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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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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April Architecture
On the Beach
By: - Apr 08th, 2015We are returning to the hotel on the beach, exactly to the day, where we saw the Boston marathon bombing. Strange anniversary in Provincetown.
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Ogle Winston Link Photographed Steam Locomotives Fine Arts
Visiting His Roanoke Virginia Museum
By: - Apr 08th, 2015By 1960, when the transition from steam to diesel was complete, Ogle Winston Link had captured 2400 images. Today, 250 of these dramatic photographs are displayed at the O. Winston Link Museum in the former passenger station of the Norfolk and Western Railway in downtown Roanoke.
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End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer Theatre
Chicago's New Windy City Playhouse
By: - Apr 08th, 2015End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer is the first production in the sparkling new Windy City Playhouse in the Irving Park neighborhood. It's a worthy outing for this new Equity theater company.
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Pygmalion at Pasadena Playhouse Theatre
Witty Shaw Comedy Skewers Pretentions
By: - Apr 08th, 2015“Pygmalionâ€, Shaw’s best known work on this side of the Atlantic shouldn’t be confused with the love child of Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Lowe – “My Fair Ladyâ€.
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Sisyphus Now Word
Rock Climbing
By: - Apr 07th, 2015Existential metaphor for the cycle of life. Pushing the boulder up the hill.. Letting it roll down, Over and over. Different metaphor for a life ordinary but lived.
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Missouri Artist Thomas Hart Benton Fine Arts
Frequently Visited College of the Ozarks
By: - Apr 07th, 2015Thomas Hart Benton—painter, muralist, and writer from Missouri—often stopped at College of the Ozarks, in the mountains of southern Missouri, to visit his long-time friend, art teacher Steve Miller.
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She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry Film
Film Celebrates Women Who Made It Happen
By: - Apr 07th, 2015She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a 90-minute film directed by Mary Dore, does not spend a lot of time glorifying the feminist icons of the 1960s. the film focuses on the women—the activists and organizers—who made things happen on the ground in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and other cities.
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Travesties at Remy Bumppo Theatre
Chicago Production of Stoppard's Play
By: - Apr 07th, 2015Stoppard's "Travesties" in a new production at Remy Bumppo Theatre is a brilliantly conceived, acted and produced surrealist comedy -- and the language still makes me gasp.
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Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln, Nebraska Fine Arts
American Masterpieces Intersect on the Prairie
By: - Apr 07th, 2015The Sheldon Museum holds a broad representation of the history of American art. Its comprehensive collection includes more than 12,000 objects.
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NOLA Comfort Food Food
Acme, Red Fish Grill, Cafe du Monde
By: - Apr 05th, 2015In the French Quarter there are many options for flavorful comfort food from a po boy sandwich to a bowl of gumbo. The throngs of drunks staggering down Bourbon Street seem more intent on drinking than eating.
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Big Easy Word
On Bourbon Street Every Day is Mardi Gras
By: - Apr 05th, 2015It starts to crank up around noon. By midnight the throngs in beads with Hurricanes in each hand stagger along Bourbon Street. Nearly nude women entice guys into strip clubs.Con artists work their scams. Life in the Big Easy.
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Marti's in the French Quarter Food
Favorite Restaurant of Tennessee Williams
By: - Apr 04th, 2015At the end of a day of writing Tennessee Williams walked across the street to his favorite restaurant Marti's in the French Quarter. With several colleagues from the American Theatre Critics Association we made a late night pilgrimage to these landmarks.
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The Contentious Playwright John Patrick Shanley Word
Sparring with a Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Winner
By: - Apr 03rd, 2015Growing up as an Irish kid in the Bronx provided playwright John Patrick Shanley with inspiration from tough love and hard knocks that earned him a Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer prize. Exuding the street wise persona of a made man he read and discussed his works during the annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival.
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Pip Word
Little Sister Getting Older
By: - Apr 03rd, 2015Birthday greetings to Mary Louise Giuliano my sister Pippy or Pip. Nine years younger incredibly she is getting older. All these years she has been an intimate and insightful best friend.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra 2015-16 Music
Under Conductor Andris Nelsons
By: - Apr 03rd, 2015BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in thirteen extraordinarily wide-ranging programs in the 2015-16 BSO season.
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Tennessee Williams Hotel Plays Word
Close and Compelling
By: - Apr 03rd, 2015The Hermann-Grima House is a vintage mansion in the French Quarter. In groups of about 25 we rotated through the rooms for performances of brief vignettes by Tennessee Williams. It was unique and evocative with the familiar themes of human degeneration and bad luck.
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Trees Word
Tough Competition
By: - Apr 02nd, 2015Astrid hugs trees. Darting off to photograph one we were late getting to the museum. I asked a tough question.
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