Arts & Culture
Discover the best news and stories about art, music, theatre, film, entertainment, and cultural events in Oxford and across Oxfordshire.
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In Pictures: The Oxford Christmas Market 2019
With the sound of choirs singing Christmas carols, the sight of market traders offering unusual and handmade gifts and the aroma of mulled wine and cinnamon drifting in the air – reminisce about the Oxford Christmas Market 2019.
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Didcot Railway Centre selected for contemporary art programme
Didcot Railway Centre is one of six museums and heritage sites selected by Arts&Heritage to work in partnership with artists to commission a new work of art inspired by each venue.
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Blenheim Palace has received £1.8m Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage grant
Blenheim Palace has received a £1.8m grant from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage as part of a nationwide rescue scheme to safeguard some of the UK’s most important cultural sites.
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Bicester Heritage to host a new Retro style CarFest in 2021
It’s official, Bicester Heritage to host a new Retro style CarFest in 2021, and tickets go on sale on 05 November 2020.
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Exclusive performance by percussionist Joby Burgess premiers as part of #OFAvirtual
His performance of Fanta® is taken from his suite for global junk ‘Import/Export’ in which urban composer Gabriel Prokofiev combines African soda bottles and live looping.
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Femke Dekkers’ Open Space – An exhibition at Zuleika Gallery in Woodstock
Femke Dekkers’ work is a fascinating exploration of the disparate ways we see things; of how the eye, brain and camera all interpret space differently.
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Oxford is full of incredible women, and each has their own intriguing story
The 100 Women of Oxford Exhibition at The North Wall Arts Centre features portraits of incredible women who live in this city along with their incredibly intriguing stories.
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Witney Christmas Lights Switch-on Event 2020 cancelled
The Witney Christmas Lights Switch-on Event 2020 has been cancelled. Although there will be no big Switch-on Event, there will still be Christmas lights in Market Square.
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Blenheim Palace receives grant for Grand Bridge preservation work
Blenheim Palace has received a grant worth more than half a million pounds for preservation work from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
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Autumn reading list: The Booker Prize 2020 shortlist
Booker Prize 2020 Shortlist has been announced and it’s a history-making group of writers for the prize. Now there’s your autumn reading list sorted.
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Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace with British heritage and aristocracy as a subject
The Cecily Brown Exhibition at Blenheim Palace offers charged reinterpretations of the Spencer-Churchill family’s collection of artworks.
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North Wall reopening: An exhibition of painting and textiles
North Wall reopens with exhibition of new painting and textiles Contemplation: Snow Into Water – a celebration of nature and its calming effect on the mind.
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Pitt Rivers Museum reopening will reveal critical changes to displays
Pitt Rivers Museum reopening on 22 September will reveal critical changes to displays as part of a decolonisation process.
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Pitt Rivers Museum and Museum of Natural History to reopen on 22 September
The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Natural History have announced that they will both reopen to the public on Tuesday 22 September.
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Blenheim Art Foundation exhibition by acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown
The Blenheim Art Foundation will unveil a major solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace this September.
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British Eventing cease organisation of Blenheim Palace Horse Trials
The British Eventing Board has announced that it will no longer be organising the Blenheim Palace Horse Trials going forward.