• Women collectors of the belle époque
• An interview with Nalini Malani
• At Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara
• Fine art, fast food and the Fourth Plinth
Plus: a paean to the public-information poster, the plight of museum employees – and an apologia for Coventry
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