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  • Pauline Boty: a forgotten icon of the British Pop Art movement
    14 May 2022
  • Editor's pickAuthor Charles Moseley on being a Cambridge undergraduate in the ’60s, his new books, and the Cambridgeshire countryside
    18 May 2022
  • The Art and Heart of Leonardo da Vinci
    10 May 2022
  • “We got up to quite a few hijinks”: In conversation with author Charles Moseley

    Interview

    “We got up to quite a few hijinks”: In conversation with author Charles Moseley

    Writing a book, to many, seems an impossible challenge but Dr Charles Moseley makes it seem effortless

    18 May 2022
    “We got up to quite a few hijinks”: In conversation with author Charles Moseley
  • Pauline Boty: a forgotten icon of the British Pop Art movement

    Artists' Spotlight

    Pauline Boty: a forgotten icon of the British Pop Art movement

    Amelia Platt delves into life and works of Pauline Boty, whose art pushed boundaries and subverted expectations of women in the Sixties

    14 May 2022
    Pauline Boty: a forgotten icon of the British Pop Art movement
  • The Art and Heart of Leonardo da Vinci

    Review

    The Art and Heart of Leonardo da Vinci

    10 May 2022
    The Art and Heart of Leonardo da Vinci
  • A literary home away from home

    Column

    A literary home away from home

    8 May 2022
    A literary home away from home
  • Book review: Trespasses and The Raptures

    Book Review

    Book review: Trespasses and The Raptures

    3 May 2022
    Book review: Trespasses and The Raptures
  • A daily chronicle of Cambridge connections

    Book Review

    A daily chronicle of Cambridge connections

    29 April 2022
    A daily chronicle of Cambridge connections
  • What’s going on in the Arts scene this term?

    What's on?

    What’s going on in the Arts scene this term?

    29 April 2022
    What’s going on in the Arts scene this term?
  • The tread of an artist

    Review

    The tread of an artist

    29 April 2022
    The tread of an artist
  • Break a butterfly (ii)

    POEM

    Break a butterfly (ii)

    24 April 2022
    Break a butterfly (ii)
  • 'A veritable sea of remarkable work': Queens' Arts Festival

    REVIEW

    ‘A veritable sea of remarkable work’: Queens’ Arts Festival

    24 April 2022
    ‘A veritable sea of remarkable work’: Queens’ Arts Festival
  • INTERVIEW

    “If you need to say something, you will”, says National Poetry Competition winner Eric Yip

    Famke Veenstra-Ashmore speaks to National Poetry Competition winner and Cambridge student Eric Yip about his experiences writing poetry in Cambridge

    22 April 2022
    “If you need to say something, you will”, says National Poetry Competition winner Eric Yip
  • C H I L D S P L A Y / Varsity X CUCFS

    C H I L D S P L A Y / Varsity X CUCFS

    What does ‘CHILDSPLAY’ mean? Photographer Fin Scott deconstructs the concept underpinning the Cambridge University Charity Fashion Show 2022 taking place on the Fifth of May

    22 April 2022
    C H I L D S P L A Y / Varsity X CUCFS
  • Fricatives

    Fricatives

    21 April 2022
    Fricatives
  • Review: CRoB Spring Issue

    Preview

    Review: CRoB Spring Issue

    19 April 2022
    Review: CRoB Spring Issue
  • Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

    REVIEW

    Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

    10 April 2022
    Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction
  • Art From The Gut

    Art From The Gut

    10 April 2022
    Art From The Gut
  • Alison Brooks Architects: Cultural Formations

    Exhibition

    Alison Brooks Architects: Cultural Formations

    7 April 2022
    Alison Brooks Architects: Cultural Formations
  • Children, like seven high rise buildings  (i)

    POEM

    Children, like seven high rise buildings (i)

    7 April 2022
    Children, like seven high rise buildings (i)
  • What Lies Beneath

    Exhibition

    What Lies Beneath

    5 April 2022
    What Lies Beneath
  • Love Art After Dark 2022: Review

    EVENT

    Love Art After Dark 2022: Review

    2 April 2022
    Love Art After Dark 2022: Review
  • David Parr House

    David Parr House

    Lily Davies reflects on her visit to the David Parr House

    28 March 2022
    David Parr House
  • 'Unfolding cultural catastrophe': Art and the war in Ukraine

    ‘Unfolding cultural catastrophe’: Art and the war in Ukraine

    Matthew Bessant discusses the current threat to Ukrainian artistic heritage and what we in the West can do to help

    23 March 2022
    ‘Unfolding cultural catastrophe’: Art and the war in Ukraine
  • Panoramic magazine review: imagining global futures

    Preview

    Panoramic magazine review: imagining global futures

    14 March 2022
    Panoramic magazine review: imagining global futures
  • Irvine Welsh's punk poetics

    Writers' spotlight

    Irvine Welsh’s punk poetics

    12 March 2022
    Irvine Welsh’s punk poetics
  • Hokusai reimagined as an NFT

    Hokusai reimagined as an NFT

    9 March 2022
    Hokusai reimagined as an NFT
  • The metamorphosis of Sentire

    Review

    The metamorphosis of Sentire

    9 March 2022
    The metamorphosis of Sentire
  • Juergen Teller: pretentious amateur or subversive genius?

    Opinion

    Juergen Teller: pretentious amateur or subversive genius?

    6 March 2022
    Juergen Teller: pretentious amateur or subversive genius?
  •  Postcards from Europe

    Postcards from Europe

    6 March 2022
    Postcards from Europe
  • 'Lost but not at Sea': Queens' Arts Festival preview

    ‘Lost but not at Sea’: Queens’ Arts Festival preview

    5 March 2022
    ‘Lost but not at Sea’: Queens’ Arts Festival preview
  • Queerly beloved / learning to love

    SHORT FILM

    Queerly beloved / learning to love

    4 March 2022
    Queerly beloved / learning to love
  • The paradox of the female muse

    The paradox of the female muse

    In her second column, Eleanor Antoniou explores contemporary artists’ attempts to reclaim the figure of the female muse

    4 March 2022
    The paradox of the female muse
  • Chagall stained glass of All Saints’ Tudeley

    Interview

    Chagall stained glass of All Saints’ Tudeley

    Rosa Phelps interviews Josephine Willoughby about the stained glass windows created by French artist Marc Chagall

    4 March 2022
    Chagall stained glass of All Saints’ Tudeley
  • David Hockney exhibition to open at the Fitzwilliam

    David Hockney exhibition to open at the Fitzwilliam

    6 March 2022
    David Hockney exhibition to open at the Fitzwilliam
  • The demand for the Brautigan Library

    The demand for the Brautigan Library

    20 February 2022
    The demand for the Brautigan Library
  • “With Your Death Full of Flowers”: Remembering Allen Ginsberg

    “With Your Death Full of Flowers”: Remembering Allen Ginsberg

    20 February 2022
    “With Your Death Full of Flowers”: Remembering Allen Ginsberg
  • Reading list to fight the Week 5 Blues

    Reading list to fight the Week 5 Blues

    18 February 2022
    Reading list to fight the Week 5 Blues
  • Lone portraits on the wall: Leah Mclaine in conversation with Connor Phillips

    INTERVIEW

    Lone portraits on the wall: Leah Mclaine in conversation with Connor Phillips

    11 February 2022
    Lone portraits on the wall: Leah Mclaine in conversation with Connor Phillips
  • The Symphony of Art Magazine interview: shifting with the seasons

    The Symphony of Art Magazine interview: shifting with the seasons

    10 February 2022
    The Symphony of Art Magazine interview: shifting with the seasons
  • Senate House passage

    Senate House passage

    7 April 2022
    Senate House passage
  • Banned books: history’s most notorious literary offenders

    Banned books: history’s most notorious literary offenders

    6 February 2022
    Banned books: history’s most notorious literary offenders
  • 'You can make something good': In conversation with Screeve

    ‘You can make something good’: In conversation with Screeve

    Staff writer Rosa Phelps interviews the founders of Screeve, Cambridge’s distinctly queer creative platform

    5 February 2022
    ‘You can make something good’: In conversation with Screeve
  • 'Samurai: History and Legacy' at the University Library

    ‘Samurai: History and Legacy’ at the University Library

    Staff writer Zoe Turoff reviews the UL’s latest exhibition which features Japanese archival material and charts the history of samurai

    4 February 2022
    ‘Samurai: History and Legacy’ at the University Library
  • Egbon mi obinrin

    Egbon mi obinrin

    3 February 2022
    Egbon mi obinrin
  • New zines on the scene

    New zines on the scene

    3 February 2022
    New zines on the scene
  • An interview with Courtauld artist Ruth Helen Smith

    An interview with Courtauld artist Ruth Helen Smith

    1 February 2022
    An interview with Courtauld artist Ruth Helen Smith
  • John Hughes arts festival: preview

    John Hughes arts festival: preview

    25 January 2022
    John Hughes arts festival: preview
  • Henny Beaumont's 'Disappearing Women'

    Henny Beaumont’s ‘Disappearing Women’

    25 January 2022
    Henny Beaumont’s ‘Disappearing Women’
  • On Goodreads and reading for pleasure

    On Goodreads and reading for pleasure

    25 January 2022
    On Goodreads and reading for pleasure
  • The manual you find in the holster of your car

    The manual you find in the holster of your car

    21 January 2022
    The manual you find in the holster of your car
  • Are 'cult classics' actually cults?

    Are ‘cult classics’ actually cults?

    21 January 2022
    Are ‘cult classics’ actually cults?
  • Last chance to see: the Fitzwilliam Museum’s 'Gold Of The Great Steppe'

    Last chance to see: the Fitzwilliam Museum’s ‘Gold Of The Great Steppe’

    Staff writer Zoe Turoff, in conversation with Dr Rebecca Roberts, explores the Fitzwilliam Museum’s striking exhibition focused on Kazakhstan

    21 January 2022
    Last chance to see: the Fitzwilliam Museum’s ‘Gold Of The Great Steppe’
  • Arts events calendar: Lent 2022

    Arts events calendar: Lent 2022

    The Arts team give you a run down of the most exciting student events planned for the arts scene next term

    21 January 2022
    Arts events calendar: Lent 2022
  • Pantone Colour of the Year 2022

    Pantone Colour of the Year 2022

    21 January 2022
    Pantone Colour of the Year 2022
  • Reading list for a new year

    Reading list for a new year

    10 January 2022
    Reading list for a new year
  • New Year's Wish

    New Year’s Wish

    8 January 2022
    New Year’s Wish
  • The healing power of Kintsugi

    The healing power of Kintsugi

    31 December 2021
    The healing power of Kintsugi
  • To Laugh & Sigh: Piet Hein’s Grooks

    To Laugh & Sigh: Piet Hein’s Grooks

    31 December 2021
    To Laugh & Sigh: Piet Hein’s Grooks
  • Exploring representation and accessibility in children’s literature

    Exploring representation and accessibility in children’s literature

    30 December 2021
    Exploring representation and accessibility in children’s literature
  • “A view from Zagreb: Op Art and Kinetic Art” in the Tate Modern

    28 December 2021
    “A view from Zagreb: Op Art and Kinetic Art” in the Tate Modern
  • Everyday Artefacts

    Everyday Artefacts

    28 December 2021
    Everyday Artefacts
  • The Cambridge Review of Books:

    Review

    The Cambridge Review of Books:

    Deputy Vulture Editor Margherita Volpato ends this term with a look at the latest issue of the ‘Cambridge Review of Books’

    15 December 2021
    The Cambridge Review of Books:
  • Banksy: The Street Art Debate

    Banksy: The Street Art Debate

    Dulcie Whadcock explores the political nature of Banksy’s work and the questions it raises over the ownership of street art

    15 December 2021
    Banksy: The Street Art Debate
  • Club Knight

    Club Knight

    10 December 2021
    Club Knight
  • ‘Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge’: A Fitzwilliam exhibition

    ‘Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge’: A Fitzwilliam exhibition

    7 December 2021
    ‘Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge’: A Fitzwilliam exhibition
  • Brâncuși in Kettle's Yard

    Brâncuși in Kettle’s Yard

    3 December 2021
    Brâncuși in Kettle’s Yard
  • Forms and Functions

    POEM

    Forms and Functions

    3 December 2021
    Forms and Functions
  • My year of Rest and Relaxation

    My year of Rest and Relaxation

    30 November 2021
    My year of Rest and Relaxation
  • The Wall Street Immoralism of American Psycho

    The Wall Street Immoralism of American Psycho

    26 November 2021
    The Wall Street Immoralism of American Psycho
  • The Interview

    The Interview

    26 November 2021
    The Interview
  • Mycenae: From Myth to History

    Mycenae: From Myth to History

    26 November 2021
    Mycenae: From Myth to History
  • So much beautiful time

    So much beautiful time

    Poet Renée Eshel shares ‘So much beautiful time’, the first in a series of vivid and passioned poems

    19 November 2021
    So much beautiful time
  • Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You?

    Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?

    Rosa Phelps reviews Irish novelist Sally Rooney’s latest novel Beautiful World, Where Are You?

    19 November 2021
    Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?
  • Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame

    Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame

    17 November 2021
    Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame
  • Change and Creativity: Autumn 2021 with The Cambridge Review of Books

    Change and Creativity: Autumn 2021 with The Cambridge Review of Books

    12 November 2021
    Change and Creativity: Autumn 2021 with The Cambridge Review of Books
  • Letters to Gil

    Letters to Gil

    12 November 2021
    Letters to Gil
  • Pseudonyms: The Carmen Mola Controversy

    Pseudonyms: The Carmen Mola Controversy

    12 November 2021
    Pseudonyms: The Carmen Mola Controversy
  • Waiting: a poem

    Waiting: a poem

    5 November 2021
    Waiting: a poem
  • Victims of Circumstance: Reading Hardy's Two on a Tower

    Victims of Circumstance: Reading Hardy’s Two on a Tower

    2 November 2021
    Victims of Circumstance: Reading Hardy’s Two on a Tower
  • Evaristo at the Cambridge Literary Festival

    Evaristo at the Cambridge Literary Festival

    29 October 2021
    Evaristo at the Cambridge Literary Festival
  • Reframing Jack the Ripper: The Five

    Reframing Jack the Ripper: The Five

    29 October 2021
    Reframing Jack the Ripper: The Five
  • Autumnal Reading List

    Autumnal Reading List

    Arts Editor Emma Hulse shares a list of her favourite books to read on drizzly autumn evenings

    29 October 2021
    Autumnal Reading List
  • Film vs. Book: The Age-Old Debate

    Film vs. Book: The Age-Old Debate

    Brianna Mitchell considers the successes and shortfalls of several well-loved film adaptations

    26 October 2021
    Film vs. Book: The Age-Old Debate
  • Decadence: a man’s world?

    Decadence: a man’s world?

    Decadence: a man’s world?

    26 October 2021
    Decadence: a man’s world?
  • Machaon and the Hound

    Machaon and the Hound

    26 October 2021
    Machaon and the Hound
  • Sutapa Biswas: Lumen Preview

    Sutapa Biswas: Lumen Preview

    21 October 2021
    Sutapa Biswas: Lumen Preview
  • Mark Cazalet: To Ithaka

    Mark Cazalet: To Ithaka

    21 October 2021
    Mark Cazalet: To Ithaka
  • Train Rat: A Short Story

    Train Rat: A Short Story

    15 October 2021
    Train Rat: A Short Story
  • On George Eliot and the language of rebellion

    On George Eliot and the language of rebellion

    12 October 2021
    On George Eliot and the language of rebellion
  • The Cambridge Zine: Reclaiming Space and Place

    The Cambridge Zine: Reclaiming Space and Place

    1 October 2021
    The Cambridge Zine: Reclaiming Space and Place
  • Around Cambridge in 10 Days

    Around Cambridge in 10 Days

    1 October 2021
    Around Cambridge in 10 Days
  • Charlie Echo

    Interview

    Charlie Echo

    Arts editors Famke Veenstra-Ashmore and Emma Hulse review Charlie Echo, a novel inspired by the Cambridge Footlights, alongside interviewing its filmmaker author.

    24 September 2021
    Charlie Echo
  • The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival: a recap

    The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival: a recap

    Rosalind Moran reviews this year’s Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

    20 September 2021
    The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival: a recap
  • Shahzia Sikander: Unbound

    Shahzia Sikander: Unbound

    17 September 2021
    Shahzia Sikander: Unbound
  • On childhood reading

    On childhood reading

    13 September 2021
    On childhood reading
  • The art of coping

    The art of coping

    6 September 2021
    The art of coping
  • The History of Cliffhangers

    The History of Cliffhangers

    3 September 2021
    The History of Cliffhangers
  • Books to transport you around the world

    Books to transport you around the world

    31 August 2021
    Books to transport you around the world
  • Introducing Poetry: 3 Anthologies

    Introducing Poetry: 3 Anthologies

    27 August 2021
    Introducing Poetry: 3 Anthologies
  • “Totems of Power”: The Colston Statue Exhibit

    “Totems of Power”: The Colston Statue Exhibit

    24 August 2021
    “Totems of Power”: The Colston Statue Exhibit
  • Introspection

    Introspection

    20 August 2021
    Introspection
  • Our Own 5th Wave: Re-Reading Dystopia During the Pandemic

    Our Own 5th Wave: Re-Reading Dystopia During the Pandemic

    Reflections on re-reading ‘The 5th Wave’ series, after a year of living with the pandemic

    16 August 2021
    Our Own 5th Wave: Re-Reading Dystopia During the Pandemic
  • Writers in the Pandemic: The Booker Prize Longlist

    Writers in the Pandemic: The Booker Prize Longlist

    Magdalena Gabrysiak explores how COVID-19 has influenced contemporary fiction, in light of this year’s Booker Prize longlist

    13 August 2021
    Writers in the Pandemic: The Booker Prize Longlist
  • Storytelling through stained glass

    Storytelling through stained glass

    9 August 2021
    Storytelling through stained glass
  • Arts' Summer Reading List

    Arts’ Summer Reading List

    6 August 2021
    Arts’ Summer Reading List
  • 'Cat Person' and the I who is not me

    Opinion

    ‘Cat Person’ and the I who is not me

    27 July 2021
    ‘Cat Person’ and the I who is not me
  • Reading Celebrity Book Recommendations

    DISCUSSION

    Reading Celebrity Book Recommendations

    16 July 2021
    Reading Celebrity Book Recommendations
  • So, what is an 'accidental Renaissance'?

    So, what is an ‘accidental Renaissance’?

    13 July 2021
    So, what is an ‘accidental Renaissance’?
  • The untold escapism of autobiographies

    The untold escapism of autobiographies

    29 June 2021
    The untold escapism of autobiographies
  • The Mays Twenty Nine

    Review

    The Mays Twenty Nine

    29 June 2021
    The Mays Twenty Nine
  • The Complete Meditations of Elma Toyah: Meditations #4

    The Complete Meditations of Elma Toyah: Meditations #4

    29 June 2021
    The Complete Meditations of Elma Toyah: Meditations #4
  • On incompleteness and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française

    Book Review

    On incompleteness and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française

    In her latest review columnist Emma Hulse discusses what it might mean to not finish a novel.

    18 June 2021
    On incompleteness and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum's The Human Touch Exhibition

    Exhibition Review

    The Fitzwilliam Museum’s The Human Touch Exhibition

    Anna Piper-Thompson discusses human touch and its importance in our lives.

    18 June 2021
    The Fitzwilliam Museum’s The Human Touch Exhibition
  • Taming my sleep paralysis hallucinations

    Taming my sleep paralysis hallucinations

    11 June 2021
    Taming my sleep paralysis hallucinations
  • Meditations #3: a poem

    Fiction

    Meditations #3: a poem

    8 June 2021
    Meditations #3: a poem
  • Meditations #1: a poem

    Fiction

    Meditations #1: a poem

    1 June 2021
    Meditations #1: a poem
  • On PTSD and Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone

    Book Review

    On PTSD and Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone

    1 June 2021
    On PTSD and Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone
  • Our relationship with the Architecture of Cambridge

    DISCUSSION

    Our relationship with the Architecture of Cambridge

    1 June 2021
    Our relationship with the Architecture of Cambridge
  • The New Yorker and the Mutability of Poetic Sound

    The New Yorker and the Mutability of Poetic Sound

    25 May 2021
    The New Yorker and the Mutability of Poetic Sound
  • Kamakura

    Fiction

    Kamakura

    21 May 2021
    Kamakura
  • Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

    Review

    Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

    14 May 2021
    Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

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