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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Teacher of Dance

Cherwell is illuminated by Haegue Yang's first major UK show at Modern Art Oxford, and its exploration of ideas through light, shape, and movement

Two decades after the collapse of the wall dividing east from west, and Berlin has started to shape a new identity for itself. Amongst the stark remnants of a tumultuous and violent past, humanity flourishes and old wounds begin to heal. Becky Nye travels to Berlin to capture a sense of this rejuvenated city

Enduring Improv

Eloise Stevens discovers choro, the popular improvised music of Brazil, and looks at its place within the jazz movement.

Everything and Nothing

Cherwell reviews A Book for All and None, the literary debut from Clare Morgan, course director of the Oxford MSt in Creative Writing

Review: Hop Farm Festival (Saturday)

Francesca Wade heads down to Kent to witness Morrissey and Lou Reed inject this newish festival with some old style

Review: Shabazz Palaces – Black Up

Cherwell explores the experimental leanings taken by Shabazz Palaces in this debut release

Review: Avril Lavigne – Smile

The Canadian singer fails to entertain Cherwell with this second single from her latest studio album

4th of July 2011 in Washington DC

Lauri Saksa spends the day among the Americans on their biggest party of the year...

Interview: Conor O’Brien

Cherwell chats with the front man of Villagers about his debut album, touring with Elbow, and new material in the works.

When Orient meets Occident

Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet talks to Cherwell before the quartet's Japan Benefit Concert in Oxford

Review: Chad Valley – Equatorial Ultravox

Cherwell finds moments of vocal brilliance on the Oxford based musician's sophomore EP, despite somewhat bland production values

Review: The Failed Anthology

This anthology by the Failed Novelists' Society is a pleasant surprise for Huw Fullerton

Claymation sensation

Cherwell talks to Richard Keen about his animated film series, Herman and Harold, and how it all began

With nature’s own hand painted?

The O3 Gallery's 'Horti-CULTURE' exhibition intrigues Cherwell with its depiction of life imitating art imitating life

Review: Get Loaded in the Park

A wet day on Clapham Common is sweetened by impressive sets from Razorlight, Noisettes and the Cribs

Review: Are You Having a Laugh?

Vyvyan Almond has a laugh, but not many more.

Review: Macbeth

Conor Tucker reviews the first RSC production specifically designed for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new stage

Circumcision in Uganda

Will Granger witnesses a circumcision ceremony in Uganda

The Renovation of the Corner Club

The Oxford Hub has completely renovated what used to be the Corner Club on Turl Street to turn it into a centre for social enterprise. The downstairs was transformed into a cafe/restaurant, while the upstairs rooms will serve as meeting rooms, events spaces, a resource centre and offices for student-facing charities

Revolution vs. Repression

Cherwell thinks about appearances and reality at the Ashmolean's exhibition of state graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s

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Culture

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

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

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

Perhaps, Oxford

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