weareprintsocial.com/the-white-pube

& as usual, thank u to our friends on Patreon!!! <3

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 first recipient since we opened up the writers grant to a more general creatives grant, and we loved the work Tomisin sent in.

This is just a lil bit of info - raising awareness & marketing the new Creatives Grant. If you were thinking of applying - pls do!!! more info on TWP's website, on the grants page: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/ where there's full submissions info & FAQs

If you want to sign up to Creative Debut's mailing list, here's the link tooooo: CREATIVE DEBUTS MAILING LIST

see u next week for a lil text baby & enjoy ur bank hol!!! xxxxx