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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the Caribbean, this year Black History Month is celebrated uniquely in Oxford. The inaugural exhibition at...
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“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...
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‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.
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Oxford’s art scene: A picture still being painted

Who gets to make art, who gets to see it, and whose art history...
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Naomi Polonsky takes a look at the creative rivalry between Picasso and Matisse

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In the run-up to a screening of Shirley Clarke's 1967 Portrait of Jason, Eleanor Diamond considers the dubious production of the iconic LGBT film.

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French For Rabbits' new release is a soothing soundtrack for an essay crisis

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Rushabh Haria reviews Sebastien Mullaert's electronic new album

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Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews the Canadian group's nautical new release

Review: Life Story

Emma Simpson was utterly captivated by the BBC's latest look at life in the animal world

Interview: Netsky

Nick Byrne discovers what makes drum and bass legend Netsky tick

Cine-theatre: when worlds collide

Frederick Wienand admires the accessibility of theatre on-screen

“We’re all stories, in the end”

Anna Zanetti is wonder-struck by The Story Museum’s ‘26 Characters’

Reviewing Gerhard Richter’s abstract art

Paul Ostwald finds the lights, reflections and chromatic play as fascinating as the artist himself

Preview: Jerusalem

Fergus Morgan gets an sneak preview of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, which comes to the Keble O'Reilly in 4th Week

Review: The Pillowman

Bethan Roberts reviews Rough-Hewn's production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman

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Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Sin

Isaac Goodwin looks at the origins of our concept of sin

Sin City: graphic in more than one way

Fergus Morgan discusses the enduring appeal of Frank Miller’s neo-noir comic book series

Review: Bouncers

Luke Howarth is only moderately amused by this unconvincing commentary on Britain's nightlife

Review: Welcome To The Parish Of Cummerbund-upon-Tweed

Tom Carter enjoys this immersive satire on the small-minded glory of parochial England

Review: Kindness – Otherness

Lewis Barnes is left underwhelmed by the new Kindness record

Q&A with Joanna Hogg

Tom Barrie was impressed with filmmaker Joanna Hogg's eloquence in OBA's Q&A at Oriel College
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