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Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad write about culture @
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🍋📚 our book POOR ARTISTS is out now all across the world basically
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I went to the Death Stranding strands of harmony tour
and then I wrote this text about Low Roar
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death stranding at the eventim Apollo
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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this week's text is about rf kuang's new book katabasis
->
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rf Kuang's book katabasis on a table flatlay, it has a dark cover with Escher-like overlapping staircases and arches
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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this weeks text is about outernet
but it's also about the Ursula k le guin map exhibition
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zarina looking aggy in AA gallery where Ursula k le gains drawings of maps have been reprinted on cyanotype flags hanging through the space
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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don't think we've done a talk in manchester for maybeeee 7 years?
we'll see you on October 30th at unitom : )
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gab and zarina smiling in a black and white film photo
October 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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today is the white pube's 10 year anniversary and my computer still autocorrects it to white pub
October 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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this week's text is about the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize, and how competitions aren't even real ->
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a mother and her daughter painting by Heeyoung Noh, an oil of two naked woman, one middle aged one older, holding hands in a bathhouse
September 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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NA HARDBACK > UK HARDBACK > NICE LIL PAPERBACK!!!!!!!!!
the poor artists hardbacks alongside the paperback on gab's desk, it has a bright pink cover with a bright yellow lemon shape in the centre
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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A PICTURE
Gabrielle and zarina alongside a graphic of the poor artists paperback, which is pink with a lemon yellow graphic in the centre, and then finally on the right a portrait of critic Morgan Quaintance
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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this year's Liverpool Biennial might be too polite
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Fred Wilson's flag paintings in royal institution of British architecture liverpool
September 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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comparing Qing Fibre yarn with paintings on the white pube blog -> thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/qing-fi...
Qing fibre's kraken yarn in black with flecks of green orange and pink alongside the painting The IF by kerstin bratsch with similar shades
September 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I reviewed Yaya Wang's film 'into the next tide' for skin deep -> skindeepmag.com/articles/rev...
still from yaya wang's film into the next tide showing the loose outline of a person looking to the right while a blue dog looks out of the back of their head to the left
September 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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this week's review is Ethel Cain
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Willoughby Tucker I'll Always Love You leaning against a piano
September 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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every month we give £500 to a creative whose work we wanna see more of. this month it's Summer Moraes. read her short story KORN QUORN MAN on the homepage through august: thewhitepube.co.uk
a card announcing summer morales is the 59th grant recipient, with a blurry picture of summer
August 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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if you've been waiting for Poor Artists in paperback then you are in luck baby www.foyles.co.uk/book/poor-ar...
poor artists hardback on a coffee table in a cafe shot in film
July 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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I have written about the time my boyfriend met James Murphy, and LCD Soundsystem’s Brixton Academy residency last month thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2025/l...
Big crowd at lcd soundsystem at Brixton academy everyone has hands in their and is lit by lights coming down from the stage
July 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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my Death Stranding 2 review
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lea seydoux as fragile in death stranding 2 in a shot where her body is in black and white but the background is still in colour
June 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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just finished Death Stranding 2 on Brutal mode, ask me anything
The end screen of death stranding 2 showing credits that say written and directed by Hideo Kojima
June 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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my Death Stranding 2 review will be out on Sunday but for now: the first screenshot I took in the game, in honour of all the Puentes in the world
sam in Death Stranding 2 standing in a deserty rocky open space with a notification that he has just picked up cargo lost by Noberto Puente
June 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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this week's text is about Gaza Biennale: the work, and the format -- what even IS a biennale anyway???

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June 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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after I played the first death stranding game, I wrote three texts about it. Sony have sent a review code for death stranding 2, so I suppose I will see you all at the end of June with a whole book. or idk, i will see u on the beach!!!!!!!!!
a notification that death stranding 2: on the beach has installed on gab's ps5
June 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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This week’s review is Radio 1’s Big Weekend, writing about Wolf Alice, Courting, Joy Crookes and HAIM & also about Ed Atkins book Flower 🌷 thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2025/r...
Ellie Roswell on stage at radio 1 big weekend photographed via the big screen to the side of stage where she is seen sitting down while she sings
June 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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it will be paperback time soon
the hardback of poor artists which has bright pink cover and yellow lemon graphic on the front, and then the inside of a lemon under the sleeve
May 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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this week's review is Monkey King
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gab holds a penguin class book Monkey King with gold fabric and a cover with red outlines of waves
May 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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this week's text is about On Ugliness: Medieval and Contemporary at Skarstedt, but also about how i am always looking for strangeness (and what even IS strangeness)

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April 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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This week's text is THE CRIT

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an exercise in closing the gap between how critics write about paintings & how painters talk about paintings :)
April 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM