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Culture

Spike Lee’s lackluster remake: Highest 2 Lowest

One book, 500 years of art: The History of Art in One Sentence

The Librarians (2025) at the Bodleian: reviewed

Be brave, Oxford: Let’s put creativity back in the creative arts

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