Texts

we post a new text here every Sunday*. If you would prefer to _listen_ instead of _read_, there are audio recordings on each page or you can get the collected recordings on the white pube podcast. *sometimes we don’t :)

WARNING: we have taken most of the 2015-2022 texts off the website because of a super secret project on the horizon……….hold tight

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  Liverpool Biennial

  and its the 2025 theme of BEDROCK

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  Ethel Cain

  to love me is to suffer me

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  LCD Soundsystem

  I was there in 2025

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  Death Stranding 2

  thumbs up for not being depressed anymore

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  Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure

  Dan Guthrie @ Chisenhale

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  Gaza Biennale (UK Jinnaah)

  What actually is the point of a biennale?

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  Radio 1's Big Weekend

  a text about girls with guitars and Ed Atkins' book Flower

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  Confessions of a Commercial Gallerist

  Fra Angelico hears a gallerist's literal confession

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  Monkey King

  do you think it's possible to change the worst things about yourself

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  On Ugliness

  I want to be confused

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  Creating Identity Charms

  a text about midodrine, Chile, and the artist Phoebe Kaniewska

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  The Crit

  listening in on a crit

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  Lapvona

  what would you order from the tipple trolley

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  The Roundabout Artist

  about art on roundabouts, art in the public sphere, surprising and unexpected.

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  The Hearing Test

  also a review of the Visible app, sort of

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  Much love i leave behind

  Athen Kardashian and Nina Mhach Durban @ Indigo + Madder

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  Mary and the Rabbit Dream

  I've been gone, in more ways than one

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  NO MORE FOUND OBJECTS

  an essay about readymades, found objects in art and whether that's a good thing

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  Spray

  Ella Fleck @ Season 4 Episode 6 // an artwork made from pheromone fog

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  London Art Fair

  written and uploaded from bed

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  Grey Unpleasant Land

  a story about an exhibition about property & inheritance & national identity -- Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane at Spike Island

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  Woman on the Edge of Time

  kicking the 2025 reviews off with a book I think I might love

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  DAHOMEY (dir. Mati Diop)

  a film about the restitution of 26 objects to Benin

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  Laisul Hoque @ Whitechapel

  a one day exhibition, conceptual value grab.

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  How much money I made this year

  or a text about how 'Culture is bad for you'

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  The Sound Voice Project

  3 performances at the Royal Opera House about voice loss

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  Grenfell: in the words of survivors

  via National Theatre's streaming service

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  Turner Prize 2024

  a text for Jasleen Kaur's Turner Prize installation at tate Britain

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  The Crab Museum

  how are we alive

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  Imran Perretta @ Somerset House Studios

  a lament for a dead city

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  The Substance

  there are two wolves inside me

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  Ellie Cotton @ General Assembly

  i saw a painting that i couldn't stop looking at

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  The Dentist

  just like, an actual review of my dentist's

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  Dream Machines, by Rebecca Moss

  a text about a performance lecture on the swan pedalos at Stratford Olympic Park

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  Prima Facie

  Jodie Comer is the actress of her generation

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  Slow Art

  as I said last time, let's all quit our jobs

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  The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name, Noorain Inam

  a text about a specific painting, a text about painting and imagining and feeling like things are over there but then also within you.

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  The Purpose was to Document the Other Side

  a film by Laisul Hoque, about distance and love, in a week like this week!

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  Severance

  let's all quit our jobs

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  Work!?

  thinking about Serban Savu's 'what work is' Romanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale

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  STRAND NEWS

  a group show @ strand news, an off licence on the strand

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  Parable of the Sower

  or a review of the UK's 2024 general election

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  Tai Shani @ The Cosmic House

  THE WORLD TO ME WAS A SECRET: CAESIOUS, ZINNOBER, CELADON, AND VIRESCENT -- a vignette about looking through windows!

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  the LJMU degree show

  i still can't believe this happened

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  Unreal Estate

  a text housing, art and lying to estate agents about where I want to live.

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  The Hologram

  how to run your own peer-to-peer health network

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  Goldsmiths 4 Palestine 4eva

  a text about the student occupation of Goldsmiths, for Palestine

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  I ran away to Spain

  a text about Miranda July's new novel All Fours & the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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  Caterpillar Memories

  a story about a woman called Jane who wants to unlock her inner creative potential, through a boozy painting workshop.

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  I went on a residency in France

  at a place called The Mill

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  SHOW PONY

  a group show @ islington arts factory, curated by kelly wu

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  THE RISE OF CREATIVE INDUSTRY GROUP INCORPORATED

  a work of art criticism as dystopian business science fiction

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  It is as if you were doing work

  how do I rewire my brain, and also, do I want to

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  Overnight At The Museum

  a story about a sleepover at the National Gallery, in pursuit of answers to a question: what is the POINT of ART?!

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  Diversity Policy 101

  writing about why I no longer want to write about Diversity

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  The Floatation Tank

  i reviewed a floatation tank!!!

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  London 2039

  a story about an immortal cat, the last artists left in East London & a squat in the 90s that's still here today!

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  Unrest

  it should have been a horror film instead

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  I'm A Fan // I Want to Punch My Dad

  a review and a short story about wish fulfilment, desire and how i really want to punch my Dad

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  Poor Things

  A text about a matador, a driving lesson, Bella Baxter and me

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  Painting, Smoking, Eating (Philip Guston)

  a love letter to a painting? a love letter to limbo, chewing gum, dead time and unalienated labour

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  The Largest McDonald's in Europe

  but it's actually a review of Liverpool City Centre

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  Saltburn

  was not at all weird, just a normal and sexy time

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  I WENT TO THE OPERA!

  to see Rigoletto @ the Royal Opera House, and it was amazing!

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  Portrait of an Artists Co-op

  Welcome to our Sunday Lecture series. This week's guest lecturer is from the Artists' Co-op. Please save your questions for the end.

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  The Maggot Man

  fan fiction of a TikTok artist

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  Art! on the Underground

  Did you know there's art down there? yeah, proper interesting.

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  No Sunday Text Free Palestine

  No Sunday Text Free Palestine

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  The Entire History of Art School

  From Medieval times until, like, now.

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  Portrait of a Different Kind of Art School

  vaping in the studio with a guy that runs an art school.

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  Chaotic Nightclub Photos

  a text about the history of art about nightclubs + my new favourite twitter account

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  Doodle House

  I stayed at Doodle House for a night (for legal reasons, I didn't really)

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  WELCOME POMODORO!

  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.

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  The Bingo Review

  I went to the bingo for my 29th birthday and wrote this

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  swimming pools

  swimming pools and paintings -- a semi-review of Alina Grassman's show at Niru Ratnam

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  Come Dine With Me

  a short story

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  be right back

  sick note, personal day, overtime, all of it

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  Portrait of a Curator in London

  Curator as interlocutor! These institutions aren’t destinations, they’re tools!

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  The Northern Boys

  Raising a glass to the gays and the bi's and the trans and the girls and the big bald men

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  18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

  video diary!!! fitting

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  The Problem with Diaspora Art 2

  If there's one thing i love to do, it's rewrite old texts. Bigger! Better! More accurate! Second time lucky! This is a second stab at TWPDA.

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  Mauro C. Martinez @ Unit London

  a review of Mauro C. Martinez's show for which I should have just written 'pick a side'

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  Sound of the Underground @ the Royal Court Theatre

  written by Travis Alabanza! co-created by Debbie Hannan! Starring icons from the UK's queer club scene! i loved it!

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  God of War Ragnarök

  i feel bad for the writers

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  Jake Grewal @ Thomas Dane

  the sun! and the landscape! and the sky! and i don't really know what the sublime is!!

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  Tai Shani @ Gathering

  The first exhibition at the new London space, ZM writes about saints and hallucinations in Tai Shani's new exhibition

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  Sable

  why I didn't want it to end

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  The African Desperate

  Directed by Martine Syms

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  Emergency, Daisy Hildyard

  This is a novel about noticing things.

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  Museum Shitpost Statement

  i'm just letting off some steam

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  My Favourite Painting

  This week's text is about my favourite painting: Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych

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  My Favourite Painter

  This week's text is about my favourite painter: Bhupen Khakhar

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  Stray

  stop giving us dystopias, please, i am begging

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  Body Vessel Clay @ York Art Gallery

  This week's text is a guided meditation, a walk through Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art @ York Art Gallery

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  The Long Dark

  a game about needing things, a text about learning to want more

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  Sun & Sea @ the Albany

  This week's text is a review of Sun & Sea, an opera about climate change, @ the Albany. It's also a text about heatwaves and the Second Body.

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  Level One Identity Art

  An essay but also a review of the 2022 play Our Town Needs A Nandos by Samantha O'Rourke and Ameera Conrad

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  Munch @ the Courtauld

  This week's text is about Munch's paintings, a lil walk through of when i went to see the masterpieces from Bergen show at the Courtauld and had a really nice time

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  Tell Me I'm Worthless

  the debut novel by Alison Rumfitt about fascism + identity politics

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  Cloud Point @ Paradise Row

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

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  Everything Everywhere All At Once

  I'm so done with everything everywhere

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  R.I.P. Germain, Shimmer @ Two Queens

  This week's text is a review of Shimmer, R.I.P. Germain's solo show at Two Queens in Leicester.

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  @BoschBot

  “The Garden of Earthly Delights is the best painting on earth as it is in heaven”

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  Portrait of a Director of an Artist-led Space in Leicester

  I don’t want to give the game away, I don’t want to let you in on the big secret. But this is fiction… slightly, sort of. This isn’t real - oh, but it is. I don’t know what to tell you, you’re just going to have to believe me.

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  @afffirmations

  “is this the real life, is this just irony”

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  Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, Ah No So It Go, Go So! @ Cubitt

  This week's text is a review of Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, A No So It Go, Go So! At Cubitt, the last show of Languid Hands’ curatorial fellowship programme

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  Portrait of a Moving Image Artist in London

  I don’t want to give the game away, I don’t want to let you in on the big secret. But this is fiction… slightly, sort of. This isn’t real - oh, but it is. I don’t know what to tell you, you’re just going to have to believe me.

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  Old

  writing about horror and disability in the works of M Night. Shyamalan, the bastard

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  I'm hungry

  TW: discussion of disordered eating. This text is about hunger.

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  Learning to Cheat

  a text about cheating but also one about learning to ask for help

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  I ❤️ London

  This week's text is a chunky art thought about the problems with London. Why is it so hard to be in the arts in London? What is it about the city that makes life such a crazy mess? And what does HOUSING CRISIS EVEN MEAN??? i investigated and here are the answers I found.

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  Beat Saber

  a little story about wanting something and not being able to have it until the time is right

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  Inventing Anna

  This week's text is a review of Inventing Anna, the newest Shondaland series about the Anna Delvey girlboss scam, on Netflix.

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  Uncharted 4

  actually too cool for me to care about it

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  Boycott Zabludowicz

  Since 2014, there has been a call to boycott the Zabludowicz Collection, a gallery in London that is owned and funded by Zabludowicz Art Trust

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  Black Lives Matter Commitment

  Can we help u in the revolution and if so: how

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  On trauma, paranoia, and fascism (and on Nina Power)

  text by Linda Stupart on trauma, paranoia, and fascism (and on Nina Power)