[contextly_auto_sidebar] A hapless grasshopper found itself in the news not too long ago because it was trapped, a permanent visitor to a one-painting museum called Olive Trees. You may have wondered, as I did, why notice of this common, elegant insect surfaced. But Vincent van Gogh, a painter many people know, drags any report concerning him, no matter how paltry, into the light. "What could this be"? Paintings conservator Mary Schafer may have said this aloud to herself -- it's a lonely job -- when she saw that a crust of French … [Read more...]