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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A Week by the Beach Word
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Taken for Granite Word
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Salon Word
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Barrington Stage 2017 Front Page
Mark Your Calendar
By: - May 05th, 2017Here is a clip and save rundown of the 2017 season of Barrington Stage Company. It begins on May 18 with Kinstler by Jeffrey Sweet, directed by Meagen Fay. Performances: Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30pm; Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 3:00pm. Opening night May 21, 2017. The programm ends on October 22 with Gaslight.
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Muntadas: Projects/Proposals Front Page
At New York's Kent Gallery
By: - May 05th, 2017Muntadas’ original version of Emisión/Recepción was made in Madrid at a moment when Franco’s control over the media left Spain with but one TV station. All locations and all viewership was confined to the same exact broadcast at all times.
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Then and Now Word
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Gloucester's Duckworth's Bistrot Front Page
Fails to Live Up to Its Reputation
By: - May 03rd, 2017During high season it's challenging to get a reservation at the renowned Duckworth's Bistrot the most widely touted destination for fine dining in Gloucester. Due to lapses of attention it proved to be a disappointing experience. There is no excuse for soup served at near to room temperature and incinerated meat. You expect more from a top chef.
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Fly by Night Word
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A Hard Rein Word
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Turner at the Frick Front Page
Britain's 19th Century Painter of Light
By: - May 02nd, 2017A beautifully presented exhibition built around works from The Frick Collection, Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time, brings together 37 water colors, drawings, engravings, sketchbooks and oil paintings, from 1817 – 1845, a turning point in the artist’s career.
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Mayday Mayday Word
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2017 Tony Award Nominations Front Page
Shakespeare & Company's John Douglas Thompson
By: - May 02nd, 2017The classical actor John Douglas Thompson, known to Berkshire audiences for his many roles at Shakespeare & Company, is among the nominees for a 2017 Tony Award. He was inspired to pursue a career in theatre by attending an August Wilson play at Yale Rep. This season he played a supporting role in Wilson's play Jitney having its long delayed Broadway debut. He has also been nominated for a Drama Desk award.
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Other Than Honorable by Jamie Pachino Front Page
Geva Theatre Rochester, NY
By: - May 02nd, 2017In “Other Than Honorable” [the term for a military discharge that perhaps won’t penalize the recipient, as a “Dishonorable” one does], the central character is a former Army officer who resigned her commission “under sealed terms.” She is persuaded to defend a young female soldier who stabbed her Master Sergeant after he raped her.
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Trident Gallery in Gloucester Front Page
Bringing Relevant Art Back to Cape Ann
By: - Apr 30th, 2017During the 19th Century and era of modernism Cape Ann was home to leading American artists. That faded in the post war era leaving a mostly tacky, conservative, artist colony. Several years ago Matthew Swift launched Trident Gallery as a matrix for Gloucester's best and brightest contemporary artists. While visiting we attended the closing party and special performances of the provocative exhibition The Political Body.
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Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason Front Page
Production in Rochester, New York
By: - Apr 30th, 2017Sex With Strangers is a sexy, pleasant, entertaining play with pretentions that Laura Eason’s dialogue doesn’t quite live up to. This play has been making the rounds. Developed through Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s New Play Initiative, its world premiere was at Steppenwolf in Chicago, and its New York premiere was at Second Stage Theater New York in 2014.
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Cabaret Star Jerome Elliott Front Page
Shines at the Purple Room in Palm Springs
By: - Apr 30th, 2017“Crawling Back to Broadway”, is a nicely written, well-crafted revue, of songs and patter, by Elliott, and a musical set list that includes inter-action with the audience, thanks to the cool and easy style of musical director Charlie Creasy.
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Advice Columnist Ann Landers Front Page
At California's Coyote StageWorks
By: - Apr 30th, 2017“Ann Landers” was the pen name of Eppie Lederer, who wrote an advice column for one of Chicago’s leading newspapers. Ironically, her twin sister Pauline Lederer, wrote her advice column “Dear Abby” for the Chicago Herald American newspaper. The sisters were close but when it came to their columns, each were tigress’ defending their turf.
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War Paint on Broadway's Dueling Divas Front Page
Veterans Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole Star
By: - Apr 28th, 2017As wonderful as soprano Christine Ebersole cum Elizabeth Arden is – and the lady does have a couple of sensational show stoppers - it is the in-your-face belter Patti LuPone’s Helena Rubinstein who commands the most on stage attention in this show, as Rubinstein did in her every day life with her exotic wardrobe and jewelry, her thick European accent, and fast-flying zingers. “There are no ugly women, only lazy ones,” is one of her more famous quotes.
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Not About Nightingales Front Page
Early Tennessee Williams Script
By: - Apr 28th, 2017Not About Nightingales, an early Tennessee Williams script, is a Depression-era tragedy with many elements that foretell Williams’ genius as a playwright. Even though considered a lost work, it helped Williams get started on his illustrious playwriting career. The play was one of a batch of plays sent to a Group Theatre competition in December 1938.
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Odd Odyssey Word
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2016-17 Drama Desk Awards Front Page
Hello Dolly Earns Most Nominations
By: - Apr 28th, 2017The Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! tops the list with 10 nominations, while original Broadway musicals Anastasia and Come From Away follow close behind with nine nominations apiece. Lauded off-Broadway shows include the revival of Eugene O'Neill'sThe Hairy Ape, with eight nods, Atlantic Theater Company's production of The Band's Visit, with seven, and Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, also with seven.
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Tito’s Mexican Grill in Pittsfield Front Page
Caveat Emptor
By: - Apr 27th, 2017With two restaurants in Ohio Tito's has opened in Pittsfield. This is a high concept franchise with enticing decor and intetior design which is a bait and switch offering numbingly mediocre ersatz Tex Mex cuisine.
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Cliffhanger Word
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Agita of the Artist Martin Mugar Front Page
Innocence and Experience
By: - Apr 26th, 2017For Blake, Christ was both a child and a lamb putting the innocence of the child and the lamb of the poem a priori in the realm of the godly. One cannot be a lamblike or a childlike without that innocence of God, which raises the question: what then is experience without innocence? Experience can only be a loss of innocence. Why do I in my painting linger in this realm of peachy keen colors if not to insist on the importance of this innocence that precedes experience.
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Outer Critics Circle Front Page
2016-2017 Award Nominations
By: - Apr 26th, 2017The Outer Critics Circle nominees provide a preview of the front runners for Tony Awards. The most nominations went to Anastasia – 13; Hello, Dolly! – 10; The Band's Visit – 7; Come From Away – 7; Indecent – 6; The Little Foxes – 6; Groundhog Day – 5; A Bronx Tale – 4; The Front Page – 4; War Paint – 4; Bandstand - 3; A Doll's House – 3; Holiday Inn – 3; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 3; Oslo – 3; Sweat - 3
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