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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Geneva by George Bernard Shaw Front Page
Staged Reading at Chicago's Ruth Page Theater
By: - Sep 21st, 2015Shaw Chicago's new production of Geneva a 1938 play is another in its concert readings, performed by 12 costumed actors who clearly revel in the richness of Shaw's dialogue and characterizations. Director Robert Scogin takes advantage of the script's humor, political passions and ethnic stereotypes to stage a production that is funny and smart, and loaded with Shaw's diatribes against every form of political organization and chicanery.
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Former ICA Director Milena Kalinovska Front Page
Discusses the ICA and New Challenges for the National Gallery in Prague
By: - Sep 19th, 2015This fall, under director Jill Medvedow, for the first time during her administration, the ICA will present a much anticipated historical exhibition surveying the impact of Black Mountain College on the post war American avant-garde. Under her predecessors, Milena Kalinovska and David Ross, there were many such projects. We spoke with Kalinovska about her Boston years as she prepared to depart with a three year contract as director of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery in her native Prague.
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The Bet Directed by Finola Hughes Front Page
End of Summer Teen Flick
By: - Sep 18th, 2015As “the Bet” plays itself out in this lighthearted, sort of silly but sweet rite of passage movie, Libby, Addison’s mom, also begins to date again after the death of her husband of several years ago.
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Bonsai Word
A Forty-year-old Ficus
By: - Sep 18th, 2015We don't keep pets but in a way plants are among our loved ones. Astrid nurses them through winter but gave up on the diseased bonsai riddled with sticky leaves and scale. With last ditch triage I removed the leaves and pruned it to a stump. We changed the soil a team effort that has now seemingly paid off. At least for now.
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Exorcising Black Mass Front Page
Whitewashing the Bulgers and Southie
By: - Sep 18th, 2015Under a ton of makeup to get the look Johnny Depp is pretty good as Whitey Bulger. But, lets face it, when it comes to epic crime flicks he pales by comparison to Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in the Godfather. In directing Black Mass at best Scott Cooper is a Martin Scorsese or Mario Puzo wannabe.
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Anniversary Word
Say it with Flowers
By: - Sep 17th, 2015On Wednesday nights I rushed from one teaching gig to another. Touching base at home in East Boston before a commute to U. Mass Lowell. Always bought a bouquet of flowers at the Arlington T stop. It was a weekly ritual that now and then I forgot. Until the first frost Astrid has bouquets in every room.
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Best Tent Word
Not a Neat Freak
By: - Sep 14th, 2015Part of camp was learning to make beds and keep a neat tent. It was something that just didn't interest me.
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Summer Camp Word
First Winona Then Loon Pond
By: - Sep 14th, 2015Camp Winona, for rich kids, had all the perks. Joined Troop Ten at Chestnut Hill. That summer I turned down Winona to be with my pals at Loon Pond a Boy Scout camp for inner city kids. You got a Merit Badge just for surviving the summer and going home alive.
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Other People Opinion
Why Infinity Is Not
By: - Sep 13th, 2015The infinity of time and space is not. The only limitation is an ability to understand. For all else there's God.
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Flynn Foundation Word
Built on Rockport Granite
By: - Sep 13th, 2015The Irish rebels, Edward, my great grandfather, and Patrick Flynn, members of Sinn Féin fled to Montreal in the 1920s. They made their way to Concord, New Hampshire then worked the quarries of Cape Ann. My grandfather, James, married Mary a Nugent of Rockport.
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Tournament Word
Rocks Covered in People
By: - Sep 12th, 2015Catching the last of the beach as summer turns to autumn.
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Alan Ginsberg Word
Howling in Harvard Square
By: - Sep 12th, 2015In 1997 as a part of the annual Lowell Kerouac Festival, with curator Linda Poras, we organized two exhibitions celebrating the Beat Generation. I met Alan Ginsberg for lunch in Harvard Square not long before he died. We talked about the best minds of his generation gone mad in the naked streets of boring Post War America. The Beats were an inspiration to hipsters growing up absurd in suburbia.
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Outside the Lines Word
No Rules for Making Art
By: - Sep 11th, 2015The nuns told us to color inside the lines. Turkeys for Thanksgiving. Santa Claus for Christmas. In the fury of creation I never followed the rules. Not then and certainly not now.
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When Phyllis Got Robbed Word
Dated Son of the Don
By: - Sep 11th, 2015We met during high school Saturday art classes at Mass Art. Later at RISD Phyllis dated Ray, Jr. the son of the Don.
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Old Blue Eyes Music
Singer for the Dons
By: - Sep 11th, 2015By the time Sinatra played the Music Hall in Boston there wasn't much left of The Voice. But he had the chops to sell a song long after the pipes had rusted. Up close and personal I had choice seats in a special section of New England mafia royalty.
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Blood Word
The Celtic Disease
By: - Sep 10th, 2015Hemochromotosis is a blood disease, manifested in middle age, that is unique to those of Irish/ Celtic heritage. It killed a cousin and may have been the cause of the demise of my great grandfather Patrick Nugent.
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Annisquam Word
Growing Up Absurd
By: - Sep 09th, 2015Growing up absurd in Annisquam. Merry prankster the progigal returned to read local poems at the Village Library.
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Nutcracker Word
Bathing in the Frigid Atlantic
By: - Sep 09th, 2015Taking a plunge in the cold Annisquam River.
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Crosscurrents Word
Tracking Nugent Heritage
By: - Sep 09th, 2015The Nugents are more French than Irish it would seem. Tracking family history back to 930 AD in the village of Nogent in France.
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Good Harbor Beach Word
Once Nugent Family Property
By: - Sep 09th, 2015The Nugent family homestead, rented from the Babsons in 1875, was abandoned and then torched in the 1920s. Of the clan of thirteen only George continued to farm. He bought a vast wedge of land that included all of Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester.
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Woodstock Music
Back Stage Perks
By: - Sep 08th, 2015Ditching the car with Joey and Amber we hiked to Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. There were a half million sitting through mud and rain at Woodstock. The fences came down but I had press credentials. We made our way back stage.
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Harvest Moon People
Pillow Talk
By: - Sep 08th, 2015Following my poetry reading at the Annisquam Village Library the cousins lingered. We enjoyed a rare gathering that was not a wedding or funeral. As the Irish tend to do we formed a circle and swapped outrageous tales. Topped by Kevin's account of the rigors of driving his dad, the cantankerous Judge A.E. Flynn, from Florida to his summer home in East Gloucester.
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Susan Hall Music
Phantoms of the Opera
By: - Sep 07th, 2015During a holiday visit to New York critic Susan Hall treated me to nose bleed seats at the Met for Aida.
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Violet at San Diego Repertory Theatre Front Page
Evocative Jeanine Tesori Musical
By: - Sep 06th, 2015The ensemble cast of mainly Equity performers, make this touching 90 minute, no intermission production about the fragility of life and the quixotic-like hopes and dreams required to cope with its many difficult choices, a production not to be missed. It runs through September 13. 2015.
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Soft Corduroy Word
Here Comes the Sun
By: - Sep 06th, 2015Sunrise red paints the topside of a white cabin cruiser.
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