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Joyce Carol Oates, an astute critic as well as an accomplished and prolific novelist, surely knew the trouble she was making for herself in Blonde (HarperCollins; 738 pages; $27.50), a novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. The screen actress was already a legend at the time of her death (at age 36 in 1962), and the subsequent flood of biographies, reminiscences and analytical studies has rendered her ubiquitous in the public imagination. What can a novelist, even one working at the top of her form, add to an icon...
...Lemieux: The disadvantage in working now with mixed media would have to be how receptive people are in this country. Europe has a strong history of conceptual art. Here, people often want you to be one thing and not ten other things. Acceptance is an issue, meaning how the critic or viewer affects the critical reception. It's also difficult on pragmatic levels: in my studio, working with the materials, I have to start from level zero...
...more interesting approach can be found in some of theater's most famous theoretical literature. French playwright and critic Antonin Artaud argues in his seminal work The Theater and its Double that the theater has too long been dominated by text, the director has too long been slave to the author. Theater is not literature, he argues, and it should not pay undue homage to the authority of written words. Theater is a unique set of experiences based fundamentally in space rather than letters. As such it has a visual language all its own, a language which cannot be notated...
...depressing, stagnant and--above all--boring. I say this because I'm spoiled, and because I have a short post-modern attention span, but most of all because I am used (on many levels) to mobility. Airplanes can't be credited for inventing the metaphor or the disengaged social critic, but there's a strong connection between our intellectual movement in the world and our physical experience of travel...
...presumably no red, white and blue bunting in the grandstands. The move has provoked angry reactions from many fans who believe that Major League Baseball, especially Opening Day, should stay in America. Among players, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, the home run king, has been the most vocal critic of the series in Japan: "People come to America, they come here to watch our game. I think it's the bottom line," he said. "They [Major League Baseball] want to copy what the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. are doing. What's different? The N.F.L. and the N.B.A...