Culture

Between beer gardens and picnics: Climate Culture Care at the Ashmolean

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.
Art Leo Maudsley-Barton -

“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.
Culture Eoin Ware -

Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...
Books Abigail Riley -

Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...
Art Lara Solie-Tuluie -
Latest

Review: Women Without Men

James Randall reviews Shirin Neshat's debut feature

Doing it just for kicks

Cherwell speaks to Nichola Burley and Kerrie Hayes about kicking around in their new film

Horror’s fright-hand man

Sophie Adelman talks to critic, screenwriter and author Ben Hervey about his genre of choice

Photo Blog Week 7 – The Penultimate Pictures

Oxford in photos as Trinity draws to a close

Film Wars: Too Much Cash Will Kill You

A debate on the merits of blockbuster and arthouse flicks

Film Wars: PC Power

Does CGI have the edge over hand drawn classic animation?

Film Wars: 2D or Not 2D?

Is 3D cinema anything special?

Film Wars: Big Screen/ Little Screen

Is TV a vacuous void? Is film the real art form?

Reviews: The Happiest Girl in the World & The Girl on the Train

Abhishek Bhattacharyya compares the latest forein language film releases

Review: The Brothers Bloom

A quirky, genre-busting film

First Night Review: Closet Land

Jenni Cutting discovers the BT ain't no Narnia this week

My, Fair Play!-dy

Andrew McCormack can't say fairer than that, with the Queen's Garden Play

Photo Blog – 6th Week

It's already 6th Week, here's what it looks like*

What Makes A Classic: Magnolia

Beau Woodbury on Paul Thomas Anderson's modern masterpiece

A funny type of attraction

Rafaella Marcus on why even the most unfortunate -looking of comics can send the girls swooning

Review: Iris Murdoch, a writer at war

Helena Bennett finds that students haven’t changed much in 70 years - but the world around them has

Review: Closet Land

What happens when Enid Blyton meets Orwell's Big Brother?

Review: Rent

Andrew McCormack catches up with the first instalment of this month's rent.

Remainders of a revolution

The Time that Remains: Quietly thought-provoking. Sometimes a little too quiet.

The magic motion man

Jane-Marie Saldanha speaks with Adam Elliot, independent animator extraordinaire
1...314315316...350Page 315 of 350

Follow us