Varsity’s exam season reading list
Bridging the distance
Adrianne Lenker, LinkedIn, and the importance of stillness
The ethics of display in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Reading list
Varsity‘s Arts team provides some remedial texts for exam season
Opinion
Holly Higham asks how museums hierarchise history
Review
Ben Birch reviews the latest exhibition at Kettle’s Yard
Feature
Niall Quinn looks down the lens of Cambridge student photography
Review
Cameron Thomas reflects on the abundance and exploitation layered upon the canvases of Jan Davidz de Heem
Preview
Ezra Izer sits down with the organisers of a groundbreaking exhibition at Caius, challenging tradition while raising funds for Clarissa’s Campaign and Cambridge Pink Week
Feature
Inspired by Murray Edwards’ Women’s Art Collection, Bethany Da Costa delves into the history of the female form as a model
Feature
Juggling criticism and creativity, Nabiha Ali reflects on the trial of personal writing during term-time
Opinion
Emma Tenzler explores the stories of women whose art was taken from them
Opinion
Emily Cushion argues that we must foreground the Arts, even if those branches lead to uncertain ends
Feature
How can we exist in a world of chaos and cruelty? We must embrace it, argues Roscoe Marshall
Review
Claire Keegan’s novel, and its recent film adaptation, asks whether small acts of rebellion are worth making
Space Invaders
In her latest instalment of Space Invaders, Loveday Cookson tours the bedroom of Varsity’s own Editor-in-Chief, Grace Cobb
Interview
Alice Mainwood speaks to the gallery about its open-doors exhibition for young artists
Review
Samantha Harvey’s space novel radically uproots readers from their home planet, forcing us to regard it from a distance
Guide
Jen Price offers some tips and tricks for taking a break from your studies, and recuperating in the world of art
Feature
Looking for an essay distraction? Forget King’s Parade, and get lost in one of Cambridge’s many passageways, argues Niall Quinn
Review
The American artist is given the curatorial keys to the Fitz, which he uses to go to places never visited by the gallery before
Comment
Amie Brian explores why we are obsessed with ruins, and why it is essential that we are
The Agonies
Joe Short pens a letter to his friend Eve, musing on his unemployed stupor and reconnection with ginger snap biscuits
Opinion
India Hansra reflects on her childhood favourites, the most important books she’ll ever read
Elsie Hayward on growing up surrounded by canvases and normalising artists
Loveday Cookson reflects on her second-year room and how it has offered her what most other college accomodation doesn’t – community
