Arts & Culture Archives - Uncomfortable Oxford

The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Calverley’s “Ode to Tobacco”

Richard Parnell — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:43:12 +0000

Politicians now promise a "smoke-free" UK, but one Cambridge plaque suggests an alternative plan: doctors be damned, "take a fresh cigar!"

Giorgia Maffioli Brigatti — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:57:36 +0000

Claudia Martínez Garay's latest exhibition, inspired by Peru's Inca and Moche cultures, has much to teach about art, sexuality, and language.

Louis Morris — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

'The Lord of the Rings' is cited as an inspirational text by both friends and foes of asylum seekers, but what does it really say?

Giorgia Maffioli Brigatti — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:41:29 +0000

The latest Kettle's Yard exhibition is a real-time battle to preserve Syrian history from oblivion, but does it stick in the viewer's memory?

Paula Larsson — Fri, 27 May 2022 11:37:00 +0000

Content warning: Rape, sexual abuse On January 12, 2022, an activist used a ladder to ...

Dan P — Sun, 15 May 2022 14:36:00 +0000

The second article in our short series delving into the background of items in the ...

Dan P — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:08:00 +0000

Introduction Within the Star Trek universe, humans are bound by the “Prime Directive” which forbids ...

Louis Morris — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:24:00 +0000

Oxford is known for many things, but neither culinary delicacies nor revolutionary politics generally feature ...

Veronica Cordovadel — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:42:00 +0000

This is a review of Mariana Castillo Deball’s 2020 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. The ...

Louis Morris — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 10:27:00 +0000

Surrounded by the patriotic paraphernalia of wreaths and poppies, the blazing memorials to Guy Fawkes, ...