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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Betel Nuts and Jade Cabbage Front Page
letters from Taipei
By: - Jan 11th, 2017During the holiday playwright Mark St. Germain visited his daughter Kate in Taipei. This is the second of three letters he sent to friends.They encounbtered a cab driver who "When he laughed revealed a black hole where his tongue and teeth would have been. All day he chews betel nuts."
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The Most Happy Fella Front Page
Breathtaking at Florida's Stage Door Theatre
By: - Jan 10th, 2017Whether “The Most Happy Fella” falls more closely into the realm of musical theater or opera, the show has the necessary ingredients for success. Stage Door Theatre’s breathtaking production offers some of the strongest singing you’ll hear on a stage.
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Letters from Taipei Front Page
A Spotless Crime Free City
By: - Jan 09th, 2017Currently Mark St. Germain is finishing a screenplay of his widely produced "Freud's Last Sessions." Recenty, he spent the holidays with his daughter Kate. This is the first of three letters from Taipei that he sent to friends. For those who know Mark and have enjoyed his plays at Barrington Stage and other theatres you will enjoy and recognize his familiar wit and insight.
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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry Front Page
At Met Breuer
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Through January 29 there is still time to see the stunning and riveting retrospective at New York's Met Breuer. He is among the elite of African American artists of his generation. His work is fresh in its timely subject mater as well as traditional with roots in American genre and social realism.
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Francis Picabia at MoMA Front Page
The Finest Modernist You Have Never Heard Of
By: - Jan 08th, 2017The enigmatic modernist, Francis Picabia, suggested that artists change styles as frequently as their shirts. He is the subject of an eclectic and intriguing retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Decline in Theatre and Arts Media Coverage Front Page
Matt Windman Panel for American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Matt Windman, author of “The Critics Say…57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future,” led a panel discussion during the NY ATCA conference on the state of theater criticism in today’s world of social media bloggers and a decreasing number of full-time print theater critics
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Gorée Island Word
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Touring Company of 42nd Street Front Page
On the Road in Florida
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Current non-equity national tour director Mark Bramble doesn’t disappoint in a mostly commendable production of 42nd Street that played a one-night stand in West Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve. The 16-week touring production will continue at Florida venues until Jan. 6, when it heads north.
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Senegal Word
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An American in Paris Front Page
Road Company in Miami
By: - Dec 29th, 2016“An American in Paris” is a musical composition by George Gershwin, which he referred to as an “extended symphonic tone poem.” The New York Philharmonic commissioned it and the piece soon became one of his most famous compositions. It was inspired by his visit to Paris during the 1920s.
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Trivia Word
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At the Cut by Peter Anastas Front Page
Coming of Age in Gloucester
By: - Dec 27th, 2016In At the Cut author Peter Anastas tells of growing up in Gloucester during the war years into the 1950s. Gloucester was then an ethnically diverse thriving fishing community. Today the fleet is all but gone and this book vividly conveys the richness of what has been lost.
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Spectacular Modernist Shchukin Collection Front Page
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
By: - Dec 26th, 2016Between 1897 and 1914, Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (Chtchoukkin) 1854 -1936, acquired 275 masterpieces, including 41 Matisses, 50 Picassos, 8 Cézannes, 13 Monets, 16 Gauguins, as well as works by his fellow Russian artists Malevich and Rodchenko. In 1918 the collection was seized by the government under Lenin. Some 127 works are now on view at the Frank Gehry designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
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Conor McPherson’s The Weir Front Page
Irish Theatre of Chicago.
By: - Dec 26th, 2016Conor McPherson’s The Weir isn’t your typical Christmas play, but I’ll take it any day over any of the traditional treacly tales that grace our stages this time of year. The play, however, has a Holiday theme.
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My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy Front Page
Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton
By: - Dec 23rd, 2016While Zimmerman’s show is obviously meant mostly for laughs, there is at least one lesson to learn: In life, perseverance, thick skin and luck can lead to successes that once seemed impossible.
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Fayum Portraits Word
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Sandy on Broadway Front Page
No Business Like Show Business
By: - Dec 20th, 2016During the ATCA NY conference Sandy and Gerry Katz saw a bunch of shows on Broadway. She also has terrific travel tips.
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Lucas Hnath’s Play The Christians Front Page
At Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - Dec 20th, 2016Lucas Hnath’s play The Christians at Steppenwolf Theatre challenges the belief systems of its characters on stage as well as those of religious and nonreligious audience members.
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Million Dollar Quartet In Coral Gables Front Page
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By: - Dec 20th, 2016The Tony Award winning show,which enjoyed a Broadway run, Million Dollar Quartet, dramatizes a real-life historic jam session between rock stars Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tenn. on Dec. 4, 1956.
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They Met in the Met Word
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Touring Chelsea Galleries Front Page
A Selection of Exhibitions
By: - Dec 19th, 2016Extracted from a recent tour io Chelsea galleries we present a selection of highlights. The artists include Benny Andrews, Alfred Leslie, Mark di Suvero and Carrie Mae Weems.
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Projection and Sound Design in Theatre Front Page
Panel During ATCA Critics NY Conference
By: - Dec 17th, 2016“See Me, Hear Me: Innovations and Challenges in Projection and Sound Design," moderated by Martha Wade Steketee, was the toipic of a penel during the New York conference of American Theatre Critics Association. A video of the panel may be viewed at the ATCA website.,
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Evocations by Carl Chiarenza Front Page
Photographing Abstract Collages
By: - Dec 16th, 2016In 1973 Carl Chiarenza earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was the first to write a dissertation on a living photohrapher, Aaron Siskind. While regarded as one of the foremost scholars in the field he has had more that 80 one-person and participated in some 260 group exhibitions since 1957. This is a review of his 2002 monograph Evocations.
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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Front Page
Promethean Theatre Ensembles
By: - Dec 15th, 2016Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is a documentary-style play set in a courtroom. Lest you think that sounds dry, it isn’t. Jamie Bragg stars as Oscar Wilde. Her performance is nuanced and persuasive as the jaunty Oscar in her every word, look, gesture and posture.
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Dear Evan Hansen Front Page
Backstory of How the Musical Made Its Way to Broadway
By: - Dec 15th, 2016During a meeting of American Theatre Critics Association in New York there was a panel devoted to the development from page to stage of the recently opened, well reviewed musical Dear Evan Hansen
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