Episodes
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This week's text is a review of Mati Diop's DAHOMEY, now streaming on MUBI! Thinking through restitution as a starting point, the voice of objects, statues that also die, honest endings.
Read the text here: thewhitepube.co.uk/dahomey
If you'd like to watch DAHOMEY and make up your own mind, then MUBI have given us 30 days free: mubi.com/thewhitepube
This is our last text of the year!! Merry xmas and catch u in 2025 xxxxx
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Should museums give back stolen objects?? Dahomey is OUT TODAY on MUBI -- directed by Mati Diop, it's a film about the restitution of objects in Western museums. We spoke to Dan Hicks and Sumaya Kassim for a special investigative episode about restitution and decolonisation. MUBI have sponsored this episode and also !! given us a link to get 30 days free, so you can watch Dahomey. you can also watch all the other vvv good and interesting films on their roster -- lovely timing, there's your xmas watchlist sorted.
Find the transcription for this episode here; Dan's website here; Sumaya's here; and Sumaya's piece The museum will not be decolonised here
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A one day exhibition, conceptual value grab, sweets and snacks and flavours.
Read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/laisul-whitechapel
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is culture bad for you? God it feels terrible right now. You can find the written version of this, as well as links to documents mentioned and the best photo of me every taken, right about ā here
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This week's text is about the Sound Voice Project at the Royal Opera House, down in the Lindbury Theatre. Three performances of works about voice loss.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/sound-voice
The Sound Voice project's run at ROH has ended, but the old event link is here, and the digital version of the programme. SVP's website is here.
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I got a subscription to the National Theatre streaming service. More theatre reviews to come, but we're starting here with the Grenfell play. The written version of this is on The White Pube website.
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a text for Jasleen Kaur's Turner Prize installation (Alter Altar) at the Tate Britain.
read the text here: thewhitepube.co.uk/alter-altar
ica tickets for 5th Nov: ica.art/learning/poor-artists
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I wrote this in ONE day do NOT judge me. Written version of the review is here. Our book Poor Artists is out now! in shops and in libraries and some people are just carrying it with them like a cool accessory. Get yours now !
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This week's text is about Imran Perretta's A Riot in Three Acts @ Somerset House, a lament for a dead city, mourning London.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/riotin3acts
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you lot LOVE a film review so you're in luck because I haven't read a book in a month and the only game I'm playing is Overwatch competitive mode and no one wants to hear about that. Here's a review of the new body horror film The Substance dir by Coralie Fargeat. You can find the text version of this on our website here & thank you for making the release of Poor Artists such a party!!!
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This week's text is about A Study of Saint Francis, an exhibition of paintings by Ellie Cotton at General Assembly. I saw a painting that i couldn't stop looking at!!
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/saint-francis
& IF U HAVEN'T HEARD! our book, Poor Artists, is out now !!!
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I forgot to say: PLEASE COMMENT A TOOTH emoji on our instagram if you pass through here. my BRAIN IS FRIED. text version here
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This week's text is a review of *Dream Machines*, a lecture by Rebecca Moss, about movement, machines, industrialisation, automation, Dada and Surrealism. All delivered on the swan pedalos at Stratford Olympic Park.
read the text here: thewhitepube.co.uk/dream-machines
October 3rd is fast approaching so yet another reminder: you can pre-order our book, ā ā ā ā ā Poor Artists, hereā ā ā ā ā (& ā ā ā ā ā here if ur in the USā ā ā ā ā ).
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To celebrate the return of Prima Facie to cinemas from September 12-Dec 5, we have two tickets and a bunch of merchandise to give away to one person who comments a judge emoji on today's Instagram post š©āāļøš§āāļøšØāāļø If you missed Prima Facie the first time it was in cinemas, or maybe you want to see it again because it is so good?, leave ya comment below for a chance to win two tickets to see it at any of the 700 locations itāll be playing in, PLUS a hoodie, PLUS a badge, PLUS a signed play text. Weāre also re-posting our Prima Facie review from 2022 for you to read on the white pube website/listen on our podcast. I really think Jodie Comer is the actress of our generation lmao. I said it then and Iām glad I get to say it again. See you in the comments and thank you to the lovely people at National Theatre Live for putting Prima Facie back on the big screen. I can probably count on one hand the amount of times we have done adverts so I hope you trust I back this completely!!
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a text about slow art, and also My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and Tehching Hsieh, and sickness, but mostly slowness -- u can find the text version here & u can find book pre-order link here
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This is a text about a specific painting: The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name by Noorain Inam, that I saw a couple months back at Noorain's solo show, Go back to sleep, itās just the wind at Indigo + Madder. It's also a text about painting and imagining, your mind's eye and clarity, about feeling like things are over there but then also within you.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/noorain-inam-TULOFMN
& if u don't know, now u know: you can pre-order our book, ā ā ā ā Poor Artists, hereā ā ā ā (& ā ā ā ā here if ur in the USā ā ā ā ).
Thank you to our ā ā ā ā friends & supporters on Patreonā ā ā ā -- if you'd like to support our work, ā ā ā ā pls see our support pageā ā ā ā for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE BANK HOL!!! love u! xxxx
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watching a film about distance and love in a week like this week!
read the text on the website: thewhitepube.co.uk/laisul-otherside
& FYI, CHEEKY PLUG: you can pre-order our book, ā ā ā Poor Artists, hereā ā ā (& ā ā ā here if ur in the USā ā ā ).
Thank you to our ā ā ā friends & supporters on Patreonā ā ā -- if you'd like to support our work, ā ā ā pls see our support pageā ā ā for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
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a review! I'm sick! what's new. you can find the written version of this on our website; you can pre-order our book here; pat yourself on the back for making it through another week on this hellplanet
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thinking about Serban Savu's 'what work is' Romanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale
read the text here: ā thewhitepube.com/workā
WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, ā ā Poor Artists, hereā ā (& ā ā here if ur in the USā ā ). Thank you to our ā ā friends & supporters on Patreonā ā -- if you'd like to support our work, ā ā pls see our support pageā ā for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
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This week's text is a mini review of a group show in Strand News, the newsagent where i buy a peanut butter kit kat chunky almost every weekday. Ft work by: Athen Kardashian and Nina Mhach Durban, Eden Chau-Morrow, Marcus Jefferson and Xooset, and curated by Tom Mouna.
read the text here: thewhitepube.com/strand-news
WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, ā Poor Artists, hereā (& ā here if ur in the USā ). Thank you to our ā friends & supporters on Patreonā -- if you'd like to support our work, ā pls see our support pageā for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
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