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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Artist Rafael Mahdavi Word
School of Paris
By: - Apr 17th, 2016With family in Wellesley the artist Rafael Mahdavi commuted to a studio in the Marais arrondissement of Paris. He is fluent in several languages including Farsi and has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and America. In 2000 we met in his Paris studio to plan a tandem of exhibitions for New England School of Art & Design/ Suffolk University as well as Boston's French Library. With a shoestring budget we shipped large paintings to and from Paris rolled in a tube sent by Fed Ex as table cloths. This was a means of avoiding prohibitive French taxes. Sight Unseen proved to be an ambitious and insightful international exhibition.
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Actress Irina Maleeva Front Page
Appears in The Meddler with Susan Sarandon
By: - Apr 15th, 2016Irina Maleeva, born in Bulgaria but who has lived in the United States for over 40 years, started her movie career at the tender age of 14 while living in Italy. She was discovered by famed filmmaker Federico Fellini and went on to work with some of the premiere filmmakers including Orson Welles.
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Al the Arab Word
Hipster Wizard
By: - Apr 15th, 2016We knew the consummate hipster Albert Hamway by the colorful sobriquet Al the Arab. But may, in fact, have been Armenian or Lebanese. Mentor and friend he was a running mate while on the lam in the Lower East Side.
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Sonny Rollins Word
Tenor Titan
By: - Apr 14th, 2016Tenor titan, Sonny Rollins, is the last of the greatest generation of post bop jazz. While a troubled teen he launched a career with many phases and changes that has lasted for decades.
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Nick Cave at MASS MoCA Front Page
Preview of October Installation
By: - Apr 13th, 2016African American artist, Nick Cave, creates ritual, fetish costumes Sound Suits which transform and vitalize issues of gender, identity and race. With curator Denise Markonish he discussed an installation that will open at Mass MoCA on October 15 in the vast Building Five.
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Degenerate Art Word
Les Fleurs du mal
By: - Apr 13th, 2016Too often great artists drawing on their family and wrecked lives as inspiration for theatre and literature pay a terrible price for that Faustian contract. So it was with the American masters, O'Neill, Williams, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. There is the vicarious pleasure of experiencing their work.
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Lester Johnson In Provincetown Front Page
ACME Fine Arts Exhibition Opens on May 20
By: - Apr 12th, 2016The watercolors and ink works making up the exhibition were selected from the artist’s estate by ACME Gallery Director David Cowan. Collectively they chronicle Johnson’s response to the landscape that surrounded him during his summers in the art colony during the 1950s, and reveal how the sights of Provincetown informed the development of his unique and important visual voice.
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Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Front Page
2016 Season
By: - Apr 12th, 2016Waterford, CT – The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center announced today the 2016 summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development at the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Puppetry Conference, and Cabaret & Performance Conference.
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Great American Songbook Word
Liza, Feinstein and Cook
By: - Apr 12th, 2016During an ATCA meeting in Indianapolis we visited the Performing Arts Center in nearby Carmel, Indiana. The artistic director of the stunning theatre is Michael Feinstein. The complex houses the growing archive for his advocacy of the Great American Songbook. Through his performances and collecting activity the mandate is to keep vibrant the legacy of more than a century of great Broadway musicals. He was joined that night by Barbara Cook. That summer at Tanglewood Liza Minelli took a train from New York to join him as a guest on stage.
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Herbie Hancock Word
Lyrical Post Modernist
By: - Apr 11th, 2016From 1963 to 1968 Herbie Hancock played piano for the Miles Davis Second Great Quintet. It included a teenager Boston drummer, Tony Williams, Ron Carter on bass and, after some changes, Wayne Shorter on horns. Hancock was fired for flimsy reasons and replaced by Chick Corea who was replaced by Keith Jarrett. Hancock continued to record with Miles after he was sacked. Later the Quintet reformed as V.S.O.P. with Freddy Hubbard replacing Davis.
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ATCA Celebrates Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone Front Page
Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award
By: - Apr 10th, 2016The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” as the winner of the 2015 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2014.
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Modern Lovers Word
Ever Petulant Jonathan Richman
By: - Apr 10th, 2016Influenced by the Velvets the Modern Lovers were the greatest 1970s band that never made it. Their records dribbled our after they broke up. Ever adolescent and erratic Jonathan Richman wanted to abandon the Velvets sound. He even refused to perform the paradigmatic Roadrunner. Drummer Dave Robinson joined The Cars. Keyboard player Jerry Harrison left for Talking Heads. Bass player Ernie Brooks backed a variety of artists. Over the years, ever morphing, Jonathan has a loyal cult following. He recorded the music of the film There's Something About Mary.
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Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo Front Page
Chicago's Remy Bumppo
By: - Apr 09th, 2016Remy Bumppo’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo is the powerful story of the famous mathematician whose findings about the structure of the universe defy church teachings. His story is supremely relevant today because it poses crucial issues such as science vs. religion and government control of expression.
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PIll Popping Word
No More Wake and Bake
By: - Apr 09th, 2016Taking more drugs than ever but they don't give me a buzz. Not like wake and bake back in the day when Spaceman Bill Lee put pot on his corn flakes.
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Duh Ramones Word
Hey Ho Lets Go
By: - Apr 09th, 2016By 1974 four guys from Forest Hills, Queens, unrelated, hit the downtown club scene as The Ramones. There last gig was in 1996. Over that time tons of albums. Adored by critics and fans they were too punk for mainstream success. Decades of endless one-nighters. Today they are regarded as one of the greatest and most influential all time rock bands.
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Cyndi Lauper Word
Beyond Just Having Fun
By: - Apr 09th, 2016Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was a youthful and fun anthem to a generation. Her ballad "Time After Time," covered by Miles Davis, hinted at what was to come. She won a Tony for the Broadway Musical "Kinky Boots." With more to come.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Front Page
Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles
By: - Apr 08th, 2016One can’t help but enjoy the sparkling and inventive on-stage musical comedy machinations of ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’ in one of the Ahmanson’s slickest and audience-pleasing productions this season. The musical runs in LA through May 1.
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Britain's T. Rex Word
Marc Bolan's American Pratfall
By: - Apr 08th, 2016Big deal that we got to talk with Marc Bolan of British supergroup T. Rex launching their first American tour. Be nice we were warned by the PR folks. That night Bolan skipped on stage and fell flat on his ass. It was a bad omen and the tour bombed. Not long after both the group and Bolan were dead as dinos.
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Buddy Rich Word
Marching to a Different Drummer
By: - Apr 08th, 2016It is argued that Buddy Rich was the greatest drummer of his era. His challenger, great album, Max Roach. In the dressing room at Lennie's on the Turnpike between sets Buddy was always good for a quote. Usually about Vegas or stints with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. Lennie discovered a local kid doing standup. Jay Leno became a regular on the Tonight Show and eventually took over from Johnny.
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Stan Kenton's Progressive Band Word
Artistry in Rhythm
By: - Apr 08th, 2016There was an edge to progressive big band leader Stan Kenton when we met in 1970. He had cut loose from 25 years with Capitol Records and bought the catalogue to reissue on his own label Creative World. On the road with Stan it was less a tour than crusade. Those who performed and heard his music were true believers in his Artistry in Rhythm
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Woody Herman Word
Big Band Bop
By: - Apr 07th, 2016Woody Herman fronted one of the most admired and successful groups of the big band era. He commissioned works ranging from Stravinsky's Ebony Concert to the eventual Dizzy Gillespi standard Woody'n You. The gig in Beverly at Sandy's Jazz Revival was more like a family reunion.
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Count Basie Word
Goin' To Kansas City
By: - Apr 07th, 2016In the mobbed up city of politician Tom "Boss" Pendergast the saloons and brothels of Kansas City were wide open during prohibition and the depression years. The best of the thriving Midwest jazz and blues scene was the Count Basie Band.
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Pianist McCoy Tyner Word
Trane and Beyond
By: - Apr 06th, 2016Growing up in Philly the legendary pianist Bod Powell was a neighbor and mentor to pianist McCoy Tyner. He also knew John Coltrane before he joined Miles Davis emerging as a superstar. Tyner was invited to join the classic quartet of Trane, drummer Joe Jones, and bass player Jimmy Garrison. There was an edge when I asked Tyner why he and Jones quit Trane a couple of years before he died.
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Spirit Boat Word
Hatshepsut Pharaoh/ Queen
By: - Apr 06th, 2016Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and his primary wife Ahmes. Her husband Thutmose II was the son of Thutmose I and a secondary wife named Mutnofret. Married to her half brother they had a daughter Neferure. By another wife Thutmose II fathered Thutmose III. From the age of two Hatshepsut co-ruled as Regent but overshadowed him as Pharaoh. When he came to power Thutmose III did his best to removed her name from prolific monuments.
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Pianist Chick Corea Word
Pushing the Limits
By: - Apr 05th, 2016Miles Davis launched fusion jazz with the seminal double album Bitches Brew in March, 1970. It marked an era of experiment and change. That summer I covered Miles twice in one week at Harvard Stadium then Lennie's on the Turnpike. For both sessions he featured the dual electric pianos of Chick Corea, who had replaced Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett.
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