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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Playwright Robert Brustein Word
Over Exposed
By: - Dec 16th, 2015During graduate school I ran the candy concession at the Loeb Drama Center. When Robert Brustein left Yale to form American Repertory Theatre we were season subscribers. Each year one play was brilliant, two or three just so so, and one an absolute stinker. After a few seasons it wasn't worth it. Arts Fuse editor, Bill Marx, harshly reviewed his new play.
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Paella Word
The Sound of Silence
By: - Dec 16th, 2015On a bright, clear, radiant Sunday morning in Barcelona we visited the Picasso Museum. Wandering down side streets we explored to find a neighborhood bistro for lunch. There we observed something that still haunts us.
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Walking the Dead Front Page
Push Comes to Poetic Shove
By: - Dec 15th, 2015In matters poetic Stephen Rifkin is my mentor/ tormentor. In "Penelope" about the faithful wife of Odysseus I compared her to that slut Helen of Troy. He posted a similarity to his "Helen on the Beach" which I promptly read but failed to see the connection. I raised this issue during our weekly Monday night Chinese. He sent this further commentary which I suggested we post. Now you dear reader can be a part of the dialogue.
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Tanglewood Adds Brian Wilson and Chris Botti Front Page
June is Busting Out All Over
By: - Dec 15th, 2015Hey kids get out your calendars. The 2016 season is beginning to shape up. OK James Taylor is returning to Tanglewood over the Fourth of July. But the season will be old by then. The fun starts at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 11 with The National. That's almost as wicked cool as Wilco. Then Surf's Up on June 19. It's a day gig so no curfew when Brian Wilson presents his iconic Pet Sounds in its entirety. Multivalent trumpet ace Chris Botti slips into Ozawa Hall, where we have seen him before, on June 24. By front loading the season in such a manner July will seem like so over man.
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Bilo Word
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Jacob's Pillow 2016 Front Page
Star Studded Season in Becket
By: - Dec 15th, 2015Highlights of Jacob's Pillow Festival 2016 include a world premiere engagement created by tap dance powerhouses Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Derick K. Grant, and Jason Samuels Smith; former New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan and choreographer Brian Brooks in an evening of new duets and solos, accompanied by eminent string quartet Brooklyn Rider; rare U.S. appearances by France-based Compagnie Hervé KOUBI and Korea-based contemporary ensemble Bereishit Dance Company; the explosive Che Malambo of Argentina; and the return of the beloved Seattle-based company Pacific Northwest Ballet.
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Classics Word
Ode to Thalia Howe
By: - Dec 15th, 2015At Brandeis I studied the classics with one of the worst professors, the dreadful C+ Earle, as well as the best, Thalia Howe. She was beautiful and Greek a perfect synergy to love her as much as poetry and theatre. During a later trying time she was caring and kind.
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Stuff Word
Treasures and Trash
By: - Dec 14th, 2015Baby boomers all at one, a tsunami, retired. Empty-nesters downsize from house, to condo, to Florida then assisted living. Along the way dumping stuff from treasures to trash. Dealers and appraisers say the market is flooded. Nothing is worth what you thought it was. Don't believe the Antiques Road Show it's just for entertainment.
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MASS MoCA Winter Spring Front Page
Upcoming Exhibitions and Performances.
By: - Dec 14th, 2015MASS MoCA has many highlights in its schedule for exhibitions and performances. Start to mark our calendars particularly for the June 11 exclusive performance of The National which is sure to sell out in a flash.
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The National To Perform at MASS MoCA Front Page
Only East Coast Gig on June 11.
By: - Dec 14th, 2015The National will be in North Adams on Saturday, June 11, at 8pm, in its only Northeast headline show in all of 2016. The concert benefits MASS MoCA and Hawthorne Valley Association, in Ghent, New York. The Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band, which consists of vocalist Matt Berninger, plus two pairs of brothers: Aaron Dessner (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott Devendorf (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums), have landed on every “best of” list in print.
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John Douglas Thompson Touring with Satchmo Front Page
Spring in New York with Strindberg and Ibsen
By: - Dec 14th, 2015From April 30 to June 12, 2016 at Theatre for a New Audience Arin Arbus will direct John Douglas Thompson in Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and August Strindberg’s “The Father.” They will be presented in repertory. Previously he performed as Judge Brack in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at the New York Theatre Workshop directed by Ivo von Hove but this will be his first role in a Strindberg play.
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Straight White Men in Culver City Front Page
Kirk Douglas Theatre Premieres Comedy
By: - Dec 14th, 2015The boys always gather at Christmas time to be with their widowed father where all get to ham it up, tease one another and play the games of their youth as a way of diverting the boredom of the three day holiday. California's Kirk Douglas Theatre premieres a play by the New Yorker Young Jean Lee.
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Penelope Word
Stay at Home Mom
By: - Dec 14th, 2015The true hero of the Odyssey is not Odysseus but in fact his fair and faithful wife Penelope. Some twenty years on she waited for his return.
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Gonzo Shine Front Page
Roots of the Poetry of Charles Giuliano
By: - Dec 13th, 2015The critical essay "Gonzo Shine" was written by Robert Henriquez on the occasion of the publication of Total Gonzo Poems by Charles Giuliano. He was also essayist for the first book Shards of a Life. Here Henriquez further explores the development and sources for gonzo poetry. These ideas germinated through an ongoing dialogue as the work developed and morphed into a signature style.
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Free Willie Word
At 83 Still on the Road Again
By: - Dec 13th, 2015The IRS claimed Willie Nelson owed them $32 million. That's a lot of scratch that near to done him in. Got past that but nixed the retirement fund. Now 83 he's still touring with a nice buzz on. Standing tall for Outlaw Country in the land of the almost free.
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Der Alte Stil Word
The Darkening Late Works of Artists
By: - Dec 12th, 2015In the arts the term Der Alte Stil defines the torment and life experience of the late works of artists. There is a contrast with the bright, sensual optimism expressed by the notion of juvenalia. It is common that with time and the trials of life the arts morph exploring the depths of the dark side.
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Fresco Cycles Word
From Archaic to Classical
By: - Dec 12th, 2015In fresco cycles we see how artists morph and become more experimental and expressive from beginning to end. The act of making art and the commitment to a sustained project changes both the work as well as its creator. Consider the process as the morphology of self.
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Great Spirit Word
Lost Tribe
By: - Dec 11th, 2015Many Americans who go back a few generations claim remote Indian ancestors. Selling beads and rugs its a sales riff. When asked I had a different answer.
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Absurd but True Word
I Lost It at the Movies
By: - Dec 11th, 2015As Dan Quayle said "One's mind if a terrible thing to loose." Not that it really mattered.
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Stoop to Conquer Word
Simple Tasks No Longer So
By: - Dec 11th, 2015Cutting back, slowing down, getting rid of stuff. Phase of life when mundane tasks and routines are not so. As Kurtz said in the cave "The Horror. The Horror." But not so dramatic more the murmur of quiet agita.
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Visiting Kyoto Japan Front Page
Exploring Ancient Samurai Culture
By: - Dec 10th, 2015Kyoto is one of the most beautiful cities in Japan and center for the appreciation of its ancient Samurai culture.
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ICA Acquires Works by Women Artists Front Page
The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women
By: - Dec 10th, 2015The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women, established at the ICA in 2014, represents three decades of collecting by Lee and brings together painting, sculpture, photography, and videography by iconic modern and contemporary women artists.
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Tom Krens Develops Business as a Museum Front Page
A For Profit Paradigm for North Adams
By: - Dec 08th, 2015Tom Krens joined the Guggenheim Foundation in 1988 when museums were attempting to transform to business models. Now, for North Adams he is developing Global Contemporary Art Museum. In a new paradigm it is being privately funded as a for profit institution. With reverse momentum he is establishing a business on the model of a fine arts museum.
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Tom Krens Has Plans for Northern Berkshires Front Page
Discusses Williamstown to North Adams Cultural Corridor
By: - Dec 07th, 2015For seven years former Guggenheim Foundation director, Tom Krens, made grueling monthly trips to China. He declines to discuss how he was "beaten down" in negotiations with the Chinese. He has opted to develop two museum level projects closer to home. Krens, a Williams alumnus and former director of its museum, initiated what is now Mass MoCA. He left decades ago but has maintained a residence in Williamstown.
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Noel Coward's Fallen Angel Front Page
Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center to January 10
By: - Dec 07th, 2015Noel Coward is known as the playwright of brittle, witty Roaring Twenties drawing room comedies such as Blithe Spirit, Design for Living, Private Lives and Hay Fever, which are part of the regular repertoire for theaters all over the world. Fallen Angels, a 1923 play, is not as well known and reviewers considered it vulgar and risqué when first produced in 1925 in London and in 1927 in New York.
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