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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Lady Day Word
Queen of Jazz Royalty
By: - Mar 04th, 2016That amazing Carnegie Hall concert, fresh out of the slammer, voice cracked and broken but with impeccable swing the great Lady Day.
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Premiere of Now You See It Front Page
Farce at North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 03rd, 2016Alison Minick, Kern McFadden, David McBean, John Greenleaf, and Ruff Yeager are a winning ensemble cast who know their way around a classic farce when they are in one. It’s a delightful production that will tickle everyone’s funny bone.
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Ferrin Contemporary at Mass MoCA Front Page
RE—Reanimate, Repair, Mend and Meld
By: - Mar 03rd, 2016The exhibit at Ferrin Contemporary features work by contemporary artists whose pieces imitate, replicate, or honor inventive repairs of the past. Reanimate, Repair, Mend and Meld examines the current interest in materially related forms and graphic material by leading artists who exploit and explore surrounding issues. The show was originally presented as a special exhibition at the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair 2016.
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William Inge’s A Loss of Roses Front Page
Rarely Produced Play at Chicago's Raven Theatre
By: - Mar 03rd, 2016William Inge, author of a string of successful plays in the 1950s, was known for his depictions of midwestern small-town life in Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. He had a special sensitivity about solitary female characters such as the spinster schoolteacher in Picnic, the waitress in Bus Stop, and the housewife in Come Back, Little Sheba. Helen and Lila in A Loss of Roses are perceptively drawn characters in this repertory.
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Overview of Two Oscar Winners Front Page
Revenant and Son of Saul
By: - Mar 03rd, 2016Two of the most highly acclaimed films of this awards season have been Alejandro González Iñárritu's “The Revenant” and László Nemes’s “Son of Saul.” Oscars went to Iñárritu for Directing, Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor and Emmanuel Lubezki for Cinematography. Nemes’s “Son of Saul” won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Both films center on a protagonist in unimaginable torment. One survives through an obsession with vengeance, the other through an obsession with atonement.
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I Love You You're Pefect Now Change Front Page
Charleston's New Midtown Cabaret Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2016I Love You, You're Pefect, Now Change was originally an intimate Off Broadway musical revue about late 20th century romance.It is being given a lively and enjoyable production in Charleston's comfortable new Midtown Cabaret Theatre.
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Super Tuesday Word
When Mom Ran for Town Council
By: - Mar 01st, 2016When Mom called to tell me she was running for Brookline's Town Council I asked about her qualifications. She slammed down the phone. But really, I argued, you shouldn't vote for somebody just because the candidate is your mother! Today being Super Tuesday here in Massachusetts I recalled that intimate political encounter.
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Making the Berkshires Great Again Word
It's Going to Be Just Terrific
By: - Mar 01st, 2016This summer we're going to make the Berkshires great again. It's going to be just terrific. The tourists and money are going to be pouring in. It's going to be incredible.
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Tanglewood Adds Popular Artists Front Page
Rounding Out 2016 Season
By: - Feb 29th, 2016Depending on what acts are on tour it generally takes some time for the BSO to fill in the gaps with non classical programming. Of the four acts that have been added three have previously been featured at Tanglewood. In addition to previously announced artists Berkshire audiences will be offered Earth Wind and Fire, Jackson Browne, and Train. The dance band B-52s will appear with an evening of Pops.
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Scat Singer Annie Ross Word
Sings a Song of Basie
By: - Feb 28th, 2016The trio of Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and the British Annie Ross set blistering fast lyrics to the instrumentals of Basie standards. Boston Latin School classmate Ken Freed and I caught their gig at the Jazz Workshop in the 1950s. The nerdy Bill Sirril begged to tag along. He blew our cover and the waitress carded us. Now in her 80's Annie long ago returned to London.,
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Bobby Blue Bland Word
Memphis Blues Master
By: - Feb 27th, 2016Smooth and slick they compared the Memphis Blues master, Bobby Blue Bland, to Sinatra and Nat King Cole. What that killer horn section he blew the house down.
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Black Star Word
Ground Control from Major Tom
By: - Feb 27th, 2016Just before he died David Bowie released the dark, profound and haunting Black Star. This music from the beyond proves to be rock's first great requiem. The poem was inspired by am image from a stadium tour that has been pixelated and deconstructed. It evokes the abstracted disintegration of a once radiant pop star. Ashes to ashes.
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The Provenance Hotel Word
From the Merit of Light
By: - Feb 26th, 2016This is a poem revised and edited from his book The Merit of Light by Stephen Rifkin. The book was illustrated by his artist wife Wilma.
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Beckett for Just Three Bucks Front Page
Endgame at Williams '62 Center March 10 to 12
By: - Feb 25th, 2016Here is an offer you cannot refuse. Tickets are just three bucks for a student production of Beckett's Endgame. Such a deal! It is presented March 10 to 12 at the '62 Center in Williamstown. Theatre of the absurd is a challenge for actors as well as the audience.
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Spring Fever Word
Boys of Summer Weigh In
By: - Feb 25th, 2016The Red Sox eyes were bigger than his stomach when they forked over $95 milion for former World Series superstar the now rotund and fading Panda. In another pratfall the Sox hope to get what's left of a recycled Hanley Ramirez. Fat paychecks are no guarantee for winning teams.
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When Word
Existential Methadone
By: - Feb 23rd, 2016As a teenager there was the notion that when I grew up it would all make sense. All you had to do was keep the faith, stay out of trouble, work hard, and read the great books. Then became now and nothing adds up. Time and tide comes with more questions than answers.
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Why Word
I Read the News Today Oh Boy
By: - Feb 23rd, 2016God is love. Why then such indifference to the suffering of the faithful?
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2666 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre Front Page
Adapted from Roberto Bolaño's Massive Novel
By: - Feb 22nd, 2016The Goodman's production of the late Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666 takes five-and-a-half hours to unfold on stage. It’s a beautiful mess.
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Checkmate Word
The Game of Life
By: - Feb 22nd, 2016Death came for the Knight. But first they battled in a game of chess. With rare wine served by Philip Kampe.
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Where Word
D'ou venons nous
By: - Feb 21st, 2016Diseased and in pain, a Parisian in tropical paradise, Gauguin included existential questions in what was intended to be his last great work. He vomited the arsenic crawling home from the forest. In agony he survived for several more years. Indeed "D'ou venion nous, que sommes nous, ou allons nous."
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Who Word
No Easy Answers
By: - Feb 20th, 2016Lucifer taunted God by saying that Job only loves Him for enjoying His blessings. With each new affliction Job's suffering wife rebuked her husband invoking "Curse God and die." We put a call through opting not to suffer in silence.
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Gonzo With the Wind Word
Teen Dreams
By: - Feb 20th, 2016A comparison to Rhett Butler prompted me to read Gone with the Wind as a teenager.
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Bonnie Bonnie Scotland Front Page
You Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road
By: - Feb 20th, 2016During our 7 day trip, we visited a selection of the country’s top sites of historical significance, including the battlefields of Culloden and Glencoe and Skara Brae, the best preserved prehistoric village in northern Europe dating back to 3,000 B.C.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2016 Front Page
Lively Mix of Musicala Plays and Performances
By: - Feb 20th, 2016The Berkshire Theatre Group announces a full schedule of musicals, plays and performances at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield as well as its two stages in Stockbridge. The program includes events from June through October. As usual a musical, Little Shop of Horrors, opens at the Colonial just after the July 4th holiday weekend which launches high season in the Berkshires.
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An Act of GOD at LA's Ahmanson Theatre Front Page
By David Javerbaum Former Writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
By: - Feb 19th, 2016When GOD, the bearer of good or bad news, makes one of his rare appearances to his earth-bound children, he wisely chooses comedy as the medium of communication. The pain of hearing the truth is mercifully muted by audience laughter in his visit to the Ahmanson Theatre’s current production.
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