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The White Pube was started in 2015 in response 2 boooooring art writing. we've been reviewing exhibitions and writing small n long essays about this industry ever since. below you can find all visual art related texts across reviews and art thoughts - pages have written versions and audio-only, and there are videos readings on IGTV if that's ya vibe: @thewhitepube. see game + food chat on their own dedicated pages. thanks for reading ! zarina + gab xxx
2024 Reviews
2023
- I WENT TO THE OPERA!
- The Maggot Man
- Art! on the Underground
- No Sunday Text Free Palestine
- Doodle House
- swimming pools
- be right back
- Mauro C. Martinez @ Unit London
- Sound of the Underground @ the Royal Court Theatre
- Jake Grewal @ Thomas Dane
2022
- Tai Shani @ Gathering
- My Favourite Painting
- My Favourite Painter
- Body Vessel Clay @ York Art Gallery
- Sun & Sea @ the Albany
- Munch @ the Courtauld
- Cloud Point @ Paradise Row
- Cloud Point @ Paradise Row
- R.I.P. Germain, Shimmer @ Two Queens
- Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, Ah No So It Go, Go So! @ Cubitt
- Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley @ Arebyte
- Jasleen Kaur, Gut Feelings Meri Jaan
- Lubaina Himid @ Tate
2021
- Sutapa Biswas @ Kettle's Yard
- 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab Saleh
- Turner Prize 2021, Bumper Pack
- Manifesto, Ane Hjort Guttu
- this exhibition doesn't exist
- Ain Bailey: Version @ Wysing Arts Centre
- a rant! a reel!, Camara Taylor @ Cubitt
- 54 The Gate
- Cooking Sections @ Tate Britain
- Walter Price, Pearl Lines @ Camden Art Centre
- Tales from the Silk Road: Baesianz & Nowneess Asia
- Nadim Choufi @ Jameel Arts Centre
- Sahej Rahal, finalforest.exe
- Chila Burman, Winter Commission @ Tate Britain
2020
- Payal Kapadia @ Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2020
- Dead Yard, RIP Germain @ Cubitt
- Internet of Things: Another World is Possible
- Abi Palmer, <What Now?>, Wysing Broadcasts
- Black Lives Matter Commitment
- Alberta Whittle & Rene Matic
- Abbas Zahedi @ South London Gallery
- Tender Feelings @ Soft Spot
- Emii Alrai @ the Tetley
- Cameron Rowland, 3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73 @ the ICA
- Sex Education @ Netflix
- you feel me_ @ FACT, Liverpool
- On Venus, Patrick Staff @ Serpentine Sackler
2019
- Marianne Keating @ Rampa, Porto
- 3 for 1: Findlater, Zaman & Perretta
- Alvaro Barrington @ Sadie Coles
- Gilbert & George @ Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
- Mark Leckey @ Tate Britain
- Chris Hinojosa: Kameha-MIJA!
- Jan Hakon Erichsen @ Instagram
- Imran Perretta: the destructors @ Spike Island
- Helen Cammock @ Whitechapel
- bbz blk bk: Alt Grad Show 2019
- REAL WORK @ Fact Liverpool
- Ima-Abasi Okon
- Frank Bowling @ Tate
- Aladdin
- Keith Haring @ Tate Liverpool
- Symphony for 20 rooms @ Den Frie Udstilling
- with eyes closed, call me @ Bergen Kunsthall
- Game of Thrones S08E03
- Sinae Yoo: Petrichor @ Futura, Prague
- Thomas Hirschhorn @ Kochi Biennial
- Tejal Shah @ Kochi
- Kochi Biennale
- Temsüyanger Longkumer @ Kochi Biennale
- Ghislaine Leung @ Chisenhale
- Hardeep Pandhal - Paranoid Picnic: Phatnom BAME
- Haroon Mirza @ IKON
- Simeon Barclay @ The Tetley
- Grace Wales Bonner @ Serpentine Sackler
- Women on Aeroplanes @ the Showroom
- John Walter @ HOME
- Winter Exhibitions @ Tate Liverpool
2018
- Joy Labinjo @ Tiwani Contemporary
- A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
- Liverpool Biennial 2018
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan @ Chisenhale
- Crush @ Para Site Gallery, Hong Kong
- The Share of Opulence @ Sophie Tappeiner & Paul Mahek
- Akram Zaatari @ New Art Exchange
- In Formation III - Neither Voice Noir Class
- In formation III and Mitchell Akiyama
- In formation III 3 reviews in 1
- In Formation III
- Arcadia Missa, Screening Room 2018
- Samara Scott @ Tramway
- Ritual Without Belief: Evan Ifekoya @ Gasworks
- Working Practices: Clarke House and the Showroom
- Beth Collar @ Primary
- Alia Pathan - Fire Rooster @ Primary
- Navigating Proximities
- Flurina Sokoll @ Slade MA Degree Show
- Landed @ Cubitt Gallery
- States of Play: Rolplay Reality
- Anthea Hamilton: The Squash @ Tate Britain
- Ruaidhri Ryan @ CBS Gallery & Studios
- Zoë Paul @ Spike Island
- Tai Shani - Dark Continent @ Tramway, Glasgow
- Forensic Architecture @ the ICA
- Alexandra Pirici @ the New Museum
- more of an avalanche @ Wysing Arts Centre
- Sondra Perry @ Serpetine
- Ma Qiusha @ Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
- Sonia Boyce @ Manchester Art Gallery
- Joan Jonas @ Tate Modern
- Concrete Pitch - Eddie Peake
- Th-th-th-that's all folks! @ Castlefield Gallery
- Marguerite Humeau: Echoes @ Tate Britain
- Making, A Life @ Castlefield Gallry
- Padmavati / Padmaavat
- Wu Tsang @ FACT
2017
- Hannah Black, Some Context @ Chisenhale
- Autumn/Winter @ Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
- Bayadère - the Ninth Life
- Vitrinerie by Madeleine Stack
- Arthur Jafa (@ 180 the Strand & Serpentine Sackler)
- Hardeep Pandhal at The Gymnasium
- 13th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
- Sahej Rahal's Barricadia @ CCA
- Sheela Gowda @ IKON
- Zadie Xa @ Pumphouse
- Lana Del Rey @ Liverpool Echo Arena
- ZM's Skincare Routine
- Summer at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
- Love Island Series 3
- Abacus @ the Bluecoat
- Mark Leckey @ Cubitt
- Mene Mene Tekel Parsin @ Wysing Arts Center
- Benedict Drew @ Whitechapel
- Siobhan Davies Dance at the Bluecoat
- Fahrelnissa Zeid @ TATE MODERN
- Keeping up with the Kardashians
- Wonder Woman
- Richard Yates by Tao Lin
- Chris Ofili @ TNG
- Miss Meena and the Masala Queens
- Stephen Willats @ MIMA
- Daniela Ortiz @ MIMA
- Glitch @ the Isherwood Gallery
- Erik Van Lieshout @ South London Gallery
- Feral Kin @ Auto Italia
- Beauty and the Beast
- Stephen Forge @ Cactus
- Treats by Lara Williams
- Wolfgang Tillmans @ Tate Modern
- How much of this is fiction. @ FACT, Liverpool
- Anna Zacharoff & Nata Goncharova @ Vilma Gold
- FK Alexander @ Wellcome Collection
- Benedict Drew
- Peter Liversidge
- Manni Sandhu: Welcome to the Future
- Dawn Breaks @ The Showroom
- Imran Perretta: Brother to Brother @ Jerwood
- Moana
- Adham Faramawy @ the Bluecoat
- Painter's Painting
Art Thoughts
- Portrait of an Artists Co-op
- The Entire History of Art School
- Portrait of a Different Kind of Art School
- WELCOME POMODORO!
- Portrait of a Curator in London
- The Problem with Diaspora Art 2
- Museum Shitpost Statement
- Level One Identity Art
- Portrait of a Director of an Artist-led Space in Leicester
- Portrait of a Moving Image Artist in London
- I ❤️ London
- NEoN Evaluation 2021
- Institutions & Identity
- Love Letter to the Art World
- Boycott Zabludowicz
- Can White People Ever Be Radical?
- what do critics do?
- The Problem with Bad Art & how the game industry could help us
- the Community, the State & a specific kind of Headache
- why i hate the white cube 2
- FUCK THE POLICE, FUCK THE STATE, FUCK THE TATE: RIOTS & REFORM
- ideas for a new art world
- authority & resources: mango&lime on the top deck of the bus
- UNITE etc
- Why museums are bad vibes
- What I’ve learnt from being a brown critic on the Internet (and what i need now from our readers)
- critics in residence: ica 2020
- The Problem with Tiny Galleries
- ~The Problem with Representation~
- How to make art with people in places - with AIR
- Are White Girls Capable of Making Art That's Not About Themselves?
- The internet is prematurely ageing me and it’s all your fault
- Does Art History Matter?
- On trauma, paranoia, and fascism (and on Nina Power)
- I am a cowboy in the art world & idk what to write ab
- What should an art festival look like?
- Do galleries ever ask us what we want to see ?
- How I got a gallery
- I LITERALLY HATE THE ART WORLD
- The Problem with Diaspora Art
- why I don't read the press release
- How To Get An Exhibition
- AIRPLANE MODE: WE'RE GOING ON HOLIDAY
- LOCAL ADVISORY BOARDS; A SENSIBLE IDEA
- File Under Female
- Money Feelings
- Year in Review
- Identity-Quality
- Drive-Thru Art Part 2
- obj//subj --- ectivity
- To Aria Dean,
- Drive-Thru Art
- Why I Love The White Pube
- Why I Hate The White Cube
- they don't want me to write 4 the White Pube