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...important question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate its own apolitical pathology of weirdness, like a wax museum, or is weirdness always a subversive comment on a world that is itself, a priori, weird? The Wilson twins, Jane and Louise, balk neither at the weirdness of the world nor the weirdness of the work of art. They give us something fearless and fresh, something that dumbfounds, something that makes me say in a moment without footnote, "I think I really like this, and I don't yet know...
...gold star, then, to Jane and Louise Wilson, to those who dumbfound. Not just to those who make old ladies faint and the complacent squirm, but to those who remind us that making sense of art is not always enough, that sometimes you just have to love it first. Two of the Wilsons' video installations, "Crawl Space" and "Stasi City," are showing at the MIT's List Visual Arts Center through April 9, in a rare U.S. appearance and a lucky one for Boston. To find more of the Wilsons' work now showing in this country you have to travel...
...Stasi City" and "Crawl Space," two video installations by Jane and Louise Wilson, will be at the MIT List Center for Visual Arts through April 9. Hours are daily 12 to 6 p.m., Fri., 12 to 8 p.m. Closed Mon. The List is inside the Wiesner Building, 20 Ames St., near the Kendall Square T stop. Admission is free...
...JANE AND LOUISE WILSON give a talk in MIT Lecture Room 10-250 on Thu., March 2, at 8 p.m. Enter by the MIT main entrance at 77 Mass. Ave. near Memorial Drive and signs will direct you to the lecture room...
DIED. ROGER VADIM, 72, French filmmaker whose 1956 directorial debut, And God Created Woman, launched wife Brigitte Bardot in films; of cancer; in Paris. In more than two dozen movies, Vadim won a reputation for making stars out of the stunning women he married, including Jane Fonda. Vadim, who once lived with Catherine Deneuve between marriages, explained his need for feminine beauty in his life and work as "my style, my nature...