Charles Giuliano
Bio:
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:
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Trident Gallery Update Front Page
From Sphere to Edge in Late Summer
By: - Aug 04th, 2017There is always something provocatice going on at Gloucester's Trident Gallery. The arts are the visible cloak of the bonds -- both empowering and restricting -- of community and heritage. The cloak of the arts reveals the shape of the present, bears the patterns and must of the past, and declares ourselves on our journey into the future.
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Topsy Turvy Word
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Berkshire Theatre Group's Fall Programming Front Page
Pulitzer and Tony Winner David Auburn's Lost Lake at the Unicorn
By: - Aug 04th, 2017Berkshire Theatre Group announces additions to the fall and winter seasons, as well as casting for the Fall production of David Auburn’s Lost Lake at The Unicorn Theatre. Therde wlll also be a number of unique musical events at its Colonial Theatre in downtiown Pittsfield.
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Gloucester Poems: Nugents of Rockport Front Page
Charles Giuliano Reading at Gloucester Writers Center
By: - Aug 03rd, 2017On Wednesday, August 23, there will be a reading and book launch of Gloucester Poems; Nugents of Rockport by Charles Giuliano at the Gloucester Writer’s Center, 123 East Main Street, at 7 PM. The event will be shared with poet Geoffrey Movius. They grew up together in Annisquam. That experience and inspiration will be a part of the event.
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Tanglewood on Parade Front Page
Popular Annual Event
By: - Aug 02nd, 2017Indeed it was a long evening ending around 11 PM with the tradition arsenal of fireworks accompanying the climax ith a massive performance of Tchaikovsky’s energizing 1812 Overture. It evoked Moscow’s triumphant church bells and the thunderous boom of Napoleon’s captured canons.
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Berkshire Museum Stonewalls Critics Front Page
Hires Costly PR to Spin Its Reboot
By: - Aug 02nd, 2017When ethical concerns and second guessing of its "reboot" plans surfaced the Berkshire Museum has spent money it doesn't have for expensive PR and marketing. Heavy hitters have been hired to deflect tough questions from the media and flack the museum's strategy to sell 40 works of art and change its mandate.
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Ballet Hispanico at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
From Indigenous to Mainstream
By: - Aug 01st, 2017In 1970 the Venezuelan dancer and educator, Tina Ramirez, founded the community based Ballet Hispanico. Under her administration the company commisioned 70 plus works. We saw one of them Palladium at MASS MoCA in October 2006, co sponsored by Jacob's Pillow Dance. This past week the company performed at Pillow in a program created by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro who followed Ramirez in 2009.
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Footloose the Musical in Fremont. California Front Page
Starstruck Youth Performing Arts
By: - Aug 01st, 2017"Footloose the Musical" is based on a film that was part of a strong cluster of movies that in some ways was a gentle echo of the youthful rebellion of the '60s. Hollywood struck a rich vein of teen and young adult musical films in the decade starting 1978. Some were based on earlier stage musicals, and others would later become live theater pieces. Starstruck Youth Performing Arts has selected a perfect vehicle for a large teen cast.
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Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Front Page
Feiffer Deconstructs Chekhov in Williamstown
By: - Jul 30th, 2017Over 62 years of Williamstown Theatre Festival there have been 18 productions of the four best known plays by Anton Chekov; The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, the Seagull and Three Sisters. There have been five prior versions of Three Sisters and this season we have yet another. Well, not exactly.
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Le Central Oldest French Restaurant In San Francisco Restaurants
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Berkshire Artist Arthur Yanoff's Exhibition Front Page
Reynolds Fine Art in New Haven
By: - Jul 29th, 2017The Thimble Islands are an archipelago of more than 100 pieces of land in Long Island Sound, off northeastern Connecticut. Some are big enough for people to live on, but many more are just tiny granite outcroppings. Arthur Yanoff visited them a year or so ago, and created a sequence of abstract paintings about them. They will be shown at Reylonds Gallery in New Haven.
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Celebrating Thelonious Monk's Centennial Front Page
Concert wth Ted Rosenthal in Lee August 12
By: - Jul 29th, 2017Berkshires Jazz, Inc. continues its summer of centennial tributes on Aug. 12 with the Ted Rosenthal Quintet, in a 100th birthday salute to Thelonious Monk. TD Bank is sponsoring the concert, which takes place at the Lee Meeting House (Congregational Church), starting at 7:30pm.
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San Francisco’s Chinatown Front Page
Largest in the Nation
By: - Jul 29th, 2017It was a relatively short walk from our hotel in San Freancisco to the entrance of its vast Chinatown. We explored and returned several times for fabuous meals.
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The Nance at Pride Arts Center Front Page
Evoking an Era of Burlesque
By: - Jul 28th, 2017The burlesque acts at the Irving Place Theatre make up almost half of The Nance, which is riproaringly directed by John Nasca. You’ll see a feathery fan dance by Joan (Britt-Marie Sivertsen) and other songs, dances and modest strip routines by Sylvie and Carmen (Steph Vondell). The women’s costumes are colorful and sparkly—and designed by Nasca, doing double duty as costume designer.
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I Left My Heart in San Francisco Front Page
Theatre Critics Met by the Bay
By: - Jul 28th, 2017Coincidently, the 2017 ATCA conference took place at the same time that San Francisco is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the city’s now famous 1967 “Summer of Love” revolution of sexual freedom, psychedelic flower-power, pot, and tons of young people with raging hormones.
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Berkshire Museum Ignores Outcry Front Page
40 Works to be Sold at Sotheby’s
By: - Jul 27th, 2017In compiling a list of 40 works to deaccession the Berkshire Museum opted to sell no works given by living artists or donors. When Norman Rockwell gave two works to the museum the letter, which is referred to in media coverage, states his wish to share them with the people of the Berkshires. In selling the works is the museum in legal violation of that trust? GIven the sensitivity of what is at stake we demand that the museum make public the artist's letter.
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Timon of Athens at Stratford Festival Front Page
Yet Another Superb Production
By: - Jul 27th, 2017Stratford has a special history with this Shakespeare play, dating from Michael Langham’s extraordinary 1963 production with incidental music commissioned from Duke Ellington. Updating the setting, Langham offered an opulent melodrama with some textual additions, guest musicians and dancers.
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Epic British Film Dunkirk Front Page
Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan
By: - Jul 27th, 2017Currrently number one at the box office the epic British film Dunkirk, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, is the surprise hit of the summer season. This is the time of year for action adventure cartoon characters, like Wonder Woman, kids stuff and date movies. The film focuses on the British army, then defeated in France, about to be driven into the sea by Rommel and his Panzers. Miracuously that didn't as the British used every available vessel from yachts to fishing boats to ferry the troops across the channel. This was the moment and event when the fate of Europe was at a tipping point. It makes for a heck a movie.
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The Clean House by Pulitzer Nominated Sarah Ruhl Front Page
All Star Production at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 26th, 2017Mandy Greenfield, artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival, has produced The Clean House, a 2005 Pulitzer nominee, by Sarah Ruhl. Ii is a play written by, about, and for women. It is directed by Tony winner, Rebecca Taichman, and pairs Tony nominees Jayne Atkinson and Jessice Hecht. There are two other women and a guy who Ruhl sends packiing in Alaska leaving his terminally ill mistress.
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Berkshire Museum Releases Auction List Front Page
Two Rockwells and 38 Other Works
By: - Jul 24th, 2017Initially the Berkshire Museum disclosed plans to sell two paintings by Norman Rockwell but declined to reveal the other works. Under intensive media scrutiny and concerns from the community the museum has posted responses to frequently asked questions on the website and has released the full list of deaccessioned works. The lot has a pre auction estmate of $50 million toward a goal to "reboot" with $20 milion in renovation and $40 million for endowment. The remaining $10 millions will be raised apart from the sale of works of art.
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Taking Steps by Alan Aykbourn Front Page
Farce Rocks Barrington Stage
By: - Jul 24th, 2017Leaving our thinking caps at home there was no heavy lifting in the delicious British farce, Taking Steps, by the redoubtable Alan Ayckbourn. At last count he has written 77 plays. After the knockout job that director, Sam Buntrock, and a truly gifted cast did with this one, one hopes that over time Barrington will produce the other 76.
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I'll Drink to That at Eclipse Mill Gallery Front Page
National Exhibition of Pottery
By: - Jul 23rd, 2017The Eclipse Mill Gallery, in North Adams, is featuring a special exhibition of unique drinking vessels "I'll Drink to That." It opens with a reception for the artists on Friday, August 4, from 6 to 8pm. It remains on view, Thursday to Sunday, from 10 am through 5pm, through August 27. Some 25 renowned potters from coast to coast will display their work.
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Conflating Early with Late Edward Albee Front Page
Interesting Mismatch at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Jul 23rd, 2017In 1958 the one act play Zoo Story launched the career of playwright Edward Albee. In 2004 he added a first act. That version , retitled At Home at the Zoo (Zoo Story), is being produced by Berkshire Theatre Group on its intimate Unicorn stage in Stockbridge.
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Artist Stephen Hannock On Berkshire Museum Front Page
How Selling the Art Betrays the Community
By: - Jul 22nd, 2017Works by Stephen Hannock are in global museum collections. His Oxbow painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be included in a survey of Hudson River artist Thomas Cole. Hannock's mate Sting will also be involved in the project. When he created paintings for his friend's hometown of Newscastle the studies were shown at the Berkshire Museum. He gave one of the studies to the museum to honor philanthropist Nancy Fitzgerald. The fact of that work and the entire fine arts collection of the museum is unknown. We talked at length with the Berkshire based global artist about the impact of the museum's strategy to sell its fine arts collection with a radical makeover as an interactive educational museum for history and science.
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Berkshire Museum Dumps the Fine Arts Front Page
Selling Two Paintings by Norman Rockwell and 38 Other Works
By: - Jul 21st, 2017When the Berkshire Museum announced plans to focus on science and history there was initial euphoria. To reach a goal of $60 millon, $20 for renoivation, and $40 million for endowment it will sell 40 works of art including two paintings by Norman Rockwell which the artist gave to the museum and his Berkshire neighbors. In so doing it violates deaccession restrictions for art museums. In a shuffle Van Shields, the director of BM, has stated that he does not run an art musuem and is not bound by ethical guidelines. That may change as coverage evolves from local to national news.
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