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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Cervello Food
Sicilian Brain Food
By: - Mar 03rd, 2015My Irish mom loved corned beef and cabbage. Dad, a Sicilian, enjoyed more exotic cuisine. He insisted that we eat whatever was put in front of us. One night we went too far.
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For the Tree to Drop Theatre
PICT Classic Theatre Pittsburgh
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015Lissa Brennan’s new play For the Tree to Drop builds an existentialist drama that explores the webs of power in which antebellum slaves (and their owners) were caught.The play is being presented at PICT Classic Theatre in Pittsburgh.
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Hound of the Baskervilles Theatre
Indiana Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015Sherlock Holmes is a perennial favorite at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the latest in a line of successful adaptations of the infamous detective to hit their stage. This production runs through March 15.
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The Night Alive by Conor McPherson Theatre
Irish Play at Geffen Playhouse in LA
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s latest play “The Night Aliveâ€, is having its West Coast Premiere at The Geffen Playhouse, directed by Randall Arney. McPherson is famed for infusing elements of the supernatural and its subject matter into his plays. In his award-winning 2008 play “The Seafarerâ€, a poker game becomes the allegorical battleground of a Faustian bargain between the protagonist and the devilishly clever antagonist.
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The Twenty-seventh Man by Nathan Englander Theatre
Old Globe Theatre Directed by Barry Edelstein
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015The Old Globe production of “The Twenty-seventh Man†written by novelist and first-time playwright Nathan Englander, has the very good fortune to be directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. Edelstein’s easy manner belies the intellectual rigor he applies to all of the productions he directs.
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Lighting Out for Territory Fine Arts
Group Exhibition at Kimball Jenkins School of Art
By: - Mar 01st, 2015I have curated a show of painting at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art 266 Main St in Concord,NH(right off I 93). It includes Susan Carr, Martin Mugar, Addison Parks, Paul Pollaro and Jason Travers. It will be up for the Months of March and April.The opening reception is 5-7 on Friday March 14th.
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Barry Gaither Part Two Fine Arts
Building National Center for African American Artists
By: - Feb 28th, 2015For the past decade Edmund Barry Gaither has been primarily focused on developing a mixed use parcel in Roxbury which will include a new home for the National Center for African American Artists. That has entailed suspending his projects as an adjunct curator to the Museum of Fine ares and maintaining NCAAA as a skeletal operation in a 19th century former mansion in Roxbury. Despite many setbacks he hopes to get the museum up and running in the next couple of years. This is the second and final part of a dialogue with Gaither..
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Leonard Nimoy at 83 Fine Arts
North Adams Recalls the Iconic Mr. Spock
By: - Feb 27th, 2015In August of 2010 Leonard Nimoy thrilled Berkshire Trekkies with an appearance at an exhibition of his photography at Mass MoCA. A lecture that October was cancelled when he was rushed to the emergency room in North Adams. He died this week from complications of COPD.
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To Ur is Inhuman Word
ISIS Atrocities to Civilization
By: - Feb 27th, 2015Nations are custodians of civilization. Few more so than in the ancient lands of the People of the Book. How brutal and ignorant, what blasphemy to smash the artifacts of the human condition. Through its atrocities ISIS insults the religion it evokes with irrationality and atrocities.
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Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin Design
On View at Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Feb 27th, 2015On view from March 31 to August 30, 2015, Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin is the first museum exhibition to explore the work of renowned New York-based designer Ralph Pucci, widely regarded for his innovative approach to the familiar form of the mannequin. The Museum of Arts and Design is located at Columbus Circle in New York City.
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Edmund Barry Gaither and the MFA Fine Arts
Adjunct Curator for African American Art
By: - Feb 26th, 2015While a graduate student at Brown University, in 1970, the art historian Edmund Barry Gaither was recruited for a shared appointment as adjunct curator of the Museum of Fine Arts and working with Elma Lewis as director of the National Center for African American Artists. He still holds those positions. In this first part of an extensive interview Gaither describes jumping in to curate the major MFA exhibition African American Artists from New York and Boston. He was soon multi- tasking while being pressured by a diverse range of individuals and groups.
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Bouillabaisse Word
Soup by the Sea
By: - Feb 26th, 2015That first summer in Europe, the 1950s, we went as a family. The only time we traveled together. Exploring the Riviera we dined in the charming village of Villefranche-sur-Mer with scorching results.
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Noblesse Word
Burdens of Birth
By: - Feb 25th, 2015To the manor born is not always what it seems. When riding to the hounds isn't quite enough.
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Kenworth Moffett and The MFA Fine Arts
First Curator of Contemporary Art
By: - Feb 25th, 2015As a part of our research and oral history of modern and contemporary art and culture, some time ago, I contacted Kenworth Moffett. At the end of the tenure of Perry T. Rathbone as director of the Museum of Fine Arts, in 1971, a department of contemporary art was created with Moffett as its founding curator. He asked me to send him some questions and this essay is the result of that correspondence. During the years when he was director of the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art we always enjoyed an annual lunch when vacationing in nearby Palm Beach.
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Jingle Bells Word
Ripping Off Kids
By: - Feb 24th, 2015It was such fun to perform in the annual Christmas Pageant. Then a mean woman ruined everything.
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Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Two Fine Arts
Founding AAMARP at Northeastern University
By: - Feb 24th, 2015In 1973 the studio of Dana C. Chandler, Jr. was looted with most of his work destroyed. The studio was then torched. He was assisted by a dean of Northeastern to find adequate space. That led to establishing the African American Master Artist-in-Residence Program (AAMARP). It continues to exist although Chandler relocated to New Mexico where he has lived for the past decade.
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Dana C. Chandler Jr. Artist and Activist Fine Arts
Protesting Institutional Racism at the MFA
By: - Feb 22nd, 2015The protest artist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. was an activist who charged the Museum of Fine Arts with institutional racism. That initiated the special exhibition African American Artists from New York and Boston and the appointment of its curator, Edmund Gaither, as an adjunct curator of the MFA. Chandler was later instrumental in forming African American Master Artist-In-Residence Program for Northeastern University. This is the first of a two part interview with the artist.
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Metamorphosis ~ Metamorphose Word
Poetic Words in English and German
By: - Feb 21st, 2015A short poem formed itself in my mind just a few days ago as I was opening my eyes. I had seen the mirage or 'Fatamorgana' a few times already, experiencing a grey and moving image, before the real and colorful photograph on the opposite wall in our bedroom took shape. I dismissed the earlier experiences and this time, the words were practically there! - Then, I translated it into German.
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The Farmer's Wife Word
|The Field of Green Bears Its Final Yield
By: - Feb 21st, 2015In the dead of winter exploring the Berkshires inspired Robert Rendo.
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Tats Word
Bawdy Art
By: - Feb 20th, 2015In the checkout line the guy in front of me admired her new tat. Saving up for twenty more.
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Jihad Word
God is Great
By: - Feb 20th, 2015The beheadings by the Islamic Terrorists ISIS are described as medieval or even Stone Age. You needn't look further back than the Reign of Terror of the 1790s during the French Revolution.
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Daily Scam Word
Relentless Calls
By: - Feb 19th, 2015Unsolicited phone call and sales pitch." How bout those Red Sox" in thick accent. Where are you calling from I asked? Bangala Desh.
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Thomas Messer on Contemporary Art in Boston Fine Arts
Before the Guggenheim ICA Director from 1956 to 1961
By: - Feb 19th, 2015When Thomas Messer served as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston there was a plan to merge it as a department of the Museum of Fine Arts. This was confirmed when I asked him about it during an unrelated press conference. Belinda Rathbone also found related documents in the MFA archives when researching her book The Boston Raphael. Related to his time at the ICA these are excerpts from an extensive interview with Messer in the public domain at the Archives of American Art.
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Belinda Rathbone Part Three Fine Arts
Examining a Complex Legacy
By: - Feb 19th, 2015In 1970, on the occasion of its centennial, the MFA commissioned Walter Muir Whitehill, a trustee, to write its two volume history. Some 44 years later The Boston Raphael by Belinda Rathbone is the only published update examining that venerable Boston institution. In an extensive interview we have examined the legacy of her father as well as probed into issues and conundrums that were thoroughly researched but beyond the scope and agenda of her book. This is the third and final installment of that dialogue.
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Application Pending at Westside Theatre Theatre
Christina Bianco Playing 43 characters in 75 minutes
By: - Feb 19th, 2015With an internal switch the diminutive and totally amazing Christina Bianco is an astonishing quick change artist. In Application Pending she blows away the audience with a dazzling array of some 43 characters in a jam packed 75 minutes. Her one person show is a life changing experience Off Broadway through April 19.
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