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Charles Giuliano

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Publisher & Editor. Charles was the director of exhibitions for the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught art history and the humanities. He taugh tModern Art and the Avant-garde for Metropolitan College of Boston University. After many years as a contributor, columnist and editor for a range of print publications from Art New England, Art News, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald Traveler and Patriot Ledger, to mention a few, he went on line with Maverick Arts which evolved into a website.

Recent Articles:

  • Gloucester Modernist Umberto Romano Front Page

    At Annex of Cape Ann Museum

    By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 04th, 2024

    The modernist Umberto Romano (1906-1982) is the subject of a retrospective, curated by Martha Oaks, at the annex of the Cape Ann museum through December 29, 2024. The main museum is closed for renovation. The exhibition is free to the public in the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, which was completed in 2020. It includes 2,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and community programming space. 

  • Return to Five Immortals Temple Front Page

    Special Delivery and Renewal

    By: Cheng Tong - Dec 04th, 2024

    There is the excitement of the going, the anticipation of arrival, and a purpose to be fulfilled.  There is excitement in the coming back, the thought of sleeping in your own bed, of waking up in familiar surroundings.  Nonetheless, more than 40 hours of travel, flights, train rides, bus rides, and climbs, are daunting at any age.  In my case, that is a few weeks shy of age 75.

  • Adams Plein Air Painter Alvin Ouellet Front Page

    Ellipticals on View at Images Cinema in Williamstown

    By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 03rd, 2024

    The Adams based plein art artist Alvin Oueliet is presenting Ellipticals, a suite of new paintings, at Images Cinema in Williamstown. There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, December 11.

  • Remembering Alice Brock at 83 Front Page

    High Times in the Berkshires

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 22nd, 2024

    A long time Provincetown resident, artist and chef, Alice Brock, has died just days before Thanksgiving. In 2014 we reminisced about the fame game. She returned to the Berkshires to host a dinner at Dream Away Lodge. She described her cuisine as "heavy handed" which may well be a metaphor for her remarkable life.

  • New Doris Duke Theatre Front Page

    To Open This Summer at Jacob's Pillow

    By: Pillow - Nov 20th, 2024

    Designed by the leading Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre occupies the site of the former studio theater from 1990, destroyed by fire in November 2020.  The new theater aims to become one of the world’s most technologically advanced dance venues, providing a makerspace for artists seeking to integrate artificial intelligence, extended reality, robotics, and immersive platforms into live performance.

  • Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver Front Page

    January Opening at Rose Art Museum

    By: Rose - Nov 18th, 2024

    A pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington’s work crosses boundaries and mediums, embodying a boundless curiosity and unorthodox spirit that transcends the conventional. Born into a staid upper-middle-class Anglo-Irish family, Carrington would spend her life freeing herself from the gendered strictures imposed upon her.

  • Provincetown Artist and Chef Sal Del Deo Front Page

    Co-founded Ciro and Sal's

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 15th, 2024

    We viewed the stunning 2017 retrospective “Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. In 2023, then 95, he was the subject of national news when there was an attempt to evict the renowned artist and chef from his historic summer Provincetown dune shack.

  • Honoring Political Theater Front Page

    Elysium- between two continents’ Erwin Piscator Awards

    By: Jessica Robinson - Nov 12th, 2024

    Founded in 1983 by Gregorij von Leitis, Elysium—between two continents is an organization dedicated to combating hate, racism, and anti-Semitism through the transformative power of art.

  • Theatre in the Berkshires Front Page

    Annual Berkies Winners

    By: Berkies - Nov 12th, 2024

    Once again, Pittsfield-based Barrington Stage Company (BSC) was the big winner of the evening with their productions of Next to Normal, La Cage Aux Folles, Primary Trust, and Boeing, Boeing taking home many top prizes. The Mac-Haydn Theatre, in Chatham, NY, tied with BSC artists in the categories of Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Direction of a Musical, and with artists from the Berkshire Theatre Festival for Outstanding Sound Design.

  • Thornton Wilder's Our Town Front Page

    Revival on Broadway

    By: Karen Isaacs - Nov 10th, 2024

    Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town, which many consider it one of the great American plays – is getting a very good revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.

  • Same As It Ever Was Front Page

    By: Cheng Tong - Nov 10th, 2024

    n the morning after the election, I woke up to an America that is the “same as it ever was,” to borrow lyrics from The Talking Heads.  I just didn’t realize what that “same” was. America had spoken, revealing its true self at this moment to me, and I am deeply saddened by what I heard.

  • Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony Front Page

    At Matthew Swift Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 08th, 2024

    The Matthew Swift Gallery recently paired two of the leading contemporary Gloucester artists. There is compelling synergy though the artists are quite different. Gabrielle Barzaghi reflects on her family heritage with inventive mythology. The range of Susan Erony embraces the cosmos in minute detail. They breathe the salt air that has inspired generations of leading Cape Ann painters. They thrive in a community that has long been indifferent to the experiments of modernism.

  • My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford Front Page

    The Autobiography of Indra Tamang

    By: Jessica Robinson - Oct 31st, 2024

    My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford is much more than a history of famous writers,  artists and glamorous parties. At its heart, it is about Tamang’s own evolving role from a simple soul without a formal education and no knowledge of  English, into a trusted member of the Ford family’s inner circle.

  • Falcon Girls Front Page

    Premiere at Yale Rep

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 30th, 2024

    The play opens with the five-member team (one is an alternate), already a tight-knit bunch who have known each other forever. A new girl, Hilary, arrives and wants to be part of the team. The coach, Mr. K, decides she can be the second alternate; it is unlikely that she would ever be asked to substitute.

  • Jersey Boys Front Page

    ACT-CT in Ridgefield,

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 29th, 2024

    The book – the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice is one of the things that sets it above many jukebox shows. Each of the original members of the group narrates a part of the story. This allows for different perspectives on the group’s history and personalities.

  • Spectacular Gift to Clark Art Institute Front Page

    311 Works of Art and Endoment for New Wing and Curator

    By: Clark - Oct 28th, 2024

    The 331 works of art in the gift include 132 paintings, 130 sculptures, thirty-nine drawings, and thirty decorative arts objects, creating an important addition to the Clark’s holdings. The entirety of the Tavitian gift will be on view when the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing opens. Following an introductory presentation at the time of the new wing’s opening, the works on paper included in the gift will be made available for study purposes and be presented in periodic displays. The majority of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects will be shown on a continual basis, both in the new Tavitian Wing and in the Clark’s permanent collection galleries.

  • No Love Songs Front Page

    Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre in Chester

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 19th, 2024

    During the 80 minutes or so, we hear 11 songs. Most are duets between the two characters – Jessie and Lana. Jessie and Lana are fictionalized versions of Falconer and Wilde and their story. From the first meeting, when Lana goes to a bar and meets the older Jessie through a courtship of sorts, the birth of their son, and Jessie’s departure on a US tour with a band, where they are the backup/opening act.

  • Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones Front Page

    Now ar Ivoryton Playhouse

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 15th, 2024

    The first act seemed to drag – this was the result of the overly slow development of the story by the playwright Kenneth Jones and the pacing by director Todd L. Underwood. The pacing needed to be picked up

  • Diddy Front Page

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 14th, 2024

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  • Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain Front Page

    Yin and Yang at Eclipse Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 06th, 2024

    Upon initial exposure the work of Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain could not be more different,. With further contemplation, however, there are many commonalities. They share an experimental and adventurous approach to materials, in her case collaged paintings, and in his assembled sculptures from found objects. Both artists evoke narrative in their work. Her's are inspired by dreams and night mares while his entail the darkest of humor.

  • Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde Front Page

    NYU's Grey Art Museum

    By: Jessica Robinson - Oct 06th, 2024

    In her candid memoir, Pow! Right in the Eye!—recently translated into English—Weill described herself as having a "difficult personality." She wasn’t wrong. Her sharp tongue and uncompromising attitude were well known. Picasso biographer John Richardson even described her as a "peppery, homely Jewish spinster with spectacles thick as goldfish bowls." Yet it was her fiery personality and unrivaled intuition for spotting talent that made her a key figure.

  • Benny Andrews: Trouble Front Page

    Ruth Arts Foundation in Wilwaukee

    By: Ruth - Oct 04th, 2024

    Created in close dialogue with the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation, Trouble combines Benny Andrews’ (1930–2006) extensive archive with a selection of his paintings and works on paper to reflect the fullness of the artist’s practice, life, and advocacy, and the ways they are intertwined.

  • Power of the People: Art and Democracy Front Page

    Agit Prop at the MFA

    By: MFA - Oct 02nd, 2024

    Organized against the backdrop of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents diverse perspectives on democracy through 175 works of art that include ceramics, coins, inscriptions, paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, posters, and fashion

  • The Weir By Conor McPherson Front Page

    It Was a Stormy Night in the Pub

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 29th, 2024

    Regarded as the most popular of McPherson's, plays a generation on The Weir is being given an intimate, lively production, directed by Eric Hill. Its trope, locals gathered in a small pub in a remote village verges on a cliché of Irish culture. The one act play conflates copious amounts of “small” shots of whiskey accompanied by pints of Harp or Guinness. As we snidely learn the real men drink stout.

  • Jazz in the Berkshires Front Page

    Fall Schedule

    By: Ed Bride - Sep 27th, 2024

    The annual Fall Jazz Sprawl is a week of free and ticketed jazz events throughout Berkshire County. The series includes some events that were organized by Berkshires Jazz, as well as others that were planned and sponsored by the venues presenting the artists. The series concludes with a headline concert featuring the Grace Kelly Quartet plus a string section augmented by the Kids 4 Harmony advanced ensemble.

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