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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E Pluribus Unum Word
Syrians Not Welcome in Massachusetts
By: - Nov 21st, 2015Unless you are Native American we are all immigrants or their descendants. The fear of admitting terrorists is palpable but has frozen our hearts and compassion for Syrians fleeing the horrors of war. The Statue of Liberty has lost its meaning.
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ATCA at Sardi’s Front Page
A Traditional Lunch with Broadway Stars
By: - Nov 20th, 2015A feature of the New York conferences of the American Theatre Critics Association is a lunch with Broadway stars at Sardi's. It was my pleasure to introduce Marlee Matlin. Other guests were Tony winner, Michael Cerveris, actress Kathleen Chalfant, creator of legendary musicals (Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof, She Love Me) Sheldon Harnick, actor Brian D'Arcy James, Tony winner Judith Light, director Bartlett Sher, four time Emmy winner, Marlo Thomas, Tony winner Doug Wright and playwright Arthur Kopit.
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Tanglewood 2016 Front Page
Tickets on Sale January 24
By: - Nov 20th, 2015Highlights of the 2016 Tanglewood season include BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leading Boston Symphony Orchestra in Acts 1 & 2 of Verdi’s Aida with Kristine Opolais in the title role (8/20); Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (7/29); Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony (7/30); and music from Prokofiev’s Romeo And Juliet (8/21), plus music of Berlioz, Corigliano, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, and Tsontakis, as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert (7/31), an All-Brahms Program pairing the Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 1 with Paul Lewis as soloist.
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ATCA in New York Front Page
A Busman’s Holiday for Theatre Critics
By: - Nov 19th, 2015New York New York. It's a wonderful town. Critics from all over America gathered for a conference of the American Theatre Critics Association. It was co-chaired by the New York critics Sherry Eaker and Ira Bilowit. There were five insightful panels as well as the traditional Lunch at Sardi's with a dazzling array of special guests.
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A Week in Cuba Front Page
Have a Havana
By: - Nov 19th, 2015I spent last week in Cuba with a group of about 30 charming and interesting travelers as part of a Smithsonian Journeys tour. The week was fascinating and intellectually invigorating while also being tiring and enervating.
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Ibsen's Ghosts Front Page
Chicago's Mary-Arrchie Theatre
By: - Nov 19th, 2015Greg Allen's clever adaptation of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen is set "in a moribund historic store-front theater on the North Side of Chicago in its final season before it gets turned into bicycle storage for luxury condos." That about sums up the current state of Mary-Arrchie Theatre in its last season after 30 years of staging fine, thought-provoking theater.
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Never the Sinner Front Page
Thrill Murder in Chicago at Victory Gardens Theatre
By: - Nov 18th, 2015Never the Sinner is the story of Chicago's 1924 "crime of the century," its prelude, publicity and trial aftermath. It's retold in a tightly woven and acted play at Victory Gardens Theater.
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Visionary Artist Paul Laffoley Front Page
World Renowned Except in Boston
By: - Nov 18th, 2015When I curated a solo exhibition of work by the Visionary artist Paul Laffoley it was his first Boston show in 20 years. The exhibition was ignored by the Boston Globe. A few years later, during his brief time at the Globe, Ken Johnson declared Laffoley to be the most important Boston artist of his generation. In recent years he enjoyed national and international recognition
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Jack Lyons Word
Valulting Broadway Candlesticks
By: - Nov 16th, 2015An early member of Screen Actors Guild he is a voting member of The Academy. A highlight of the recent theatre critics conference in New York was hanging out with my left coast pal the effervescent Jack Lyons. Like the big cats he slays me and is a killer with the chair and whip. The trick is keeping up with him while ducking the lashing wit.
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National Aviary in Pittsburgh Front Page
Birds of a Feather
By: - Nov 08th, 2015The National Aviary is open daily except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas. Although some of the birds must be fed in private, almost all feedings (both vegetarian and carnivorous) are scheduled to be viewable by visitors. Since 1999, annual attendance has consistently topped 100,000.
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Moby Dick Word
When What Is Probably Isn't
By: - Nov 08th, 2015As a teenager I read Moby Dick as an adventure story about whaling. My professor later told me what it was really about.
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Chapatti at North Coast Rep Front Page
The Lilt of Irish Laughter
By: - Nov 07th, 2015From the pen of Irish playwright Christian O’ Reilly, comes “Chapatti”, a tender, poignant, and charming tale that bubbles with the lilt of Irish laughter, wit and charm for which those silver-tongued Gaelic writer/philosophers are known.
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Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood at the Rose Front Page
Bimbo Kitsch As High Art
By: - Nov 06th, 2015The big boobs and porn of Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood at the Rose Art Museum are sure to delight some and offend many. With sensual, candy colors and finger licking erotic surfaces the Yale educated artist has made a nifty career of conflating high art and kitsch. If you visit this exhibition be sure to leave the kids and your inhibitions at home.
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Breaking Through at Pasadena Playhouse Front Page
World Premiere Musical
By: - Nov 06th, 2015The world premiere of “Breaking Through”, a musical with a book by Kirsten Guenther and music and lyrics by Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz, is now on stage at The Pasadena Playhouse under the direction of Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps.
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Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh Front Page
Installation by Chiharu Shiota
By: - Nov 06th, 2015The Mattress Factory, featuring site-specific installations created by artists in residence from around the world, was founded in 1977 by Artist Barbara Luderowski in a former Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh’s historic Central Northside.
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Black Mountain College: Truth or Dare Front Page
Curator Helen Molesworth Is Against Interpretation
By: - Nov 05th, 2015It took four years for former ICA curator Helen Molesworth and current one Ruth Erickson to organize 200 works by 100 artists as the landmark exhibition "Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957." In a provocative catalogue essay, however, Molesworth states why she has come to no easy conclusions about what occurred in Appalachia during the formative years of the American avant-garde.
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Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik Word
Avant-garde Icons
By: - Nov 04th, 2015I never knew quite how to respond to the TV installations of Nam June Paik and his performance collaborations with nude cellist Charlotte Moorman. Today they are regarded as pioneers of multi media art. Astrid was friends with them as fellows of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.
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Happy Hour at CV Rep Theatre Front Page
First World Premiere for California Company
By: - Nov 03rd, 2015“Happy Hour” centers around aging widower father Harry Townsend (Gavin Macleod) and his forty-year old son Alan (John Hawkinson) who come to grips with the vexing, but immutable, fact that aging is a human process that comes to most of us. The one longer lives, the tougher it becomes to accept it. A frequently asked question by people of a ‘certain age’ is ‘how did I get so old so quick?’
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Mom Cracked the Whip Word
Not Loosing a Step
By: - Nov 02nd, 2015Mom loved winters in Florida; West Palm Beach condo next to the ocean, with friends and neighbors. Until she got to old for the commute. Alone in Annisquam was hard. Pip came every day fixing supper and getting her ready for night on the porch then bed. She craved company but never spared the zingers. It was always an adventure to visit.
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Boston Theatre Update Front Page
Huntington Theatre Company Sanguine
By: - Nov 02nd, 2015Regarding Boston Theatre it is broke and time to fix it. This fall as one shoe after another dropped the Boston Theatre Community seemed to collapse like a house of cards. In 2004 through a partnership between Druker Development, Boston Center for the Arts and the Huntington Theatre Company the multi-stage Calderwood Pavilion was created in the South End. Is it possible that Huntington can swing a similar development to save, renovate and expand its antiquated facility? That's just a part of dramatic changes for the city.
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A Confederacy of Dunces Slated for World Premiere Front Page
Creative Team Dicusses Production for Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Nov 01st, 2015A Confederacy of Dunces was published in 1980 eleven years after John Kennedy Toole's suicide. Recently the creative team- adapter Jeffrey Hatcher, director David Esbjornson, and actor Nick Offerman- met with the media to discuss the production for Boston's Huntington Theatre Company. The comedy will run from November 11 through December 13.
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Lou Reed Word
Times Trash Talk
By: - Oct 31st, 2015Hung out to dry, nailed to the cross of rock 'n' roll, Lou Reed dies to save us from ourselves.
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This Cigar’s a Good Smoke Word
Burn Baby Burn
By: - Oct 29th, 2015J.M. Robert Henriquez, consigliore to Charles Giuliano in all matters creative and poetic, expands on the metaphor of a good cigar.
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Transition (75 Years) Word
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High Bush Word
Amigo Have a Cigar
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Anyone can write the easy ones. We all have a tale to tell. Then it gets harder. After harvesting the low hanging fruit you reach higher where the air is thin and clear.
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