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Cy Twombly's "Untitled 1967" beckons through the glass-doored entrance. Young Dan Christensen hangs cheek by jowl with Roy Lichtenstein and the other big boys. Neil Jenny, undeterred by the Rauschenbergs, marches triumphantly across a back wall, his boldly expressionist canvases carrying across two galleries. Gary Stephan and Peter Young are carefully segregated on Jenny's flanks so that their work cannot be seen at a distance except through pivotal vistas of beautifully "neutral" Judds and Twomblys. 

Chronological order of hanging has gone out the window in favor of relative impact abutting "edges" and centers of wallspace. What hangs directly adjacent to another artist's "show," and what will constitute a center of interest within a given core of work are important considerations in Whitney's scheme of flow and isolation. As examples, strong artists like Jenny have their weakest painting at the ends, while the strongest paintings of the weakest artists, Gary Stephan and Peter Young, are next to them.

And there were a few other problems to be taken care of at the Art Center. "Just logistics," said Whitney like the Judd boxes having to be assembled (this is usual since they are shipped flat); the "anchor rope" and demijohn missing from Rauschenberg's "Sor Acqua" ("fortunately, Captiva isn't far and there seems to be no dearth of old rope and dirty gallon jugs there"); and not least, metal walls in the former pineapple-storage rooms of Arvida Nurseries, now the main exhibition gallery of the Miami Art Center. The walls "reject nails," Whitney said.

Then it was up to "Eight Artists."

The three-by-five foot Judd boxes, all "Untitled" 1973 and created especially for the exhibition, are a shock. Their raw plywood veneer is a departure from the usual elegance of the artist's colored plexiglass and polished metal surfaces, and sets up a tension with the purity of his geometric space that is totally unexpected.

While Judd's emphasis on interiors echoing the

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