Only a year or so ago, almost every major showing of current U.S. painting concentrated on the abstract expressionists. Either there were more of them, or they painted better, or the museum directors favored them. But now museum directors are branching out. This week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opens a new show of artists in their 205 and early 303 that gives a goodand broadersampling of what the new generation is up to. As in any group showespecially of young paintersthe exhibit is uneven; what is most refreshing about it is...
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