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Form, function, and art in the cultural weight of architecture

With roughly 55% of the world’s population living in cities, the urban world – the brainchild of architects – has become what most people recognise as home. Studies have...

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The cantatas of Bach with New Chamber Opera

Recently, students from the University of Oxford have blessed the city with several performances...

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Review: Crocodile Tears – ‘Techno-futuristic, but why?’

There is a lot to like about Natascha Norton’s Crocodile Tears. Female lead Elektra...

Theatre Peter Chen -

Review: ART – ‘Charm, jazz, and friendship at its wittiest’

ART is charming. Centred around long-time friends Yvan (Ronav Jain), Marcus (Rufus Shutter) and...

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A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui chats to an audience member who is left feeling nostalgic by Anna Karenina

Single of the week: Lana Del Rey’s ‘Love’

Natalia Bus chooses the baroque singer-songwriter's latest effort as her single of the week

The female artist: speaking truth to power

Tilly Nevin asks why the art world often seems to overlook an entire gender

“An enormous array of talent on display”

Jonnie Barrow enjoys a bumpy ride through a musical twist on a classic

‘We’re going to do it better than Braveheart’

If your schooling was anything like Tom Fisher's, who is playing Ross in this new production of Macbeth, you studied the Scottish play in...

Between the World and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Altair Brandon-Salmon on an autobiographical look at American racism

Underground and boxed inside

Will Cowie on Boxed In’s concert at Village Underground

OxFolk reviews: ‘March Glas’ by Elfen

Ben Ray is entranced by Elfen's debut release, giving a small insight into the joys of the Welsh folk music scene

89th Academy Awards: Predictions

Oliver Barlow and Jonnie Barrow speculate which films will win big at the Oscars

Reinvention: a love affair with language

Tilly Nevin reviews approaches to the interplay of language and creativity

The birth of modernism: a journey in innovation

Surya Bowyer celebrates the originality, scope, and joie de vivre of the Ashmolean’s latest special exhibition 'Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France'

A dose of sarcasm, playfulness, and politics

Priya Khaira-Hanks is delighted by Kate Nash's down-to-earth rock 'n' roll at the O2 Academy

Preview: ‘Tender Napalm’

Emily Lawford is stifled and mesmerised by this production of Tender Napalm

Laura Marling: always a woman

Ellen Peirson-Hagger delves into the folk singer’s most recent explorations of love and identity on her new album Semper Femina

“Krapp isn’t quite of this world”

Sian Bayley is finds chills and thrills in this production's take on Beckett's exploration of failure

Review: The Optimists

Suzy Cripps’ The Optimists, a tightly-paced romp of hypocrisy, coincidence and curtains, is a solid comedy of errors in the best of British tradition. Involving...

Both disturbing and utterly engaging: Suddenly Last Summer

With the tagline, “Something unspeakable happened last summer”, you might be forgiven for thinking of Aunt Ada Doom’s (Cold Comfort Farm) cry of “I...

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui receives mixed feedback from an audience member after Suddenly Last Summer

Through the Looking Glass: the Auden set

Daniel Villar explores the perils of collaboration for Auden, Day-Lewis, Spender and MacNeice

Writing the uncanny and the lyrical

Tilly Nevin reviews Gillian Cross and Daisy Johnson in conversation

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Culture

Form, function, and art in the cultural weight of architecture

The cantatas of Bach with New Chamber Opera

Review: Crocodile Tears – ‘Techno-futuristic, but why?’

Review: ART – ‘Charm, jazz, and friendship at its wittiest’

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