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LONDON Since Tate Britain reopened last month after a five-month pandemic shutdown, the museum has been bustling. Visitors in masks have roamed its galleries, halls and atrium again, enjoying the huge collection of British art, from 16th-century portraits to contemporary installations. Yet one room remains out of bounds, and not because of coronavirus restrictions. The doors to the museum’s basement restaurant are shut, and a sign outside says.
The White Pube, the art disruptors behind the online takedown of the Tate’s racist Rex Whistler mural, have written a manifesto for a fairer art world and plastered it on billboards across London and Liverpool.
Described by The White Pube’s Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente as “millennial Jenny Holzer, in Twitter speak, and with a very specific agenda”, the project features posters and billboards that address some of the systemic injustices and inequalities within the art world, while suggesting ways to improve them.
The project is a part of Your Space Or Mine, a platform led by media group BUILDHOLLYWOOD. It includes suggestions such as, “Universal Basic Income and affordable housing so that everyone, including 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.
The White Pube takeover billboards to address systemic injustices and inequalities in the art world
The White Pube partner with BuildHollywood to takeover billboards across London and Liverpool for the next three months.
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BuildHollywood, an independent media group operating in the outdoor space, has launched a new collaboration with The White Pube. The latest instalment in its Your Space or Mine campaign, which gives artists and creatives a platform on the street, The White Pube’s installation is a series of posters and billboards designed “to address some of the systemic injustices and inequalities within the art world.”
Since 2015 The White Pube’s founders Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad have continuously addressed “The overly stale, pale and male state of the art industry,” via its online art magazine. In turn creating a conversation that is “anti-elitist, anti-white-washing, anti-patriarchy”, the pair explore the gap between art, the market, in