Culture

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

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‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

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In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

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Perhaps, Oxford

We met at a Latin meeting hosted by the Oxford Ancient Languages Society at...

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The Exhibitionists

Mother Teresa is set to be canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church in September this year, as announced by Pope Francis...

Sculpture To Die For

On a gloomy and macabre rainy day over the vacation, I found myself being led down into the basement studio and workspace of Polly...

A Beginner’s Guide to… The Mechanisms

The Mechanisms are utterly unique. Each of their albums feature sci-fi reimaginings of classic folklore, from Grimm’s fairy tales to Arthurian myth, perfectly capturing...

Ana and the Other: a split of the self

In his latest piece, David J. Hills imagines the presence of two versions of oneself

Preview: Orphans

Oscar Haines is moved by this bold production

Review: The Good Delusion

Antonio Gottardello finds this moral play fun but disappointingly shallow

“The music of our generation”

“I think the proudest moment of my music career was when my first royalties cheque came,” says Ozzy. “It was the same time that these bailiffs were knocking on my mum’s door..."

Review: We Are Scientists – Helter Seltzer

We Are Scientists know how to write a chorus. However, what makes Helter Seltzer, their fifth studio LP, quite so exciting is that their pop sensibilities have now been coupled with a synthy sheen.

Review – Animal Collective at the O2 Ritz

Song after song from the latest album was interspersed with judicious spatterings from the back catalogue – and when they actually brought these tracks out (such as the more Pop-like ‘Daily Routine’ from Merriweather Post Pavilion), the mood finally picked up; with people going from a semicatatonic sway to actual dancing.

Spotlight: Drama and identity

Alex Barasch notes a welcome development in Oxford’s theatre scene and beyond

Review: Eddie the Eagle – ‘he’s a laughing stock’

Eddie the Eagle is the same bland, fabricated underdog cliché we’ve seen time and again, writes Tom Barringer

Interview: Jessy Parker Humphreys

Alex Barasch talks to Jessy Parker Humphreys, one half of Not Your Nice Girl, about gender, drama and performance art in Plush

Nobody’s Fault But Zeppelin’s: When Influence becomes Plagiarism

Lorenzo Edwards-Jones gives no quarter to 'Stairway To Heaven' apologists following band's latest lawsuit

Review: Disorder – dull and boring

ONE STAR “Un, deux! … trois, quatre! Un, deux! … trois, quatre!” You'd be forgiven for thinking you're back in your first ever French lesson, mais non,...