• 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 happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?
An Austrian museum is hosting a show by an unnamed artist – but perhaps this act of secrecy will help us see the work more clearly