Our pick for today's @artfund.bsky.social #onlineartexchange - the last of the year no less ⛰️❄️🎅🎄

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

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

Best science fiction/ horror graphic novels of 2025? Preferably those written by women, pls and thank you x

We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!

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 👍

Some Keywords: Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool

People in the know: What's a decent, cheap, entry level film camera please? Emphasis on decent and cheap! 📷

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) 🏛️

"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

At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️

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 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...

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)

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

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...

Hit me up with your favourite contemporary/recent female poets. I have a list but keen to discover some I may not know! #BookSky

🛠️✨ 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. [1/3]

A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:

This morning's listen 👂🐾 BBC Radio 4 - Sideways, 77. Crazy Cat Lady share.google/GHwNwrPHl2bY...

Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy. An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.

The British Science Festival 2025 #BSF25 programme is now live! We’re partnering this year with @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Join us from 10-14 Sept for 4 days of over 100 FREE events in #Liverpool. britishsciencefestival.org/events

We're enjoying some time off. Listening to @lauracummingart.bsky.social's Speed of Light this morning 📷 BBC Radio 4 - Speed of Light by Laura Cumming share.google/TvhBpJmGasGZ...

BBC One - imagine..., Winter 2014, Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future share.google/rb02uvGGNmMz...

The Double Negative is taking a few days off. Brb...

What have you been watching lately? Here's our last four @letterboxd.social 🎬 #thinkfilm My profile on Letterboxd boxd.it/5LjaT

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...

What if Alien (1979) wasn’t just a sci-fi horror film, but a warning about corporate betrayal and working-class struggles?

Washrag - Wah Wah West (US) (Funk) (Rock) (1973) https://redd.it/rvvv1a https://youtu.be/X362yNk1Z2k

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead (Omnibus) share.google/80gO2WigXVJ2...

We've signed! Thank you to @wowfest.bsky.social for initiating this open letter to Merseyside Police on the upcoming UKIP march. #antifacism #fuckfacism #LiverpoolRisingAgainstRacism

A subject close to our heart ❤️ BBC World Service - The Forum, The unfolding history of the magazine share.google/cKXhJk8b4Es2...

The Double Negative is taking a few days off. Brb...

Just 5 days to go until the in-person launch of Brian Aldiss and the Natural World. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in store! 📅 Sat 23 Aug, 3-5pm 📍 VGM, Liverpool 🎟️ Book your free spot: https://orlo.uk/vZFhD #BrianAldiss #SCA #SciFi #LiverpoolEvents

He was in bigger movies, of course, but this is the one that sprang to mind. RIP Terrence Stamp, who has died aged 87.

Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them

So, you mean 80% of graduates have benefited financially from it? And, whisper it quietly, but *UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT SALARY*

BBC Proms - 2025: Anoushka Shankar at the Proms - BBC iPlayer share.google/vpuII1QwlrZ5...

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...

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art, in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️ 🎨 We've selected: A Coastal View Porth y Nant, Lleyn by Christopher Williams from The National Library Wales #art #BlueskyArt #Wales #Coast @artukdotorg.bsky.social

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture?, 1. Absolute Beginners share.google/6pQxL8biJUKR...

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...

‘The reputation of Bell, a painter among writers, has long rested on the especially quotable prose of her sister, Virginia Woolf’ – Emily Cox on a new attempt to take Vanessa Bell on her own terms

“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...