• 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
How to give back looted objects
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections