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George Bellows. Anyone? No? Like many others I hadn’t a clue who George Bellows was. Maybe I am a philistine. Compared to the other giants currently doing the London circuit (Picasso, Lichtenstein… Bowie), Bellows has not had much attention over here. In comparison to other 20th century American artists – Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell […]
Continue ReadingThe latest creation of the contemporary Bristol artists Kleiner Shames and Patch Plummer, You Can’t Fall Off The Floor, showcases the duo’s stylish return to their home city. Here at the Old Fire Station, saturated colours clamour for our attention amid deft lines and bombastic signature sweeps. These graffiti artists are the latest to have […]
Continue ReadingThere is no such thing, As (cocktail) society. Half-price, hacky hour.
Continue ReadingEver feel like the only ignoramus in a roomful of culture aficionados? If you can’t be a buff, learn to bluff… RENAISSANCE ART Need To Know •The emergence of the Renaissance art movement marked a cultural shift from the 14th to the mid-17th centuries and the birth of the Modern era. Leonardo, Raphael, Botticelli and […]
Continue ReadingThursday 2nd Week onwards In Reverse: Where the Future Meets the Past Students from the Royal College of Art present imagined histories of obscure objects at the Pitt Rivers. FREE Sunday 3d Week onwards Romance of Dereliction The OVADA gallery (near Park End, google it) brings together a series of works inspired by the […]
Continue ReadingI’ve typed the letters, filed the papers and deposited the cheque” the secretary murmured tonelessly, placing a neat stack of papers on the desk. Bajaj dismissed the man with a nod, avoiding his intense brown eyes. He did not like his secretary. The man worked with an inhuman efficiency, which was invaluable and yet strangely […]
Continue ReadingStephen Willats’ Conscious – Unconcious and Archigram Beyond Architecture opens at Modern Art Oxford In a twin exhibition opening on Friday 27th April, Modern Art Oxford returned to old visions of the future. Archigram Beyond Architecture REMIX 2013 and Stephen Willats’ Conscious – Unconscious bring us art with a social conscience that doesn’t disappoint. Willats, who […]
Continue ReadingThere once was a woman who hatched a restaurant plan. She was relatively successful, financially, so she had the means to do so. She created two restaurants, hiring chefs, buying buildings, creating a menu, and fixing them up, though not in that order. She was not much of a food expert either, and even though […]
Continue ReadingCUBISM Need To Know • The first of the 20th century abstract art movements. Predominantly Parisian and big on guitars, vases and, y’know, cubes. Subjects are deconstructed and carefully reassembled as though seen from several viewpoints simultaneously, rejecting traditional methods of perspective in favour of offering a ‘mind’s eye’ or ‘total view’ of the subject. […]
Continue ReadingYou know those days when you just need a haiku to get you through? The Oxford Student‘s got your back. 1st Week: Finals and Thatcher, Facebook chattering classes, Would you please shut up.
Continue ReadingWhat’s on this week Sunday 1st Week (April 21st), 10:00am – 11:30am Still Sundays A chance to relax at the Pitts Rivers Museum – a space to draw, study or stand and stare. FREE — Monday 1st Week (April 22nd), 7:00pm Poetry Night Keble Cafe presents some of the hottest contemporary poets. FREE — Tuesday 1st Week (April […]
Continue ReadingIn light of the recent publication Does Spelling Matter? by Magdalen College English professor Simon Horobin, The Oxford Student thought we’d have a go at answering that question ourselves. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section at the bottom of the article. YES: Many of us will agree with James J. Kilpatrick that […]
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to blockbuster artists there is one name that dominates – Picasso. Picasso is big business. He is taught in schools, has international appeal and sells tickets, postcards and mugs by the bucket load. So the Courtauld’s approach to tackling this mammoth of the art world is most welcome. Instead of overwhelming […]
Continue ReadingThe Hayward Gallery’s ‘Light Show’ does what it says on the tin. It puts on a show. A bright, glittery, shiny show at that. Exploring the ways in which artists have experimented and employed artificial light in works from the last fifty years, the show is dazzling both in appearance and scope. Light is an […]
Continue ReadingIn 1964 Life magazine asked whether Roy Lichtenstein, the subject of the Tate Modern’s latest retrospective was “the worst artist in the US”. Fifty years on, Lichtenstein’s iconic style of dots, dashes, speech bubbles and primary colours has become embedded in our perception of Pop art and 1960s America. Upon entering the first room, the […]
Continue Reading[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYJrDxo75k&feature=youtu.bep&w=500&h=300] It’s easy to see the trap the makers of the trailer for Double Edge fell into – they thought they were making a music video. That, or the most depressing advert for Topshop ever made. The music dictates the pacing, right down to practically every shot. Being. Slowed. Down. I’ve critiqued excessive ramping […]
Continue ReadingTo say that I am not a fan of the operatic works of Gilbert and Sullivan is nothing short of a monumental understatement, but I bit the bullet anyway and decided to go and see this production. Having walked across a wet and miserable Oxford on a cold Wednesday evening I was not in the […]
Continue ReadingSo, we have Jonson’s Volpone fluffed up and covered in sparkle and thrust three hundred years forward into some seedy, sleazy Soho porn pad. The plot is, happily, thinned but essentially unaltered: the heirless Volpone feigns a fatal illness and plays three potential successors, all hungry for his fickle favour and his vast fortune, off against […]
Continue ReadingAfter watching the pretty dire trailer for Cabal Student Productions’ version of Titus Andronicus, I cycled over to the English faculty with squeaky breaks and a heavy heart. The trailer shows just how easy it is for a production of a tragedy (especially Shakespeare’s goriest, cruelest and most unflinching tragedy) to nose-dive into farce and stubbornly refuse […]
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