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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Humana Festival in Louisville Theatre
39th Year of Presenting New Plays
By: - Feb 18th, 2015Actors Theatre of Louisville's Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein announce the lineup for the 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays. A highlight of the cultural calendar for theatergoers, playwrights and industry professionals across the country, the Humana Festival runs March 4 through April 12, 2015.
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How We Live Opinion
Thinking of Yeats
By: - Feb 18th, 2015Our friend the poet Stephen Rifkin often sends insightful and provocative e mails. It has been an ongoing and absorbing dialogue. I asked if he could expand a recent one into an op ed piece. Looking inward he was inspired by Yeats.
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Notes on 65th Berlinale Film
February 5-15, 2015
By: - Feb 17th, 2015As in prior years Angelika Jansen provides a glimpse into this year's Berlinale, where 350.000 movie tickets were sold for more than 1000 screenings and 440 films. Call that superlative!
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Tulips Word
Tiny Tim Was The Real Deal
By: - Feb 17th, 2015With the high pitched falsetto of a deranged hippie castrato Tiny Tom regaled me with enthusiasm for vintage records of his favorite tunes. My date cracking up almost blew my cover while his TV bride, Miss Vicki looked on bored out of her mind.
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Shakespeare & Company 2015 Season Theatre
First with Rick Dildine as Executive Director
By: - Feb 16th, 2015Shakespeare & Company presents its lineup for the 2015 summer season, which includes three Shakespeare plays, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet, plus the Regional Premiere of Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti, and the World Premiere of Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid, starring Tina Packer. In addition, the summer season includes The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza, and opens with the provocative new play by Sarah Treem, The How and the Why. The summer season was announced today by Rick Dildine, his first as Shakespeare & Company’s new Executive Director.
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Belinda Rathbone Part Two Fine Arts
Why Boston Missed the Boat on Contemporary Art
By: - Feb 16th, 2015In this installment of an extensive interview the pratfalls of modern and contemporary art in Boston are explored. It was a peripheral topic in Belinda Rathbone's biography of her father, former MFA director, Perry T. Rathbone.
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Faux Word
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Dorset Theatre Festival Theatre
2015 Season in Vermont
By: - Feb 15th, 2015Dorset Theatre Festival Artistic Director, Dina Janis states that “When I went about looking for the right plays for us to present this summer, my one criteria was to find plays that were moving, that make people care. These plays all have that quality, and whether funny, sad, or thought-provoking, people will walk out of the Playhouse this summer inspired and moved by what they have seen.â€
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Scandal Television
Jumping the Shark
By: - Feb 15th, 2015Shonda Rhimes, the creator of the prime time hit, Scandal, and her team of writers are running on vapors. They have tossed the glamorous leading lady , Kerry Washington as Fixer Olivia Pope, into the deepest and darkest of dungeons. The move was initially hatched by the scheming VP to bring down his boss, and Liv's lover, President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III. Now, oh please, she is being auctioned off to the highest bidder intent on leveraging Fitz. In the world of TV dramas this is a desperate plot ploy known as Jumping the Shark.
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Gallery 51 in North Adams Winter Green Fine Arts
Panel with the Artist February 26
By: - Feb 13th, 2015As part of its “Winter Green†exhibition, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Gallery 51 will host a panel discussion, “Viewpoints on a Green World,†on Thursday, Feb. 26,. Four panelists will discuss nteractions with plants in their respective professional fields. The event which will take place from 5 to 7 p.m.
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John Douglas Thompson in The Iceman Cometh Theatre
Discusses Roles in Plays by Eugene O'Neill
By: - Feb 13th, 2015The Robert Falls directed Goodman Theatre production of The Iceman Cometh has transferred from Chicago to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. John Douglas Thompson revives his role as the down of his luck former high roller Joe Mott. A couple of summers ago we discussed African American characters, including his portrayal in The Emperor Jones, in plays by Eugene O'Neill. Thompson returns this summer to Shakespeare & Company where he is well known to Berkshire audiences.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Announces 2015 Season Theatre
Bells Are Ringing at Colonial and Lots More
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Berkshire Theatre Group announces 2015 Summer Season Musical, the 10th Annual Community Theatre Production, The Fitzpatrick Main Stage productions and a medley of lively acts scheduled to perform at The Colonial Theatre and The Unicorn Theatre. BTG will be announcing a second round of programming, including The Unicorn Theatre's Summer Season, in the next several weeks.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Word
What's in a Maiden
By: - Feb 12th, 2015The enigmatic Girl in a Pearl Earring by Vermeer reached through centuries to haunt and inspire the poet Robert Rendo.
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Rejuvena Word
Supercharging Seniors
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Back in the day it was Geritol. Now there's a new wonder drug for seniors. Try Rejuvena and drink from the fountain of youth.
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Valentine's Day Word
Ersatz School Holiday
By: - Feb 12th, 2015College kids take every occasion to party. Even celebrating holidays not on the official school calendar.
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Berkshire Pulse Expands Programming Dance
Bringing Dance to Four Schools
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Berkshire Pulse – the interdisciplinary dance and performing arts education center located in downtown Housatonic – has significantly expanded its efforts to bring vibrant, dynamic dance instruction directly to students enrolled in local schools. Pulse is offering programming at four Berkshire County schools: Muddy Brook Elementary School in Great Barrington, Nessacus Middle School in Dalton, New Marlborough Central Elementary School in New Marlborough, and Undermountain Regional Middle School in Sheffield.
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Veritasso Wine
Modern Miracle Water into Wine
By: - Feb 11th, 2015Through the miracle of modern science we have unearthed the Biblical trick of turning water into wine. Just add Veritasso to ordinary tap water, and presto, in a matter of a few weeks, enjoy your favorite ersatz wine. Delight your friends and fool the experts.
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The Elevator Poems Word
Contest Winners Announced
By: - Feb 10th, 2015Professor Mark Miller of the English Department of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts took on the daunting task of judging the Elevator Poems Contest. The idea initiated with a challenge from Jonas Dovydenas, eventually a participant, that it was simply not possible to write a poem about an elevator. From December 16 through January 26 some 32 poems were posted by 25 poets. From this broad spectrum of richly varied approaches Miller derived three finalists. An awards ceremony is being organized for the spring with prizes including original elevator themed photographs by Dovydenas.
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The Cripple of Inishmaan Theatre
Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis to March 1
By: - Feb 10th, 2015There’s a cruelty in small towns. Everyone knows everyone else’s business. They’ve all grown up together, so there’s a comfort level that tends to ignore privacy. No one flinches in calling someone a degrading nickname or referring to an embarrassing moment in their past, because it’s all common knowledge.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015 Theatre
Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald , Cynthia Nixon
By: - Feb 10th, 2015The stars return to Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer for the first season of artistic director Mandy Greenfield. These include newcomers Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald , Cynthia Nixon as well as the return of Jessica Hecht. The festival runs from June 30 – August 23, 2015.
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Euro English Opinion
Toward Universal Language
By: - Feb 09th, 2015The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
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Mezze in Williamstown Food
Winter Comfort Sundays
By: - Feb 09th, 2015During the winter season Mezze in Williamstown offers Comfort Sunday weekly specials. A three course meal at the upscale restaurant costs $29. Or $22 if you skip desert. On a snowy winter night we joined friends to share a super spicy Moroccan menu. It was perhaps too authentic as the owner Nancy Thomas, who created this special dinner, is Moroccan American. It evoked a gastronomical heat wave on a cold gloomy night.
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Noah Snowah Word
Endless Wintah
By: - Feb 09th, 2015A wintah of Biblical proportions. When it shows for forty days and forty nights.
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Woody Word
What Goes Up Must Come Down
By: - Feb 09th, 2015When romance calls be ready. What happens when there's too much of a good thing.
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Conceptual Artist Ulay Fine Arts
Breaking the Norms
By: - Feb 08th, 2015The publisher Valiz Amsterdam has published a book about the life and work of the performance artist Ulay. The book ‘Whispers: Ulay on Ulay’, 536 pages with many illustrations, includes participations of Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, Timea Andrea Lelik, Tevž Logar, Thomas McEvilley, Charlemagne Palestine and others.
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