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The White Pube

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Frieze, or any of the other publication or established platforms in the UK. Informal yet stylistically innovative, art historically rigorous without the staid academicism or florid pomposity of much established writing, the pair's mix of reviews, essays, podcasts, and social media posts are bound together with a singular critical voice grappling with contemporary issues of race, gender, sexuality, aesthetics and ethics.
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and out of frustration with “white people, white walls and white wine”, began to publish reviews, essays and social media posts to challenge the art world's lack of representation and accessibility and to redefine what is deemed worthy of aesthetic attention. Their subjective and personal approach to
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In criticism Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad's website 'The White Pube' presents one of the first truly new voices in British art criticism in the twenty–first century, and most importantly its writers have risen to prominence without the help or patronage of Art Review, Art Monthly,
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In 2021, The White Pube wrote a manifesto for a fairer art world. It was displayed as a series called 'ideas for a new art world' and featured on billboards across London and Liverpool. It includes suggestions such as, “Universal Basic Income and affordable housing so that everyone, including
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artists, can make a living” and “Curators should ask the public to see what they think galleries and museums should be used for’ and ‘dear museums, give back all stolen objects”, among others.
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art writing has been labelled “embodied criticism” and incorporates emotional responses and overtly political analysis of artworks in an informal yet stylistically innovative style.
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Since 2017, Muhammed and De la Puente have published their financial accounts on their website in an effort to help create transparency around industry pay.
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and “The Leaf of Pablo” at Hutt Collective, Nottingham. The White Pube website hosts monthly online residencies with artists from marginalised identities.
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Since 2020, The White Pube have run a monthly Writers Grant to support early career working class writers.
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Their curatorial work includes “Zayn Malik Zindabad”, a screening of moving image art by artists in the
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In 2020, The White Pube received media attention for alleging institutional racism at
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containing imagery in one of its restaurants that they perceived as racist.
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is the collaborative identity of writers and curators
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Index


White cube galleries
thewhitepube.co.uk
art criticism
Central St Martins
South Asian diaspora
Tate
Anthony d’Offay
Rex Whistler
John Moores Painting Prize
Chila Kumari Singh Burman
Marlene Smith
Yu Hong
ISBN
978-1-914236-07-5
ISBN
978-1-914236-33-4
ISBN
978-0-241-63376-2
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