Movement
The energy in the trees was palpable-
at once pulsating and swirling
The Sheldonian
That is the beauty of the concert. Music threading its way in and out of the thoughts of a hundred vague spirits in the audience.
CulCher’s Choice: Andy Warhol at the Tate Modern
Almost twenty years after his first retrospective Warhol in 2002, Andy Warhol is now showing at the Tate Modern. The prolific artist is best...
BP or not BP? Art Washing and the British Museum
“Like smoke
blown to heaven on the wings of the wind, our country, our conquered country,
perishes. Its palaces are overrun by the fierce flames and...
Student art: only for the privileged few?
Whether you love it, hate it, or love to hate it, it is undeniable that the student art scene remains a fundamental space for...
Decadence, eroticism and indecent beauty: Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain
Aubrey Beardsley was an intensely talented, risqué artist who stunned
his late-Victorian audience. Loved by many for his depiction of the underside
of London life, Beardsley...
Love and doubt: ‘Looking back’ at Orpheus and Eurydice retellings
Just as Helen possessed the face that launched a thousand ships, Orpheus, the legendary musician and poet, charmed a thousand hearts with his music....
SIMONE, WHOSE HAIR IS THE WORLD
Her golden plumage shivered to a mane
That grew the stalks and limbs of flowers and trees
The scope for creativity in quarantine
One thing I am
glad of, in returning home, is that there is no need to feel trapped. My
father’s house looks from one hill to...
Hidden in plain sight: Public art in Oxford
Once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it.
Is the coronavirus killing culture?
Arts and culture, sectors which have already faced significant funding cuts, may have to adapt to a new normal if we are to welcome them back to our stages, screens, and books.
Picasso at the RA and the experience of solitude
The curved, sick, and boney fingers are everywhere. The Frugal Meal (1904), one of Picasso’s early paper engravings, is immediately striking.
Review: Matisse Devenir
Tucked away in the France’s Département Nord, the Musée Matisse might seem rather at odds with its provincial surroundings.
Dora Maar and the Everyday Strange
The women of the Surrealist movement have suffered a curious case of the feminine shadow, what could be termed Muse Syndrome. Often, their biographical and artistic legacies have been dogged by their associations to prominent male surrealists; the result, an awkward and myopic epitaph.
