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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Francesco Clemente's Encampment at Mass MoCA Front Page
With Jim Shaw to January, 2016
By: - Jun 13th, 2015During the Pluralism of the 1980s the Italian born artist Francesco Clemente was a part of the neo expressionist movement. Having recently reinvented himself the artist who lives in New York and India had a series of glitzy decoratve tents fabricated by artisans. The artist has painted the interiors with provocative, fluid, naive narratives. This imajor installtion in Mass MoCA's vast Building Five has been paired with the cartoon inspired, theatrical scaled paintings of the populist artist./ musician conceptualist Jim Shaw. The work is obviously fun and accessible but skates on thin ice.
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Harold Pinter's Betrayal Front Page
The North Coast Repertory Theatre to June 28
By: - Jun 13th, 2015The North Coast Repertory Theatre’s potent production of marriage infidelity and betrayal is full of clever directorial touches, like the timing of Pinteresque pauses and the overall pacing between the excellent ensemble cast of Carla Harting, Jeffrey Frace, and Richard Baird, with Benjamin Cole contributing as a pompous and frustrated European waiter.
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Reading Therapy Word
Notes from a Convalescent
By: - Jun 12th, 2015The North Adams based poet Stephen Rifkin, with his wife Wilma, is participating in "Two Natures Talking: Poetry and Visual Arts " at MCLA Gallery 51. The other participants are Ellen Joffe-Halpern and Annie Raskin. On Sunday, June 14 there will be a reading in the gallery. Because he is recovering from an automobile accident and mangled foot Wilma will read his poems. Like Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's Rear Window Rifkin is keeping busy with an eye on other writers.
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Dylan Patrick Word
Five-Year-Old at Lighthouse Beach
By: - Jun 11th, 2015A five-year-old is curious about the shed next to the Lighthouse in Annisquam.
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1945 Word
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The Mount Front Page
Booklaunch at Edith Wharton's Berkshire Home
By: - Jun 10th, 2015On a perfect June evening a booklaunch, my first, on the terrace of Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox. Witty exchanges with director Susan Wissler. Reading Gonzo poems from Shards of Life. Elegant gathering with Berkshire friends and neighbors, artists, writers and citizens of the world. Superb food and fine wine. Guests exploring the formal gardens. Signed a ton of books.
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Putting the Nose on the Ankh-Haf Fine Arts
Restoration Was Not Appreciated
By: - Jun 10th, 2015For two and a half years I worked in the basement of the Egyptian Department of the Museum of Fine Arts. But truly I was the servant of the Pharaohs and the spirituality of their sublime vision of an after life. Part of that was repairing damage and making them whole. Like fixing the broken nose of the Ankh- Haf.
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Branding Chicago Front Page
The Art and Design of Promoting South Side Products
By: - Jun 10th, 2015Valmor Products’ advertising and packaging is the subject of a funny, provocative and eye-opening exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center. Love for Sale: The Graphic Art of Valmor Products runs until August 2 in the 4th floor north exhibit hall, just across from the not-to-be-missed exhibit of the paintings of Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist.
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Backward Buildings Word
A Tenant In My Home
By: - Jun 10th, 2015Welcoming the Berkshire poet Loretta Fancoeur. What happens when a tenant become an intruder and a house is not your home.
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Everybody's Talking World Premiere Front Page
Harry Nilsson Based Musical at San Diego Repertory Theatre
By: - Jun 09th, 2015“Everybody’s Talkin’” is more of a free-flowing musical tribute than a traditional book musical. There isn’t one line of scripted dialogue spoken by the performers. It’s just the genius of Harry Nilsson who was a poet/philosopher and a reluctant troubadour performer, whose songs lend themselves to the inspired arrangements by Gunderson and the staging by Velasco that propel the show along.
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Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative Film
Economic Impact of Making Films in the Berkshires
By: - Jun 05th, 2015The Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC) has released an economic impact study to examine the effects of a film shoot on the economy of rural communities. The study, “When Movie Making Comes to Town: An Economic Impact Analysis and Strategies for Development†was authored by Rick Feldman of InCommN, LLC, who was one of the developers of IMPLAN, a widely used economic impact analysis software program.
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Collages by Raeford Liles Fine Arts
Publishing the Greek Pots Series
By: - Jun 05th, 2015I have known and much appreciated the witty and whimsical artist Raeford Liles since the 1960s. He was represented by the East Hampton Gallery when I worked there. Some years ago the artist returned to Birmingham, Alabama where he grew up. Now in assisted living his family has been working to catalog, archive and preserve decades of his work. From this extensive project has emerged the publication of a series of digital prints from his inspired Greek Pots series.
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John Cage Word
The Art of Silence
By: - Jun 05th, 2015When avant-garde master John Cage was in Boston mking edible paper I photographed and interviewed him for Art News. Starting each semester of my avant-garde seminar at Boston University I showed a video on Cage that included his signature 4' 33." It outraged the students who proved to be remarkbly conservative. That only made me love Cage all the more.
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Gerard Malanga on Andy Warhol's Mother Julia Fine Arts
Insights to Mother and Son Collaborations at WCMA
By: - Jun 04th, 2015The major exhibition this summer at the Williams College Museum of Art is "Warhol by the Book" through August 16, 2015. Of the 500 works on view some of the most intriguing material entails collaborations involving Warhol's graphic design and his mother Julia's calligraphy. We spoke about Julia with former Warhol associate the poet Gerard Malanga who knew her well.
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PBS Fall Schedule Television
From Walt Disney to Julie Waters in Indian Summers
By: - Jun 04th, 2015Yes Downton Abbey returns in January. PBS premieres the Civil War drama Mercy Street on September 27. Come fall PBS yet again will roll out an entertaining cornucopia of programming.
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Not Publisher's Clearing House Word
Don't Miss Out On the Fun
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015Join other satisfied customers and order the book that everyone is talking about. These are real pictures of a real person who is just thrilled by Charles Giuliano's Shards of Life.
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Father's Day Word
Skills Not Passed On
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015Lots of guys help their dads with handyman chores around the house. It's useful when you get married and have your own home. My Dad wanted to teach me how to be a surgeon. That didn't go well.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Theatre
Tenn Annual Festival September 24 to 27
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015The 10th anniversary Festival will take place in various venues in the seaside village of Provincetown from Thursday, September 24 through Sunday, September 27, 2015. The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival was founded in 2006 in the birthplace of American Modern Theater where Williams worked on many of his major plays during the 1940s. The TW Festival is the nation’s largest performing arts festival dedicated to celebrating and expanding the understanding of America’s great playwright.
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Y Not Gourmet Word
Frugal Franny
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015On sale at Big Y paid three bucks for a five pound chicken. Got three or four meals out of it. Living well, on the cheap, is the best revenge.
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How It Is Word
Hauling Lobsters
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015knot the line open traps take the lobsters claws together big enough so they dont/cant reach back to bite your wrist
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Shark by the Lighthouse! Word
It's a Sunfish
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015On the 40th anniversary of Jaws. Panic about fins in the water off the Lighthouse.
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Duck Word
Trying Something New on Chinese Mondays
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015For months I debated trying the duck. Last night during weekly Chinese Monday several friends tried different dishes. It reminded of the birthday ducks Jane cooked for fellow Scorpios.
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CANNY'S PIT Word
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NAM NHIEP Word
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XVIII LUKE & JODY Word
No Smoking in Her Fo'c'stle
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015H.R.G. to R.J.D.H. "very precise to the quarter it comes from" Chas. Olson
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