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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Clark Launches New Galleries with Make It New Fine Arts
Selection of Mid Century Abstraction from the National Gallery
By: - Sep 11th, 2014Clark curator, David Breslin, worked with Harry Cooper of the National Gallery for a special exhibition launching the spacious new galleries designed by Tadao Ando. For long time friends of the Clark it is a bold move into issues of 20th century art. This is the first of two parts of a dialogue with Breslin about the impact of the exhibition, a related seminar, and what this means for the future of modernism in the Berkshires.
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Noel Coward's Fallen Angels Theatre
North Coast Rep Theatre in San Diego
By: - Sep 11th, 2014North Coast Rep Company, of Solano Beach, CA, launched its 33rd season last weekend and hit the ground running with Noel Coward’s delightful spin on the 1920’s comedy-of-manners genre “Fallen Angelsâ€. This wonderfully hilarious and fast-paced romp has the very good fortune to have San Diego-based director Rosina Reynolds at the helm.
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Theresa Rebeck's Seminar Theatre
Palm Desert's Arthur Newman Theatre
By: - Sep 11th, 2014“Seminar†is not a study in intellectual rigor by a long shot, but it can be an entertaining evening of theatre, if one goes not expecting to challenge the gray matter in one’s head. The ensemble cast throw themselves into their portrayals with gusto, sometimes, a little too much gusto
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Seance Word
Tales of the Lower East Side
By: - Sep 11th, 2014Mooshie the stray cat adopted me. After an uptown seance we parted company.
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Cedar Tavern Word
Ersatz Artist Mecca
By: - Sep 10th, 2014The emerging ideas of the abstract expressionists were debated and brawled at the legendary Cedar Tavern. It was just a bar near Greenwich Village in walking distance from 10th street studios where artists gathered to hang out and drink. As an art student on Spring Break I wandered in expecting to find de Kooning.
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Unexamined Life Isn't Worth Living Opinion
But Not By IQ Tests
By: - Sep 09th, 2014Schools used to assign children to classes based on their IQ test scores. Then schools decided it was better for children to be in heterogeneous, or mixed IQ, classes. They would get a better feel for life because many people are not so fast. Now experts may be reconsidering. It is one of the truisms of fashion, and there are intellectual fashions, too, that they change. Here Rifkin again rebuts Zaig.
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The Koons Phenomenon Fine Arts
Reacting to Jed Perl's Essay in New York Review of Books
By: - Sep 08th, 2014As Brice Marden commented in a symposium at the Clark "I haven't made up my mind about Jeff Koons. But it's not for lack of information." He's not the only one that's hanging on the fence. Here Martin Mugar responds to a review of Koons by the always fiesty Jed Perl.
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Brice Marden Discusses Cheap Shots Fine Arts
At 75 an American Master
By: - Sep 08th, 2014Brice Marden is widely admired as one of the foremost abstract artists of his generation. He spoke with the poet Vincent Katz during a recent symposium Make It New? Conversations on Mid-Century Abstraction at the Clark Art Institute During a break we spoke with him and also researched his experiences as an undergraduate at Boston Unversity and transition to graduate study at Yale.
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Fig Tree Word
Wintering Over
By: - Sep 07th, 2014Italians bundle up and bury their fig trees to endure harsh winters. Or keep them in pots to bring indoors. As did my grandmother back in Brooklyn.
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An Update with Michael Conforti Fine Arts
Clark Art Institute's Globe Trotting Director
By: - Sep 07th, 2014Completing a $145 million renovation and expansion the Clark Art Institute repoened this summer. The occasion was launched with a stunning range of special exhibitions. During a recent opening of Magna Carta we asked the museum's fast moving director, Michael Conforti, for an overview of the season and when we might expect to see Treasures from the Prado?
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The Man with the Beckett Face Word
Heavier Than Joyce, Terser,
By: - Sep 07th, 2014He crossed over to Ireland, yet again. That was August,1939, and the Germans On the move.
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Dissent Word
Reading Hannah Arendt
By: - Sep 07th, 2014I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car
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Tanz im August 2014 – Berlin Dance
Assessment of Contemporary Dance
By: - Sep 06th, 2014'Dance in August' in Berlin, Germany, celebrated it's 26th season.Quite an accomplishment! 21 international companies representing 14 countries performed on several stages throughout Berlin. 'Tanz im August' and its current artistic director, Virve Sutinen, celebrated again the world of dance with well known companies and newly discovered dancers and choreographers during a two week long festival.
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What’s Magna About Clark’s Carta Fine Arts
Williamstown Display of Seminal 1215 Document
By: - Sep 06th, 2014The Barons of England forced King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215. It limited his Divine Rights and created a Constitutional Monarchy laying a foundation of British Common Law and the eventual creation of Parliament. A less than perfect document it was annuled a few months later then revived several times in later years. One of only four copies of the original document is on display as the special exhibiton Radical Words: From Magna Carta to the Constitution on view at the Clark Art Institute through November 1.
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In Love Word
From The Merit of Light Poems by Stephen Rifkin
By: - Sep 04th, 2014A debut collection of poetry The Merit of Light is inspired by the author’s relationship with his wife and their time living on an island in Maine. Rifkin’s poems... communicate both the beauty and isolation of island life, and his wife Wilma's simple but lovely sketches enhance the poems, making them even more evocative.
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Outside The Machine Opinion
Waxing Philosophical
By: - Sep 03rd, 2014There has been a lively response to the provocative series of think pieces by the Berkshire artist David Zaig. Here the Berkshire poet Stephen Rifkin debates Zaig's contentions. They often sit at the same table during weekly Monday night Chinese dinners in North Adams. Rifkin recently gave a poetry reading at the Rudd Art Museum where Zaig is currently exhibiting his work.
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Jenny Gersten Quits NY’s High Line Theatre
Returns to First Love the Arts
By: - Sep 03rd, 2014At this time last year Jenny Gersten did not renew a three year contract as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She took a job as director of NY's High Line. For the interim she programmed the recently concluded 2014 WTF season. In a recent e mail exchange I told Gersten that her return to theatre was inevitable. It's in her genes. She corrects me that she hopes to return to "the arts."
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Robin Williams Remembered Television
PBS Special September 9
By: - Sep 02nd, 2014The one-hour special will feature Williams’ last full-length television interview, including never-before-seen footage of his comments on life and work, tributes by those who knew and worked with him closely in all phases of his career, and clips from iconic moments throughout his career. Williams shares stories about his first stand-up act, his desire to be a serious dramatic actor and his tireless efforts to entertain U.S. troops overseas.
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Berkshire Theatre 2014 Theatre
Highlights of a Diverse Season
By: - Sep 02nd, 2014From the first of May through the end of August we posted 86 theatre articles by a diverse staff of contributors. This overview is limited to the four major Berkshire companies: Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Group, Shakespeare & Company, and Williamstown Theatre Group. Our summary is based on reviewing most but not all of the 2014 Berkshire Summer Season.
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Benno Friedman Hosted Tim Leary Photography
Hitched Ray and Alice Brock of Alice's Restaurant
By: - Sep 02nd, 2014An extended family of artists and hipsters celebrate holidays in the Berkshires at the home of Benno and Stephanie Friedman. Among the renowned guests have been LSD guru, Tim Leary, and chef Alice Brock. Benno shot the illustrations for the Alice's Restaurant Cookbook. There's a shot of me with an apple in my mouth in the chapter on stuffing.
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Premiere of Works by Stephen Dankner Music
Clark Features Berkshire Composer October 12
By: - Sep 01st, 2014During a recent meeting in Williamstown the Berkshire Composer and Berkshire Fine Arts contributor, Stephen Denkner, discussed several world premieres over the next couple of months. His Quartets Nos. 14, 16 and 17 will be performed by the Dover String Quartet at the Clark Art Institute on October 12 at 3 PM.
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Art and Fashion Word
No Regrets
By: - Sep 01st, 2014Once celebrated artists no longer are. One of them was Jennifer Bartlett. Even then I was not impressed.
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Tony Bennett Returns to Tanglewood Music
American Jazz Master Flat Out at 88
By: - Sep 01st, 2014The Tanglewood season closed with a near to capacity audience for national treasure Tony Bennett. Closing in on 90 yet again he uniquely rattled the renowned rusty pipes. He proved why Frank Sintra hailed him as the greatest jazz singer of his generation. Keeping forever young he is about to release an album of duets with Lady Gaga.
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Vaccination Followup Opinion
Poor Former Dr. Wakefield
By: - Aug 31st, 2014In this sidebar to the Vaccination Divide we discuss the contoversies surrounding the research of Dr. Andrew Wakefield who uncovered links between autism and a particular type of gut inflammation. Eventually his findings were discredieted and his liscense to practice medicine was revoked. But he is correct that aluminum toxicity is capable of doing real damage.
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Defining an Artist Opinion
Honorific vs. Generic
By: - Aug 30th, 2014Anyone who hangs a few pictures in a coffee shop is a self proclaimed artist or photographer. Is anyone who makes art an artist? Does posting comments to Facebook make one a critic? Does posting snap shots of your cat or kids qualify as art? Despite decades as a successful commercial and fine arts photographer the Berkshire based Benno Friedman, during an extensive interview, explains why he hestitates to call himself an artist.
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