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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Susan Erony: Scribe as Artist Front Page
Transcribing Text Into Images
By: - Sep 13th, 2016Working in sessions of four hours, word by word, days turned into months as Susan Erony transcribed the 635 page text of The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson. The resultant work has been exhibited in Gloucester but deserves to be more widely known. She is preparing for an exhibition at Gloucster's Trident Gallery. She took a break to discuss the role of text in her practice as a visual artist.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Front Page
By C.S. Lewis; Adapted by Adrian Mitchell, at Stratford Festival
By: - Sep 13th, 2016Stratford’s lovely production is enormously imaginative. The stage-creature that is Aslan, the holy lion, is inhabited by three men and made up of five separate segments which move fascinatingly together.
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Two Lennys Word
Bruce and Bernstein
By: - Sep 12th, 2016During the post war era conservative America struggled to establish a vibrant culture. Two Lennys, Bruce and Bernstein, were in the thick of it but with enormous differences. Both, however, proved to have direct impact on my formative teenage years.
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Sondheim's A Little Night Music Front Page
Stratford Festival of Canada to October 23
By: - Sep 12th, 2016Gary Griffin has established himself internationally as an exciting director and re-thinker of staging musicals and has created a streamlined but very elegant production with Stratford’s great ensemble. This is really a wonderful revival.
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Invasion of Privacy by Larry Parr Front Page
Florida's The Abyss Stage
By: - Sep 12th, 2016Pigs Do Fly Productions is a small theater company that has, until this point, produced short plays featuring characters over age 50. “Invasion of Privacy” is its “first foray” into a full-length play, founder and artistic director Ellen Wacher announced before Saturday evening’s performance.
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Globe and Times Shrink Arts Coverage Front Page
Direct Impact on the Berkshires
By: - Sep 11th, 2016In the ever eroding realm of print journalism yet again the deep cuts are to the arts. Berkshire theatre companies, Tanglewood, Jacob's Pillow, and museums have long relied on reviews by the New York Times and Boston Globe. As of now the Times is eliminating "regional" coverage which includes the Berkshires. In the western part of the state the arts in the Berkshires are likely to get far less attention from the Boston Globe. With its emphasis on "national" coverage the Williamstown Theatre Festival this season moved opening night from Thursday to Saturday in a perceived snub to "local" reviews including timely blogs. Other than the Eagle they also diminished access for interviews and elminated press conferences. Those polices may come back to haunt arts organizations next summer.
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Gloucester's Song of Milarepa Word
Excavating Cultural Legacy
By: - Sep 10th, 2016Seeking enlightenment Milarepa was tasked by his master to tunnel through a mountain. Elightenment would be revealed at its other side. Digging is actually its own reward. This describes the process of probing deeply into the richness of Gloucester an endangered polis by the sea.
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Boston’s The Verb Hotel Front Page
Displays Bieber Collection of Rock Memorabelia
By: - Sep 10th, 2016After graduation from the BU School of Journalism David Bieber found that the only way to research and promote rock music was to collect the material. Soon his apartment was cluttered with thousands of albums and related detritus. It is the foremost archive of a formative era when Boston emerged as a major matrix for contemporary music. Now highlights of the Bieber Collection have been installed at Boston's The Verb Hotel.
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Love’s Labor’s Lost Front Page
Old Globe’s Lowell Davies Outdoor Festival Theatre
By: - Sep 10th, 2016Director Marshall nicely controls the on stage silliness that frothy, light Shakespearean rom-coms deliver to audiences while at the same time providing the actors the opportunity to enjoy themselves. When they have a good time we have a good time.
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Vincent's Crib Word
Retreat by the Sea
By: - Sep 09th, 2016It was a productive week at the Gloucester Writer's Center. Astrid completed four new artist's books assembled from cutouts of her photographs. Surrounded by the unique library I read deeply into Gloucster and wrote related poems.
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Gregorian by Matthew Greene at Walkerspace Theatre Front Page
Armenian Genocide Based Drama
By: - Sep 09th, 2016Gregorian, Matthew Greene’s latest play, produced by Working Artists Theatre Project at the Walkerspace Theater, digs deep into the painful history of the Armenian people, examining the century long effects of the 1915 genocide on four generations of the Gregorian family, in which the Ottoman Empire slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians.
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Celebrate the Constitution on September 17 Front Page
No Better Place Than Philadelphia
By: - Sep 09th, 2016Since 2004, September 17 has been officially recognized as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, a day on which to learn about the Constitution. And there’s no better place to celebrate and learn than the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, established by Congress to “disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a non-partisan basis in order to increase the awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.”
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Allyn Burrows Named Artistic Director Front Page
No Stranger to Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Sep 08th, 2016Shakespeare & Company announces that actor and director, Allyn Burrows, a long-time member of the Company, has been named its new Artistic Director.
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Key to Olson's Maximus Word
Time, Space and Polis
By: - Sep 08th, 2016From the beginning my the poetry project that began in August, 2014 my consigliore, Robert Henriquez, has emphasized Charles Olson, and his epic Maximus, as a resource and connector. For most it is a complex and daunting work. As he put it "an acquired taste." It takes fortitude to take it on and bend to its monumentality and density. In one of his best poems Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 (Withheld) Robert feels that we have the essence of his intentionality. Imagine my astonishment yesterday to find "Letter # 27" in The World Famous Non Stop Seagull Opera Meets the Fishtones at the Strand an evocative CD by legendary rocker and Gloucester native Willie "Loco" Alexander.
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Many Gloucesters Word
An End to Great God Cod
By: - Sep 07th, 2016Circumnavigating Cape Ann there are many harbors and inlets each with their own flavor. There is a vast social, political, economic and ethnic spectrum. Initially they came to fish and farm. Now, behind the scenes, speculators are buying up priceless but decrepit waterfront property with its wharves and fish processing plants.
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Gloucester Movie Night Word
Dating Au Pair
By: - Sep 07th, 2016Making out with the au pair after a night at the movies I parked little Pip on the swing. She was scared of the dark.
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Olson’s Short Word
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The Rothschilds at Stage Door Theatre Front Page
Through October 16 in Margate, Florida
By: - Sep 06th, 2016“The Rothschilds” is based on a real-life European family whose members established a powerhouse banking operation and secured rights for their fellow Jews during a time of anti-Semitism in late 18th century Europe. Family members faced boulder-size odds throughout their efforts, making their dream seem impossible.
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Quixotic Windmills Word
Gloucester's Man of La Mancha
By: - Sep 06th, 2016Windmills generating renewable energy. A good idea in a terrible location marring forever the precious Gloucster profile.
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Blessing of the Fleet Word
Our Lady of Good Voyage
By: - Sep 06th, 2016During Colonial times they settled in Gloucester's Stage Fort Park to work the Grand Banks. Ever diminished that continues to this day. Now a handful of boats earn a living from the sea. Hard times impact ethnic balance as Italians and Portuguese sell their homes, abandon neighborhoods, and move away from the trade of their ancestors.
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Leviathan Word
Gloucester's Maud / Olson Library
By: - Sep 05th, 2016Ralph Maud (1928-2014) was a colleague and friend of Charles Olson, and a leading authority on Olson’s life and work. Maud was interested in the sources of Olson’s poetry, and undertook the ambitious task of identifying and collecting a copy of every book Olson had ever owned, read, or referred to. The Maud / Olson Library opened close to the Gloucester Writers Center in June.
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Pigeon Cove Tavern Front Page
At Emerson Inn, Rockport, Mass.
By: - Sep 04th, 2016With a magnificent ocean view from the terrace Pigeon Cove Tavern at the Emerson Inn in Rockport coudn't have been better. There was a perfect mix of fine dining, ambiance and impreccabler service.
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Old Movies Word
Annisquam Family Dinner
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Sister Pip, a Buddhist and vegetarian, is a fabulous cook. For this family dinner in Norwood Heights there was entertainment, old movies that Mom shot, and cassatta a Sicilian cake that Paula and Aunt Esterre brought from Brooklyn.
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Willie Loco Alexander Word
Ill Be Good with The Fishtones
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Back in the '60s I covered The Lost with Willie Loco Alexander at The Cheetah in New York. I remided him of the gig when he came to my reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We swapped a book for his latest CD. We played it one the ride home to the Berkshires.
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Fitz Henry Lane Word
Gloucester's Harbor Master
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Walking with crutches the artist Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) made his way down from a stone house to a dory in Gloucester Harbor. There as a passenger on schooners he visited and painted the harbors and inlets along the Atlantic coast. A large collection of his paintings are on view in the Cape Ann Museum.
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