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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: 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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Image Description: An old MP3 player My Minecraft account must have been created on April something, 2012. I remember getting together enough money to give a friendly classmate, one of the lucky few to have access to a credit card at that age, to help me purchase the game. Once in a while I still […]
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Image Description: A DJ’s soundboard The minute the world went into quarantine it became clear that we needed to get very creative with how we kept ourselves entertained. I think we’ve seen and tried it all at this point – Zoom parties, trying and failing to get into podcasts, baking, and a lot of Netflix, […]
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Image description: An illustration of a house inside the Globe Theatre I love going to the theatre. I love lurking around in the foyer, engaging in an intense debate with myself on whether or not that programme is really worth £2. I love finding my seat (or standing space) and flipping through said programme, while […]
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Image description: Four album covers from the list Music is often a form of escape, and we could all use a little escapism right about now. That’s why our music editorial team have put together their mix of favourite songs to keep you dreaming of times beyond lockdown, and get you through the dull days. […]
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Image description: Family watching TV together in the 1950s Are you still watching? Or are you catatonic, quilt-smothered and crisp-covered, one foot dangling over the end of the bed in refuge from the furnace-like heat of your duvet, and one eye bleakly registering the lockdown breadmaking psychodrama on your mum’s cat’s Instagram? This is the […]
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Image description: A poster for one of Godard’s films on the walls of an underground station Even at the age of 89, Jean-Luc Godard hasn’t stopped being revolutionary. Whilst many directors would have quietly retreated to some mansion far away from the world of film-making, Godard continues to make films which challenge the watcher even […]
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Image description: Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico My dream has always been to own a library. Nothing too fancy – I’m not asking for an Austen-esque regency manor with a cavernous expanse of dust jackets and cloth bindings – just an otherwise ordinary room whose decoration represents a shrine to books. Living in an increasingly digital society, […]
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Image description: people performing TikTok dances It’s the quarantine hobby we were too ashamed to pick up, but are now too entangled in to give up. It’s the source of those catchy songs ingrained our subconscious, whether we truly know the words or not. It’s TikTok. Let’s be honest, you know the name by now, […]
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Image description: The Guggenheim in Bilbao It was a pleasant sunny afternoon in Bilbao on the day I paid a visit to the Guggenheim. I’d been planning my trip to Spain for three months, and it would be a grave error for anyone remotely interested in art to skip one of the country’s largest, most […]
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Image description: An illustration of two hands with one holding an ink pen Though much has been said about our abbreviated attention spans during these days, if you find yourself unable to concentrate even on the latest book of essays by the corrosively delightful Samantha Irby or enjoy that ribald, irreverent biography of Princess Margaret […]
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Image description: Grimes live in Austin in 2012 You may have forgotten, but Grimes makes music. Now, a lot of her fans, myself included, have taken to viewing her recent affiliations with a side-eye. Contrary to what you find in the media, ever since her appearance at the 2018 Met Gala Grimes is more than […]
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Image description: Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein Right now it’s hard to imagine Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and Henri Matisse sitting in a room together, yet this was a common occurrence at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s. They were united by Gertrude Stein, whose weekly […]
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Image description: An Kindle on top of a regular book I’m not old enough to pull the whole ‘back-in-my-day-I-read-by-candlelight’, and I certainly can’t relate to the youngest generation of readers who grew up reading in the dark. That last bit I don’t mean figuratively: Kindle’s, iPad’s and other self-lit electronic devices have made it so […]
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