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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • John Douglas Thompson in Red Velvet at S&Co;. Front Page

    Awesome First US Production of Powerful Lolita Chakrabarti Play

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 15th, 2015

    John Douglas Thompson is astonishing in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet which continues until September 13 at Shakespeare & Company. It tells the true life story of Ira Aldridge the first artist of color to portray Othello on the London stage in 1833.

  • Exploring Mexican Cuisine Food

    Vallarta Food Tours

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 14th, 2015

    In addition to the Pitallal neighborhood tour, Vallarta Food Tours offers a day tour that explores Puerto Vallarta’s centro and old town neighborhoods, with sampling of mole enchiladas, traditional ceviche tostadas, tacos from an authentic taco stand, traditional drinks, and regional candies.

  • Crushed Fine Arts

    Transforming Judds into Chamberlains

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 14th, 2015

    How rejected galvanized metal cubes by the artist Donald Judd were transformed into vintage sculptures by John Chamberlain.

  • Siesta to Semester Word

    End to Lazy Days of Summer

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2015

    Few jobs offer more vacation time than teaching. But the approach of Labor Day and back to school filled me with dread starting on the Fourth of July. By then summah was ovah.

  • John Guare's Adapted His Girl Friday Front Page

    Screwball Comedy at Barrington Stage Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2015

    For vintage screwball comedy the John Guare rewrite of His Girl Friday, directed for Barrington Stage by Julliane Boyd, is just awesomely hilarious. It stars Christpher Innvar as the veteran editor and master manipulator Walter Burns, and the wonderful Jane Pfitsch as his ex and star reporter Hildy Johnson. This is the side splitting hit of the Berkshire season,.

  • Tom Krens Proposes a New North Adams Museum Front Page

    The Global Contemporary Collection and Museum Planned for Route Two

    By: Charles giuliano - Aug 12th, 2015

    While director of the Williams College Museum of Art Tom Krens initiated plans for Mass MoCA. When he left for a 20 year career at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that project moved forward under Joe Thompson. Now Krens, a Williams graduate and Williamstown home owner, is proposing to create a for profit museum on leased land fronting the high traffic corridor between MoCA, Williams College and the newly expanded and renovated Clark Art Institute.

  • New Musical The Boy from Oz Front Page

    Based on Songs and Stories of Peter Allen

    By: Nancy Bishop - Aug 11th, 2015

    We meet Peter Allen as a dance-obsessed kid (played by Garrett Hershey) growing up in rural Australia, then forming a duo and performing in clubs. A chance meeting with Judy Garland (Nancy Hays) results in Allen opening for Garland in London and the U.S. and marrying her daughter, Liza Minnelli (Michelle Lauto).

  • Fog Word

    Cat Crawls In

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Aug 11th, 2015

    By a quarry and poison ivy.

  • Pizza People

    Slice of Life

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Aug 11th, 2015

    Pennies for pizza.

  • Mondo Cane Word

    Good, Bad, and Ugly

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 11th, 2015

    From Mr. B.B. to Billis going to the dogs.

  • Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix Front Page

    Saguaro Cactus Featured Among Exotic Species

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 11th, 2015

    The Garden comprises 140 acres and has more than 50,000 plants in its collection, including 139 rare, threatened, or endangered species. It focuses on plants adapted to desert conditions, including an Australian collection, a Baja California collection and a South American collection.

  • Bookends People

    Waiting for the Show

    By: Bookends - Aug 11th, 2015

    In the lobby waiting for the show stuck between ambient conversation, laments of age and disease, proved to be more memorable than the play itself.

  • Mr. B. B. People

    Ain't Nothin but a Hound Dog

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 10th, 2015

    Sometimes animals have a way of adopting us. More than just a dog B.B. King was a worldly wise hipster and friend.

  • Cuba's Malpaso Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    With Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 10th, 2015

    With the easing of decades long embargo we anticipate dramatic changes in the arts and culture of Cuba. With mixed results we got a glimpse of that with the Jacob's Pillow debut of Malpaso Dance Company with Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble.

  • A Moon for the Misbegotten in Williamstown Front Page

    Astonishing Production Stars Audra McDonald and Will Swenson

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 09th, 2015

    This is the fourth time that Long Wharf artistic director, Gordon Edelstein, has worked with the Eugene O'Neill classic Moon for the Misbegotten. To keep it fresh he has changed the tenant farmer Hogan family from Irish immigrants to African Americans. That allowed for casting multiply Tony and Grammy winner Audra McDonald. She appears with her real life husband Will Swenson. The resultant charisma is scorching.

  • Tina Packer in Mother of the Maid Front Page

    S&Co;. World Premiere by Emmy Winner Joan Anderson

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 08th, 2015

    Mother of the Maid, by Emmy winner Joan Anderson, features Shakespeare & Company founding artistic director Tina Packer. She and her partner, Nigel Gore, have returned to Lenox from a national tour of the critically acclaimed Women of Will. The play, directed by Matthew Penn, is having its world premiere through September 6.

  • Karen Allen's Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune Front Page

    Moonstruck in Stockbrdge

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 07th, 2015

    In the two hander by Terrence McNally, Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, directed by Karen Allen, the legendary tragic lovers have been transformed into a short order cook (Darren Pettie) and waitress (Angel Desai). It's 3 AM and following what she sees as a one night stand he refuses to leave harboring delusions of love and marriage.

  • Path Finder Word

    Ad Astra Per Aspera

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 06th, 2015

    A man needs room to live and breathe.

  • Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely Front Page

    An Exciting Hands on Adventure

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 06th, 2015

    Railroad Reality Week takes place at the Nevada Northern Railway Complex, the best preserved, least altered and most complete main yard remaining from the steam railroad era.

  • Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Front Page

    Ken Ludwig Farce at Old Globe

    By: Jack Lyons - Aug 06th, 2015

    Most famous for his Tony Award-winning comedy/farce plays “Lend Me a Tenor” and “Moon Over Buffalo”, prolific playwright Ken Ludwig, once again scores with his latest inventive and zany comedy “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.”

  • Marilyn Monroe – Declassified Front Page

    Interview with Filmmaker Paul Davids

    By: Jack Lyons - Aug 06th, 2015

    Recently Jack Lyons met with filmmaker Paul Davids after a screening of his new documentary film Marilyn Monroe Declassified. It is due for theatrical release later this year.

  • Seeing Is Believing Opinion

    À la recherche du temps perdu

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 05th, 2015

    How long does it take to look at a work of art and remember it, or not, forever?

  • Fishing Food

    No Luck with NOAA

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Aug 05th, 2015

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) regulates fishing. They say there's no cod out there. Tell that to lobstermen with their traps clogged.

  • Going Dutch Iron Pot Cooking Front Page

    Celebrating Nevada's Frontier Heritage

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 05th, 2015

    Dutch oven cooking, popular since colonial times, came to Nevada with the early Mormon settlers of the area and remains a way of life even today. Nevada state parks regularly give demonstrations of how to cook with the short-legged, cast iron vessel with the rimmed lid.

  • Tanglewood on Parade 2015 Front Page

    Andris Nelsons Subs for John Williams

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 05th, 2015

    A highlight of the Berkshire season is the annual day long event Tanglewood On Parade culminating in a concert in the Shed. A perennial participant, composer/ conductor John Williams, was unable to travel from his home in LA. His music was heard including a Tanglewood debut of Andris Nelsons as a substitute conductor of the Pops. A good time was had by all.

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