Every year the Turner Prize rolls around, and with slight embarrassment I admit that I’m interested to see who has been named the chosen one, who gets to clamber up onto their high horse and dictate what art is today. According to this year’s winner Martin Boyce, we should be seeing beauty in objects that [...]

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It has become a cliché to say that Damien Hirst’s work inspires controversy. Since his rise to prominence with the other Young British Artists in the early ‘90s, this artist has repeatedly subjected his audience to large, brash works of art which tend to dramatically split public opinion. Now Hirst, who was born in Bristol, has brought [...]

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This week sees the release of Carnage, the latest project of controversial director Roman Polanski – his most recent in a career that spans a fifty- year period of creativity. His films engage with themes of isolation,theoccult,perversion, and morality; his influence has been acknowledged by everyone from the Coen Brothers to Park-Chan Wook. Oscar-winning Polanski [...]

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A platform for the beige mac-clad weirdos and the cat-obsessed loons – our ever controversial columnist Rachel Schraer guides us through the freaky world of the blogosphere. I was initially biased against the whole notion of blogging. To me, the Blogger seemed to be the cyber generation’s equivalent of the Beige Flasher Mac, yelling his [...]

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On 26th February, millions will flock to TV sets around the world to witness the biggest event of the cinematic calendar: Brangelina rubbing shoulders with Meryl Streep, and Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith discussing LA property prices with their children. Stretch this out over four and a half hours and you have what many call one [...]

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The age of the megapixel is well and truly upon us. Aperture, grain, emulsion: ask your average student about any of these wonders of film photography and you’ll be met with a blank stare, a dribble. For most people, their ventures into photography begin and end with the silver circle on the back of their [...]

February 7th, 2012 Read more

Whether it’s Sartre or Sweet Valley High, over the years we imagine you’ve racked up quite a bit of culture. So, in the style of Desert Island Discs, Epigram has asked two students to reveal the books, films, and albums that have shaped them. Holly Close, third year English student Book: How To Be A [...]

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