Poor Artists

The art world memoirs for our Internet generation that none of us knew we needed but now we can’t live without. An indispensable read giving insights on an ‘art world’ at the edge of collapse. Living for it -- Legacy Russell, author of <i>Glitch Feminism </i> 'I was surprised, challenged and affirmed - everything I love in a book . . . There are a lot of superlatives I could throw at Poor Artists, yet I finished the book overwhelmingly grateful that it exists. The White Pube continue to be 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 <i>None of the Above</i> 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 in Poor Artists, which zooms through galleries, universities, a hospital ward, and a spaceship, capturing what is tragic, and what’s glorious, about art and the world right now -- Daisy Hildyard author of <i>Emergency </i> Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad have crept in through the back door of the artworld and left it open for the rest of us. This is a landmark for art writing — a treatise on the difference between art’s right to mystify and confound, and the crimes of an industry that discriminates and excludes -- Nathalie Olah, author of <i>Bad Taste </i> Praise for -- The White Pube Their genre of “embodied criticism” aims to redefine what we consider worthy of our aesthetic attention … making judgements about art with their guts rather than their heads, with feelings rather than facts -- Kitty Grady * Vogue * Female duo the White Pube have the energy and opinions to liven up an art world full of stale, male voices … their frank political stance is clearly resonating with a younger audience in a way traditional art publications aren’t able to -- Kate Goh * Guardian * Their criticism verges on storytelling, and not only makes art approachable but offers a refreshingly current model for interacting with it -- Akash Chohan * SSENSE * Reviews, essays, and podcasts on contemporary art that break down power structures within the industry, injecting the stuffy, exclusionary language of criticism with some much-needed personality (and lols) -- Lexi Manatakis * Dazed 100 * The White Pube presents one of the first truly new voices in British art criticism in the twenty–first century … 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 -- Morgan Quaintance * e-flux *