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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:

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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…

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From the archive: “Artists Are Not Bloody Machines.” Dispatches from the Structurally F–cked Panel Discussion www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/12/arti...

From the archive: “Artists Are Not Bloody Machines.” Dispatches from the Structurally F–cked Panel Discussion www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/12/arti...

As a new exhibition showcasing the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young opens, I took a closer look at themes of memory, loss and nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process… www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...

Image shows a board outside Dorothy studios in Liverpool. The poster is a collage from the Haunted Paper exhibition, an altered Observer’s book

The Haunted Paper exhibition is now open at Dorothy, Jamaica Street in the Baltic Triangle Liverpool. Thanks to everyone who came last night to the opening. Lots of you! And some great conversations. The exhibition is on until September 19th, weekdays. I would love you to see it.

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 ⚽

Thanks Nils! Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for reading.

From the archive: Probably Just A Wrong Number: On Kirsty Harris’ Cold Call – 'Mutually assured destruction means no destruction, right? Right?'

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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…

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IRAN + 100 just arrived at Comma Towers 🥳

Looking good alongside the rest of the Futures Past series 👀

📗Pre-Order here: commapress.co.uk/books/iran100

Excellent stuff to do this week in our culture diary listings roundup >>>

Culture Diary w/c 04-08-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…

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New exhibitions; a new VHS format film club; South African rap; and Gruff Rhys headlined all-dayer. What's not to love? ❤️

Thanks for featuring Eugene McGuinness! & in come fine company …

A ★★★★½ diary entry for Dreams (Sex Love) (2024)

Get up to anything good over the weekend? We saw Dreams (Sex Love), Dag Johan Haugerud's film following the fallout of a harmless though very real teenage crush. Loved it.

My ★★★★½ review of Dreams (Sex Love) on Letterboxd boxd.it/azSf3d

a cat is hanging from a tree branch with the words yep just a bit windy below it ALT: a cat is hanging from a tree branch with the words yep just a bit windy below it

Morning! Hope you're all doing ok this blustery Monday.

With their celebrated masterpiece The Red Shoes currently showing on the big screen, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger... www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/a-si...

#film #thinkfilm #cinemahistory #theredshoes #theredshoes

Why No One Likes the Tate Anymore Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening.

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Screenshot of a headline promoting an article by the opinions-for-hire writer Simon Jenkins. Ludicrously it reads: He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

What the shitting fuck

Fellow curator Eleanor Clayton provides insight into the artist’s world: one which aimed to create purity, balance and unity through abstraction:
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There was love for the Nasreen Mohamedi work we shared yesterday for the @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange. So, we thought we'd raid our archive for context. Here, curator Suman Gopinath talks about her admiration for the Indian abstract artist:

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Stuff to do today and over the weekend!

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NEW//Another Dimension – On Contemporary Drawing

“This medium deserves our consideration and attention. It always did.”

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📷 Chris Shaw Hughes; Kaye Hodges; Belinda Yee; Caroline Gorick

For the early evening crowd: in a new piece reflecting on drawing as a medium in and of itself, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers an exhibition and publication boasting an international cast of more than 50 artists: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/anot...

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NEW//Another Dimension – On Contemporary Drawing

“Drawing deserves our consideration and attention. It always did,” says @doublenegativem.bsky.social

www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/anot...

📷 Chris Shaw Hughes; Kaye Hodges; Belinda Yee; Caroline Gorick

Thanks! Her work was a revelation when we saw it paired with Mondrian @ Tate Liverpool in, I think, 2014.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is abstract and non-figurative art 🎨

Our editor @doublenegativem.bsky.social favourite artist is Piet Mondrian. But, let's go instead with pioneer of Indian modernism, Nasreen Mohamedi.

Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled © Courtesy Chatterjee & Lal

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