Saturday 5th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

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.

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

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

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 –...

The rise of the dead: taxidermy gets a new lease of life

Morgan Harries considers a renaissance in the beautifully grotesque world of stuffed animals

Buried treasure: why do museums hide gems?

Helen Thomas discusses the Victoria and Albert Museum and hidden artefacts in its collections

Review: The Real Thing

A triumph for garden postmodernity

Review: String of Pearls

Henner Petin deciphers a net of 27 characters

PC Music: why the hype?

John Shulman explains why this music label is important

Top 5 songs to mourn/celebrate the election result

Rachael Griffith takes you through some party songs, whatever your reaction to the result

Review: Hop Along – Painted Shut

Rachael Griffith is enthralled by this innovative album

Review: Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home

Matt Myers is impressed by this new introspective album

The most contentious exhibition in Britain?

Emmanuelle Soffe visits Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art

Review: Passion

Patrick Oisin Mulholland is impressed by this slick production

Review: Snoop Dog – Bush

Sam Joyce is delighted to see Snoop and Pharrell reunited

Review: I Nominate

A promising premise missing direction

Review: Killing Hitler

Paul Ostwald is impressed but exhausted by Oxford's German play

Preview: Medea

Patrick Oisin Mulholland is transported by this ancient tragedy

Don’t Mind The Gap

Henner Petin encounters poetry and its translational trap

Review: Beachcombing

Mark Barclay is entranced by this reflective studio play

In Defence Of: Jennifer’s Body

Sam Joyce defends Megan Fox's quasi-feminist horror-comedy

Review: A Little Chaos

Emmanuelle Soffe finds A Little Chaos a predictable period drama

Where cannes we go from here?

Sam Joyce explains why the currently ongoing Cannes Film Festival is suffering from an identity crisis

Review: Living Together

Mark Barclay and Paul Ostwald experience this complex family saga

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