Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'sacred symbols'. Our choice is Louise Giovanelli's Mise en scène (2025), an ambiguous painting suggesting one particular reading when, in fact, it is from a found image (a 1970s film) depicting a woman taking communion.

I wrote about painting's continuing engagement with photography and film 📷🎥 📷 Louise Giovanelli, ‘Mise en scène’ (2025) www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/07/on-r...

I had a piece commissioned by The Yale Review. However, since they published Christopher Sorrentino's sophomoric, frankly pathetic ode to using generative AI for his writing, I have told them in the strongest possible terms that I no longer have any interest in writing for them.

NEW//Questing, Colour, and Form ZAUM! – Reviewed Reckoning with uncertain times, a group exhibition taking its name from a century old movement is a tonic, says @doublenegativem.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/ques...

From its landscape and self-image (commonly projected onto the silver screen) – here is a reflected, blurry version of what used to be called the American dream, and Ruscha gives us a front-row seat 📽️🎞️ www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/arti... 📷 Standard Study # 3 1963 © Ed Ruscha

It's the final day of Artist Rooms: Ed Ruscha @ Tate Liverpool. Read @doublenegativem.bsky.social's review >>>

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From its landscape and self-image (commonly projected onto the silver screen) – here is a reflected, blurry version of what used to be called the American dream, and Ruscha gives us a front-row seat 📽️🎞️ www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/arti... 📷 Standard Study # 3 1963 © Ed Ruscha

The great American road trip – the frontier and its trappings – serve as departure point for artist Ed Ruscha, and a tightly focused Tate Liverpool exhibition, finds @doublenegativem.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/arti... 📷 © Ed Ruscha

From the Archive: Following Senna (2010) and Amy (2015), director Asif Kapadia turned his attention to profiling the destructive genius of Diego Armando Maradona >>> ⚽🏆 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2019/06/dieg...

Diego Maradona's Goal of the Century Mexico 86

Alt: Diego Maradona's Goal of the Century Mexico 86, in which the Argentine genius demolishes England

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From the Archive: World Cup Clichés: Graphic Design’s Approach To Football ⚽ 🏆 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2014/07/worl...

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is football for the World Cup ⚽ 📷 Cevdet Erek, Away Terrace (Us and Them), 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at 20 Jordan Street. Photography by Mark McNulty.

Reading Ruscha: "The letters OK (1990) perhaps reference Oklahoma, the state’s abbreviated form. It is worth noting that Ed Ruscha is an ‘Okie’ – a migrant to Los Angeles who has had to learn how to read this city." www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/read... 📷 © Ed Ruscha

For the first time in a very long time, here's to starting the week off right, with our pick of the listings. Featuring talks, exhibitions, screenings, live film music and more, it's Culture Diary w/c 01-06-2026 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/cult...

For the first time in a very long time, here's to starting the week off right, with our pick of the listings. Featuring talks, exhibitions, screenings, live film music and more, it's Culture Diary w/c 01-06-2026 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/06/cult...

Hello! It's been a while. There might be some activity on the website today. By means of (re) introduction, since 2011, we've been writing about art, design, film & music. Catch us here: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk

Steve McQueen's Grenfell, showing @thebluecoat.bsky.social Tuesday–Sunday, 11.00–17.00, is essential viewing. The film reminds us we mustn't look away, mustn't forget.

Screening tonight @ picturehouse @factliverpool.bsky.social, Soviet era folk horror, Viy, based on the Nikolai Gogol novella of the same name. A tale of the grotesque, it weaves together witchcraft, fear and forbidden desire to great effect.

Steve McQueen: Grenfell | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North share.google/00Zk65KkxE9O...

Steve McQueen: Grenfell | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

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New Books About Women Artists | Jan–March 2026 artherstory.net/new-books-ab... #newbooksaboutwomenartists #womenartists #artherstory

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Urban landscapes’. We've long been fans of Mandy Payne: "I wanted to work with materials that were integral to sites I was depicting." 📷 Urban Geometry I; Remnants Of A Welfare State; For The Many Not The Few. Images by Mandy Payne

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Urban landscapes’ for Jock McFadyen with Jem Finer: Underground (and Surface) Exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery 🖼️ Join in by picking an artwork and using the hashtag 🙌 📷 Paul Clarke courtesy Guildhall Art Gallery

Here's curator Darren Pih on Yves Klein (sharing on the artist's birthday): "His prodigious activities anticipated many of the movements that developed in the 1960s." 📷 Harry Shunk and János Kender, Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Void, 1960 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/11/i-wi...

Thanks for joining this week's #OnlineArtExchange 🌼🌸 Next week's theme is ‘women artists’ for Making Her Mark: A Celebration of Women in Art at Penlee House Gallery & Museum 'Spring Evening' by Joan Elizabeth Baker (1922–2017) © the artist's estate. 📷 Aberystwyth University

I have a draft of the presentation I'm giving tomorrow at Who Does Not Envy with Us Is Against Us: A Conference on Working-Classness as Method in Creative Practice. It's tentatively titled: A Working Classness Confessional. I jest, but that was my experience in the writing of it. Pretty cathartic.

The great Victor Burgin is a keynote speaker at Chester photography symposium! 📷 Here's a paper based on a 2004 talk he gave on the occasion of a Tate Modern Hopper exhibition ▶️ The Separateness of Things, Victor Burgin – Tate Papers | Tate share.google/SeBjLNzwnU1E...

Join a special in-conversation event with Liverpool-born singer Ivan Stax! Part of Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe exhibition, Ivan chats about the Black music scene in 1950s–60s and shares stories from his own career. 🎟 FREE! 📅 Thurs 23 April, 2pm-3pm 📍VG&M Info: https://orlo.uk/3ozGN

On The Double Negative, of course ▶️✍️🖼️📽️

Mike Pinnington ✍️@doublenegativem.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've not written criticism for a while. But the Ed Ruscha show at Tate Liverpool, and Rachel MacLean at FACT, are teetering on the tip of my brain, hopefully ready to become thoughts on a page. Words - maybe - incoming..!

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Jubiläumsausstellungen - Programm - Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

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Watching my partner make a presentation on Francesca Woodman. I love her work - a bona fide genius 📷 Francesca Woodman Space², Providence, Rhode Island (1976)

Cover Design Award 2026 shortlist - Penguin Books UK | Official Site share.google/oueCOrCgYP3q...

Cover Design Award 2026 shortlist

This year, we set briefs to redesign two Fantasy classics. Below are the 20 shortlisted designs from a talented line-up of emerging designers and illustrators. Adult Fiction – Night Watch by Terry Pra...

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It's the UN World Day for Glaciers. Laura Robertson spoke with photographer Kristján Maack, who has been documenting Iceland’s epic glaciers for over 40 years 🏔️📷 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/03/the-...