Samson Kambalu: New Liberia; Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours – review

Modern Art Oxford; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Kambalu, a Malawian fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, tears a strip off Britain’s colonial legacy. And precision is all for the pre-RaphaelitesA black man in a hat walks out of an arched doorway in an Oxford college. His movements are strange, stilted as a figure in some early silent movie. But at least he is walking forwards, or so it seems. Tourists part around him, staring, awkward, but they are all walking backwards in the quadrangle &ndash