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A dizzyingly eclectic week in culture here. Absolutely loads of good stuff to do in Liverpool and beyond >>> 🎨🎬🎧▶️🗣️🎭🖼️

Want some stuff to do for the week ahead? From degree shows and classic screenings, to a stage adaptation for Hitch's North by Northwest, the return of Skunk Anansie and a brand new Liverpool festival, Culture Diary has you covered: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

It's another big week in culture. Cast your eye across this lot in an all new culture diary, our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

It's another big week in culture. Cast your eye across this lot in an all new culture diary, our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

Our only hometown show of 2025 will be at OUTER WAVES FESTIVAL, taking place in Liverpool's North Docks and featuring the mighty GONG, Abstract Concrete, Mandy, Indiana + Aja Ireland amongst the first wave of announcements. Early bird tickets are a steal- www.fatsoma.com/e/ltj992yd/o...

Morning! How was your weekend? Get up to anything great? Get to that exhibition you've been meaning to see? Catch a film - new release or classic? Us? We watched Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums for the first time in a bit. Still his best for our money.

Vanessa da Silva performs 'Roda Viva' live on 31 May 2025 to close her "joyous" exhibition of the same name. Read Mike Pinnington's review of the work at Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/04/vane...

From the Archive // Park Chan-wook – Six of the Best www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2022/12/park...

From the archive: The Mediated City: The Imaging of Liverpool in Film >>> 📽️🏙️ www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2024/04/the-...

Ahead of the release of his newie, The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson's - finest in our opinion - is showing @ FACT Liverpool today: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

It's the final game at Goodison Park today. My best mate's a season ticket holding blue; I've been a few times myself. It's an institution holding generations of history - sporting and otherwise. Today is big. Goodbye to Goodison @ Museum of Liverpool www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

It remains a masterpiece of epic proportions, and is back in cinemas – 60 years after the director had wondered whether a ‘really good’ sci-fi film was even possible. Mike Pinnington considers Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2024/06/on-2...

In Manchester’s Whitworth gallery, the artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas showcases textiles and paintings previously seen at Tate St Ives. Maja Lorkowska considers an exhibition inspired by religious iconography that rejects cliché or exoticism of Roma life www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/a-pr...

NEW // The Big Interview: Photography students at the Royal College of Art are experimenting with analogue, neuroscience, fabrication, sculpture... Laura Robertson talks to their Professor of Art & Experimental Media, artist James Coupe, to find out more www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/the-...

Opening Today: ALL THAT REMAINS: a curator’s choice @victoriagallery.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

Considering the complex and troubling tensions between extraction, wealth, philanthropy and the ongoing destructive urge to plunder: The Plant That Stowed Away @ Tate Liverpool www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/02/the-...

It won't, we're pretty sure, have escaped you that it's Friday! Want some weekend plans? We have some suggestions in culture diary >>> 📽️🗣️🎨🖼️ www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

Great article from @thedoublenegative.co.uk on the relationship between art and text, featuring our previous exhibition by Joanne Masding! 📝

Reading the Gallery:On Art & Text. Artists – like Hannah Höch, Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, Deborah Roberts, Cécile B. Evans, Joanne Masding – have long used language to generate debate around social conventions and clichés: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/read...

NEW // “We are not on the outside, we can’t just be passive observers.” Laura Robertson talks to RCA Professor of Art and Experimental Media, the artist James Coupe, about the future of photography www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/the-...

"Owing to Ding’s technique, at first glance, some could easily be confused for large-scale cross-stitch patterns." Ding Yi: Between Prediction and Retrospection @ Mostyn Gallery– Reviewed www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/04/ding...

🇸🇳 The iconic ORCHESTRA BAOBAB come to Liverpool on Sunday 15th June, for what's set to be an incredible show in the the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall! TICKETS: tinyurl.com/h7fnp95y Poster by: @toucantango.bsky.social Have you booked your tickets yet? 🇸🇳 @liverpoolphil.bsky.social

“There’s something about the arts which is the ultimate expression of being human...” 💪 The Big Interview: Neil Griffiths, CEO & Co-Founder of social justice organisation Arts Emergency, tells us how mentoring changes lives www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/04/the-...

We're edging towards 100 followed! Woop!

Closing soon: a pair of shows @ Mostyn Gallery Llandudno we love. Vanessa da Silva: Roda Viva – Reviewed www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/04/vane...

Morning, btw! How's your week so far? Fancy something to do? An exhibition? New stage adaptation of a classic? Urgent talk? A return to screen for our fave Wes Anderson? Look no further than our culture diary: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

In case you missed it, we reviewed Riefenstahl, a @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social doc that sifts through the archives of the Nazi-era filmmaker to expose a director desperate to stage-manage the story of her past: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/a-wh...

Just around the corner: Liverpool Biennial is almost upon us. The 2025 edition, titled Bedrock, 'draws on Liverpool’s distinctive geography and the beliefs which underpin the city’s social foundations.'

“Dignified, altar-like images that radiate joy, togetherness, and a profound sense of belonging...” Maja Lorkowska reviews Małgorzata Mirga-Tas @ The Whitworth 🌱🐕 ✂️ www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/a-pr...

Not that you didn't know, but that garden @thebluecoat.bsky.social never gets old 🦋🌼🟢

NEW // in cinemas now. Andres Veiel’s film Riefenstahl reveals the actor and director, Helene ‘Leni’ Riefenstahl, was only too pleased to pour her not inconsiderable talents into the Nazi cause www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/a-wh... #veday @doublenegativem.bsky.social

NEW//A White Supremacist Gaze – Riefenstahl @doublenegativem.bsky.social on Andres Veiel's portrait of the Nazi Germany-era director: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/a-wh...

We’re delighted to be part of Liverpool Biennial! Visual artist Nour Bishouty will be exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery. www.arabartsfestival.com/events/nour-...

We're still pretty new here. Say hi if you're into art, design, film, music, the cultural health of cities, and indie spaces and people 👋 www.thedoublenegative.co.uk 📷 Us - editors and co-founders Mike and Laura - during a recent trip to one of our fave cities, Helsinki 🇫🇮

Just around the corner: Liverpool Biennial is almost upon us. The 2025 edition, titled Bedrock, 'draws on Liverpool’s distinctive geography and the beliefs which underpin the city’s social foundations.'

Morning! In case you missed it yesterday, here's the latest culture diary, our round up of the week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond. Anything in particular take your fancy? Let us know... www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/cult...

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