Art in Our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art

Rob Storr: In so far as modernism is anything at all, it's debate about its own definition. And it is a debate which is carried on by works of art to a certain extent by what artists said about their works of art and to a certain extent about what art historians and curators say about it. Many people ask well is modernism over? The answer to that at least as far as I'm concerned is 'no' so long as that debate continues in a lively fashion. And I think what this exhibition ought to do at the sort of the center, if you will, of the New York art world and a large part of the larger art world as well, is to take a collection, one of the richest if not the richest over-all collections and shuffle the deck in such a way that one feels again some of the pressure of those ideas, one against the other; how one generation's collection for the museum does something very different than the next generation's.