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Contemporary, independent arts & culture criticism since 2011 💫 posts by co-founders Mike & Laura 🔥 linktr.ee/thedoublenegative ✍️ @doublenegativeM.bsky.social ✍️ @doublenegativeL.bsky.social

Louise Giovanelli's Mise en scène (2025) sees a woman caught in ecstasy - not of sexual pleasure, but in taking communion.

Exhibition leaflet for ZAUM! Pink text diagonally (l-r) spelling Z A U M ! on a blue ground

A pleasingly grainy, black and white photograph of Greenblatt’s Deli, part of Ed Ruscha's Sunset Strip Portfolio. To the right, you can see palm trees and, in the background, maybe the Hollywood hills?

The letters OK in salmon caps on a black ground. This is Ed Ruscha's OK (State I) 1990. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. © Ed Ruscha

Director Celine Sciamma on set with the stars of her film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Still showing a cityscape - imagining a Liverpool in transition - from The Reckoning (1969. Director: Jack Gold. Production Company: Columbia Pictures).

A large-scale, pale sphere takes up much of the space in a room: URNA is a long-lasting vessel for the dead

A portrait photograph of author and artist Jeff Young, who is sat cross legged with his book Wild Twin on his knee.

Photograph of Ugo Rondinone's 10-metre high multicoloured rock sculpture, Liverpool Mountain, situated within Mermaid Courtyard, adjacent to Tate Liverpool.

Aerial view of London from the opening moments of Steve McQueen's Grenfell film

A film still from Soviet era folk horror, Viy. Here, we find a young man in fear of his mortal soul, stalked by a doomed revenant woman.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham paintings (of 1949 and 1994) of the Grindelwald glacier

Filmmaker Mark Cousins gazing up at a stunning mountain range

An awe inspiring image of a glacier, taken by Icelandic photographer Kristján Maack

Kristján Maack glacier photography

Portrait of Helen Legg (2019), Director, Tate Liverpool, photo © Tate (Roger Sinek)

Cover of On Being Curious: New Critical Writing on Contemporary Art From the North-West of England - The Double Negative's first book of Contemporary Arts Criticism

I was a Rich Man’s Plaything, 1972, Eduardo Paolozzi is a collage made of comic book and advertisement imagery - including a pin-up, coca cola bottle and WWII bomber.

Nnena Kalu's pen and graphite Drawing 72, 2023

Anni Albers sat at the loom

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #48 1979, reprinted 1998

Gretchen Bender, 1951-2004, Total Recall 1987

Nasreen at her studio in Bombay at the Bhulabhai Desai Institute, dated 2 Nov 1960

Louise Bourgeois, Spirals, 2005

Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait (1912)

A Dictionary of Color Combinations, Sanzo Wada

Dorothea Tanning's uncanny soft sculptures climb the walls and inhabit the floor in her work, Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202, 1970–3

Liverpool city Scape, image © Ben Johnson 2008