Affecting Perception: Art & Neuroscience
Review of the O3 Gallery’s exhibition displaying work by a collection of artists, exploring the effects of various neurological conditions through art.
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Football Cuppers Semi-final: Worcester vs New
Alex Tyndall reports from Uni Parks as Worcester defeats New 2-0
Continue ReadingThe internet is serious business
Internet trash or a legitimate form of art? We debate the role of memes in the the world of modern art. Can I haz cheez burger? Srsly? What if Conspiracy Keanu is a Conspiracy? All great questions of our time. Great, not because of their depth, but because of their reach. The internet meme today, […]
Continue ReadingFiction.The museum of 21st century London
“Welcome kids! I’m going to be your guide as we go through the museum today, telling you everything you need to know about what life was like at the beginning of the 21st century. If you have any questions, just raise your hands. “This is the Transport Room. Here are old vehicles workers used to […]
Continue ReadingNadal out of the Australian Open
Today the Australian Open confirmed what Rafa fans have feared for some time. “I am sorry and very sad to announce that I will not play in the Australian Open”, the eleven times Grand Slam Champion has said. Tennis fans around the world have missed having Nadal on tour, ever since his shock defeat to […]
Continue ReadingChristmas comes early for Arsène?
The world of football is a fickle one. After embarrassment at Bradford some were calling for Arsène Wenger’s head. Yet victory last week at Reading caused some of the dissension to simmer. Saturday’s victory at Wigan papered over the cracks, but the jury for Arsène and his team is very much still out. An issue […]
Continue ReadingDancing on the Frontier
Travelling around Asia has been given a bad press. The gap yah video, Facebook photos of sweaty students at Full Moon Parties or standing in front of temples in harem pants has made the whole thing a bit cliché. But Nico Hobhouse, a second year Classicist at Trinity, didn’t exactly have a Thailash on his […]
Continue ReadingReview: England vs India Twenty20
Thursday’s Twenty20 match versus India saw England field an experimental 11 with James Tredwell and Stuart Meaker making their debuts at the expense of the rested Swann and Pietersen. Tim Bresnan was the only member of the test match team making an appearance. A number of things can be read into the youthful nature of […]
Continue ReadingShort, snappy reads with The StoryGraph
Oxford’s newest student-run publication, The StoryGraph, was launched recently this past July. The StoryGraph is a quarterly e-publication, showcasing the creative writing of university students from around the world. Although The StoryGraph focuses primarily on short stories, its “Brunch Reads” section provides a space for “short, snappy reads”—whether in the form of a poem or […]
Continue ReadingDaniel Handler: the most famous unknown author
Seeing a copy of Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up in the YA section of Blackwells may or may not have been one of the heartening aspects of my week. His first novel, The Basic Eight was first published in 1992 and despite the number of successes that Daniel Handler has had between then and […]
Continue ReadingThe Stranger, The Outsider and The Foreigner
Translation is, at best, the science of ‘best fit’. Whether in the euphemistic, guarded language of politics or the allusive, metaphor-heavy literary world, words always carry far more weight than just their simple face value, carrying hidden references and allusions. The word ‘straight’, for instance on the surface just means linear- a ‘straight road’. Yet […]
Continue ReadingReview: Pop-up Print Shop
The moniker “Pop-up Print Shop” has all the feisty convivial energy of the art it encompasses. Like the short and sharp syllables of the Old Fire Station’s latest exhibition title, the first whisk around the offerings of today’s up and coming print-medium artists gives the impression of a shared bright and jovial wit. On closer […]
Continue ReadingThe Vorrh is unleashed in Oxford
A Cyclops called Ishmael, a hunter called Tsungali, and a great looming mythical forest all come to the fore in an exciting new book that is to be released first Oxford this week, written by Brian Catling, a poet, sculptor and professor at The Ruskin School of Fine Art. The launch will include a performance and […]
Continue ReadingReview: Jean-Luc Moulène at Modern Art Oxford
Jean-Luc Moulène is the eponymous solo exhibition currently on display at Modern Art Oxford. The show consists of his work of the past two decades incorporating drawings, photographs and a collection of objects rather than sculptures, the latter tainted by its historical and aesthetic entanglements. For the exhibition the pieces are displayed in a very […]
Continue Reading#twitterfiction
The Guardian recently challenged a selection of authors to use the contracted platform of Twitter to write a story. They had only 140 characters to manipulate into whatever snippet of fiction they liked. The results then served both to entertain and question, what exactly are we now calling literature? These snippets often appear as fragmented […]
Continue ReadingPenguin Random House
I have a confession to make: shocking as it may seem, I, a knitwear-clad, Moleskine-toting English student, am in possession of a Kindle. This is not something to which I would usually admit, and certainly not within 100 feet of the English Faculty, primarily in order to avoid being informed of my contemptible role in the […]
Continue ReadingThe Beat Generation
Jazz, Drugs and On The Road: Jingan Young explores The Beat Generation One night in 1955 at the Six Gallery, 3119 Fillmore St., in “mad” San Francisco, in a country that had yet to wash its hands from two bloody wars, a country in fear of reds, of homosexuality, individualism, a couple of “down and […]
Continue ReadingThinking Inside the Box
Chris Ware’s Building Stories reminds me of the board game Cluedo, where a house is opened out after Dr Black’s body is found. Only in this version of Cluedo there isn’t a murder; instead, the subject is life. On opening Ware’s box you can see life mapped out in fourteen comics – newspaper-like broadsheets, magazines, […]
Continue ReadingInternational Poetry Competition, Live Canon
On the 21st, the winner of the biennial 2012 International Poetry Competition by was announced from a shortlist of 24 poems, all of which were performed by the Live Canon ensemble in Greenwich Theatre, London. Live Canon is an ensemble of professional actors who perform poetry, often accompanied with live music. Helen Eastman, an Oxford […]
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