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''In 1981 I was traveling a lot because of the Cornell exhibition,'' he said. He said he began working on the international survey in 1981 and tried to look at ''everything, everywhere,'' not magazine reproductions but ''actual work.'' McShine has been with the museum since 1968, and is known for his 1976 show ''Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950'' and the 1980 traveling Joseph Cornell retrospective. ''They will have to think about their work.'' ''I think that some people can benefit from not being in the show,'' Mr.

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The full list has not yet been made public, but it is not known which artists have been left out. The sculptors include Magadalena Abakanowicz, Siah Armajani, Scott Burton, Barry Flanagan, Tom Otterness, Joel Shapiro, Christopher Wilmarth and Gilberto Zorio. Penck, David Salle and Julian Schnabel the pattern painters Robert Kushner and Kim MacConnel the modern-day Intimist Howard Hodgkin the New Image painters Robert Moskowitz and Susan Rothenberg and the humorist Mark Tansey. The exhibiton will include the Chicago-based painters Nicholas Africano and Roger Brown the abstract painters Gregory Amenoff, Katherine Porter and Claude Viallat the Neo-Expressionists Georg Baselitz, Eric Fischl, J'org Immendorff, Malcolm Morley, A. That means there will not be work by such artists as Frank Stella and Cy Twombly, both of whom are well represented in the museum's permanent collection, or Leon Golub, an artist first shown at the Modern in 1959, whose reputation has been re-established since 1975. McShine, a prerequisite for selection in the survey was that an artist's reputation had to have been established after 1975.

It is also a part much more easily seen in other New York museums and in hundreds of galleries.''Īccording to Mr. The outer edge of contemporary is only a small part of a much larger picture. That means we have an obligation to a whole 100 years of art. Rubin added, however: ''This is a museum of modern art, not contemporary art. One reason why we wanted to open with a major show of very contemporary art was to signal the fact that we intend to have a very serious program in that area.'' William Rubin, director of painting and sculpture at the museum, said: ''It is true that over the last six years or so, partly as a result of the building program, partly as a result of the crunch of the Picasso show, which had to push other things aside, and partly because we had so little exhibition space to do the contemporary side of things, contemporary art was slighted. One of the great things about the institution is seeing young artists within the context of the museum.'' ''It is a sign that contemporary art is being taken as seriously as it should be, a sign that the museum will restore the balance between contemporary art and art history that is part of what makes the place unique. ''The show is a sign of hope,'' said Kynaston McShine, the senior curator of painting and sculpture who selected the work that will be shown in the exhibition.