Review: BARE
Three-quarters of the way through the queer rock musical, BARE, at the Keble O’Reilly Theatre, the shoulders of the man seated across from me started shaking violently – he was crying. This wasn’t the response I expected to a musical opening mid-prayer to the number ‘There’s a Bender Among
A Homage to the Women who Inspired Picasso’s Work
Think of Picasso and it’s impossible not to envision the women he painted, loved, and tormented. But the uncomfortable reality is that the tender intimacy between artist and subject did not translate beyond the canvas. The lives of the women who inspired him tell a more complicated story, marked b
Noticing
I know where the spoons go now and the mugs. Afternoon-slow. The first weeks meandered, chipped ceramic mugs wobbling with hot tea. You hum to the tap tap tap of the knife, noise lost in thick, citrus air. You leave the butter on the shelf so that it stays soft. Home of turned backs, [&hellip
Review: Dissonance
The Holywell Music Room had a very different atmosphere to usual for Hugo Max’s ‘Dissonance’. A film screen covered the organ, pieces of art were dotted around the space, paired balloons floated along the perimeter, people milled around. The air wasn’t as reserved as it usually is before a c
Artist of the Week: Faye James
Faye James is a Musician. Tell us a bit about yourself. Hi! I’m Faye, a second year French student at Hertford. As much as I try and convince myself (and my tutor) otherwise, my interest in writing music has grown more over the last two years than my interest in my degree. While I can [&hellip
Artist of the Week: Sophia Kapsalis
Sophia Kapsalis is a designer and artist. Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a second year studying Biology at Balliol, but my real passion lies in art and design. I’ve spent most my life painting, but in the last three-or-so years have been experimenting with pretty much any creative medium whic
The Isis interviews Dylan Carver, UCU Anti-Casualisation Officer
Last Thursday, 17 February, the UCU (University College Union) announced that the strike action for the remainder of February would be called off. No longer would I walk past the Maths Institute and see a crowd of lecturers at the picket line. What had otherwise been a Hilary Term coloured by cancel
Review: Caroline Polachek’s ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ at the O2
Let me make a confession: I am a veteran Caroline Polachek fan. I remember receiving a text from a friend in 2019 – “the singer from Chairlift is making solo music?!” – with a link to ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.’ One infernal art-pop music video later, I was hooked. As the Pang