Radical Vision

In this Brick Playhouse comedy, three friends get mixed up in a messy love triangle. Hopeful gal Gert is in love with longtime friend Dan, who is also sometimes her fickle, noncommittal boyfriend. Steve, Dan's roommate, is in love with both Gert and Dan. And Dan is split down the middle; half of him is sweet and loving, the other half of him is sordid and sour. Wackiness ensues. Will Dan choose love with Gert? With Steve? Or will he go back to his comfortable, unattached lifestyle?

At first, Nami Yamamoto's installation pieces resemble the kind of molecular forms chemists ogle under powerful microscopes. Not every cutout (made of vinyl, plastic and foam) takes a definitive shape; some give the illusion of blending together. Yamamoto's figures range from the primitive to the highly evolved, mirroring the dynamic complexity of nature and the proclivity for humans to try and modify it.

Classic-cool Kerouac portraits by Allen Ginsberg and provocative works of photojournalism by Gary Winogrand make up some of these American photos of the postwar years. Diane Arbus' portraits of transvestites and eccentrics seem mild today, but provided brave social commentary during a more rigid period. At the time, the photographers experimented with novel techniques, from intense close-ups to off-the-wall subjects.