The Arts

From musings on cultural phenomena to think-pieces on art and literature, the arts section aims to cover a range of topics from across the humanities

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Print Culture: How Has It Shaped the World?

On the 29th of November 1641, England’s first newspaper was published. Emma Yeo explores the fascinating history of the printing press and its long-lasting impact upon print culture until the modern day.

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Podcast Review: The Museum of Lost Objects 

Keeping history alive and giving us hope that the damage caused by twenty-first century violence won’t be the last chapter, Sofia Lambis gives a sanguine and comprehensive review of the BBC’s Podcast: The Museum of Load Objects.

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How the Music of Gustav Holst has Transcended Time and Space

“Space, it’s huge. So huge in fact, that if you lost your car keys in it, they would be almost impossible to find”. – Captain Quark, Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time (2009). Who was Gustav Holst, what did he write, and how has it been immortalised?


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Review: La Galleria Nazionale

Sophie Chin discusses the intersection of death aesthetics and female eroticism, primordial nature and the human body, and the various portrayals of adorned female muses in another article for our Online Museum Roundtable series.

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Review: The Acropolis Museum

Sofia Lambis compares in-person and online trips to The Acropolis Museum in Athens for our second feature in our Online Museum Roundtable.

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Plundered Pasts: The Benin Bronzes

Milan Perera examines the intricate relationship between colonialism and the British Museum through the medium of the Benin Bronzes

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