The Critical Canvas

After the abdication

Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations

Murders for July

Your summer holiday reading is sorted here

The ends of Pan-Africanism

An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions

The art of statesmanship

An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting

Spectres of folk

Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?

The fire in him

Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court

Storycraft is soulcraft

A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment

Manic and messianic

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company

Seeing colour

Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre