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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Janis Joplin's Last Gig Word
Harvard Stadium, August 12, 1970
By: - Apr 05th, 2016During the turbulent summer of 1970 Schaefer Beer sponsored a series of concerts at Harvard Stadium. It was just $2 for festival seating. Capacity was topped at 10,000 although there were incident ot vandalism and gate crashing. Janis Joplin performed her last gig there on AUGUST 12. She was dead at just 27 shortly later on October 4.
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Lin Manuel Miranda Word
Hip Hopping Hamilton
By: - Apr 05th, 2016While on vacation Lin Manuel Miranda, an avid reader, took along Ron Chernow's biography of the colorful, brilliant, complex and tragic founding father, Alexander Hamilton.. Blended with rap and hip hop Miranda concocted it into a game changing Broadway musical.
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Jazz Pianist Bill Evans Word
More Classical Than Roots
By: - Apr 04th, 2016Working with composer and theorist George Russell the pianist Bill Evans evolved from bop to modal playing. That was an influence of Miles Davis resulting in the masterpiece Kind of Blue. Snubbed by influential mainstream musicians and critics, Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch, who excluded him from the PBS/ Ken Burns series Jazz, Evans is widely regarded as among the seminal artists of his generation.
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Pianist Teddy Wilson Word
Benny Goodman to Billie Holiday
By: - Apr 04th, 2016Initially Teddy Wilson studied music at Tuskegee University. With Lionel Hampton and Charlie Christian they integrated Benny Goodman's big band. Billiw Holiday was invited to join the band but she declined to tour with Ben particularly in the South. Pianist Wilson made classic recordings with Lady Day. We recall his long stints as piano player in the bar of Boston's Copley Square Hotel.
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African Artist El Anatsui Word
Metallic Cloth of Many Colors
By: - Apr 04th, 2016Gallerist Jack Shainman, who grew up in Williamstown, represents major African as well as African American artists. He was instrumental in bringing super star El Anatsui to the Clark Art Institute.
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Playwright Mark St. Germain Word
Mentor and Friend
By: - Apr 04th, 2016Playwright Mark St. Germain started as a writer for The Cosby Show. He could have stayed on in TV and its easy money. But Mark took the road less traveled for a challenging career in theatre. We first met for breakfast after the premiere of Freud's Last Session at Barrington Stage. There has been a dialogue ever since as he developed new plays. The insights have been invaluable.
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Chuck Berry Word
Outlaw Rock 'n' Roll
By: - Apr 03rd, 2016In the 1950s, for Chicago's Chess Records, Chuck Berry recorded the national anthems of rock 'n' roll from Maybelline and Roll Over Beethoven to Johnny B. Goode. Busted for armed robbery as a teenager he did three years. Then more time for jail bait and later for tax evasion. It left him with understandable trust issues as a loaner on the road. Amazingly he is now pushing 90.
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Eubie Blake Word
Brought Ragtime to Broadway
By: - Apr 03rd, 2016The team of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle brought Shuffle Along the first all black musical to Broadway in 1921. Blake's music was the basis for Eubie! another Broadway hit in 1978. Well into his 90's he put on a hell of a show.
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Gato Barbieri 1932 to 2016 Word
Argentine Musician's Last Tango
By: - Apr 03rd, 2016Tenor sax player, Gato Beabieri, fused jazz with his Argentine roots. He composed the score for Bernado Bertolucci's steamy, moody erotic masterpiece Last Tango in Paris.
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WGBH DJ Ron Della Chiesa Word
Boogie Nights
By: - Apr 03rd, 2016Hanging with WGBH DJ and host of Music America, the impeccable Ron Della Chiesa when jazz was king in Beantown. Recalling the lush life.
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Storyville Pianists Word
Crescent City Professors
By: - Apr 01st, 2016Jazz was born in the cat houses and juke joints of the red light district, Storyville, in New Orleans. The pianists were known as professors starting with Jelly Roll Morton. There have been many since in the Crescent City from Fats Domino and Professor Longhair to Allen Touissant.
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The Mount 2016 Front Page
Schedule of Events
By: - Apr 01st, 2016The Mount in Lenox announces its schedule of events for the 2016 season.
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Giverny Goes Pop Word
Monet's Lily Pond
By: - Apr 01st, 2016When Claude Monet died at 86 in 1926, with the sculptor Rodin, he was the most famous and successful artist of his generation. By then Picasso and Cubism had changed the art world. Legally blind, with numerous operations, he painted ever more abstract versions of the beloved lily pond of his rural home at Giverny. Here we reconfigure his art with post modernism.
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Caryatids Word
Liberated from Captivity in the British Museum
By: - Mar 31st, 2016That scoundrel Lord Elgin looted the sculptures from the Acropolis and sold them to the British Museum. There they have languished ever since. Here, however, we see the Caryatid from the Erectheum returned to the light of day.
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Brian Dennehy Special Guest for P'Town Gala Front Page
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
By: - Mar 30th, 2016The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival (TWP Fest) announces that the multi-award-winning actor Brian Dennehy, recognized for his interpretation of many of Eugene O’Neill’s complex characters, will be the guest of honor at their annual dinner. The gala is to support this fall’s 11th festival, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams: Beyond Success with performances from theaters around the world throughout the charming seaside town from Sept 22 – 25, 2016. The Gala will take place on June 4.
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O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey Into Night Front Page
Court Theatre Production in Chicago
By: - Mar 30th, 2016If Eugene O’Neill is the master of dysfunctional family plays, then Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the masterpiece of the genre. Recognized as one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, the play won the Tony for best play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1957. Currently it is being produced by Court Theatre in Chicago through April 10.
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Visiting Hampton, Virginia Front Page
History and Adventure
By: - Mar 30th, 2016We began our visit to Hampton, Virginia with a tour of the Hampton History Museum. This museum recounts the history of America’s oldest, continuous English-speaking settlement from its inhabitance by Kecoughtan Indians to its role as original home of NASA and the U.S. space program.
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Jonathan Norton's Mississippi Goddam Front Page
Wins ATCA's 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award
By: - Mar 30th, 2016The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces that Jonathan Norton has won its 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville on April 9.
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Lexington Kentucky Front Page
Bluegrass Country
By: - Mar 30th, 2016Lexington is in the heart of the Bluegrass Region , the second largest city in Kentucky and Horse Capital of the World. It is famous for horses, bourbon, tobacco and Southern Hospitality. The Bluegrass region is renowned as the world’s largest equine “nursery”. Hundreds of horse farms surround Lexington , giving this modern city a park-like setting.
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Marilyn in Paris Word
Not Fade Away
By: - Mar 30th, 2016Born Norm Jean Baker she emerged as Hollywood's brightest star. Profiled as a dumb blonde Marilyn Monroe, tormented to an early grave, had a brilliant comedic touch. Just by chance we encountered her on a hot summer day, skirts billowing, in the Marais.
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Sensual Tenor Stan Getz Word
Brought Bossa Nova to the Mainstream
By: - Mar 29th, 2016There were so many ups and downs, mood swings that his pal, Zoot Sims, fellow tenor player from Woody Herman's Four Brothers ,called Stan Getz a great bunch of guys. He peaked in the 1960s with gold records and Grammy awards for his Boss Nova sound with the foremost Brazilian artists.
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia Front Page
Launches New Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois
By: - Mar 29th, 2016Writers Theatre opened its spectacular new theater in Glencoe this week with an appropriately spectacular production of a play by Tom Stoppard one of today’s greatest playwrights, smartly directed by Michael Halberstam. It was almost a four-star evening.
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Berkshire's Gonzo Poet Charles Giuliano Front Page
Berkshire Fine Arts, LLC Launches Total Gonzo Poems
By: - Mar 29th, 2016April is National Poetry Month. Berkshire Fine Arts, LLC announces the publication of two books Shards of a Life and Total Gonzo Poems by Berkshire poet and arts critic Charles Giuliano. In July, 1970 he coined the word gonzo while telling an outrageous story. He was the first to publish gonzo in a rock review that summer for the former daily Boston Herald Traveler. With these two books and a third nearing completion Giuliano has morphed gonzo journalism into a vibrant, hip, compelling form of cutting edge poetry.
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Niagara Falls Word
Spray and Pray
By: - Mar 28th, 2016Niagara Falls became a destination for Hudson River Artists seeking to paint the American Sublime. It was our first destination for many travel adventures.
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Nugent Women Word
Rockport's Irish Ladies
By: - Mar 27th, 2016The youngest of a landed Irish family, raised with bad habits, Patrick Nugent was given a one way ticket to America. He settled on Beaver Dam Farm in Rockport, Mass. His hard working peasant lass, Mary, bore a clan of twelve. The better to work the land. He made it an odd 13 by her sister.
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