Stuart Macbeth

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Stuart Macbeth: Rock ‘n’ roll days are over for the half-term fathers

RICHARD, you’re a wild man. Has it really been 16 years since I last saw you? It would have been at one of those end of the century parties. I can see you now, staggering in through the hot July night, clutching a £1.99 bottle of plonk. High velocity guitar music and strobe lighting will have announced your entrance through the patio doors, illuminating yet another East Oxford kitchen.

Enjoy Oxford's art and soul with these top shows in 2016

With Oxford’s home of modern art celebrating its half-century, and other venues hosting some fascinating, and important, exhibitions, there has never been a better year to get out and explore the county’s galleries and museums. In the second of our looks ahead at the city’s big year of art, Stuart Macbeth picks his choice of 2016’s best shows within paintbrush-striking distance of Oxford