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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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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The Flick at Steppenwolf in Chicago Front Page
Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-winning Script
By: - Feb 18th, 2016The Flick has a history of annoying playgoers. When the play premiered in 2013 at Playwrights Horizons, a well-regarded off-Broadway house in Manhattan, some subscribers were infuriated and threatened to cancel their subscriptions. And when I saw it at the Barrow Street Theatre in the Village last fall, a noticeable number of seats were empty after intermission. The Steppenwolf performance I attended was made up mainly of professional theatergoers, Jeff Committee members and press. No one left at intermission.
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Playwright David Ives Master of Short Form Front Page
The Metromaniacs at The Old Globe
By: - Feb 17th, 2016David Ives is a master at translation from French into English and then adapting the source material into a fresh play or a movie script. He likes to call the process: “translaptations”. Two of his “translaptations”; are two of my favorite Ives’ plays: “Venus in Fur” and “All in the Timing”.
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Snow White Is Super Grimm Front Page
Getting It On With Dwarfs at Minetta Lane
By: - Feb 16th, 2016This version of Snow White is for adults only. Here is a second opinion of a controversial New York production. This is a new twist in every sense of a fairy tale.
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Gloucester Stage Company 2016 Front Page
Israel Horovitz World Premiere
By: - Feb 16th, 2016The 2016 season features an Israel Horovitz world premiere, two New England premieres, the return of Academy Award-nominated actress, and Gloucester resident, Lindsay Crouse, Managing Director Jeff Zinn’s GSC directorial debut, the re-teaming of last season’s hit, Out of Sterno director Paula Plum and playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer, and the Gloucester Stage debut of Elliot Norton Award winner Benjamin Evett and Tony nominee Barbara Walsh.
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Who Are You Word
Seduced and Abandoned
By: - Feb 16th, 2016Marooned on the tiny tropical island of meaning and memory searching for identity.
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Of Mice and Men in Charleston Front Page
At Threshold Repertory Theatre
By: - Feb 15th, 2016The classic depression era tale Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is being given a compelling production by Threshold Repertory Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Where Oh Where Word
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Valentine Word
Not Quite Spring Cleaning
By: - Feb 14th, 2016Wicked cold outside. Not fit for man nor beast. A different twist on Valentine's Day.
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Thomas Merton's The Glory of the Word Front Page
Coney Island of the Mind
By: - Feb 14th, 2016Thomas Merton observed that the meditation exercises in the Buddhist tradition in many ways were more refined and subtle than those of Christianity and sought to integrate them into the monastic tradition of the Church without changing the importance of Christian notions of salvation. At a moment when his drift toward Eastern thought was picking up speed he died accidentally from electrocution due to bad wiring in a Thai hotel.
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The Glass Menagerie in Chicago Front Page
Hypocrites Production Revived by Hans Fleischmann
By: - Feb 14th, 2016This is a strong, sweet production but it’s not clear to me why it is remounted just 2.5 years after the last identical production. If you missed it before, do see it now. The Glass Menagerie runs 2.5 hours with one intermission; the Hypocrites production continues through March 6 .
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Vices and Virtues at Profiles Theatre Front Page
Several Short Plays by Neil LaBute
By: - Feb 13th, 2016A collection of 11 short plays by Neil LaBute is now being staged at the theater in Buena Park. Each play has its own cast and directors. Amazingly, in this 4.5 total hours of theater over two separate shows, there’s not a dog in the pack. Each play is sharp and memorable.
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