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From the Chrysler to the Weston: 100 years of Art Deco
Florence Wolter explores the impact left by Art Deco on Oxford and European Culture. A century on, should we be looking forward, not back?
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Florence Wolter
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‘The Pink City’: Ten generations of Jaipur gems
Cherwell visited the Choudhary family's prestigious jewellery collection, now almost 300 years old.
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Defne Ozyurek
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Leonardo da Vinci and his devilish… boyfriend?
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the first things that come to mind...
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Phillipe Luna
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The artist and the photographer: An analysis of Francis Goodman’s Film negatives
An unusual dynamic is consequently captured between the photographer and artist in the photograph of Lucian Freud.
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Taya Neilson
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Video games: Design/Play/Disrupt
From the mid-2000s to now, video games have slowly revolutionised the ways in which we communicate within society. Our lives are enmeshed by them....
Nature as a gallery
Atop a Dumfriesshire hill in Scotland sits a large egg-like construction of stone. Three of the same can be found in a vast line across the...
The surface is all you get from me: Identity and otherness in art
There is a certain intrigue when it comes to the ‘outcast creative’. Put simply: people like the abject outsider. It is, on the whole, far more...
Jeff Koons: A world of Paradoxes
Pocketed in the Ashmolean is the world of paradox that is Jeff Koons’ exhibition. The first room introduces his work as we are met by...
Jenny Holzer at the Tate: An Exhibition for Instagram
Olya Makarova reviews Jenny Holzer's exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Create and destroy
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge” Mikhail Bakunin
The Human Impulse
Investigating the social and biological imperatives behind art
Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde
The Barbican displays different kinds of ‘modern couples’ in an immersive blend of love and art
Bridgit: the simple power of looking
"It is Bridgit’s shaky, close-up quality that makes the work – it’s relatable and reachable."
Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire
A review of the Saatchi exhibition, showing until 17th February
Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery’s latest and much-praised exhibition 'Shape Shifters' is quite an experience.
Edward Burne-Jones at the Tate: A reminder of greatness
Burne-Jones' exhibition at the Tate is one to not miss.
The natural world: unconventional spaces for art
"The natural world enhances both creator’s and viewers’ experiences of the art in a way that the setting of a gallery could not."
The walls that stare – what college portraits tell us about Oxford
They say a picture paints a thousand words. So what do the thousands of portraits hanging around Oxford colleges tell us about the University, and the...
Perceptions of the monstrous
Molly Innes looks at artistic representations of monstrosity and self
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the muse
'The Muse' in Tim Walker's short film and Dante Rosetti's Siddal Portraits
A vision of fear, a vision of hope
Exploring higher states of human experience in William Blake’s and Tracey Emin’s early sketches
Melodrama in the Grid
Exploring the paintings of Agnes Martin
Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman Tate Review- ‘a triumph of comparison’
Artists separated by time and medium together depict torment and isolation
Conceptual art is a bubble
Art critic Julian Spalding talks to Barney Pite about how art dealers have a stranglehold on popularity
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