• Holidaying with the Habsburgs
• An interview with Julie Mehretu
• The crisis in Italian museums
• Howard Hodgkin’s Indian miniatures
Plus: Why Valentine’s Day is no feast for food lovers, a multiplex of museums in Parma, the architecture of almshouses – and reviews of Impressionists on paper, experimental art in the Eastern bloc, and Africa and Byzantium at the Met
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating