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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Turkeys Word
American Classic with a Gallic Flavor
By: - Nov 24th, 2015Invited to Thanksgiving some years ago by my uncle Bill Giuliano and his wife Esterre she served turkey cooked with a Gallic flavor. The bird was roasted with a white wine glaze. Inspired by her while celebrating we are sobered by the slaughter in Paris as well as those gunned down in American cities under siege through crime and racism.
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Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge Front Page
A Stark Minimalist Production by Ivo van Hove
By: - Nov 24th, 2015In the centennial year of the birth of Arthur Miller the Olivier winning production of A View from the Bridge, directed by Ivo van Hove, has transferred from London's West End to Broadway. Evoking a classical Greek tragedy the director has stripped down the play to its bare essentials. In one, two hour act it is a test of physical and emotion endurance for the actors and their audience. The edgy production pushes the envelope for new ways to approach the canon of contemporary theatre.
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Spring Awakening Revived on Broadway Front Page
The Sound of Silence
By: - Nov 23rd, 2015Spring Awakening closed its initial Broadway run in 2009. Since then there have been many regional productions of the musical with a great score and compelling story of coming of age during the brutal and repressive zeitgeist of late 19th century Germany. Perversions and lustmord were endemic themes of the Weimar Republic. Nobody excelled at this quite like the banned and convicted Frank Wedekind.
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Silversea Spirit Cruises the Meditteranian Front Page
From Venice to Athens
By: - Nov 23rd, 2015During a luxury tour of the Mediterranean we were wined and dined with an array of themed restaurants aboard the Silversea Spirit. After days of exploring on land it was a pleasure to return to the ship for relaxation and entertainment.
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The Radical Son a World Premiere Front Page
Threshold Repertory Theatre in Charleston
By: - Nov 23rd, 2015Chris Weatherhead directed a memorable and riveting play"A Radical Son" diligently maximizing the use of the intimate black-box stage at Threshold Repertory Theatre in Charleston by using on-screen images to coordinate with the minimalist on-stage props. The play is having its world premiere.
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The Arts in Cuba Front Page
Music for Breakfast and Studio Visits
By: - Nov 22nd, 2015While in Cienfuegos, we had some interesting musical entertainment. After walking around the square, we climbed several flights of stairs to hear a special concert by the Choir of Cienfuegos, a chorus of about 24 local men and women, who performed a concert of Cuban and international songs and show tunes. One of them, incongruously, was the American folk song, “Shenandoah.”
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Hamilton Hip-Hops on Broadway Front Page
Game Changing Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
By: - Nov 22nd, 2015Hamilton, the hip-hop opera by Lin-Manuel Miranda is the most refreshing, titubating, brilliant and exciting musical to grace Broadway in decades. It follows his earlier, award winning "In the Heights." Now in his mid thirties Miranda is an immense talent to be reckoned with for years to come. He is a force for change in American culture. This hit show is sure to run for years on Broadway followed by a national tour and tons of regional productions. Hamilton is the greatest invention since sliced bread.
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E Pluribus Unum Word
Syrians Not Welcome in Massachusetts
By: - Nov 21st, 2015Unless you are Native American we are all immigrants or their descendants. The fear of admitting terrorists is palpable but has frozen our hearts and compassion for Syrians fleeing the horrors of war. The Statue of Liberty has lost its meaning.
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ATCA at Sardi’s Front Page
A Traditional Lunch with Broadway Stars
By: - Nov 20th, 2015A feature of the New York conferences of the American Theatre Critics Association is a lunch with Broadway stars at Sardi's. It was my pleasure to introduce Marlee Matlin. Other guests were Tony winner, Michael Cerveris, actress Kathleen Chalfant, creator of legendary musicals (Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof, She Love Me) Sheldon Harnick, actor Brian D'Arcy James, Tony winner Judith Light, director Bartlett Sher, four time Emmy winner, Marlo Thomas, Tony winner Doug Wright and playwright Arthur Kopit.
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Tanglewood 2016 Front Page
Tickets on Sale January 24
By: - Nov 20th, 2015Highlights of the 2016 Tanglewood season include BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leading Boston Symphony Orchestra in Acts 1 & 2 of Verdi’s Aida with Kristine Opolais in the title role (8/20); Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (7/29); Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony (7/30); and music from Prokofiev’s Romeo And Juliet (8/21), plus music of Berlioz, Corigliano, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, and Tsontakis, as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert (7/31), an All-Brahms Program pairing the Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 1 with Paul Lewis as soloist.
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ATCA in New York Front Page
A Busman’s Holiday for Theatre Critics
By: - Nov 19th, 2015New York New York. It's a wonderful town. Critics from all over America gathered for a conference of the American Theatre Critics Association. It was co-chaired by the New York critics Sherry Eaker and Ira Bilowit. There were five insightful panels as well as the traditional Lunch at Sardi's with a dazzling array of special guests.
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A Week in Cuba Front Page
Have a Havana
By: - Nov 19th, 2015I spent last week in Cuba with a group of about 30 charming and interesting travelers as part of a Smithsonian Journeys tour. The week was fascinating and intellectually invigorating while also being tiring and enervating.
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Ibsen's Ghosts Front Page
Chicago's Mary-Arrchie Theatre
By: - Nov 19th, 2015Greg Allen's clever adaptation of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen is set "in a moribund historic store-front theater on the North Side of Chicago in its final season before it gets turned into bicycle storage for luxury condos." That about sums up the current state of Mary-Arrchie Theatre in its last season after 30 years of staging fine, thought-provoking theater.
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Never the Sinner Front Page
Thrill Murder in Chicago at Victory Gardens Theatre
By: - Nov 18th, 2015Never the Sinner is the story of Chicago's 1924 "crime of the century," its prelude, publicity and trial aftermath. It's retold in a tightly woven and acted play at Victory Gardens Theater.
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Visionary Artist Paul Laffoley Front Page
World Renowned Except in Boston
By: - Nov 18th, 2015When I curated a solo exhibition of work by the Visionary artist Paul Laffoley it was his first Boston show in 20 years. The exhibition was ignored by the Boston Globe. A few years later, during his brief time at the Globe, Ken Johnson declared Laffoley to be the most important Boston artist of his generation. In recent years he enjoyed national and international recognition
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Jack Lyons Word
Valulting Broadway Candlesticks
By: - Nov 16th, 2015An early member of Screen Actors Guild he is a voting member of The Academy. A highlight of the recent theatre critics conference in New York was hanging out with my left coast pal the effervescent Jack Lyons. Like the big cats he slays me and is a killer with the chair and whip. The trick is keeping up with him while ducking the lashing wit.
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National Aviary in Pittsburgh Front Page
Birds of a Feather
By: - Nov 08th, 2015The National Aviary is open daily except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas. Although some of the birds must be fed in private, almost all feedings (both vegetarian and carnivorous) are scheduled to be viewable by visitors. Since 1999, annual attendance has consistently topped 100,000.
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Moby Dick Word
When What Is Probably Isn't
By: - Nov 08th, 2015As a teenager I read Moby Dick as an adventure story about whaling. My professor later told me what it was really about.
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Chapatti at North Coast Rep Front Page
The Lilt of Irish Laughter
By: - Nov 07th, 2015From the pen of Irish playwright Christian O’ Reilly, comes “Chapatti”, a tender, poignant, and charming tale that bubbles with the lilt of Irish laughter, wit and charm for which those silver-tongued Gaelic writer/philosophers are known.
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Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood at the Rose Front Page
Bimbo Kitsch As High Art
By: - Nov 06th, 2015The big boobs and porn of Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood at the Rose Art Museum are sure to delight some and offend many. With sensual, candy colors and finger licking erotic surfaces the Yale educated artist has made a nifty career of conflating high art and kitsch. If you visit this exhibition be sure to leave the kids and your inhibitions at home.
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Breaking Through at Pasadena Playhouse Front Page
World Premiere Musical
By: - Nov 06th, 2015The world premiere of “Breaking Through”, a musical with a book by Kirsten Guenther and music and lyrics by Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz, is now on stage at The Pasadena Playhouse under the direction of Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps.
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Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh Front Page
Installation by Chiharu Shiota
By: - Nov 06th, 2015The Mattress Factory, featuring site-specific installations created by artists in residence from around the world, was founded in 1977 by Artist Barbara Luderowski in a former Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh’s historic Central Northside.
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Black Mountain College: Truth or Dare Front Page
Curator Helen Molesworth Is Against Interpretation
By: - Nov 05th, 2015It took four years for former ICA curator Helen Molesworth and current one Ruth Erickson to organize 200 works by 100 artists as the landmark exhibition "Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957." In a provocative catalogue essay, however, Molesworth states why she has come to no easy conclusions about what occurred in Appalachia during the formative years of the American avant-garde.
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Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik Word
Avant-garde Icons
By: - Nov 04th, 2015I never knew quite how to respond to the TV installations of Nam June Paik and his performance collaborations with nude cellist Charlotte Moorman. Today they are regarded as pioneers of multi media art. Astrid was friends with them as fellows of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.
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Happy Hour at CV Rep Theatre Front Page
First World Premiere for California Company
By: - Nov 03rd, 2015“Happy Hour” centers around aging widower father Harry Townsend (Gavin Macleod) and his forty-year old son Alan (John Hawkinson) who come to grips with the vexing, but immutable, fact that aging is a human process that comes to most of us. The one longer lives, the tougher it becomes to accept it. A frequently asked question by people of a ‘certain age’ is ‘how did I get so old so quick?’
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