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What I learned from Tracey Emin about regeneration

CW: Abortion I left the Tate Modern’s latest headline show, Tracey Emin: A Second Life, feeling unmoved by the artworks. I found the paintings somewhat derivative and the neon signs...
Art Willow Jopp -

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of...
Film Siena Tracey -

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...
Theatre Amy Lawson -

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...
Music Val Michael -
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‘More stars than there are in heaven!’

Amy Rollason relives Hollywood's Golden Age in the second installment of our Decades in Film feature: the 30s

Preview: Celebration

Joshua Philips is delighted by what he calls a 'fitting introduction to Pinter for anyone who has not yet seen any of his works'

First Night: Sleeping Beauty

Claire Harrill is both perplexed and amused by a performance of the the ballet Sleeping Beauty at the New Theatre

Wrap up for Oxford’s Pinter Winter

Eleanor Wade examines the Pinter revival in student drama and beyond

Small screen, silver screen, or something in-between?

Is TV still Film's irritating younger brother, or has it finally grown up?

Stafford-Clark makes a mark

Ianthe Roach interviews Max Stafford-Clark about his latest production

Nouveau-ver to Sander’s

Jack Powell visits Oxford's new exhibition of Art Nouveau lithographs

Down and Out in Literary Paris

Christy Edwall goes to Paris in search of books, bohemians, and the legendary George Whitman

Masters at Work

Cherwell speaks to Kunal Basu, business academic and historical novelist

The Rising Star of David

David Mitchell talks to Jessica Campbell about Peep Show, the long road to success, and the tensions between acting and comedy

Press Preview: Latin! Or Tobacco and Boys

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Le Fort des Têtes, Briançon

Richard Nias' take on an abandoned fort in Briancon.

Review: King Charles, Jericho Tavern

Natasha Frost spends a cosy evening in at the Jericho Tavern

First Night: Giselle

Finola Austin is transported by the first of three performances by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia at the New Theatre

The Hothouse – Actor’s blog, Week 1

Hothouse lead Matt Gavan talks about his experience of Pinter and the Playhouse

Review: Howler – America Give Up

Howler's new album, although heavily formulaic, leaves Ceri Fowler positive about the young band's future

Review: Another Earth

Joseph Newall sends feedback from Another Earth

Review: The New Men – Take to the Skies

Natasha Frost is pleasantly surprised by the choral students gone rogue

Review: Shame

Barbara Speed explores Steve McQueen's compelling new drama

Art-inerary: Hilary Term 2012

As we launch off into 2012, Cherwell Art & Books round up the events in store during Hilary term
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