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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Bridges of Madison County Front Page
LA's The Ahmanson Theatre
By: - Dec 25th, 2015The musical Bridges of Madison Country premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It moved to Broadway for a successful run. Now it is being produced by regional companies. Jack Lyons reviews a production at The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Dad Cooked Word
In the Kitchen on Christmas Eve
By: - Dec 24th, 2015During the Holidays Dad gave the gift of food. His spicy Sicilians dishes were not always appreciated by our Irish cousins the Sullivans.
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Once Upon A Mattress an Off Broadway Gem Front Page
NY's Transport Group Theatre Company
By: - Dec 24th, 2015For a small play, on a small stage, in a relatively small theatre of 335 seats, with a ticket price one third that of Broadway, and 20 actors singing and dancing their hearts out, all backed by a 14 piece orchestra, a rarity both On and Off Broadway, Once Upon A Matress, is the best bang for your buck in the city.
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Berkshire Christmas Word
Tanglewood Shed Shuttered Until Summer
By: - Dec 24th, 2015Hey Charles- I like that! With my white beard and ample belly, I could join the club with you and Santa. Below is one of a long line of my holiday poems, first written in 2005 and updated this year. Merry Christmas!
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The Christians at Mark Taper Forum Front Page
To Hell in a Handbasket
By: - Dec 23rd, 2015“The Christians” revolve around a charismatic and highly successful Pastor Paul (an absolutely mesmerizing Andrew Garman) of a Christian congregation who suddenly announces during his Sunday homily that he has had a change of heart concerning the Bible’s representation of the place known as “Hell”. In fact, he claims there is no such place.
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Christmas Memories Front Page
Chinese Food and a Movie
By: - Dec 23rd, 2015Our Boston correspondent Mark Favermann grew up in the south and attended Washington and Lee. In his community Jews were definitely a minority. So his Christmas experience was quite different from that of friends and classmates.
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Peabody Essex Museum's Mellon Foundation Grant Front Page
Supports Native American Fellowships
By: - Dec 22nd, 2015The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will allow the museum to expand and strengthen its Native American Fellowship program.
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Visiting Santa Word
No Snow in the Berkshires
By: - Dec 22nd, 2015It's a few days before Christmas in the Berkshires. In all of December not a flake of snow. Predicted to hit 70 on Christmas day. Yikes, Global Warming is really mucked up. How will Santa land his sled? Kids are getting worried. On behalf of children of all ages I visited Santa for a reassuring chin wag.
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Julia Child Word
America's Original Top Chef
By: - Dec 20th, 2015Julia Child was a neighbor in Cambridge. Her butcher, Jack Savenor, was my landlord. During the 1960s her PBS show, The French Chef, introduced Americans to fine dining. At six feet she towered over gourmet kitchens.
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Winter's Tale Word
Ancient Secrets
By: - Dec 20th, 2015Secrets dancing in the flames through the dead of winter.
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Madam Bricktop Word
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today, Madam.
By: - Dec 20th, 2015Ancient and elegant, tall and slender Madam Bricktop, hostess of the Lost Generation, slowly and with measured grace sang Miss Otis Regrets. Cloe Porter wrote it for her. Then in her 80's it was a memorable night at Lulu White's in Boston's South End.
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Grade Inflation Word
B- the Old C+
By: - Dec 20th, 2015Imagine driving over a bridge or visiting the emergency room in the hands of an engineer or doctor who was a C+ student. Kids now party and float through college. Not that we were different. But we read the books.
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Toledo Word
Once Home to Scholars
By: - Dec 19th, 2015Classical learning returned to Europe through Islamic, Christian and Jewish scholars in medieval Toledo. That stopped after the ethnic/ religious cleansing of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella. That's what Trump proposes by sealing borders, deporting illegals and banning muslims.
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Visiting Israel Front Page
Food and Wine
By: - Dec 19th, 2015Israel, the Promised land of the Bible, is today a modern, thriving, bustling and vibrant country. In today’s Israel, cities, towns, villages, fertile farms, green forests, sophisticated industries and well-developed commercial enterprises have replaced barren hillsides, swamps and desert wilderness.
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Straitsmouth Light 2 Word
By the Sea in Winter
By: - Dec 19th, 2015Lobster traps piled high for winter. When the dogs go south.
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Pope Francis Word
Rubbing Noses
By: - Dec 19th, 2015Last night Pope Francis was in town. As a member of the media I got a one on one. The love was palpable. Everything you read about him was true.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2016 Front Page
Winter/ Spring Schedule
By: - Dec 18th, 2015Music at The Colonial Theatre includes, legendary reggae band, The Wailers (part of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival); Grammy Award-winning pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, Richard Marx; Grammy Award-winning Walking In Memphis singer, Marc Cohn and “the godfather of British blues,” John Mayall.
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Alice's Restaurant Word
Now Fifty Years Ago
By: - Dec 18th, 2015Can you believe it? Alice's Restaurant now fifty years later. Still accused of writing a scandalous article. Actually a cover story for Boston Sunday Herald Traveler Magazine. Nobody remembers that. Alice now lives in P'Town.
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Playwright Robert Brustein Word
Over Exposed
By: - Dec 16th, 2015During graduate school I ran the candy concession at the Loeb Drama Center. When Robert Brustein left Yale to form American Repertory Theatre we were season subscribers. Each year one play was brilliant, two or three just so so, and one an absolute stinker. After a few seasons it wasn't worth it. Arts Fuse editor, Bill Marx, harshly reviewed his new play.
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Paella Word
The Sound of Silence
By: - Dec 16th, 2015On a bright, clear, radiant Sunday morning in Barcelona we visited the Picasso Museum. Wandering down side streets we explored to find a neighborhood bistro for lunch. There we observed something that still haunts us.
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Walking the Dead Front Page
Push Comes to Poetic Shove
By: - Dec 15th, 2015In matters poetic Stephen Rifkin is my mentor/ tormentor. In "Penelope" about the faithful wife of Odysseus I compared her to that slut Helen of Troy. He posted a similarity to his "Helen on the Beach" which I promptly read but failed to see the connection. I raised this issue during our weekly Monday night Chinese. He sent this further commentary which I suggested we post. Now you dear reader can be a part of the dialogue.
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Tanglewood Adds Brian Wilson and Chris Botti Front Page
June is Busting Out All Over
By: - Dec 15th, 2015Hey kids get out your calendars. The 2016 season is beginning to shape up. OK James Taylor is returning to Tanglewood over the Fourth of July. But the season will be old by then. The fun starts at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 11 with The National. That's almost as wicked cool as Wilco. Then Surf's Up on June 19. It's a day gig so no curfew when Brian Wilson presents his iconic Pet Sounds in its entirety. Multivalent trumpet ace Chris Botti slips into Ozawa Hall, where we have seen him before, on June 24. By front loading the season in such a manner July will seem like so over man.
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Bilo Word
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Jacob's Pillow 2016 Front Page
Star Studded Season in Becket
By: - Dec 15th, 2015Highlights of Jacob's Pillow Festival 2016 include a world premiere engagement created by tap dance powerhouses Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Derick K. Grant, and Jason Samuels Smith; former New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan and choreographer Brian Brooks in an evening of new duets and solos, accompanied by eminent string quartet Brooklyn Rider; rare U.S. appearances by France-based Compagnie Hervé KOUBI and Korea-based contemporary ensemble Bereishit Dance Company; the explosive Che Malambo of Argentina; and the return of the beloved Seattle-based company Pacific Northwest Ballet.
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Classics Word
Ode to Thalia Howe
By: - Dec 15th, 2015At Brandeis I studied the classics with one of the worst professors, the dreadful C+ Earle, as well as the best, Thalia Howe. She was beautiful and Greek a perfect synergy to love her as much as poetry and theatre. During a later trying time she was caring and kind.
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