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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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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Connick Romps at Tanglewood Front Page
Rips the Roof Off the Shed Ending Season
By: - Sep 05th, 2015The last time Harry Connick, Jr. performed at Tanglewood there was a monsoon. Last night was a picture perfect evening as Connick and his nine piece band tore the roof off of the shed in a barn burner to close out the season during Labor Day weekend.
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John Sloan Gloucester Days Front Page
Growing Progressive Arts Community on Cape Ann
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Growing up as a teenager in Annisquam the arts were conservative or invisible on Cape Ann. During a recent visit we found that much has changed with a lively and thriving community of artists and writers. We also attended the venerable Gloucester Stage Company.
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Manet Word
Quarrymen
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Flynn ancestors landed in Canada. Worked quarries south to New Hampshire then Rockport.
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Norman's Woe Word
On the Rocks Off Gloucester
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Mostly the mega rich fantasy architects Sleeper and Hammond lavishly entertained their male friends. From the Castle is seen Norman's Woe which inspired Longfellow's Wreck of the Hesparus.
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Contrarian Word
Heed No Advice
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015While advice is well intended don't listen. Take the other tack.
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Prodigal Word
Growing Up Absurd in Annisquam
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Returning to the roots of adolescence in the social and political cul de sac of Annisquam.
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Beth Henley's The Jacksonian Front Page
Chicago's Profiles Theatre Through October 11
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Beth Henley's 2012 play, The Jacksonian, is a bit of noir, a bit of Southern Gothic decay, and set in a nondescript motel of that name on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss., in 1964.
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Flick by Annie Baker at Gloucester Stage Front Page
Losing It at the Movies
By: - Sep 01st, 2015There is a distinctly Massachusetts flavor to Amherst based, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Annie Baker's Flick at Gloucester Stage Company. In two acts and just under three hours it takes a long and slow approach to making us care about minimum wage workers at a one screen movie theater on its last legs.
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Low Tide Word
Rooms with a View
By: - Aug 31st, 2015During our visit to childhood haunts they knocked down a building blocking the view. Improved at least for now.
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Econo Class Travel
Europe on the Cheap
By: - Aug 31st, 2015The thrill is gone traveling to Europe cattle car class. Replicating the steerage passages of our immigrant ancestors. Quality of life dim on el cheapo airlines.
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Comedy of Errors at Old Globe Front Page
Crafty Selection Ends Summer Season
By: - Aug 27th, 2015“The Comedy of Errors” is a crafty selection, by Barry Edelstein, to close out the ‘summer season’ at The Old Globe. Under Director Ellis’ creative staging, the masterful production, has been moved up in time from an Elizabethan setting to the jazz-age, sexy, wide-open, ‘laissez les bon temps rouler’ lifestyle of 1920’s New Orleans (NOLA).
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