SHOCKING: Ashmolean museum - What They Never Told You

From Jenny Saville’s gobsmacking show to a pomo celebration of Richard Rogers – the week in art

Saville paints beauty and terror, Watteau returns, a £2.5m Rubens gets an unfair drubbing and erotic art reveals itself

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2025

Art of Thom Yorke and Radiohead album covers to be exhibited for first time

The exhibition will include paintings, drawings and digital art from the 1980s onwards.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India

Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been looted

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

Indulge in the food of Ancient Greece at a new London dining experience

The Labyrinth menu at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park offers food inspired by the delicacies of Ancient Greece

Wallpaper · Mar 23, 2023

Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean review – art of extraordinary intimacy

More than 200 treasures from ancient Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia reach directly to us through the wave-swept ages

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2023

Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review

There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

Oxford and Cambridge universities could return 213 looted artefacts from Benin

The 213 objects were taken from Benin City by British troops in February 1897.

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

Penny savings: taking the measure of money at the Ashmolean museum

The Oxford museum’s Heberden coin room holds antique cash objects from around the world. As we test our faith in digital cryptocurrencies, what can we learn from its collection?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2022

Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light

The impressionist painter lacks the glitzy kudos of peers such as Monet and Degas but is celebrated in this study, tied to an exhibition of his work

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022