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Between beer gardens and picnics: Climate Culture Care at the Ashmolean

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.

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“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.

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Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...

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Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...

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Single of the week: Arcade Fire’s ‘I Give You Power’

Will Cowie remains unmoved by Arcade Fire's impassive anti-Trump release

Walking the pilgrim’s way

Looking back at his exhibition 'We will meet', Alvin Ong tells Sophie Jordan of his walks along the thin line between memory and fiction

Which film best represents your Oxford college?

Oxford colleges are known for their quirks, and inspired by these traits, here’s part two of the Cherwell guide to movies that reflect our...

Instagram: the art of on screen reinvention

William Hosie reminds us to view others’ Instagram personae with some crucial critical distance

A fusion of movement, light, and sound

Christopher James Goring finds much to admire in the complexity of Illuminated

Margo Price live at the Bullingdon

Emily Beswick is delighted by the raw energy of Price's live show

Review: John Hodge’s ‘Collaborators’

Bessie Yuill finds herself simultaneously amused and disturbed by this dark tragedy about a fictional meeting between Stalin and Bulgakov

Four Gorillaz of the Ape-ocalypse

Natalia Bus on the anti-Trump rhetoric of the chilling Gorillaz release

Review: ‘Edward II’

Susannah Goldsbrough is captivated by Oxford's finest acting talents and their leather leggings

Review: ‘A Monster Calls’

Jonnie Barrow is impressed by Bayona’s adaptation of an underrated children’s novel

Disney princesses and ‘Lolita’: the danger of men writing women

Carolina Earle explores how masculine fantasies have shaped and corrupted our childhood obsessions

The Price is right: Margo’s musings

Emily Beswick discusses gender with the rising country star

Harry Potter and the Procrastinators’ Tome

Izzy Smith is reminded of the comforting power of the books of our childhood

Home is where the art is: Helen Pinkney

Bill Freeman investigates his artist godmother’s inspirations and her relation to the process of creation

‘Enter First Lobster’

Miriam Nemmaoui plays the drama queen and attacks the state sector's failing arts curriculum

Author of the week: Halldór Laxness

Ellie Duncan takes a look at one of Iceland's greatest writers

Through the Looking Glass: Benazir Bhutto

Safa Dar paints a colourful picture of Benazir Bhutto taking Oxford by storm

The Road of Dreams

Travelling was once a life-and-death decision, not just a leisurely impulse

Don’t mess with Artemesia

Oliver Baldwin explores the dark story behind Artemesia Gentileschi’s paintings of powerful women

Which film best represents your college?

In a three part special, Jack Allsopp explores the movies that reflect our homes away from home

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