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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Old Miss Word
Lowering the Confederate Flag
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Through the consensus of students and faculty the state flag of Mississippi, with its confederate stars and bars, no longer is raised on the campus of Old Miss. The heritage of slavery dies hard in the land where cotton was king.
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Muddy Waters Music
Got His Mojo Working
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Young British rockers Stones, Yardbirds, Clapton, Beck lapped up Muddy's licks on those iconic Chess Records. Copped his tunes some morphed from Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues. Always a thrill when he came to town and held court.
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Vines Word
Fences and Neighbors
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Good fences make good neighbors. Particularly when swathed in vines.
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Sammo Word
Body Count
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Poetics of the grim reaper. Account of whom the gods love.
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1984 at Steppenwolf in Chicago Front Page
Theatre for a Young Audience
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Andrew White's careful adaptation of 1984, directed by Hallie Gordon, brings the story to life in the person of Winston (Adam Poss), who secretly hates Big Brother and the IngSoc party, misses chocolate and fears rats.
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Theseus Word
In and Out
By: - Oct 26th, 2015Going deep into confronting works of art and performances. Bombarded by every more fragmented nuggets and facets of information. Formed into some cohesion then finding the thread back out. Always leaving something behind. Ritual sacrifice to the muse binding the wounds of critical thinking.
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Miller's All My Sons Front Page
California's A Noise Within Theatre
By: - Oct 25th, 2015America went to war in 1941, but not all of America. There were those who had to stay at home and man the war industries of building airplanes, ships and the weapons of war. “All My Sons”, nicely directed by ANW co-founder Geoff Elliott centers around the Keller family of a fictional Ohio city set in 1946.
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Milestones Word
Turning the Corner
By: - Oct 25th, 2015Places to go and things to be done. Hacking and coughing waking up to first day of 75th year.
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Kicks Word
From Beatle Boots to Docksiders
By: - Oct 24th, 2015After a year or more shoes are like old friends. Well worn and beat up they glide easy where you want to go. Now 75 it's not about fashion. Back in the day it was strictly Beatle Boots and pimp kicks from Crystal's in the Zone.
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Stagestruck City Front Page
Chicago's Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman
By: - Oct 24th, 2015Special exhibition explores the origins of the historic Goodman Theatre in Chicago. It's on view at the Newberry Library through December 31.
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Class Distinctions at the MFA Front Page
Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
By: - Oct 22nd, 2015There are 75 works in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston exhibition Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer curated by Ronni Baer. Of the marquee artists there are two paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and four by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
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At the Movies Front Page
The Martian, Bridge of Spies, Everest
By: - Oct 19th, 2015Last week we binged at the movies. This included The Martian, Bridge of Spies, and Everest. They are all likely to be award winners in various categories but overall we found Everest to be most compelling and entertaining.
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Unequivocal Word
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Subway Sirens Word
Queens of the T
By: - Oct 17th, 2015All over the T in every station that same girl in the ubiquitous Ann Taylor ads selling attitude and generic career girl fashions.
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Michael Yates Crowley Outrageous at Oberon Front Page
Cabaret Theatre Conflates Migraines and Ayn Rand
By: - Oct 16th, 2015The title of the Michael Yates Crowley cabaret play directed and co starring Michael Rau "Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (In the Lydian Mode)" is long winded and overly ambitious. But brace yourself for a gender bending evening of gonzo cabaret at Oberon in Camridge
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Appropriate at Mark Taper Forum Front Page
Dark Comedy by Obie Winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
By: - Oct 16th, 2015The Mark Taper Forum is currently presenting “Appropriate”, a dark comedic drama written by Obie Winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Eric Ting. For some audiences watching the play it must feel a little like driving past a roadside traffic fatality. We know we shouldn’t stare at the tragedy, but it’s so damn fascinating and riveting that it’s difficult to take one’s eyes away from the mayhem.
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No Beast So Fierce Adapts Richard III Front Page
Chicago's Oracle Productions
By: - Oct 14th, 2015The number of characters played by the cast of eight has by necessity been reduced to 14 from the 35 to 40 in Shakespeare's version. Cramming all of Richard III into 90 minutes means eliminating some nuances and character motivations.
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An Iliad at Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Michael F. Toomey Delivers Epic Performance
By: - Oct 11th, 2015The Trojan War was likely to have occurred circa 1,200 B.C. It spawned the epic poem The Iliad which was passed along by troubadours and finally transcribed with the development of Ancient Greek around 800 B.C. In a riveting 90 minute, one man show for Shakespeare & Company, Michael F. Toomey provides excerpts and contemporary commentary on one of the founding works of Western literature.
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Letter to Chris Busa Word
For No Good Reason
By: - Oct 10th, 2015For no good reason. Remembering recent encounters in Provincetown I wrote to my friend Chris Busa. We don't do this often enough. Every thought and impulse evokes the best and worst of us. How Pinteresque.
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Bicycle Thief Word
Like Gatsby
By: - Oct 10th, 2015My French friend Alain Didot was a dead ringer for film star Alain Delon. But in spirit was more like Genet or Belmondo in Breathless. Today in an e mail from Thailand Phil Bleeth mentioned our existential friend which inspired these lines.
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Harvard Mug Word
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Mingus Ah Um Word
Pithecanthropus Erectus
By: - Oct 09th, 2015Mingus and Monk were stone cold gone. Another way of saying total out there genius.
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Boston Theatre: More Bad News Front Page
Emerson College Converting Colonial Theatre into Student Center
By: - Oct 09th, 2015If bad luck comes in threes what's next for the Boston theatre community. Today we have reported on the break up of a 33-year-old relationship between the Huntington Theatre Company and Boston University. Now we report news the Emerson College, the owner of the 115-year-old Colonial Theatre has plans to convert it into a student center. These developments were predicted several years ago by then NEA chair Rocco Landesman. As he suggests, here in the Berkshires, there are too many arts organizations pursuing the same limited potential donors.
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Crisis for Boston Theatre Front Page
Huntington Theatre Company and BU to End Relationship
By: - Oct 09th, 2015For the past 33 years the partnership between The Huntington Theatre Company and Boston University has provided superb theatre to audiences of up to 200,000. In addition to the Huntington Avenue venue it created the Calderwood Pavilion in 2004 in Boston’s South End.
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Dizzy Music
Grroving High with a Bahai
By: - Oct 08th, 2015I named by parakeet Dizzy Gillespie. Hanging with iconic hipster in a cruise of Boston Harbor with arts elder Elma Lewis.
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