• 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
Fifty years on, this biopic of Edvard Munch deserves a new lease of life
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate