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Senior conservator Lesley Stevenson shows the 1885 Head of a Peasant Woman alongside an X-ray image of the hidden Van Gogh self-portrait. Photograph: Neil Hanna/AP

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Van Gogh has been spotted in Scotland. No, this isn’t a Loch Ness-like apparition but the manifestation of the likeness of someone with equally mythic status. A self-portrait by the man himself has been found on the back of a small painting called Head of a Peasant Woman. Discovered by an X-ray during a routine conservation and cataloguing process, the portrait, estimated to date from after his move to Paris in 1886, is invisible, having been sealed inside its frame for years.

This self-portrait is hardly some kind of lost masterpiece whose incomplete and inaccessible status will forever be a tantalising mystery of flouted potential.…  Seguir leyendo »

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This week marks the beginning of a period of double ecstasy for Harry Potter junkies, myself included. I have spent years trawling the internet to peruse other fans' tributes and theories, and now it's time for the fifth film and seventh book - to be followed by a few weeks' stunned absorption of whatever revelations JK Rowling unleashes as, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, she finishes off the story that became a phenomenon that became a mythology.

That said, I'm expecting the film - the Order of the Phoenix, which opens here tomorrow - to be a letdown. A mainstream cine-juggernaut calculated to succeed all over the world could never do justice to the combined complexity of Rowling's vision and my own fantasies.…  Seguir leyendo »