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Critics go to hell probably
The White Pube
  • Published: 18 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781802062533
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Critics go to hell probably

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An essential selection of the most entertaining and provocative articles from cult online art critics The White Pube

Ten years ago, art students Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad started a website, posting irreverent reviews of exhibitions every Sunday under the playful moniker ‘The White Pube’. The duo emphasized the emotional and physical experience of seeing art over the cold analysis typical of print media reviews. Written in textspeak and adorned with emojis, their online aesthetic, real-world critique and vulnerable personal narrative attracted a cult following and soon encompassed everything from literature and gaming to politics and society.

In Critics go to hell probably, Gabrielle and Zarina bring together their spiciest and most enduring Sunday texts – including an infamous Dishoom review, a contemplation on the politics of diasporic art, a moving essay on chronic illness through a Beat Saber video game review and everything in between.

Through these articles, Gabrielle and Zarina ask profound questions about what it means to be an artist in this day and age, the problems with the UK’s cultural institutions, how culture helps us make sense of ourselves and, of course, whether they are going to hell for being critics (probably).
  • Published: 18 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781802062533
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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The White Pube

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of UK-based critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They have been turning heads since 2015 when the pair began publishing provocative art reviews and essays online from their art school studios and have earned themselves an international cult following due to their innovative writing style, their honesty and irreverence and their willingness to challenge the pale, male, stale art establishment.
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Praise for Poor Artists

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Irreverent, provocative and funny

Dazed

Excoriating and energising . . . interweaves impassioned real-world critique with an exuberant narrative that’s by turns satirical and surreal

Telegraph

What I love about this book is that it doesn’t descend into cynicism and despair . . . a full-throated defence of the inherent value of making, experiencing and talking about art

Chloe Stead, FRIEZE

A duo that add such a refreshing, thoughtful and critical but fun voice to an often stale art world. Poor Artists is that in tenfold

Travis Alabanza, author of 'None of the Above'

This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it . . . I love the energy, deep humour and alive thought

Daisy Hildyard author of 'Emergency'