The Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition, Cézanne and the Modern, opens on Thursday and will feature 50 masterpieces of late-19th to mid-20th-century European art from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection.
Margi Blunden, daughter of the First World War poet Edmund Blunden, will be remembering her father and his work at the WW1 Poetry Spring School run by Oxford University's English Faculty on 3-5 April 2014.
To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, the Oxford English Dictionary is seeking earlier or additional evidence for a host of WWI-related vocabulary, including 'shell shock', 'demob', 'skive' and 'Sam Browne'. In a guest blog post, Kate Wild, senior assistant editor of the OED, explains further...
Love is in the air for many of us today – but it's always a time for romance at the Ashmolean Museum, which has been featuring a number of Valentine's Day-themed works of art from its collections on its Twitter feed throughout the day.
With the Golden Globes handed out and the Oscars looming, much of the media's attention is focused on the top films of the past 12 months.
Chief among them is Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, which has already scooped the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture amid a slew of other nominations and is the hot favourite to triumph at the Academy Awards in March.
Leading figures from the arts, science and public policy came together in Oxford last night to discuss the value of the humanities in the 21st century.
Around 450 people packed into the University's Examination Schools to hear the views of, among others, Guardian chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins and Oxford mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy.
Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is among this term's Humanitas Visiting Professors at Oxford University.
Dr Williams will be giving two lectures in his capacity as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Interfaith Studies, as well as taking part in an 'in-conversation' event with Jon Snow.
