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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On Hearing Delius Word
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Gauthier Dance at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
By: - Jul 08th, 2016Nine years ago the Montreal born choreographer Eric Gauthier started a company with six dancers. The Stuttagart based group is performing with week with 16 international dancers. It is thriving with the generous support of Mercedes and Porsche which manufacture luxury cars in that industrial city.
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Right or Wrong Word
Then and Now
By: - Jul 08th, 2016The architect Frank Lloyd Wright was opinionated and outspoken. He shocked Bostonians with incisive remarks at the venerable Copley Society.
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Zig or Zag Word
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Puck Magazine Exhibition in Chicago Front Page
19th Century Humor Magazine at Driehaus Museum
By: - Jul 06th, 2016Puck, the 19th century literary-political-humor magazine, was revolutionary in ridiculing everything about Gilded Age society through cartoons created by gifted artists of the period. With a Wink and a Nod: Cartoonists of the Gilded Age is the new exhibit from Puck magazine on view at the Driehaus Museum, a magnificent 19th century mansion just off Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
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Mangia Bene Word
We Are What We Eat
By: - Jul 06th, 2016Decades ago in Boston's Sicilian North End I invited my friend Phil Bleeth to join me for lunch at an excellent neighborgood cafeteria. He was blown away when I ordered the rolled pig skins over pasta.
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Grapes of Wrath in Chicago Front Page
Gift Theatre Production
By: - Jul 05th, 2016The Gift Theatre’s eloquent new production of The Grapes of Wrath is a story of Dust Bowl migrants during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it bears witness to many of the personal tragedies of today’s ongoing Great Recession.
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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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