THE WHITE PUBE - POOR ARTISTS - Talk and Book Signing - Thursday 30th of October

The White Pube - Talk and Book Signing - Thursday 30th of October

Join us at UNITOM on Thursday 30 October for an evening with The White Pube, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. Known for their sharp, funny and honest criticism, they’ve been challenging the pale, male, stale art world since 2015.

They’ll be discussing their debut book Poor Artists, a bold and thought-provoking look at what it means to make art today.

• Thursday 30 October
• Doors 5:30pm
• Start 6:00pm
• UNITOM, 1A Stevenson Square, Manchester M1 1DN
• Book Signing will be taking place after the talk
• Limited tickets
  
  

About the Book:

Poor Artists by Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad

At a moment in which working as a professional artist is an increasingly unattainable luxury, art criticism duo The White Pube investigate why so many artists try anyway. Labelled “the Diet Prada of the art world” by British Vogue, in Poor Artists writers Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad ridicule a contemporary art world that has turned art into artworks, art schools into art universities, and creative expression into cut-throat competition.

'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed

'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard

'A full-throated defence of the inherent value of making, experiencing and talking about art' Frieze

'Let me stay there, let me paint. Let me go to bed when the sun comes up. I don't want life to sharpen me.'

Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway?

In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemporary art, criticism duo The White Pube tell the story of art like never before. Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar through childhood obsessions, art school lessons and her professional debut. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself.

Blending imaginative storytelling with dialogue from anonymized interviews with real people in the art world who have all had to wrestle with the same decisions – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few ghosts, a Venice Biennale fraudster and a communist messiah – Poor Artists is a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experience of artists today.

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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. Poor Artists is their first book.