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A book review! A book you should all go and buy now. This week's review is on Tell Me I'm Worthless, the debut novel from Alison Rumfitt. A book about a haunted house; a book about fascism. 

You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website

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This week's text is a review of Cloud Point, a group show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at Paradise Row. 

Read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/cloud-point/

Now the highest grossing A24 film of all time, this week's review is Everything Everywhere All At Once. I had an issue with the way it ended but I think that's on me 🤪 You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website & as always, thank you to our good looking genius supporters for keeping us in business we love you 

This week's text is a review of RIP Germain's show, Shimmer, which was on at Two Queens in Leicester. 

read it here: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/shimmerripgermain/

& as always, thank you to our friends on patreon! 

Do you know Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights? Do you know the Twitter bot that just posts close-ups of the painting all day long? This week's review is Bosch Bot, thinking about a bot as a curatorial tool and just how much more  engaged I am with the painting via this mad Twitter presentation than I would be if I was stood in the Prado in Madrid squinting at it IRL. 

You can find the written version of this on our website: thewhitepube.com 

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This week's text is a second portrait in our ongoing series, having a snoop and a natter, chatting to people around the UK for a sneaky peek into what creative life is like for people wherever they are. 

This text is a portrait of the co-Director of an artist-led space in Leicester, we go to a sports bar, eat Masala Mogo and chat about everything: from art as an alternative value system, to why charitable status is not always the answer, and why failure is good sometimes. 

you can read the full text here: thewhitepube.com/art-thoughts/portrait-of-a-director-of-an-artist-led-space/

you can also go back & read the first text in this series, Portrait of a Moving Image Artist in London, here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-thoughts/portrait-of-a-moving-image-artist/

that's all! happy sunday & thank you, as per usual to our friends and supporters on patreon. i always look forward to hearing what you think, especially on the lil TWP discord, so thank you for you constant support and feedback! 

For the 21st recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant, we are very excited to support the work of Rutendo D. Bradley. Rutendo sent us an excerpt from the novel she started as part of her dissertation, ‘The Devil’s King,’ a project she is now hoping to work on full-time. The opening we read was so effective in its world-building, with its historical language and raw landscape, and its intense population of kings and knights and soldiers and the ways that they speak. The chapter also has this kind of fateful promise that this story is going to be different, it’s going to be important, just hold on — and we loved that, and we wanted to read more. So, with the help of Creative Debuts, we are glad we can support Rutendo with this month’s Writers Grant.

If you want the text version of The Devil's King, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :)

Apparently I'm just really into thinking about social media atm, so continuing on from the Chaotic Nightclub Photos review, in this episode I look at @afffirmations on Instagram. Thinking about sincerity, irony, not knowing what's going on, mental wellbeing, and how I want to spend my time online. You can find the written version of this review here. Thank you for listening 8-) Thank you to our Patreon/Paypal/Kofi supporters I love you

It's white girl art revisited! uh-oh. In 2019, I wrote a text that was read by way more people than I was expecting. It caused a stir, caused me nightmares, and I've buried my head in the sand about it ever since. In this episode, we re-read the text and give it a much-needed exorcism. You can find the transcription for this episode on our website here. I'm sweating

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This week's text is a review of Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, A No So It Go, Go So! at Cubitt. It's also the last show of Languid Hands’ curatorial fellowship programme at the gallery, so i am rly happy n glad to be writing about this show, and hope i've made it clear that I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!

read the text version here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sheneceorethacubitt/

& as per, thank you to our friends on patreon for supporting the writing :)