Dinner Arty Conversation: Fauvism
Ever feel like the only ignoramus in a roomful of culture aficionados? If you can’t be a buff, learn to bluff… Need To Know • Early twentieth-century art movement that…
What’s on this Week: 3rd Week
Thursday 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…
Reality check: Modern Art Oxford
Stephen 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…
What’s On This Week: 1st week
What’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…
Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901
When 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,…
It’s alive!
Pottery is perhaps the most durable form of art – our oldest record of long lost cultures – it comes from the earth and it’s here to stay. So argues…
After images/blind spots
The hardest part of walking through the Hayward’s latest exhibition is reading the labels. After-images dance across your eyes, filling your vision with light and colour even as you turn…
Up from the ASHes
On Wednesday evening last week, I decided to do something brave. I went to a poetry reading. Attending poetry readings does inevitably feel brave (people are often very honest, and…
