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Autumn Exhibitions Round-Up

It’s been a while since we went away. Now back in the saddle, we thought it was high time we cast our eye across exhibitions gracing Liverpool this autumn – as well as...

Mirror Selves:
Anthony Shapland – murmur

“A low voice. A chant, or a prayer, a rumour. A sound not meant to be heard. Things not to be said.” In murmur, a multi-disciplinary exhibition of film, sound, light and text,...

New Works @ the Walker
On Resolving the Problem of Representation

“New mediums gave rise to considerations of how painting and painters might respond.” A trio of works demonstrate that painting’s engagement with photography and film continues to reverberate, finds Mike Pinnington…   Prior to...

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 Mike Pinnington… Z – A – U – M. ZAUM. With its roots in...

ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha – Reviewed

The great American road trip – the frontier and its trappings – serve as departure point for artist Ed Ruscha, and this tightly focused exhibition of his works, finds Mike Pinnington… In 1956,...

Reading Ruscha

“This exhibition is a road trip, with Ruscha as the driver.” Stephen Clarke rides shotgun through Tate Liverpool’s Artist Rooms: Ed Ruscha…  The text-based artwork, ARTISTS WHO DO BOOKS (1976), acts as the...

Beyond Liverpool...
Blazing a trail through
the big wide world
12/01/2024
Mike Pinnington on Vallisaari island, Helsinki. Photograph by Laura Robertson

Field Trip: Helsinki, Finland – Happiness and Cultural Guardians

Taking in climate change at Helsinki Biennial, diversity at the Ateneum, and visiting contrasting new galleries in an art school and bar toilets (!), Mike Pinnington’s return to Finland’s capital city is a timely reminder...

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The sounds of
The Double Negative
04/10/2024
Sex Swing - Golden Triangle LP Cover

God Unknown Records at 10

“I wanted to release music that I love, that really meant something. Something real.” This weekend sees God Unkinown Records mark a decade of releasing diverse, cutting-edge music from artists based all over...

Fill your boots...
unique, limited edition gifts
05/09/2019
Present Tense. Publish by The Double Negative, 2019.

Present Tense (2019) // Paperback // £14.99

Present Tense A decade since Liverpool EU Capital of Culture… What now?  Edited by Laura Robertson and Mike Pinnington ISBN 978-1-5272-4281-4 Published August 2019. Very limited edition run of 250 copies. Paperback, 96...