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Another major mystery is the fact that the faint glow of microwaves left over from the Big Bang is almost completely uniform. The presence of large bubbles in the universe suggests that this microwave radiation should be much more uneven. More clues may come from the new Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, which is designed to measure radiation intensities as it orbits the earth in the coming year...
...meantime, the CfA study will go on, and other mapping efforts are in the works. "Big as it is," Geller explains, "our survey area compared with the visible universe is like Rhode Island compared with the surface of the earth." The bubbles and walls could be isolated phenomena. But, notes Geller: "Every survey ever done has contained structures as big as the survey could contain." If that trend continues, then there are larger objects yet to be found, which will give theorists even worse headaches. "These surveys test in the most acute way our conceptions of how structure developed...
...could be that no more new dealers of the traditional sort will actually come to power, so that the tradition that stretched from Ambroise Vollard to Leo Castelli and Paula Cooper will be lost. Big dealers will have their tame resident critics, as princes their poetasters. There will no longer be much distinction between collectors and dealers, and the collector-as-amateur will be extinct. On the boards of many museums, a new breed of broker, the collector-dealer-trus tee, will hold sway. And art will keep draining out of America toward Japan and Europe. Welcome to the future...
Kirk Varnedoe, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, confesses that he (like most of his colleagues) is haunted by the image of the big collector looking at his Van Gogh over the fireplace, the picture that, like thousands of others in America, was promised to a museum -- as Irises had been. "At one time," muses Varnedoe, "he might have looked at it and said, 'Well, there's the Porsche I didn't buy.' Now he says to himself, 'That's my children's education for three generations, a villa in Monte Carlo, a duplex on Fifth Avenue...
Will the blue flowers find their white knight? Big money loves a fresh picture, but Irises at this point in its market career is looking a trifle wilted...