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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August Word
Last Days of Summer
By: - Aug 11th, 2014In the Roman calendar August was named for Augustus, the Roman emperor Gaius Octavian eleveated to the status of a god. The peak and tipping point of summer. Start of the long slide into January and the two faced god Janus.
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Penny Arcade Returns to Joe's Pub Theatre
Longing Lasts Longer at NY's Public Theatre
By: - Aug 09th, 2014Though Longing Lasts Longer had a limited run in June, it is being brought back, to Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre this coming October and November. For the past number decades, Penny Arcade, who worked with Warhol at the tender age of 15, has been taking her act around the world. And wherever she performs people line up to hear what she has to say.
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Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Shorter and Sweeter in Jonathan Epstein's Adatation
By: - Aug 09th, 2014Sitting through Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 can be a long slog on Elizabethan inspired cruel on the bottom benches at Shakespeare & Company. In a brisk, rich and often hilarious reduction and conflation by Jonathan Epstein to two long acts with intermission, clocking at three hours, through this delicious production mind prevails over matter. One's sore bottom in this case. During his 450th year S&Co. has been presenting Shakespeare up the wazoo.
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State Approves MoCA's Phase Three Expansion Architecture
$25,420,000 for Ambitious Development
By: - Aug 08th, 2014With Governor Deval Patrick's signing of H.3933, an omnibus capital infrastructure bill which included $25,420,000 for MASS MoCA's Phase III development, the museum announces that it has begun work on the third phase of its multi-decade effort to renovate its 26-building, 600,000 square foot, 16-acre factory campus, an internationally recognized, mixed-use destination arts institution in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. A representative from the Governor's press office confirmed the news, saying, "Governor Patrick is very, very supportive of the project and is excited to work with MASS MoCA to finance the expansion."
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The Old Man and the Old Moon Theatre
PigPen Theatre Co. Anchors WTF Season
By: - Aug 08th, 2014The original production of The Old Man and the Old Moon by PigPen Theatre Company ran for 100 performances Off Broadway. The company which was formed in 2008 twice won first prize for a new play during the annual NYC Fringe Festival. It arrives to end the Williamstown Theatre Festival's season on its Nikos Stage. This fairy tale for kids of all ages will primarily appeal to those under thirty.
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Kander Ebb's The Visit at Williamstown Theatre
Chita Rivera in Something Old with Something New
By: - Aug 07th, 2014When it opened at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago the Kander and Ebb Broadway bound musical The Visit got nipped in the bud by 9/11. After mixed reviews for a 2008 production, also starring Chita Rivera, it gathered dust. With a revised book by Terrence McNally and judicious cuts to one act by director John Doyle it is enjoying a strong run and mostly favorable reviews at the Williamstown Theatre Festival through August 17.
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Edinburgh International Festival Music
August 8 to 31 with 50 Concerts
By: - Aug 07th, 2014Scotland is boldly centre stage with The James Plays, an epic trilogy of history plays for Scotland from writer Rona Munro, which marks the first co-production between the National Theatre of Great Britain, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Edinburgh International Festival. This rich and turbulent period of history is played by a superb cast which includes Blythe Duff, Sofie Gråbøl, Gordon Kennedy, Mark Rowley and the three kings James McArdle, Andrew Rothney and Jamie Sives.
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Rudd Art Museum in North Adams Fine Arts
Presenting Berkshire Artists
By: - Aug 06th, 2014As artists approach their senior years familiar issues arise. Unless they reach a level of broad recognition and market value for the work there is the challenge of legacy and handling of estates. North Adams based artist/ author and developer, Eric Rudd, has written a book on these concerns and by creating his own museum in North Adams is taking action to address them. Art historian and former Berkshire Eagle critic, Keith Shaw, is assisting Rudd by curating exhibitions based on artists living and working in the region. Here he discusses what that entails.
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Ronald Harwood’s Quartet at Old Globe Theatre
Charming Comedy In San Diego to August 24
By: - Aug 06th, 2014Ronald Harwood’s deliciously sly comedy features four meaty roles for actors of a “certain ageâ€, and those roles are filled by four actors who perform as though they were born for their parts: Old Globe favorite Robert Foxworth plays shy and introverted Reginald Paget, a fussy, classically trained singer, of the old school who bristles at the suggestive shenanigans and randy language of Wilfred Bond, portrayed by Roger Forbes who fancies himself as the retirement home lothario.
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Animating the Everyday by Robin Rhode Fine Arts
Winner of the Biannual Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize
By: - Aug 02nd, 2014Animating The Everyday - running through August 10 – is a ten-year survey of the work of South African born, Berlin based artist Robin Rhode. Curated by Helaine Posner, the museum’s Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, along with co-curator Louise Yelin. High definition projectors, and advanced musical composed sound tracks by Arenor Anuku, feature the artist’s digital animations, as well as a selection of his still photographs, the latter elegantly hung on charcoal gray walls.
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Buyer and Cellar at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Stars Michel Urie In Barbra Streisand Homage
By: - Jul 31st, 2014The wacky 90 minute satire, is pure fiction when it comes to the narrative, however, celebrity super-stars like Barbra Streisand often become the subjects of faux stories, books and plays. Playwright Jonathan Tolins’ pays his homage to Streisand throughout in a tender way but doesn’t let her off the hook completely.
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Composer Profile: Spotlight on Johannes Brahms Music
Tanglewood Concert on August 8
By: - Jul 31st, 2014On Wednesday, August 6, at 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the visiting orchestra Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (German Chamber Symphony of Bremen), conducted by Paavo Järvi, will present an all-Brahms concert, consisting of the “Academic Festival Overtureâ€, the Piano Concerto No. 1, with Lars Vogt the soloist and the Second Symphony.
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Ann Hamilton's Corpus at Mass Moca Fine Arts
2003 Installation in Building Five
By: - Jul 30th, 2014In 2003-2004 Ann Hamilton installed a paper based work Corpus in the vast building five of Mass MoCA. It was a relatvely early project in the space. This article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Ann Hamilton Bangs on a Can Fine Arts
Paper Sounding Premieres at Mass MoCA
By: - Jul 30th, 2014With just four rehearsal sessions in less than a week installatin artist, Ann Hamilton, returned to Mass MoCA to create a piece for some thirty individuals "Paper Sounding" as a part of the annual Bang on a Can festival. The spontaneous and lively work was co directed by Mark Stewart and David Cossin. The performance was our introducton to an area of the vast Building Six which the museum hopes soon to develop. We spoke with Hamilton about the significance of paper in her practice.
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Native American Repatriation Fine Arts
National Museum of the American Indian
By: - Jul 29th, 2014When the NMAI was established in 1989 with the passage of the National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAI Act), it included the first U.S. repatriation legislation that provided for the return of Native American human remains and certain cultural items in the collections. Since the museum's inception, one of the highest priorities has been the return of Native American human remains and their associated funerary items back to their communities of origin.
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18th Jazz Festival of Garana, Romania – July 10-13, 2014 Music
Part Two: Interview with Kimmo Pohjonen, Finland
By: - Jul 29th, 201418 years and going strong! The outdoor Jazz Festival in Romania attracted again a large crowd of jazz enthusiasts and many bands from several countries in Europe and the USA. The small village of Garana puts on every summer a Music and Jazz Celebration. More than 5000 came to participate! Here now the second interview of a highly anticipated musician....
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Into the Woods at Old Globe Theatre
Inventive Co Production with Fiasco Theatre
By: - Jul 29th, 2014The musical has seen many script versions and hundreds of stagings by theatres all over the world in the last twenty-eight years. It’s considered to be one of the greatest musicals of all time. “Into the Woods†2014 version, is once again a reimagined, inventive and energetic co-production this time Old Globe partnered with the critically acclaimed Fiasco Theatre that originated at the McCarter Theatre Center.
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Ether Dome by Elizabeth Egloff a Snore Theatre
West Coast Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Jul 29th, 2014“Ether Dome†written by Elizabeth Egloff, and directed by Michael Wilson, is a fascinating subject for exploration regarding the subject of pain and the quest of medicine to conquer a condition that has afflicted human beings since the dawn of time. Compelling as the subject matter may be, the action of the piece comes off as sluggish; periodically engaging the audience, only later to “anesthetize†them (pun intended) by having the story wander to Paris, France, New York City, and then back to Boston.
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The Orphan of Zhao at La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre
BD Wong in Ancient Chinese Tale
By: - Jul 29th, 2014“The Orphan of Zhaoâ€, at La Jolla Playhouse, is receiving an intelligent and intense revival of the classic Chinese legend that has roots in the fourth century BC. Starring Tony winner BD Wong (M Butterfly) it runs through August 2.
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18th Jazz Festival of Garana, Romania – July 10-13, 2014 Music
Part One: Interview with Joey DeFrancesco
By: - Jul 28th, 2014Europe's largest, perhaps only outdoor Jazz Festival in Garana, Romania, drew again a large crowd and major Jazz Players from around the world. The Jazz Fest in the Carpathian Mountains began in 1997 and has been on the scene yearly; a great effort by all participants. Here the first of three interviews documenting 2014 .
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Pipaluk Lake's Planned Accidents Fine Arts
Multi Media Works at Maria Lund Galerie in Paris
By: - Jul 28th, 2014Pipaluk Lake takes a long time to conceive her glass and metal “bundlesâ€; she cuts, hammers, attaches, knits, sews… Putting into practice a know-how acquired during a quadruple training in fields as diverse as textile, glass, metal and wood. Once her complex preparation work finished, she abandons her “bundle†to the alchemy of heat and gravity inside the kiln.
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Marjorie Minkin’s Lexan Painted Reliefs Fine Arts
Collaborations with Her Son Mike Gordon of Phish
By: - Jul 28th, 2014During the final days of her exhibition at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass. we spoke with Marjorie Minkin about her painted Lexan reliefs. We discussed the current exhibition and background of her relationship with renowned critic, Clement Greenberg, and curator/ critic, Kenworth Moffett. As well as a 2005/06 project in collaboration with her son Mike Gordon of the rock band Phish and engineer Jamie Robertson.
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Love Made Visible by Jean Gibran Fine Arts
A Complex Book on Her Husband Kahlil Gibran
By: - Jul 27th, 2014Decades ago the sculptor Kahlin Gibran and his wife Jean purchased a shell in Boston's ethnically mixed South End. A meticulous craftsman the home evolved as a museum of his work and collection. Together they wrote a definitive 1974 biography "Kahlil Gibran, His Life and World." Now Jean has published "Love Made Visible: Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage" about a complex relationship with her late husband.
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A Roman Holiday Food
Mange Bene
By: - Jul 26th, 2014This is a lively guide to a four day Roman Holiday. Our overview provides links to accomodations and tours as well as lists of favorite restaurants and recipes. This will serve as a guide to a delicious taste of the food and wine of Italy.
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Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love Theatre
Cowboy Chic in Williamstown
By: - Jul 25th, 2014Now 70 Sam Shepard has created a riveting existential American theatre through a cowboy chic deconstuction of the mythology of the American West. In the manner of Beckett's theatre of the absurd the tense and tight drama of Fool for Love is confined to a motel room. There is a death struggle between Tony winner, the formidable Nina Arainda, and the desperate cowboy played by Sam Rockwell. Since 1970 it is the sixth Shepard production for Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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