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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Jessica Stone Returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Remembering Her Mentor and Friend Nicholas Martin
By: - Jul 02nd, 2014Jessica Stone made her debut as a director when through a hunch her mentor and friend, Nicholas Martin, tapped her for an all male production of Sondheim's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." That first effort was a smash hit for Williamstown Theatre Festival. It was followed by "Last of the Red Hot Lovers." She returns to the main stage this season directing "June Moon." Poignantly she discussed WTF as a family and the legacy of Martin.
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Trey McIntyre Project’s Final Bows Dance
Company Disbands at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jul 01st, 2014The final performance of the now disbanded, Iowa based, Trey McIntyre Project was followed by one of the longest and most raucous ovations we have ever encountered at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Theatre. The audiece was thrilled by a two part peformance based on the macabre innustrations of Edward Gorey and the magnificent music of the British rock group Queen. What a fitting send off for a superb dance company.
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The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful Theatre
Drag Farce Launches Berkshire Theatre Group’s Season
By: - Jun 30th, 2014The actors, Bill Bowers and Tom Hewitt, appears to have having as much if not more fun than the audience in a campy, over the top, drag farce the Charles Ludlam classic Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadul. It launches the season for the Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge. It's a hoot if you like that sort of thing.
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Clark Art Institute Reopens Architecture
Celebrating a $145 Million Renovation and Expansion
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Clark Art Institute Reopens Architecture
Completing a $145 Million Renovation and Expansion
By: - Jun 28th, 2014Since it opened in 1955 with a superb permanent collection the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has long been regarded among America's finest regional museums. With a $145 expansion and renovation designed by Tadao Ando the Clark is now a whole lot more fabulous. Combined with nearby Mass MoCA, Williams College, and the Wlliamstown Theatre Festival the Northern Berkshires are an even better first class arts desitinaton.
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Japanese Architect Tadao Ando: A Portrait Architecture
Pritzker Prize Winner Designed Clark Art Institute Expansion
By: - Jun 28th, 2014Initially the 72-year-old Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, trained to be a professional boxer. When he became interested in architecture he read books and traveled extensively to see works by modern masters. In 1970 he returned from travel and field research to establish his firm. In 1995 he won the Pritzker Prize the most prestigious in the field. Followed by a film crew we tagged along when he surveyed his now completed design for the Clark Art Institute.
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David Suchet in The Last Confession Theatre
Reaching Beyond Hercule Poirot in LA
By: - Jun 25th, 2014At LA’s Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre, David Suchet portrays Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, a friend and adviser to the recently crowned caretaker Pope John Paul I, the successor to the conservative Pope Paul VI. The actor is best known as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot through 74 episodes for Masterpiece Mystery on PBS.
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Beck Rocks Mass MoCA Music
Opening Set by Sean Lennon
By: - Jun 25th, 2014On a sultry summer evening Beck charmed some 5,000 fans crammed into Joe Thompson Field on the campus of Mass MoCA. While Wilco's Solid Sound weekend festival is taking a break this season, on a Tuesday night in June, Beck put up Wilco numbers. It strongly indicates that MoCA is in the rock concert business as a viable alternative to Tanglewood with far more imaginative programming.
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The Country House by Donald Margulies Theatre
LA’s Geffen Playhouse a World Premiere
By: - Jun 24th, 2014“The Country House†a world premiere by Donald Margulies deftly directed by the award winning Daniel Sullivan is a bit of a mishmash when it comes to knowing what it wants to be when it grows up. Is it a comedy? Well, maybe. On the other hand, perhaps it’s a melodrama.
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Working on a Special Day Transforms Italian Movie Theatre
Chalk Talks at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 23rd, 2014Una Giornata Particolare was a 1977 Italian movie which earned two Academy Award nominations. It has been adapted for the stage as Working on a Special Day in a performance acted and directed by the Mexican couple of Ana Graham and Antonio Vega. The charming and absorbing one act play inventively explores the boundaries between illusion and theatrical reality.
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Franz West at Mass MoCA and WCMA Fine Arts
From Actionism to the Absurd
By: - Jun 21st, 2014The Austrian artist Franz West (16 February 1947- 25 July 2012). is being featured this summer in the Northern Berkshires. There is a display of several large scale, puffy, pink phallic sculptures at Mass MoCA and a tandem exhibition of works on paper and smaller scale sculptures at Williams College Museum of Art. The artist was widely included in global biennials and museum exhibitions including a retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art. We consider West in the milieu of post war artists in Vienna including its outrageous Actionists.
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Adrian Ghenie’s Golems at Pace London Fine Arts
Figurative Works by a Romanian Artist
By: - Jun 21st, 2014Adrian Ghenie highlights an era that questioned man’s significance, the existence of God, and the question of Creationism —through a use of paint that suggests the anamorphic nature of identity through the evolution of scientific understanding, and contradiction of the Baconian flesh that presents it.
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Ending Washington Redskins Racism Opinion
Derailing Disparaging Branding of Sports Teams
By: - Jun 20th, 2014On Wednesday, June 20, the United States Patent and Trademark Office cancelled the trademark registration for the Washington Redskins, because Federal trademark law does not permit registration of trademarks that may “disparage†individuals or groups or “bring them into contempt or disrepute.†We post remarks by Kevin Gover the director of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Tony Winner Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell for WTF Theatre
To Co Star in Sam Shepherd Drama in Williamstown
By: - Jun 19th, 2014In 2011 Nina Arianda one of the most talented actresses of her generation was nominated for a Tony as the lead in a revival of Born Yesterday. Some say as a young unknown she was robbed. In 2012 she returned to Broadway and nailed a Tony for Vanda the dominatrix in the David Ives play Venus in Fur. Amazingly she will come to Williamstown Theatre Festival through a casting change announced today. With the hot Sam Rockwell as her co star act fast if you want to see the Sam Shepherd play Fool for Love.
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Emotional Impact: American Figurative Expressionism Fine Arts
April Kingsley's Catalogue for Michigan State University
By: - Jun 19th, 2014While curator of Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University from 1999 to 2011 April Kingsley had the resources and inspiration to collect works by the undervalued and poorly understood artists of the Figurative Expressionist movement. It was widely felt among artists that there would be a return to the figure informed by but diverging from abstract expressionism. Aspects of this experimentation occurred with little or no direct communication in New York, Provincetown, Boston, and the Bay Area of San Francisco. This book fails to present a cohesive overview of those complex developments.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Dance
Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow, July 9-13.
By: - Jun 18th, 2014Dance Theatre of Harlem, led by Artistic Director Virginia Johnson, performs Donald Byrd’s smooth yet power-packed contemporary ballet Contested Space, which features a plethora of solos and duets. past-carry-forward, created for DTH by Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis, conveys the spirit and significance of the Harlem Renaissance.
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The New Realism: Ananian, Deyab, Lee and Mugar Fine Arts
Why We Fight
By: - Jun 18th, 2014The Neo-Expressionism of the 80’s seemed to be the last gasp of that self-centered version that came out of Germany in the 20’s and 30’s.I wanted a language that would embody the state of things of things as they are. Things as they are swimming in a sea of forces bigger than themselves
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A Secret Passage Way - 2014 Photography
Global Call to Participate in Photo Project
By: - Jun 17th, 2014From February to May we invited participants to submit photographs and words via email and Face Book representing passages in any way real or imagined. Collaborators expanded the project in amazing and unexpected directions. Here is the resulting digital exhibition:
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The Rise and Fall of WBCN Music
Carter Alan’s Book on Radio Free Boston
By: - Jun 17th, 2014Between 1968 and its demise in 2009 Boston's rock station WBCN was the epicenter of an alternative lifestyle. Its DJ's interviewed and broadcast live concerts and studio sessions with virtually every major band of the era. It was a strong advocate of local band breaking many including J Geils, The Cars, Aerosmith, Boston and British stars from Bowie and The Who to Ireland's U2. Carter Alan's superbly researched book covers it all from A to Z.
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Kiss Me Kate at Barrington Stage Theatre
A Musical Birthday Cake for 20th Season
By: - Jun 16th, 2014Kiss Me Kate was Cole Porter's biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway. In 1949, it won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical. It is being given a stunning revival at Barrington Stage Company in a lavish production celebrating its 20th anniversary. With all of that iconic music and stunning choreography this is a fabulous way to launch the season in the Berkshires.
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Noises Off is a Silly Play Theatre
At The Public in Pittsburgh
By: - Jun 15th, 2014Noises Off (by playwright Michael Frayn, now playing at the Public) is a silly play about a silly play. Or, more accurately: it’s a silly play about the silly things that occur when a group of people tries to put on a silly play.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Dance
Returns to Jacob's Pillow July 2-6
By: - Jun 15th, 2014Popular contemporary company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for the first time since 2010, bringing a sensational mixed-bill program. Directed by Glenn Edgerton, the 18-member company performs the dramatic Mediterranean-inspired Gnawa, choreographed by Nacho Duato, and Jiřà Kylián’s vivid Falling Angels, a stark all-female work danced to “Drumming†by contemporary composer Steve Reich.
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Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Fine Arts
Bringing Iconic American Art to Arkansas
By: - Jun 11th, 2014During our visit to Crystal Springs Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas we met with museum spokesperson Diane Carol. Fending off questions of media controversy regarding aggressive acquisitions she emphasized that the museum is free and serves a region that lacks resources of its quality. As she pointed out since opening in 11/11/11 some 1.3 million visitors have viewed "Kindred Spirits" by Asher B. Durand which formerly hung in the New York Public Library.
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Crystal Bridges in Bentonville Arkansas Fine Arts
All the Museum that Walmart Money Can Buy
By: - Jun 10th, 2014After extensive renovation and expansion the Clark Art Institute reopens this summer. Much is being made of how its Tadeo Ando designed low lying horizontal line and large reflecting pool embrace nature and the background rolling mountain range. The paradigm for architecture set into natural surroundings, however, is the Moshe Safdie design for Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is nestled into a ravine with a series of pontoon "bridges." The museum which opened on 11/11/11 has some 500,000 annual visitors for its controversial collection of American art.
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Don’t Keep on Truckin Opinion
Tracy Morgan’s Crash Highlights Highway Crisis
By: - Jun 09th, 2014A highway crash that killed a fellow passenger and resulted in comedian Tracy Morgan fighting for his life gained national media attention for a far too common highway hazard. Returning from a gig Morgan's limo was rear ended by a Walmart truck driven by one Kevin Roper who faces criminal charges. He allegedly dozed off and lost control after 24 hours without sleep. During a recent road trip we narrowly escaped a similar accident.
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