Visual Art
‘Intimate and eye-opening’: Bruegel to Rubens at the Ashmolean- Review
"It was a pleasure to return to Oxford during the vacation to visit the Ashmolean’s new exhibition, which showcases some of the best drawings of the great Flemish artists of the 16th and 17th centuries."
A Press Morning at Yoko Ono’s ‘MUSIC OF THE MIND’ Exhibition
"The gallery space itself did not provide an atmosphere of silence, but rather upon observation, isolated moments of contemplation and quietness were evident amongst the bustling scene in the room."
Nuclear Bombs and Feminism: Monica Sjöö’s Exhibition at Modern Art Oxford
"Based on the Modern Art Oxford posters, Monica Sjöö’s activism appeared to be a driving force for social change."
Crafting Kingship: Hellenistic Royal Portraiture
"A standardised visual vocabulary of royal ideology represented by statues and coinage"
Portrait Spotlight: Sir Claus Adolf Moser (1984-5)
"Moser, like all other newly appointed Wardens, had full choice and control of patronage over his college portrait"
Create and destroy
“The urge to destroy is also a
creative urge” Mikhail Bakunin
The Human Impulse
Investigating the social and biological imperatives behind art
Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde
The Barbican displays different kinds of ‘modern couples’ in an immersive blend of love and art
Bridgit: the simple power of looking
"It is Bridgit’s shaky, close-up quality that makes the work – it’s relatable and reachable."
Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire
A review of the Saatchi exhibition, showing until 17th February
Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery’s latest and much-praised exhibition 'Shape Shifters' is quite an experience.
Edward Burne-Jones at the Tate: A reminder of greatness
Burne-Jones' exhibition at the Tate is one to not miss.
The natural world: unconventional spaces for art
"The natural world enhances both creator’s and viewers’ experiences of the art in a way that the setting of a gallery could not."
The walls that stare – what college portraits tell us about Oxford
They say a picture paints a thousand
words. So what do the thousands of portraits hanging around Oxford colleges
tell us about the University, and the...
Perceptions of the monstrous
Molly Innes looks at artistic representations of monstrosity and self
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the muse
'The Muse' in Tim Walker's short film and Dante Rosetti's Siddal Portraits
A vision of fear, a vision of hope
Exploring higher states of human experience in William Blake’s and Tracey Emin’s early sketches
Melodrama in the Grid
Exploring the paintings of Agnes Martin
Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman Tate Review- ‘a triumph of comparison’
Artists separated by time and medium together depict torment and isolation