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Context here, from the painting's caption, in the Walker
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Context here, from the painting's caption, in the Walker
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
Mike found that one of the clear wins of BEDROCK was its situating of specific artists at multiple sites. Among them, ChihChung Chang, exploring the slippage between stories we think we know and those as experienced by living, breathing places: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sett...
September 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Mike found that one of the clear wins of BEDROCK was its situating of specific artists at multiple sites. Among them, ChihChung Chang, exploring the slippage between stories we think we know and those as experienced by living, breathing places: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sett...
Back in June, @doublenegativem.bsky.social traced a philosophical line across the city as he reviewed the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/live...
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Back in June, @doublenegativem.bsky.social traced a philosophical line across the city as he reviewed the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/live...
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...
Features a contribution by Geoff Dyer, author of Zona
August 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Features a contribution by Geoff Dyer, author of Zona
Jorie Graham 👍✍️
August 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Jorie Graham 👍✍️
We were @victoriagallery.bsky.social yday for an irl opening of online exhibition Brian Aldiss and the Natural World. Grt to hear readings from and to speak to Aldiss' daughter, Wendy.
Brian Aldiss and the Natural World - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab share.google/dnKgL5HjwD6H...
Brian Aldiss and the Natural World - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab share.google/dnKgL5HjwD6H...
August 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We were @victoriagallery.bsky.social yday for an irl opening of online exhibition Brian Aldiss and the Natural World. Grt to hear readings from and to speak to Aldiss' daughter, Wendy.
Brian Aldiss and the Natural World - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab share.google/dnKgL5HjwD6H...
Brian Aldiss and the Natural World - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab share.google/dnKgL5HjwD6H...
There's one month left of Liverpool Biennial 2025. Read our review: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/live...
August 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
There's one month left of Liverpool Biennial 2025. Read our review: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/live...
NEW//Setting Forth on a Voyage of Discovery with ChihChung Chang 張致中, @doublenegativem.bsky.social digs into the artist and cultural researcher’s multi-site contribution to Liverpool Biennial 2025 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sett...
August 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
NEW//Setting Forth on a Voyage of Discovery with ChihChung Chang 張致中, @doublenegativem.bsky.social digs into the artist and cultural researcher’s multi-site contribution to Liverpool Biennial 2025 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sett...
The exhibition continues until 27 September. More here from @doublenegativel.bsky.social
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/carr...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/carr...
August 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The exhibition continues until 27 September. More here from @doublenegativel.bsky.social
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/carr...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/carr...
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art.
Our choice is the amazing performance elements of Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream?, an exhibition @ Llandudno's Mostyn Gallery, which was a celebratory fusion of Welsh mythology and contemporary culture 🏴
Our choice is the amazing performance elements of Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream?, an exhibition @ Llandudno's Mostyn Gallery, which was a celebratory fusion of Welsh mythology and contemporary culture 🏴
August 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art.
Our choice is the amazing performance elements of Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream?, an exhibition @ Llandudno's Mostyn Gallery, which was a celebratory fusion of Welsh mythology and contemporary culture 🏴
Our choice is the amazing performance elements of Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream?, an exhibition @ Llandudno's Mostyn Gallery, which was a celebratory fusion of Welsh mythology and contemporary culture 🏴
And Annie Frost Nicholson, who showed last year at Dorothy. We interviewed the artist about her work and influences: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2024/04/the-...
August 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
And Annie Frost Nicholson, who showed last year at Dorothy. We interviewed the artist about her work and influences: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2024/04/the-...
Good to see Caroline Gorick is included in this year's John Moores Painting Prize for Evening Light (2024). Here's our review of After Hours, a recent exhibition of the artist's which included that painting: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/caro...
August 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Good to see Caroline Gorick is included in this year's John Moores Painting Prize for Evening Light (2024). Here's our review of After Hours, a recent exhibition of the artist's which included that painting: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/caro...
“I began to dream of places I had been to and could no longer go,” says @wildtwin.bsky.social in his prize-winning memoir, Wild Twin. Here, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
August 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“I began to dream of places I had been to and could no longer go,” says @wildtwin.bsky.social in his prize-winning memoir, Wild Twin. Here, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
Culture Diary w/c 11-08-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
August 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Culture Diary w/c 11-08-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
Le big weekend - from exhibition openings to Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer and ‘outlandish, nostalgic film fun in your local video store’ - culture diary has all this and more:
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
August 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Le big weekend - from exhibition openings to Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer and ‘outlandish, nostalgic film fun in your local video store’ - culture diary has all this and more:
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
ICYMI: Sacred & Profane: Haunted Paper >>>
As a new exhibition showcases the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
As a new exhibition showcases the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ICYMI: Sacred & Profane: Haunted Paper >>>
As a new exhibition showcases the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
As a new exhibition showcases the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
Running and maintaining an indie publication can be hard. We'd love you to consider donating to us for the price of a pint! www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/donate/
August 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Running and maintaining an indie publication can be hard. We'd love you to consider donating to us for the price of a pint! www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/donate/
From the archive: “Artists Are Not Bloody Machines.” Dispatches from the Structurally F–cked Panel Discussion www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/12/arti...
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
From the archive: “Artists Are Not Bloody Machines.” Dispatches from the Structurally F–cked Panel Discussion www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/12/arti...
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is religious art 🎨
We've taken an askance approach to our choice, selecting Liverpool Biennial artist Cevdet Erek’s depictions of football stadia. Football, a secular, universal religion, is treated with due consideration and reverence by Erek ⚽
We've taken an askance approach to our choice, selecting Liverpool Biennial artist Cevdet Erek’s depictions of football stadia. Football, a secular, universal religion, is treated with due consideration and reverence by Erek ⚽
August 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is religious art 🎨
We've taken an askance approach to our choice, selecting Liverpool Biennial artist Cevdet Erek’s depictions of football stadia. Football, a secular, universal religion, is treated with due consideration and reverence by Erek ⚽
We've taken an askance approach to our choice, selecting Liverpool Biennial artist Cevdet Erek’s depictions of football stadia. Football, a secular, universal religion, is treated with due consideration and reverence by Erek ⚽
From the archive: Probably Just A Wrong Number: On Kirsty Harris’ Cold Call – 'Mutually assured destruction means no destruction, right? Right?'
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/02/prob...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/02/prob...
August 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
From the archive: Probably Just A Wrong Number: On Kirsty Harris’ Cold Call – 'Mutually assured destruction means no destruction, right? Right?'
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/02/prob...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/02/prob...
Sacred & Profane: Haunted Paper
On the eve of a new exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of prize-winning author @wildtwin.bsky.social, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
On the eve of a new exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of prize-winning author @wildtwin.bsky.social, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
August 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Sacred & Profane: Haunted Paper
On the eve of a new exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of prize-winning author @wildtwin.bsky.social, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
On the eve of a new exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of prize-winning author @wildtwin.bsky.social, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
Culture Diary w/c 04-08-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
New exhibitions; a new VHS format film club; South African rap; and Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer. What's not to love? ❤️
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
New exhibitions; a new VHS format film club; South African rap; and Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer. What's not to love? ❤️
August 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Culture Diary w/c 04-08-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
New exhibitions; a new VHS format film club; South African rap; and Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer. What's not to love? ❤️
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/cult...
New exhibitions; a new VHS format film club; South African rap; and Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer. What's not to love? ❤️