KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officials at a Missouri museum said they looked at a 128-year-old van Gogh painting and made an unusual discovery — a grasshopper embedded in the paint.The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City said Paintings Conservator Mary Schafer was using magnification to examine Olive Trees, an 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh, when she discovered the remains of the grasshopper, which was missing its thorax and abdomen.
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