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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Raul Castillo's Chicago World Premiere Theatre
Between You, Me and the Lampshade at Teatro Vista
By: - Apr 20th, 2015Family secrets and dreams are explored in Raul Castillo's Between You, Me and the Lampshade in a world premiere being staged by Teatro Vista. Set in a barren area of Rio Grande County in south Texas, the play addresses immigration issues as well as family tensions.
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Biennale di Venezia 2015 Fine Arts
Organized by by Okwui Enwezor
By: - Apr 16th, 2015The 56th Biennale of Venice opens on May 9. The Belgian critic Roger D’Hondt offers a preview.
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Tony Simotes Part Two Fine Arts
One Foot Out the Door then Kate Called
By: - Apr 16th, 2015The contract with Milliken University was due to arrive when Kate Maguire called and asked Tony Simotes to meet for breakfast. Racing against the clock and making phone calls she offered him a job as second in commend at Berkshire Theatre Group. Then Tony and Lucy faced the tough decision of turning down tenure, benefits and security to take another challenging but risky job in theatre.
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Cleveland Museum of Art Fine Arts
Completing a $350 Million Expansion by Rafael Viñoly
By: - Apr 16th, 2015May 2014 marked the official opening of th Cleveland Museum's new atrium, part of a $350 million dollar expansion designed by award-winning Uruguyan architect, Rafael Viñoly. It is one of the top comprehensive art museums in the nation, with 45,000 objects spanning 6,000 years.
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Martha and the Vandellas in Provincetown Music
Payoment Performing Arts Center April 18 & 19
By: - Apr 16th, 2015Martha and the Vandellas will have them dancing in the streets. Commercial Street in Provincteown this weekend. Actually, inside Provincetown Town Hall for an early launch of the season. Saturday night is sold out but there are tickets available for the Sunday performance. Other upcoming events include Loa Lobos and Spuyten Duyvil.
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Tony Simotes Conflates Classical and Contemporary Theatre
Move from S&Co. to Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Apr 15th, 2015Tony Simotes was summarily ousted from Shakespeare & Company when he got on the wrong side with a micro managing now former board president Sarah Hancock. Significantly, she is a close friend of founding artistic director, Tina Packer, whose vision of the company was very different from Simotes who replaced her. Rick Dildine who was brought in with a mandate for change soon realized the chain of command and hastily departed. In a matter of months the company went from plan B to plan C. When we met with Simotes for a long lunch he was not inclined to sort out those loose ends. He is upbeat about new possibilities as second in command to Kate Maguire and the richly enhanced Berkshire Theatre Group.
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The Grown-Up at Shattered Globe Theatre. Theatre
Chicago Production of Jordan Harrison's Play
By: - Apr 15th, 2015The Grown-Up, Jordan Harrison's 12th play, premiered in 2014 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre in Louisville. This is its second production.
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Rebecca Gilman Wins Steinberg New Play Award Theatre
Tom Coash of Atlanta Wins Osborn Award
By: - Apr 15th, 2015During the recent Humana Festival in Louisville American Theatre Critics Association presented the Steinberg and Osborn awards. Rebecca Gilman won for Luna Gale as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2014. The M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, which recognizes emerging playwrights, went to Tom Coash of Atlanta for his play Veils.
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Lisa D’Amour's Airline Highway Theatre
Chicago's Steppenwolf Production Transfers to Broadway
By: - Apr 14th, 2015Lisa D’Amour's Airline Highway begins performances at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on April 1. Directed by Joe Mantello, Manhattan Theatre Club’s presentation of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s ensemble production will officially open on April 23. This is Nancy Bishop's Chicago review.
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Wedgewood Ceramics at Birmingham Museum Fine Arts
Unique Collection in Alabama
By: - Apr 14th, 2015Within the Birmingham Museum of Art, a charming parquet-floored, yellow-walled gallery contains the largest collection of Wedgwood ceramics in the United States. It consists of some 10,000 pieces thousands of which are displayed.
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PBS Airs The Draft on April 27 Television
Exploring the Role of Enlisted Soldiers
By: - Apr 14th, 2015PBS’ THE DRAFT explores the turbulent history of the draft, from the Revolutionary War to present, including the debate over its termination. Airing Monday, April 27 at 9:00 p.m. ET, THE DRAFT is the first program to air as part of PBS’ special block of programming related to the Vietnam War.
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Keigwin & Company Dance
MASS MoCA and Jacobs Pillow Collaboration
By: - Apr 13th, 2015In an annual collaboration between Jacob's Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA yesterday we enjoyed four pieces by Keigwin & Company. One, a solo, his first time on stage in three years was performed by the choreographer Larry Keigwin. We saw his work for If/ When a musical starring Idina Menzel on Broadway.
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Beauty of the Beast Word
Negotiating the Labyrinth of Self
By: - Apr 13th, 2015Mythology of the Minotaur the beast that must be fed human sacrifices. The artist in the labyrinth looking for self and a way to unwind its thread.
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Easter Word
Reluctant Matchmaker
By: - Apr 13th, 2015Everyone loved Suzie now gone these many years. Cardoso insisted that I make the introduction. They married not long after. My fault.
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Making Art Word
Risking the Human Toll
By: - Apr 13th, 2015This morning listening to an interview to an interview on art,. criticism and the relative values of art education. Dark introspection for what it's worth over morning coffee. Tennessee Williams, Jackson Pollock and Francis Bacon, to name a few, died for their sins. As John Patrick Shanley told me when I asked "Nothing is off limits."
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Palace Cafe NOLA Food
Part of the Dickie Brennan Franchise
By: - Apr 12th, 2015Located across the street from our hotel we opted for the convenience of Palace Cafe. After another mediocre meal we learned that it was a part of the Dickie Brennan franchise of NOLA restaurants. We had already been disappointed by his upscale Tableau.
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Giovanni's in NOLA Food
New Age Ristorante
By: - Apr 11th, 2015Giovanni Cafe in New Orleans promised high end Italian cuisine with a Louisiana influence. Utterly disappointed we left wanting to book a flight to Venice.
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Killing Time Word
On the Bridge
By: - Apr 11th, 2015On the bridge in literal transition. Dropped my watch into the frozen Charles River.
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Biographer Belinda Rathbone at the Clark Fine Arts
Free Lecture Sunday, April 26 at 3 pm
By: - Apr 10th, 2015Belinda Rathbone, daughter of Perry Rathbone, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1955 to 1972, discusses her book The Boston Raphael: A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change, and a Daughter’s Search for the Truth at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, April 26 at 3 pm.
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Kristoffer Diaz's The Upstairs Concierge Theatre
New Farce Not All That Funny at Chicago's Goodman
By: - Apr 10th, 2015Kristoffer Diaz's The Upstairs Concierge, having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, is not a witty French farce. Its celebrity- and baseball-driven plotline doesn't work as a contemporary comic romp. The plot is a mish-mash and the dialogue is flat and rarely funny.
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Matthew Teitelbaum New Director of the MFA Fine Arts
Former ICA Curator Returns to Boston
By: - Apr 10th, 2015From 1989 to 1993 Matthew Teitelbaum was an ICA curator under director Milena Kalinovska. On August 2, after some 22 years at the Art Gallery of Ontario, he will take over as the 11th director of the Museum of Fine Arts. It is anticipated that he will bring a more welcoming management style than the autocratic Malcolm Rogers who cleaned house and instilled fear in the staff under the mantra of One Museum.
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New Hampshire Music Festival Music
Progrtam from July 7 to August 6
By: - Apr 09th, 2015The New Hampshire Music Festival (NHMF) has announced its 2015 summer season to be held from July 7 through August 6 in Plymouth and the surrounding communities of New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. With a theme of “American Landscapes,†the festival’s 63rd season will explore and celebrate American music and the great outdoors.
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Tableau in the French Quarter Food
Prix Fixe Fiasco
By: - Apr 09th, 2015We arrived at upscale Tableau in the French Quarter at 5:30 PM with a 7:30 curtain just across the lobby at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre. The leisurely prix fixe dinner with ATCA friends was a comedy of errors. The management and wait staff proved to be incompetent and even rude.
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What I Learned in Paris Theatre
Indiana Repertory Theatre
By: - Apr 09th, 2015"What I learned in Paris" at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, set in Atlanta in 1973, deals with issues of race, gender, and romance .Evie, played by Erika Lavonn, is one of the most charismatic characters I've come across in years.
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Out of the Blue Word
An Afternoon with Dennis Hopper
By: - Apr 08th, 2015Justin Freed was screening a low budget Canadian film Out of the Blue at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. There were half hour interviews set up with the star and last minute director Dennis Hopper. Making the most of my slot he kept leaving to do more blow.
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