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Image description: Canvas with strokes of paint The last time I wielded a paintbrush with any intent was aged 13, during art lessons at school. Yet, a couple of weeks into quarantine, I was desperate for new ways to occupy my time and found myself participating in Noel Fielding’s Instagram Art Club with gusto. Each week, […]
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Image Description: Mural of a man and a woman kissing on a building In 2003, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit famously called the city ‘poor but sexy’, sealing its reputation as the place-to-be for artists. East Berlin was practically abandoned after the fall of the Wall, rent was low, and it provided an empty canvas for […]
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Image description: Stack of books with a notebook next to them There seems to be a certain amount of snobbery within literary and artistic circles around whose opinions are valid when it comes to looking at, appreciating and analysing a work. To a certain extent, I agree that the academic debates around varying interpretations require […]
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Image Description: Paul Simon’s Graceland album artwork I confess I am a person liable to decide after a single listen that I have found my new favourite-ever song. But believe me when I say that Paul Simon’s 1986 masterpiece Graceland (an album recorded after Simon became intrigued by a bootleg cassette and ended up travelling to Johannesburg […]
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Image Description: Gallery space from the exhibition Whilst living in Rome in 2019, I had the pleasure of being a 15-minute walk away from the gallery. With a student admission fee cheaper than a cup of coffee, it became a ritual of mine, after finishing work, to leave behind the chaotic pace of Roman city […]
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Image Description: Skeleton Statue near a tree The frustration of being cooped up is hitting hard. Netflix has lost its sparkle and you’re bored of staying in the house reading or squabbling with siblings. The one hour of state-mandated exercise isn’t enough to stop the cabin fever setting in. You might, as I felt, wish […]
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Isolation sucks. Gone are the much-anticipated vac plans, the long overdue meet-ups with school friends, and days of lying in parks with no work-burden that many of us had anticipated for this week. Instead, talk is only of the Draconian measures imposed on us; not going out, not seeing friends, weeks trapped with no one […]
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Being in the student bubble can be nice sometimes. Not having to come to terms with what’s going on across the country: coronavirus, brexit, another 5 years of Tory rule, and all the rest. All the same, I reckon I’m not the only one that has on occasion thought about my hometown with great fondness. […]
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Image description: Vintage signs from Nakano Broadway Out to the North-east of Shinjuku in Tokyo, amongst large suburbian highways and close to the somewhat neglected Nakano station, is Nakano Broadway, a seemingly typical Japanese merchant street. Far from the luxury of Ginza or the charm of Kyoto’s traditional markets, at first glance, Nakano broadway is […]
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Top image credit: Josh Boddington Main image credit: Page 25, The Oxford Student
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Top image credit: Abigail Hodges Main image credit: Page 24, The Oxford Student
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Content warning: this article contains brief mentions of sexual abuse and substance abuse. Last week, I was fortunate to have a ticket to a private performance of ‘People, Places, and Things’, held in the kitchen of a student house in Cowley. With the playwright – Duncan Macmillan – having not yet released the rights to […]
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Of all the paintings in the vast Ashmolean collection, Paolo ‘Uccello’s’ (real name di Dono) ‘The Hunt in the Forest’ has always been a favourite of mine – and certainly one of the museum’s best-known works, and for good reason: painted between 1465-1470, Uccello’s masterpiece wonderfully encapsulates the transition between the medieval Italianate style and […]
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Top Image Credit: Near University Parks, Alex Haveron-Jones Main Image Credit: Page 24, The Oxford Student
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Image Credit: provided by Lisa O’Neill Lisa O’Neill is currently on tour across the UK and dates can be found on her website and social media handles. She is also currently working on a new album. You’ve mentioned before that your sister is a creator too, and that she’s worked on projects on Irish immigration. […]
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Top Image Credit: The Radcliffe Camera, Alex Haveron-Jones Main Image Credit: Page 25, The Oxford Student
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Top Image Credit: Photograph taken in Jericho, Andrei Diaconu Main Image Credit: Page 24, The Oxford Student
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Image Description: Ronnie Wood in 1988 in Malmö sat at a table at a vernissage of his art at Hotel Cramer. Art and music, out of all creative forms, seem the most inextricably linked. Something about the arresting qualities of the two strikes the spectator instantaneously. They seem to have a marmite quality detectable that […]
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Image Description: A 3D printed skull, in side profile, with interior and exterior anatomical features showing. Last year, the Arts Council, a government organisation tasked with promoting and developing arts and culture across England, published its draft document entitled ‘Shaping the next ten years.’ This document, to be fully published later this year, stated that […]
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