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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Lascaux Word
Cave Drawing to Burger King
By: - Sep 29th, 2014From ancient bison and cave drawings to sacred cow. The craving for meat sustains through millenia. Defining us as carnivores.
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Aging Word
Refusing to Wear Pearls or Pink
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Mirror mirror on the wall. Reflecting on age and not giving in.
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Dancing Shoes Word
Well Heeled Uncle Bill
By: - Sep 29th, 2014My elegant Uncle Bill was a professor of Romance literature at Queens College. With Astrid we met each year for a holiday dinner. Estere talked about having his shoes resoled with rubber. But not these he told her.
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Two Gentleman of Verona Theatre
Indiana Repertory Theatre To October 19
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Indiana Repertory Theatre opens its 43rd season with a play in honor of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. The show includes a cast of IRT vets like Ryan Artzberger and Robert Neal (who both starred in HART “The Tempest†this summer), along with some excellent newcomers. Two standouts were Charles Pasternak as Valentine, who vacillates between ardent lover and frustrated exile and Ashley Wickett as both Julia’s maid Lucetta and the sought-after Silvia.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Music
Lineup for Events Oct. 10-19
By: - Sep 29th, 2014The festival kicks off on Thursday, Oct. 9, with Jazz About Town, with sponsored and affiliated events that span the long Columbus Day weekend and including a "jazz craw,†when venues present Berkshires’ established performers in casual settings.
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Moondog Word
New York Street Music
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Born Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999) Moondog was blinded playing with a dynamite cap as a child.. The musician/ poet hung out for spare change not far from my gallery. We collaborated on a sold out gig. It kickstarted his recording career.
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Joe Cocker Word
Getting High With Some Friends
By: - Sep 29th, 2014I grew up with Tim Crouse during summers in Annisquam. We shared an encounter in the men's room with British rocker Joe Cocker.
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Captain Beefheart Word
Back of the Limo
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Warner Brothers promo man, Roger Lifeset, invited me to dinner with far out rocker Captain Beefheart and his wife Jan. We watched him crack into a three pound lobster. By the end of the evening he had glommed onto me as his personal Boswell.
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Mississippi Fred McDowell Word
Afternoon Shots and Beers
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi. He was loaned to me for the afternoon. With a note pinned to his chest with directions to his next destination.
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Private Eyes By Steven Dietz Theatre
Fall Comedy at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 28th, 2014Private Eyes at Shakespeare & Company is a theatre about theatre comedy which evoked hearty, knowing laughter from the many actors in the audience during opening night. There are so many dizzy reversals and plot twists in this play by Steven Dietz that one requires a shrink or chiropractor to unwind from the experience.
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate Theatre
Pasadena Playhouse to October 12
By: - Sep 28th, 2014The Pasadena Playhouse launched its 2014/2015 season with an inspired production of “Kiss Me, Kateâ€, brilliantly directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps, and a cast of seventeen wonderful singers, dancers and actors.
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Made in the Berkshires 2014 Theatre
Opening Night Celebration, October 10, 2014
By: - Sep 27th, 2014The annual Made in the Berkshires festival will be held over the October 12 weekend. It features music, theatre and dance in a variety of venues. Here is the full schedule of events.
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Berkshire Composer Stephen Dankner Music
Premieres String Quartets at Williams October 12
By: - Sep 27th, 2014On October 12 at 3 PM there will be a performance by the Dover String Quartet of new works by Berkshire based composer Stephen Dankner. It was originally scheduled for the Clark but because of construction issues has been moved to Williams College and the Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, 54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown. We met for lunch to dicuss this and other premieres scheduled through March.
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Jonas Dovydenas Endless War Photography
Afghan Photo Series at Lenox Library
By: - Sep 26th, 2014From 1985 until fairly recently the Berkshire based photograher, Jonas Dovydenas, made a number of trips to Afghanistan. He started by shooting black and white film and later abandoned the darkroom switching to digital cameras. In all he shot some 15,000 frames. These were culled and edited resulting in the recent exhibition at the Lenox Public Library.
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Jim Brochu at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Character Man Entertains and Informs
By: - Sep 26th, 2014In 2011 James Brochu appeared at Barrington Stage in the one man show Zero Hour. He has returned with another show that he has written and stars in Character Man. The great Mostel is but one of a plethora of great actors featured in a rich and colorful evening of songs and anecdotes from a life in theatre.
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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek Music
New CD Bridges Generations with Duets
By: - Sep 25th, 2014Talk about an odd couple. At 88 and 28 there's a sixty year spread between jazz singer Tony Bennett and his neophyte partner the totally gonzo Lady Gaga. There are winners and loosers on this much anticipated CD. For both artists this was an interesting and risky artistic and career move.
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American Ski Resort: Architecture, Style Experience Front Page
Lavish Book by Margaret Supplee Smith
By: - Sep 23rd, 2014With holiday gift giving approaching consider this book for your ski enthusiast friends. Wake Forest professor emerita Margaret Supplee Smith combined two loves, skiing and architecture in ten years of research. This has resulted in a lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed book American Ski Resort: Architecture, Style, Experience. It will be an absorbing read both for skiers and armchair enthusiasts. Her overview from the Depression to the current era goes beyond a chronicle of the sport to address social, economic, envirnomental aspects of architetural and design issues of resort development.
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Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison Theatre
World Premiere at Mark Taper Forum
By: - Sep 23rd, 2014What takes place on the stage of the Taper is playwright Jordan Harrison’s thought provoking “Marjorie Prime†drama of the future. It’s the sort of story that is right up director Les Waters’ alley, and one that writer Rod Serling would, most assuredly endorse.
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Godfather of Soul Word
Hardest Working Man in Show Business
By: - Sep 23rd, 2014Saw James Brown lots of times. The Apollo Theatre, Madison Square Garden, a gym in Tampa with Phil Bleeth and Corrina pregnant with Jasmine. Matinee at the Newport Jazz Festival. Boston Garden on looped PBS weekend Martin Luther King was shot. Interview in New York for Blues Brohers press junket. Here we recall a night at Boston's notorius soul club The Sugar Shack.
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Small Minded Word
You Can't Put Quantum Mechanics on Your Corn Flakes
By: - Sep 23rd, 2014We look far to satisfy our discontent, and look strangely. It is we humans who are the proper object of wonder, and perhaps dismay, endowed as we are with beauty, banality, and yes, spooky action.
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Kites Word
Bermuda Triangle
By: - Sep 22nd, 2014On Easter Sunday it's traditional to fly kites in Bermuda. That morphed into ten degrees of separation.
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Sicilian Valhalla Word
Death of the Don
By: - Sep 22nd, 2014In a Viking funeral the warrior is cast adrift in a burning vessel. The Sicilian Don expired amid tomato vines.
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Octopus Word
Fishy Friend
By: - Sep 22nd, 2014Friendships come in all forms. Including ones that can be clinging and venemous.
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Gregory Gillespie Word
Remembering Realist Artist
By: - Sep 21st, 2014In May of 2000 we were shocked to learn that the leading realist artist Gregory Gillespie hung himself. In hindsight there were clues to his state of mind.
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Di-no-mite Word
Dreadnoughtus Don't Weep in Argentina
By: - Sep 21st, 2014At 65 tons, and not quite grown, Dreadnoughtus, bought the farm some 75 million years ago give or take a few million. Compared to which we showed up about 25,000 B.C.E. Don't count on the human species being around millions of years from now.
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