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Contemporary, independent arts & culture criticism since 2011 💫 posts by co-founders Mike & Laura
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A friend just sent me a picture of our tote bags we had made at the dawn of our publication, @thedoublenegative.co.uk, getting on for 15 years ago. All the feels! 😭
January 7, 2026 at 11:38 AM
A friend just sent me a picture of our tote bags we had made at the dawn of our publication, @thedoublenegative.co.uk, getting on for 15 years ago. All the feels! 😭
Our pick for today's @artfund.bsky.social #onlineartexchange - the last of the year no less ⛰️❄️🎅🎄
End of the Glacier Upper Grindelwald, 1949, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
It's the final #onlineartexchange of 2025! Not quite a #christmas scene, but hey. This beauty is currently on display in Turner: Always Contemporary @ the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ❄️🎄🛷🦌
It's the final #onlineartexchange of 2025! Not quite a #christmas scene, but hey. This beauty is currently on display in Turner: Always Contemporary @ the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ❄️🎄🛷🦌
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our pick for today's @artfund.bsky.social #onlineartexchange - the last of the year no less ⛰️❄️🎅🎄
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It's the final #OnlineArtExchange theme of the year – Christmas 🎄🎅
Share your festive artworks with the hashtag!
'St James's Church under Snow on Christmas Eve' by Gordon Metcalfe (b.1935) © the artist. 📷 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Share your festive artworks with the hashtag!
'St James's Church under Snow on Christmas Eve' by Gordon Metcalfe (b.1935) © the artist. 📷 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
It's the final #OnlineArtExchange theme of the year – Christmas 🎄🎅
Share your festive artworks with the hashtag!
'St James's Church under Snow on Christmas Eve' by Gordon Metcalfe (b.1935) © the artist. 📷 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Share your festive artworks with the hashtag!
'St James's Church under Snow on Christmas Eve' by Gordon Metcalfe (b.1935) © the artist. 📷 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
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A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
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Best science fiction/ horror graphic novels of 2025? Preferably those written by women, pls and thank you x
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Best science fiction/ horror graphic novels of 2025? Preferably those written by women, pls and thank you x
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We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
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Indie makers, artists, illustrators, give us a heads up about what you do. I don't have a great reach or anything, but would love to see your work - in the spirit of an antidote to the empty capitalist churn of black Friday if you will 👍
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Indie makers, artists, illustrators, give us a heads up about what you do. I don't have a great reach or anything, but would love to see your work - in the spirit of an antidote to the empty capitalist churn of black Friday if you will 👍
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Some Keywords:
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Some Keywords:
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
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People in the know: What's a decent, cheap, entry level film camera please? Emphasis on decent and cheap!
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October 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
People in the know: What's a decent, cheap, entry level film camera please? Emphasis on decent and cheap!
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the recent reopening of The Harris, Preston👏
In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️
In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the recent reopening of The Harris, Preston👏
In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️
In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️
"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."
From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...
📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...
📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."
From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...
📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...
📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
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At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️
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Back teaching and also a few thousand words into a PhD. Very torn about putting our website, The Double Negative, on hiatus - or not. We launched in 2011. It's been v important for both of us (my partner is cofounder). Part of the weekend will maybe be spent trying to come to a decision.
a man in a glass case of emotion is looking out of a window
ALT: a man in a glass case of emotion is looking out of a window
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September 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Back teaching and also a few thousand words into a PhD. Very torn about putting our website, The Double Negative, on hiatus - or not. We launched in 2011. It's been v important for both of us (my partner is cofounder). Part of the weekend will maybe be spent trying to come to a decision.
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A couple of very nice exhibitions close this week. I reviewed ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice @victoriagallery.bsky.social (until 20 September): www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/all-...
September 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
A couple of very nice exhibitions close this week. I reviewed ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice @victoriagallery.bsky.social (until 20 September): www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/all-...
Hi! We've been on a much needed break, but thought we'd pop in to exclaim that it's the final weekend for Liverpool Biennial 2025! We've written a few words around this edition. A good place to start is with CJ Fagan's My Life in the Biennial with Ghosts: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/my-l...
September 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Hi! We've been on a much needed break, but thought we'd pop in to exclaim that it's the final weekend for Liverpool Biennial 2025! We've written a few words around this edition. A good place to start is with CJ Fagan's My Life in the Biennial with Ghosts: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/my-l...
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From second city of the empire to cultural regeneration: the complex evolution of place
📷 Parker Greenwood, The Port of Liverpool (1892); Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887); LS Lowry, The Liver Building, Liverpool (1959); Tate Liverpool site under construction, Albert Dock (1988)
📷 Parker Greenwood, The Port of Liverpool (1892); Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887); LS Lowry, The Liver Building, Liverpool (1959); Tate Liverpool site under construction, Albert Dock (1988)
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
From second city of the empire to cultural regeneration: the complex evolution of place
📷 Parker Greenwood, The Port of Liverpool (1892); Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887); LS Lowry, The Liver Building, Liverpool (1959); Tate Liverpool site under construction, Albert Dock (1988)
📷 Parker Greenwood, The Port of Liverpool (1892); Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887); LS Lowry, The Liver Building, Liverpool (1959); Tate Liverpool site under construction, Albert Dock (1988)
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Call for book proposals!
Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables share.google/Mi56NKB0WLa5...
BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables
Musician Kate Stables highlights the fascinating life of author Ursula le Guin.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables share.google/Mi56NKB0WLa5...
Bleak, magical - and it's no overstatement to say - prophetic, Tarkovsky's Stalker is showing in Liverpool next week. So, this morning's listening:
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/IQws6Z0WqIAq...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/IQws6Z0WqIAq...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Bleak, magical - and it's no overstatement to say - prophetic, Tarkovsky's Stalker is showing in Liverpool next week. So, this morning's listening:
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/IQws6Z0WqIAq...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/IQws6Z0WqIAq...
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🛠️✨ DoES Liverpool Open Day – Sat 30th Aug ✨🛠️
Come explore, make, and celebrate creativity with us!
SewTaylorMade Designs is run by Liz Taylor and uses gorgeous Japanese fabrics to create bags and accessories such as bookmarks, glass cases and purses.
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Come explore, make, and celebrate creativity with us!
SewTaylorMade Designs is run by Liz Taylor and uses gorgeous Japanese fabrics to create bags and accessories such as bookmarks, glass cases and purses.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🛠️✨ DoES Liverpool Open Day – Sat 30th Aug ✨🛠️
Come explore, make, and celebrate creativity with us!
SewTaylorMade Designs is run by Liz Taylor and uses gorgeous Japanese fabrics to create bags and accessories such as bookmarks, glass cases and purses.
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Come explore, make, and celebrate creativity with us!
SewTaylorMade Designs is run by Liz Taylor and uses gorgeous Japanese fabrics to create bags and accessories such as bookmarks, glass cases and purses.
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A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
