Mike Pinnington
@doublenegativem.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Exhibition Interpretation | Science Fiction | Class | Popular Culture | PhD student | Visiting Lecturer | Lapsed runner 🍉
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
Cities variously play the role of ruin (post-war, post-industrial and otherwise), film set and canvas, frequently simultaneously, either by default or design ▶️🎬
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Cities variously play the role of ruin (post-war, post-industrial and otherwise), film set and canvas, frequently simultaneously, either by default or design ▶️🎬
Young also wrote the foreword to Richard Cabut's Ripped Backsides, which I heartily enjoyed:
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Young also wrote the foreword to Richard Cabut's Ripped Backsides, which I heartily enjoyed:
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
Sacred & Profane: on Jeff Young's Haunted Paper ⏳✍️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Sacred & Profane: on Jeff Young's Haunted Paper ⏳✍️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
Here's my review of her previous outing, an adaptation of Brian Catling's Earwig >>>
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Here's my review of her previous outing, an adaptation of Brian Catling's Earwig >>>
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
Very much looking forward to watching @asifkapadia.bsky.social's Kenny Dalglish doc. A fitting director (Maradona, Senna) to take on the story of our greatest ever player 🎬⚽
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Very much looking forward to watching @asifkapadia.bsky.social's Kenny Dalglish doc. A fitting director (Maradona, Senna) to take on the story of our greatest ever player 🎬⚽
Personally speaking, as someone with a long, and relatively complex relationship with Tate Liverpool, its closure since 2023 is beginning to take its toll - as a punter, a critic, and user of the city generally.
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Personally speaking, as someone with a long, and relatively complex relationship with Tate Liverpool, its closure since 2023 is beginning to take its toll - as a punter, a critic, and user of the city generally.
What happens, in psychogeographic terms, when a space with significant gravitational pull is removed - even if temporarily - from a city?
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What happens, in psychogeographic terms, when a space with significant gravitational pull is removed - even if temporarily - from a city?
Are these works utopian failures, ruptures in the quotidian, or something else?
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Are these works utopian failures, ruptures in the quotidian, or something else?
A door to nowhere. Or no place?
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A door to nowhere. Or no place?
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
Gorgeous exhibition of abstract paintings, open from today at the Bridewell, Liverpool 🟦🎨✍️
Words coming soon >>>
Words coming soon >>>
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Gorgeous exhibition of abstract paintings, open from today at the Bridewell, Liverpool 🟦🎨✍️
Words coming soon >>>
Words coming soon >>>
Turner is the kind of big name show Liverpool has lacked of late and includes some really great work from others. Pictured here: Maggi Hambling; Bridget Riley; Emma Stibbon; Wilhelmina Barns Graham
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Turner is the kind of big name show Liverpool has lacked of late and includes some really great work from others. Pictured here: Maggi Hambling; Bridget Riley; Emma Stibbon; Wilhelmina Barns Graham
Kinda forgot that Pictures Generation artist Robert Longo directed Johnny Mnemonic. Explains Keanu's suit and tie I guess.
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Kinda forgot that Pictures Generation artist Robert Longo directed Johnny Mnemonic. Explains Keanu's suit and tie I guess.
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
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 ✍️📰🗞️
In Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, you can catch @wildtwin.bsky.social's Haunted Paper until Friday. I wrote about the 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author's ruminations on time, memory and nostalgia: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
September 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, you can catch @wildtwin.bsky.social's Haunted Paper until Friday. I wrote about the 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author's ruminations on time, memory and nostalgia: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
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-...
I've always loved Redford. Maybe seeing Sneakers as a kid did it. But Three Days of the Condor and All the President's Men cemented his place in my filmic consciousness.
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I've always loved Redford. Maybe seeing Sneakers as a kid did it. But Three Days of the Condor and All the President's Men cemented his place in my filmic consciousness.
Speaking of, Liverpool once again sits on the precipice of potentially seismic change, with the (delayed) reimagining of Tate Liverpool - due to reopen in 2027 - alongside the ongoing waterfront transformation project.
📷 Theaster Gates and architect Asif Khan render of proposal for Canning Dock
📷 Theaster Gates and architect Asif Khan render of proposal for Canning Dock
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Speaking of, Liverpool once again sits on the precipice of potentially seismic change, with the (delayed) reimagining of Tate Liverpool - due to reopen in 2027 - alongside the ongoing waterfront transformation project.
📷 Theaster Gates and architect Asif Khan render of proposal for Canning Dock
📷 Theaster Gates and architect Asif Khan render of proposal for Canning Dock
As the Bluecoat's Bryan Biggs writes in his 2007 introduction to the reissued Art in a City (John Willett's 1967 study of the visual arts in Liverpool): 'Art in a city is not a static affair.' It moves with the undulations, with the warp and weft of place.
September 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
As the Bluecoat's Bryan Biggs writes in his 2007 introduction to the reissued Art in a City (John Willett's 1967 study of the visual arts in Liverpool): 'Art in a city is not a static affair.' It moves with the undulations, with the warp and weft of place.
Of course, what follows is pretty remarkable: In 1988, the Albert Dock was miraculously reopened following the involvement of the Merseyside Development Corporation, with Tate its prize asset.
September 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Of course, what follows is pretty remarkable: In 1988, the Albert Dock was miraculously reopened following the involvement of the Merseyside Development Corporation, with Tate its prize asset.
The intervening years, esp. post-war, saw a different picture emerge - one of post-industrial malaise, the spectre of managed decline and, unsustainable, the docks closed in 1972. Left to dereliction and disrepair, they became an emblem of Liverpool’s catastrophic downturn.
📷 AlbertDock.com
📷 AlbertDock.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The intervening years, esp. post-war, saw a different picture emerge - one of post-industrial malaise, the spectre of managed decline and, unsustainable, the docks closed in 1972. Left to dereliction and disrepair, they became an emblem of Liverpool’s catastrophic downturn.
📷 AlbertDock.com
📷 AlbertDock.com
2027 will mark 150 years of the Walker Art Gallery, coinciding with the planned reopening of Tate Liverpool. Pictured below: a depiction of those queuing for the Walker.
📷 Opening of the Walker Art Gallery, 6th September 1877, painted in 1877 by John Fulleylove (1845-1908)
📷 Opening of the Walker Art Gallery, 6th September 1877, painted in 1877 by John Fulleylove (1845-1908)
September 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
2027 will mark 150 years of the Walker Art Gallery, coinciding with the planned reopening of Tate Liverpool. Pictured below: a depiction of those queuing for the Walker.
📷 Opening of the Walker Art Gallery, 6th September 1877, painted in 1877 by John Fulleylove (1845-1908)
📷 Opening of the Walker Art Gallery, 6th September 1877, painted in 1877 by John Fulleylove (1845-1908)