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 :)
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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 arenât destinations, theyâre 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 RagnarĂśk
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 Martiniâs 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
âThe Garden of Earthly Delights is the best painting on earth as it is in heavenâ
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Portrait of a Director of an Artist-led Space in Leicester
I donât want to give the game away, I donât want to let you in on the big secret. But this is fiction⌠slightly, sort of. This isnât real - oh, but it is. I donât know what to tell you, youâre just going to have to believe me.
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@afffirmations
âis this the real life, is this just ironyâ
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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 Handsâ curatorial fellowship programme
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Portrait of a Moving Image Artist in London
I donât want to give the game away, I donât want to let you in on the big secret. But this is fiction⌠slightly, sort of. This isnât real - oh, but it is. I donât know what to tell you, youâre 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 â¤ď¸ 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)