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‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

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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.

Art Dara Mohd -

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

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

Art Josie Stern -

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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This adaptation of Alice Sebold's classic novel strikes an emotional chord at Oxford Playhouse.

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Political satire makes make Brexit the most interesting it has been for years in Tasha Saunders’s biting new comedy.

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Something Punchy Productions' take on Philip Ridley's darkly comic satire intrigues audiences at the BT Studio.

There’s No Place Like Home

There was a time when it was essential, if you were an Oxford man, to own an oxford cloth button down shirt and leather brogues....

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Why all new music lovers should be listening to Leon C

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9pm, The Bullingdon, a Tuesday evening. Those three ingredients are pretty much guaranteed either to produce an awful or a brilliant night. Thankfully for...

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At a first glance, Reinvention ‘The Treasures of Recycled Sculpture’ was a breath of fresh air from the chaos of fast-fashion, pollution and upheaval. It demonstrated the possibilities of recycling and sustainability in the production of works of art.

Review: Uncomfortable Oxford Tour

The tour began at the Carfax tower with tales of the town-gown divide in the early days of Oxford University. A third year undergraduate led the group of students and tourists around the town centre.

Review: Hamlet

Cosmic Arts' present a deeply human production of 'Hamlet' at the Keble O'Reilly.

Dystopia in and amongst trash: Beckett’s Endgame

Beckett symbolically employs trash to reflect physical and philosophical reality of a post-apocalyptic world.

Review: Giambattista Valli x H&M

A metaphoric and literal representation of high-low fashion

Webtrash

We live in a society that values things that are quick to buy, quick to use, and quick to dispose of.

One man’s trash

The mere mention of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art can make us feel uneasy. Such distinctions are often branded as pretentious and as the work of the elitist in their desperate attempts to preserve tradition and exclude diversity within the literary canon.

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Miller's classic sees a new lease of life in Rose on a Rail Theatre Company's new adaptation.

Review: Talking Maps

The first wall of this Weston Library exhibition focuses on Oxford, offering the visitor visions of Oxfords which could have been and those which remain in the past.

In Vogue

Vogueing is having a moment. Again. The last time saw Madonna’s 1990 hit “Vogue” soar to the top of the charts in America and was supposed to herald a period of greater exposure for the New York ballroom community. It didn’t.

Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Protest Art

Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. Any art fan should celebrate that. Not just because it represented a profound triumph for free expression against the forces of authoritarianism and censorship, but because the thing was a bloody eyesore. The grey concrete was awful enough, but then the Berliners went and covered it in sodding graffiti.

The Farewell Review

Seemingly all of us either have or yearn for an affectionate but caustically witty grandmother such as Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen), the endearing matriarch...

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‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

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

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