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Last weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, celebrated the opening of its new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which would seem to represent a major commitment to collecting and exhibiting the art of our time. It should be noted, however, that the new wing is not actually new. It is the old, I. M. Pei-designed wing from 1981, formerly used for rotating exhibitions, now refurbished, repurposed and renamed. And while a lot more contemporary art is now on view, you don't get the feeling that the old, small-city provincialism has been replaced by a new, fiercely ambitious cosmopolitanism. The main attraction is a 12,000-square-foot, oblong gallery, a big-box space occupied by a sprawling, uneven, crowded hodge-podge of about 240 works from the museum's permanent collection, augmented by some blue-chip loans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]