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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Summer Nudes in Williamstown Front Page
Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes From the Prado
By: - Jul 05th, 2016In the quid pro quo of museum trades, through October 10, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is hosting “Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes From the Prado.” This includes 28 paintings by primarily Italian, Flemish, and Spanish masters of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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High Heat Word
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Che Malambo at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
The Ancient Dance of Gauchos
By: - Jul 04th, 2016Indigenous to Argentina is the traditional folk form of Malambo which is described as the machismo dance of the gauchos. With striking resemble to Flamenco, Irish step dancing, and African drumming this artform first evolved in the 17th century. The irony is that this ancient dance is new to American audiences.
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Clambake on Lighthouse Beach Word
Traditional Feast
By: - Jul 04th, 2016During summers Indians came to feast on the beach. Archaeologists have found massive remains on favoried sits for clambakes.
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Jessica Lange Wins Tony for O'Neill Play Front Page
Long Day's Journey Into Night
By: - Jul 04th, 2016The family based Long Day's Journey Into Night is regarded as the masterpiece of Eugene O'Neill. In a Broadway revval now closed Jessica Lange won a Tony Award for the paradigmatic role of the morphine addicted mother Mary Tyrone.
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Cost of Living by Martyna Majok Front Page
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 04th, 2016The powerful drama Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok, having its world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival entails two individuals with disabilities and those who provide care for them. The production will transfer to Manhattan Theatre Club during the coming season. It is an evening of theatre that audiences will never recover from.
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Marisa Tomei in The Rose Tattoo Front Page
Williams in Williamstown
By: - Jul 03rd, 2016Based on the casting of Academy Award winner, Marisa Tomei, the production of The Rose Tattoo at Williamstown Theatre Festival is the most anticipated theatre event of the summer season in the Berkshires. For the most part audiences will be thrilled with her perfomance in a sprawling and chaotic production of the Tennessee Williams classic play.
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Hot Town Word
Summer in the City
By: - Jul 01st, 2016Sweating out summer in the Lower East Side with no electriicity. Tales from the urban jungle.
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Hot or Cold Word
Playing It Cool
By: - Jul 01st, 2016Like the three bears papa's was too hot. Mama bear's was too cold. But baby bear's was just right.
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Ups and Downs Word
Union Jack Off
By: - Jul 01st, 2016Panic, greed and opportunity prevailed as Britannia once ruler of the waves sailed off the cliff. Or so it seemed.
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Faerie Festival in Adams to Return in 2017 Front Page
J. K. Rowling Casts Spell on Mt Greylock
By: - Jun 30th, 2016The enormously sucessful first Berkshire Mountains Faerie Festival in Adams, Mass. was a midwinter brain storm of a group of local artists and activists. With this event they aspired to put Adams on the map as a community for artists and unbridled imagination. Now their ambition has been given a serendipitous boost. The Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has announced that her latest venture “Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” takes place on Mt. Greylock. The Adams festival was staged in the shadow of the tallest peak in Massachusetts where wizards and faeries abound.
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Then and Now Word
World at War
By: - Jun 29th, 2016Growing up in the 1940s, the greatest generation, the world was at war. There was hope for a brighter future and better tomorrow. That day is now.
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Here and There Word
Where the Grass is Greener
By: - Jun 28th, 2016Bhutan then India she said for winter next year as usual. "I can't stand another Berkshire winter" she explained. Actually we like those long months of hibernation with projects that never get done.
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Disgraced at Mark Taper Forum Front Page
Muslims in America Explored by Ayad Akhtar
By: - Jun 28th, 2016In playwright Ayad Akhtar’s blistering comedy, “Disgraced” he explores the dark underbelly of the politically correct subject matter of anti-semitism and Islamophobia that is simmering just beneath the surface at first only to boil over later on, dragging its five characters into open verbal warfare.
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Basta Word
Frowns of a Summer’s Day
By: - Jun 27th, 2016In the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgement the artist Michelangelo included himself as the skin of St. Barthlomew who was flayed alive. It was a metaphor for his all consuming art.
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Aaron Siskind's Photographs Front Page
Art Institute of Chicago
By: - Jun 27th, 2016The beautifully curated exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago shows the full range of Siskind’s abstract expressionist photography in scenes shot in Chicago, New York, Gloucester, Martha’s Vineyard, Rome and other locations all over the world.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Stockbridge Front Page
Mendacity Prevails at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Jun 26th, 2016This summer there will be two Tennessee Williams plays in the Berkshires. The first is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge. It is a great play being given a so so production.
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Chris Botti at Tanglewood Front Page
Three Ring Circus
By: - Jun 25th, 2016When he plays it straight Chris Botti is among the elite trumpet players of his generation. There is no question of his musicianship. But at times his performance at Tanglewood was way to Vegas. It seemed more Wayne Newton than Miles Davis. This jarred with hearing a superb rhythm section which was cut loose only occasionally.
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American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown Front Page
Black Lives Matter at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jun 23rd, 2016In a ripped from the headlines, award winning play, American Son having its world premiere at Barrington Stage, the theme that black lives matter is explored with riveting power, The company comissioned the play by Christopher Demos-Brown and is flaunting conventional wisdow by opening the main stage season with something other than the usual light summer fare.
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Ken Moffett at 81 Front Page
First Contemporary Curator of the MFA
By: - Jun 22nd, 2016During the 1970s Kenworth Moffett, while a full professor at Wellesley College, was hired part time as the founding curator for contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts. After a long illness he passed away at the age of 81. Long after our days as aesthetic adversaries we remained friends. During annual visits to Palm Beach we would meet for lunch in Ft Lauderdale where he was director of its museum. In 2015 we collaborated on an extensive interview which is linked to this obituary.
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Before and After Word
Race Against Time
By: - Jun 22nd, 2016In the land of nip and tuck it's against the law to get old in America.
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Fiorello! at Uniciorn Stage in Stockbridge Front Page
Political Musical Soars During God Awful Election Year
By: - Jun 21st, 2016Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)a true man of the people was a study in contradiction. Of Italian and Jewish heritage he was an Episcopalian Republican who was elected Mayor of New York on a fusion ticket. A small, portly, homely man in a rumpled suit he possessed towering charisma. The 1959 Tony and Pulitzer winning musical Fiorello! is being given a compressed and powerful production at Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
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Art Works! Word
Commodity Trading
By: - Jun 20th, 2016An outraged artist comments on the trend of collecting art as commodity. Too often works go straight to storage there to ebb and flow as the market rises and falls. It is time to drive the money lenders out of the temple of art.
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Kimberly Akimbo at Barrington Stage Front Page
Debra Jo Rupp 60 Going on 16
By: - Jun 20th, 2016In Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire, as played by the masterful Debra Jo Rupp, Kimberly, celebrating her sixteenth birthday is about to die of old age. In a superb performance Rupp conflates giddy youth and the world weary wisdom that comes with time and lifde experience.
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Modern Lovers Word
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