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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • John Douglas Thompson on Ira Aldridge and Audra MacDonald Front Page

    Twenty Years in the Berkshires with Shakespeare & Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 23rd, 2015

    With the opening of Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company behind him John Douglas Thompson had time for a leisurely breakfast in Lenox. It was the latest in a series of interviews about his classical and contemporary roles that started with Othello in 2006. This is the first of two parts of that recent dialogue

  • Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight Front Page

    Comedy at Chicago's Windy City Playhouse,

    By: Nancy Bishop - Aug 22nd, 2015

    Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, the new sexy comedy at the Windy City Playhouse, is a comic farce with a coarse edge. Noel Coward it isn't.

  • Sculptor Charles Ray at Art Institute Front Page

    Works by Chicago Born Artist Until October 4

    By: Nancy Bishop - Aug 22nd, 2015

    Nineteen sculptures by Chicago-born sculptor Charles Ray fill three large galleries on the second floor of the Chicago Art Institute's Modern Wing through October 4.

  • To the Brave Artist Richard Harrington, Fine Arts

    Author of Harrington’s Geometries, Finite Infinities

    By: Stephen Rifkin - Aug 22nd, 2015

    The North Adams based poet Stephen Rifkin responds to an exhibition of the abstract geometric sculptures of Berkshire artist Richard Harrington.

  • John Guare Reading Planned for P'Town Festival Front Page

    More Stars Than There Are in Heaven Based on Tennessee Williams

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 21st, 2015

    During the tenth annual Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, September 24 to 27, there will be a staged reading of a work by John Guare "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" adapted from a short story by Williams.

  • Engagements By Lucy Teitler at Barrington Stage Front Page

    Millenials Hooking Up in World Premiere

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 20th, 2015

    What happens when a woman can't stand her best friend's finance but shags him anyway? It's only sex she reasons and I was drunk. That's about as deep as it gets in a millenial comedy Engagements by Lucy Teitler having a world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Lenox.

  • Soft Sticky Morning Word

    A Reverie

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Aug 19th, 2015

    Waxing poetic in the morning.

  • Kafkapalooza at First Floor Theatre Front Page

    Third Annual Chicago Litfest

    By: Nancy Bishop - Aug 19th, 2015

    Eight different playwrights dramatize or "are inspired by" one of the stories of Franz Kafka, the late great Czech storyteller, who tried to keep his unpublished works from being published after his death.

  • Artist and Activist Lloyd Oxendine (1942-2015) Front Page

    Worked to Promote Native American Art

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    The Lumbee Indian, Lloyd Oxendine, who died on August 5, held a BA in art history from Columbia where he also earned an MFA. From 1970-78 he ran a New York gallery dedicated to Native American Art. In 1972 he wrote what proved to be most of an issue of Art in American surveying 23 artists. For many years he was a brilliant and outspoken activist.

  • First Communion People

    Five and Five No Matter What

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    No matter what I confessed the penance was always the same; five Our Fathers and five Hail Marys. Everything came with the usual five and five.

  • Tanglewood Update Front Page

    BSO Departs Early to Launch European Tour

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    By all accounts from the audience to musicians and critics the BSO has never sounded better than under its young artistic director Andris Nelsons. The BSO has departed Tanglewood earlier than usual to start a European tour on August 22 through September 5. The BSO opens its fall season in October.

  • Vico Fabris Fantasy Botanicals Front Page

    Imaginalis at Provincetown’s Rice Polk Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    From August 20 to Septrember 10 the Italian born artist, Vico Fabbris, will exhibit Imaginalis at the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown. The artist invents exotic species of flowers in watercolor and more recently also with paint on canvas.

  • Rob Moore Fine Arts

    Second Effort

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    Critics don't always get it right. Particularly young ones.

  • My Bad Word

    Professional Differences

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    Comparing professions at a family gathering years ago.

  • The Sarasota Ballet Debut at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    Three Variations on Classical Dance

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2015

    For their Jacob's Pillow debut The Sarasota Ballet presented three of the 123 ballets they perform. The company is best know for its commitment to the work of the British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.

  • Martin Sherman's Bent Revived in LA Front Page

    At Mark Taper Forum Until August 23

    By: Jack Lyons - Aug 17th, 2015

    When playwright Martin Sherman came upon a reference to “pink triangles” in the 1976 play “As Time Goes By”, according to program notes written by American Theatre Magazine editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt, the eureka moment for Sherman was the key element in the creation of his play “Bent”, which went on to debut in London’s West End in 1979, and then on Broadway in 1980.

  • Saints Word

    Relics and Miracles.

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2015

    When a kid in chapel at Mt. Alvernia many a time we kissed the relics. Little slivers of saints under glass. Cures for whatever and forgiveness of sin.

  • An Intervention by Mike Bartlett Front Page

    Olivier Award Winner Anchors WTF's Nikos Stage Season

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2015

    Three time Oliver Award winner Mike Bartlett's An Intervention is having its American premiere anchoring the Nikos Stage programming of the Williamstown Theater Festival. The clever and verbose two hander is being staged with two rotating casts. We saw it with Josh Hamilton and Justin Long.

  • John Douglas Thompson in Red Velvet at S&Co;. Front Page

    Awesome First US Production of Powerful Lolita Chakrabarti Play

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 15th, 2015

    John Douglas Thompson is astonishing in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet which continues until September 13 at Shakespeare & Company. It tells the true life story of Ira Aldridge the first artist of color to portray Othello on the London stage in 1833.

  • Exploring Mexican Cuisine Food

    Vallarta Food Tours

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 14th, 2015

    In addition to the Pitallal neighborhood tour, Vallarta Food Tours offers a day tour that explores Puerto Vallarta’s centro and old town neighborhoods, with sampling of mole enchiladas, traditional ceviche tostadas, tacos from an authentic taco stand, traditional drinks, and regional candies.

  • Crushed Fine Arts

    Transforming Judds into Chamberlains

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 14th, 2015

    How rejected galvanized metal cubes by the artist Donald Judd were transformed into vintage sculptures by John Chamberlain.

  • Siesta to Semester Word

    End to Lazy Days of Summer

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2015

    Few jobs offer more vacation time than teaching. But the approach of Labor Day and back to school filled me with dread starting on the Fourth of July. By then summah was ovah.

  • John Guare's Adapted His Girl Friday Front Page

    Screwball Comedy at Barrington Stage Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2015

    For vintage screwball comedy the John Guare rewrite of His Girl Friday, directed for Barrington Stage by Julliane Boyd, is just awesomely hilarious. It stars Christpher Innvar as the veteran editor and master manipulator Walter Burns, and the wonderful Jane Pfitsch as his ex and star reporter Hildy Johnson. This is the side splitting hit of the Berkshire season,.

  • Tom Krens Proposes a New North Adams Museum Front Page

    The Global Contemporary Collection and Museum Planned for Route Two

    By: Charles giuliano - Aug 12th, 2015

    While director of the Williams College Museum of Art Tom Krens initiated plans for Mass MoCA. When he left for a 20 year career at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that project moved forward under Joe Thompson. Now Krens, a Williams graduate and Williamstown home owner, is proposing to create a for profit museum on leased land fronting the high traffic corridor between MoCA, Williams College and the newly expanded and renovated Clark Art Institute.

  • New Musical The Boy from Oz Front Page

    Based on Songs and Stories of Peter Allen

    By: Nancy Bishop - Aug 11th, 2015

    We meet Peter Allen as a dance-obsessed kid (played by Garrett Hershey) growing up in rural Australia, then forming a duo and performing in clubs. A chance meeting with Judy Garland (Nancy Hays) results in Allen opening for Garland in London and the U.S. and marrying her daughter, Liza Minnelli (Michelle Lauto).

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