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Image Description: Laura Marling singing into a microphone with a guitar, on a black stage. In August, I wrote a review of Haim’s bubbly, frenetic, exploratory album, Women in Music Pt. III. I thought that it was a lockdown vibe, it buoyed me up, and I listened to it over, and over, and over again. […]
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Image description: People sit on benches looking at paintings in one of the galleries at Tate Britain. As the pandemic continues, arts organisations have begun exploring new ways of generating income. Many galleries and museums are now running paid events online. The Royal Opera House is selling a David Hockney portrait, estimated to be worth […]
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Image Description: A gold, decorated mask and a black fabric background. The mysterious and impenetrable dressings of both internal and external experience provide the theme for Maskwork, a haunting new collection of poetry by Gregory Leadbetter (Professor of Poetry at Birmingham City University). Bewitching descriptions of masks – in the likeness of seraphs, witches, even […]
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Image Description: Section of the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting a medieval feast. Several months of living in a pandemic has seen the rise of numerous trends, from baking sourdough, to virtual choirs and music, all of which have been significant in sculpting lockdown culture. Despite the surge in popularity of lockdown trends, many were already in […]
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Image description: Series of moon phases, waning, on black background This time 12 years ago, I was 12 myself, and about to start my first year at secondary school. Unsure of what to expect, I scoured teen magazines – Bliss, Mizz, Sugar, the Irish publication Kiss – in search of tips to help me navigate […]
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Image description: a black and white photograph of a group of women wearing ‘stop the ERA’ badges ‘Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.’ Ah, I can almost hear you thinking as you visualise the scene. We’re at a Trump rally, or a Fox […]
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Tintin and Alph-Art is the 24th and final volume of my favourite comic series growing up. Its creator, Hergé, died before its completion. Just three pages are in pencil, another 42 comprise rough sketches, and scattered throughout the volume are various notes (translated from the Belgian) alongside a number of rediscovered pages. In the last […]
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Image Description: characters Lars and Sigrit on stage in front of the Icelandic flag Like millions of other Eurovision enthusiasts, I felt my heart sink on March 18th – the day we heard that this year’s contest would no longer be going ahead. I hung my head as I cancelled my viewing party plans and […]
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Image Description: Haim performing at a concert, singing and playing guitar. Haim’s 3rd studio album, Women in Music Part III is a triumph. Affectionately known as WIMPIII, and released in June, the album has found a primary place on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and was the no.1 album in the UK for a week. Its […]
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Image Description: figure doing a yoga pose (involving a handstand) against a colourful backdrop I am a Yoga with Adriene fanatic. Most days begin with rolling out my yoga mat and doing 30 minutes of stretching, deep breathing and being vaguely annoyed that my heels don’t touch the mat in downward-facing dog. I have, however, […]
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Image Description: Entrance to the Oxford Playhouse The UK government will provide a £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions through the detrimental financial impact of the coronavirus, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced in a tweet on Sunday evening. The news of the “world-leading” lifeline comes as a relief […]
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Image description: characters Claire and Camille from Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood Ryan Murphy’s newest creation dropped on Netflix at the start of May. Hollywood is a miniseries, incredibly binge-able at only 7 episodes. It tracks the production of the movie ‘Peg’, where a white woman commits suicide as a result of the hostile Hollywood environment. This […]
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Image Description: An exhibition by Sophia Wee The closure of physical spaces has presented difficulties for students of all subjects, with History students losing the libraries and Chemistry students losing access to labs. But Fine Art students have not just lost access to their studios, they have also lost the opportunity to physically exhibit their […]
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Image description: Hadassah painting in the garden The second instalment of the Student Artist Profile series is with Hadassah Büchner. Hadassah is in her second year of graduate medicine at St. Anne’s. She hopes to combine her love for both medicine and art in the future and her ideal scenario would be working four days a […]
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Image Description: A sustainable clothes shop Summer sales, holiday clothes, new-season equals new wardrobe. Normally, at this time of year, many of us would be taking advantage of student discounts to get that perfect fit for the sunny weather. Instead, clothing sales sunk by 34% in March – a drop easily associated with the lockdown […]
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Image Description: Inside Divinity Schools, Oxford Many of us applied to Oxford with a secret ambition to live our best lives, Brideshead Revisited style. The mental image of spending days punting down the Isis, poring over slab-like books in quirky little pubs and dining in vast, Harry Potter-esque halls seemed all too tempting, thanks to […]
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Image Description: Alice Hackney painting Welcome to the inaugural article of The Oxford Student’s ‘Student Artist Profile’ series. Over the course of the next few weeks, we are hoping to bring awareness to the incredible artists in our midst and highlight Oxford’s promising art scene by allowing artists in our community to speak about themselves […]
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Image Description: A person reading a book over lunch This week, Sarah Moorhouse asked OxStu contributors to tell us about their favourite pieces of short fiction. Perfect to enjoy over breakfast or a quick tea break, these compelling reads will transport you away from a dreary lockdown lifestyle. Helena Aeberli: Francoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse Francoise […]
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Image Description: An illustration of Tom pushing the head of Jerry up a hill. Tom and Jerry. The famous Metro-Goldwyn Mayer cartoons that entered our screens for the first time in the 1940s and have continued to dominate the scene ever since then. For those living under a rock, the premise of the series of […]
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