Arts

This weekend is the last chance to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. Almost 35,000 people have visited the exhibition so far, and it has been the most popular special exhibition for school groups in the history of the Museum.

People involved in arts and sciences around Oxford are joining forces to hold a festival on the theme of breath and breathing next Saturday (1 November). The one-day Breath Festival comprises events, talks, performances and exhibitions in venues across Oxford.

This year's Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Australian novelist Richard Flanagan, a former history undergraduate at Oxford.

But as far as one of his near-contemporaries at Oxford recalls, Mr Flanagan was not writing a novel while he studied here.

For one weekend only, visitors will be encouraged to draw on the windows and tables of the Mathematical Institute building.

This is one of the highlights of the free drop-in workshops aimed at families which will be held on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ) site from noon until 4pm on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 October.

In the last week the boss of John Lewis apologised for commenting at a dinner that in France, 'nothing works and worse, nobody cares about it'. The French embassy in London was quick to dispute Andy Street's remarks.

It is not every day a picture of British actress Gemma Arterton appears on Oxford University’s Arts Blog. But today she is here with good reason – she is the star of a new film based on Gustave Flaubert’s iconic novel Madame Bovary.

A project is holding a series of events to bring Roman food to the community.

The Food For Thought project, funded by the Communicating Ancient Greece and Rome (CAGR) in Oxford University’s Faculty of Classics which receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, explores the relationship between food, memory and identity.

Every summer student singers, actors and comedians travel to Edinburgh to cut their teeth at the Fringe Festival. This year established comedy groups Oxford Revue and Oxford Imps performed, as well as newer comedy shows such as ‘Big Brass’ and ‘No Strings’. But the largest group of Oxford students at the Fringe were there to sing a capella.

160 years after Oscar Wilde's birth, an Oxford University student hopes to introduce visitors to a city that had a profound impact on Wilde's development as a writer and thinker: Oxford itself.

Oxford academics will discuss major ethical issues in a series of free podcasts released over the next two months.