Visual Art

Becky Cook is awestruck by Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ but says the artist fails to discover anything beyond the masterpiece at the British Museum’s current exhibition

Avery Curran discusses curating Text/ure, Trump, and artistic cataclysm in the US There’s an argument, and it’s a convincing one, that all art is political and, in the interim period between the election and the inauguration it felt truer than ever. There was an atmosphere of displacement and shifting ground. Between daily revelations about suspicious calls to Russia and plans to defund sanctuary cities (of which New York is one), no one seemed to know where they stood.

Anoushka Kavanagh explains why protest art is now more important than ever

Anoushka Kavanagh is impressed by the Renaissance master’s gift for story-telling and imaginative flare in the Ashmolean’s new exhibition

Joseph Botman makes a case for the importance of the humanities in contemporary society

Anoushka Kavanagh dispels the religious disguises of violations on creative and political freedom

Anoushka Kavanagh is confronted by an ouevre permeated by emotional and creative conflict in Giacometti’s retrospective at the Tate Modern

Priya Khaira-Hanks explores the surrealist's attempt to come to terms with her class identity

Jasmin Yang-Spooner discusses Salvador Dali's development of the Paranoiac Critical Transformation Method and the legacy of surrealism

Mia Neafcy explores the notion of consumerism in American capitalist society

Sabrina Ruia is captivated by a retrospective look at the artist's life

Jonathan Egid visits Christ Church Picture Gallery’s disappointingly small Forgotten Faces exhibition

Sophie Jordan ventures past her grandfather’s notecards only to come back to them

Sydney Gagliano on being open-minded about overlooked art

Queenie Li explores Chinese feminist Yu Hong’s artwork

Art by Mark de Courcy Ling following Cherwell's portrait photography competition

Results of the portrait photography competition are in! Was your photo selected? Check out our best submissions here

Sydney Gagliano reflects on the question of modern art’s accessibility

Queenie Li produces her version and vision for art, open to all and owned by all

Final call! Send your best portrait shots to [email protected] by Wed 15 Feb for a chance to see your work in print!