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...Gogh's Irises, 1889, known to the trade as the Curse of the Outback, has found its permanent home in the Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., which bought it for an undisclosed sum last week. Acquired at auction in November 1987 for $53.9 million by the Australian conglomerator and promoter Alan Bond, Irises was the most expensive work of art ever sold. Its price created an artificial euphoria that bulled the world art market and helped save it from the October ( '87 Wall Street crash. The name of the underbidder was never revealed, raising suggestions -- indignantly denied by the auctioneers...
Throughout the week, cars loaded with baggage, children and guns clogged the roads around Paradise Valley, just north of Yellowstone National Park, where the church has amassed 33,000 acres since relocating its headquarters four years ago from Malibu, Calif. Responding to the warnings of CUT leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet, at least 2,000 of the faithful have arrived from Europe, South America and across the U.S. With stores in nearby Livingston reporting a run on dried food, aspirin and flashlights, hundreds of trucks were hauling supplies to 46 steel-and-concrete shelters dug deep into the mountain soil...
...museums, however, have continued to make remarkable purchases. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, under the direction of Edmund Pillsbury, is a leader here (as New Yorkers can currently see from a loan show of its holdings at the Frick Collection). At least one museum, the Getty in Malibu, Calif., with its $3.5 billion endowment and almost limitless spending power, seems unaffected by the rise in price. In May it was able to buy Pontormo's Portrait of a Halberdier at Christie's for $35 million and last week Manet's acridly ironic view of a flag-bedecked Paris...
...Back in Malibu it seemed like just another chanting, channeling new-age religion. But under the big skies of Montana, where Elizabeth Clare Prophet moved her Church Universal and Triumphant in 1986, the newcomers struck the locals as ominous. Starting out on a 12,000-acre ranch purchased five years earlier from publisher Malcolm Forbes for $7.7 million, the church rapidly expanded its holdings to 33,500 acres, attracted some 1,000 followers to the region, and launched extensive construction projects. Neighbors feared that the mushrooming community might damage the delicate ecological balance of Yellowstone National Park, which the ranch...
When it comes to riding the waves, surfboards may forever be the favorite vehicle in Malibu, but Arizonans prefer inner tubes. The car or truck tubes rent for $6.25 a day at the Salt River recreation area outside Phoenix. Somewhat more economically, up at the Heady-Ashburn cattle ranch in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, Sonny and Nancy McCuistion and their two hired hands head for the cow troughs. "The cows are a little surprised at first, but they're gentle," says Nancy. "Of course when you get out, it feels funny riding back in wet Levi...