6 JULY 1996, page 39

Arts

`We have the best opera in the world' As Rupert Christiansen bows out, he looks back over his six years as opera critic S ix years in any job is long enough, so this week I am......

Portrait Of An Artist

Martin Bailey believes a picture languishing in a museum vault is Van Gogh's portrait of Gauguin I n the vaults of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is a portrait of a man with a......