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Art is an argument, so argue back

Often, how much we like artwork comes down to ‘vibes’, initial gut-reactions we make, and then quickly negate by stating that surely it's all about taste.

Art Maxim Vorobev -

Red soles, red flags: Jaden Smith and the celebrity takeover of high fashion

Smith’s appointment has raised some serious questions about the extent to which nepotism and celebrity is superseding artistic talent in the fashion industry at present.

Culture Victoria Corfield -

The ‘Silent’ Film

Not speaking does not necessarily mean having nothing to say. As much can be said with an image, movement, or glance as with a word.

Culture Willow Jopp -

A day in The Sun: ‘Ink’ at St John’s

James Graham’s Ink, directed by Georgina Cooper with the St John’s Drama Society, dramatises Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of The Sun in the 1960s, tracing its astonishing surge to unprecedented popularity.

Culture Beatrix Arnold -

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The Icelander at the coalface

En Liang Khong talks to JÃ³hann JÃ³hannsson about failed utopias and his new album, The Miners’ Hymns

Review: DNA

This play about a group of teenagers trying to escape the consequences of their actions is put on as part of Catz Arts Week, 25-28 May

Review: Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet's tale of capitalism and its vices is on at Keble O’Reilly, 25-28 May

Review: The Government Inspector

May Anderson is delighted by a farcical piece of outdoor theatre

Derelict in Menfi

Will Granger captures the atmosphere of a derelict Menfi in Sicily

Week In Pictures (3)

Kathleen Bloomfield captures Oxford's beautiful countryside

Review: Mona & Bea

Rosalind Stone applauds the innovation of Tim Keily's new play

First Night Review: Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Rosalyn Johnston-Flint finds herself in a late 1980s Soho pub, engulfed by an anti-hero's drunken memories

Review: The Nihilists

Drawn in by a love of Wilde, Fiamma Mazzocchi Alemanni investigates the merits of the playwright's first failure

Review: The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

May Anderson is provoked and challenged by a brave production of Naomi Wallace's haunting play. At the O'Reilly from Wednesday 3rd week.

Review: Starf**ker Reptilians

Simon Torracinta reviews the third effort from this Portland synthpop quartet and discovers the perfect summer soundtrack

Review: Antlers Burst Apart

Simon Torracinta looks at the wonderful parts of Burst Apart

Review: Pygmalion – The Magdalen Garden Show

Rosalind Stone finds that elaborate characterisation is all the sugar-coating an audience needs

The Edgar Wind Society

Joe Funnell introduces the University's new and blooming Art society

First Night Review: Call of the Wild

The Oxford Playhouse goes to the dogs with this masterful student adaptation of Jack London's famous novel

Damian Lewis: Cherwell salutes you

Francesca Wade speaks to the Band of Brothers star about his acting career, his American personality, and the trials and tribulations of the film industry

Review: The Courting of Claire

A ‘gritty kitchen-sink drama’, a comedy of manners, a rom-com and a horror; The Courting of Claire by student playwright Matt Fuller is on at the Burton Taylor in 3rd week

Review: Arcadia

A challenging drama with a bit of bawdy comedy; Tom Stoppard's masterful work delivers a difficult pleasure

The Play of Colour

May Anderson takes part in an intense rehearsal for She was Yellow, coming to the Burton Taylor in 3rd week, and briefly loses the boundary between reality and fiction

Review: Little White Lies

Guillaume Canet fails to depart from the clichÃ©d with a film in which the characters smoke a lot, swear a lot and break things when they get angry, without getting up to much

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Culture

Art is an argument, so argue back

Red soles, red flags: Jaden Smith and the celebrity takeover of high fashion

The ‘Silent’ Film

A day in The Sun: ‘Ink’ at St John’s

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