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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Photographer/ Art Historian Carl Chiarenza Fine Arts
Makers and Mentors at Rochester Contemporary Art Center
By: - Jan 09th, 2014Carl Chiarenza is distinguished both as a photographer and a scholar. Rochester Contemporary Arts Center is featuring him in Makers & Mentors new and recent collages, paintings and photographs by: Carl Chiarenza (Rochester), Lisa Bradley (New York), Bruno Chalifour (Rochester), David W. Haas (Rochester) February 6 – March 16, 2014.
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Fast Eddy's Current Top Six London Exhibitions Fine Arts
Another Life Changing Experience
By: - Jan 09th, 2014Our intrepid globe trotting correspondent Edward "Fast Eddy" Rubin slowed down long enough to update friends on his latest Life Changing Experiences in London. He lists with information six best current exhibitions in London as well as Wakefield and Leeds. As always his remarks are tongue in chic but the boy sure gets around.
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London’s Serpentine Galleries Fine Arts
Arte Povere’s Marisa Merz and Argentine Adrian Villar Rojas
By: - Jan 08th, 2014A bit of a hike from London's Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington is the entrance to Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park. In 1970 a tea pavilion in the park became the renowned Serpentine Gallery. This past year another small building within walking distance became Serpentine Sackler with an attached cafe designed by Zaha Hadid. In November we view exhibitons by the Arte Povere artist Marisa Merz and works in clay be the Argentinian sculptor Adrian Villar Rojas.
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Trey McIntyre Project Farewell Performances Dance
Jacob's Pillow June 25-29
By: - Jan 07th, 2014This June, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will host the final farewell performances of Trey McIntyre Project as a full-time dance company. Following its six-show engagement in the Ted Shawn Theatre, June 25-29, the company will broaden its focus to include other new artistic projects.
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Belgian Film The Broken Circle Breakdown Film
Oscar Contender for Best Foreign Landuage Film
By: - Jan 07th, 2014“Broken Circle Breakdownâ€, masterly and sensitively directed by Felix Van Groeningen, from a script written with Carl Joos, is a story that resonates with audiences in a bitter/sweet way. Potent forces and emotions are unleashed in this film concerning the healing power of the grieving process, the role of guilt in personal relationships, the part played by unconditional love, and the reality and finality of death.
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British Costume Movie Belle Film
Launched 25th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
By: - Jan 07th, 2014The selection of the opening night film for the 25th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival sets the tone and quality of the films that follow over the next ten days. “Belle†didn’t disappoint the audience. It’s nicely directed by British writer/director Amma Asante, who is on Variety’s “Top Ten Director’s to Watch†list. “Belle†is her second feature film.
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Jacob's Pillow 2014 Dance
Schedule for Summer Season
By: - Jan 06th, 2014The 82nd Festival season will feature more than 52 companies performing on three stages: the historic Ted Shawn Theatre; the intimate Doris Duke Theatre; and the open-air Henry J. Leir Stage, home to the Pillow’s free Inside/Out Performance Series, which served more than 21,000 community members last season. More than 350 free and ticketed dance performances, talks, tours, exhibits, films, classes, and community events will be offered June 14-August 24, 2014.
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A.R.T.’s Definitive Glass Menagerie Theatre
From Cambridge to Broadway
By: - Jan 05th, 2014Shows used to be developed in Boston, New Haven and other out of town venues prior to opening on Broadway. That's become too expensive and obsolete. Some shows open directly on Broadway following ever longer previews. That's risky. An alternative is to transfer regional hits like A.R.T''s superb Glass Menagerie to Broadway. It's also been a game changer for regional companies as a source for revenue and national recognition.
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Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers at 74 Music
Bye, Bye, Love
By: - Jan 04th, 2014The first appearance of the Everly Brothers on the Ed Sullivan Show was 30 June 1957 and their last 28 February 1971. In a career as pioneers of rock 'n' roll they charted 27 Top 40 singles and 35 Top 100 singles. As Mom put it, like Elvis, they were "Cheap and Common." Which is precisely why we loved them.
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The Berkshire Eagle: And Then There Was One Opinion
North Adams Transcript Merges and Advocate Folds
By: - Jan 03rd, 2014Given negative trends in media it comes as no surprise that The North Adams Transcript will merge with the Berkshire Eagle as of January 20. The weekly Adovcate, which has been in freefall for the past few years, will cease publication. As a part of the transition the Eagle will exand its weekly arts tabloid insert from summer to year round. Given the importance of the economy based on cultural tourism, and coverage of issues and politics in the still depressed Northern Berkshire County, despite attempts at positive spin this is really bad news.
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Streaming The Grand on Netflix Television
Vintage BBC Series for Downton Abbey Fans
By: - Jan 02nd, 2014Shot for a fraction of the budget of Downton Abbey, on a lot of levels the 1997 BBC series, The Grand, more than holds its own. There are mistakes and some curious casting changes but the plot twists and cliff hangers kept us hungry for the next of 18 fascinating episodes.
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Chelsea Ramble Fine Arts
The Bigger They Art
By: - Jan 01st, 2014In the art world too often bigger is assumed to be better. Or, when the work is small in scale, like a Paul Klee retrospective at Tate Modern, there is a daunting indigestible glut of images. Following a recent tour of Chelsea galleries we came away pondering how much size matters.
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Chasing Shackelton on PBS Television
Three Part Series Premieres January 8
By: - Dec 31st, 2013Chasing Shackelton, a new three-part series about a modern expedition that follows the path of history’s most extraordinary survival story, will premiere January 8, 2014. The series follows a crew of five intrepid explorers led by renowned adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis as they re-create Shackleton’s epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorers’ boat, using only the tools and supplies his team used.
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Auditioning for Artist Katarzyna Kozyra Fine Arts
Igniting a Force: Impromptu Self on Display
By: - Dec 31st, 2013With the selfie, we deliberately place our bodies and faces in relation to the person scrolling, clicking, and masturbating on the other side of the screen. We make “posts†of ourselves with the recognition of humor and vanity and yet with it, a lack of concern. We consciously build an image, our outstretched hand reaching to curl back around into ourselves.
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Corpus Americus in NYC at Driscoll Babcock Fine Arts
Reconfiguring American Art
By: - Dec 31st, 2013Founded in 1852 Driscoll Babcock is the oldest gallery in New York City, and the nation's oldest gallery, which from its inception, has focused on American art. Beneath the patchwork of skins stitched loosely into an ungainly whole, there is indeed something alive at the heart of "Corpus Americus."
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Marc Dennis at Hasted Kraeutler Fine Arts
A Curator And A Rabbi Walk Into A Bar...
By: - Dec 30th, 2013The representational paintings of Marc Dennis often entail young people encountering masterpieces of painting in museums. This is the ancient theme of art within art. On a snowy day in Chelsea it was a relief to find a bit of humor.
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Lend Me a Tenor Theatre
Beef and Boards Through February 2
By: - Dec 30th, 2013Ringing in a New Year of Indiana theatre. For the past few years Beef & Boards has opened every season with a slapstick farce. This year’s selection is "Lend Me A Tenor" a Ken Ludwig comedy.
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Palm Springs International Film Festival Film
25th Festival Launches January 3
By: - Dec 30th, 2013Palm Springs is not only a world-class tourist attraction, it becomes the center of world cinema for a ten-day period every January as it hosts more than 135,000 movie fans and film junkies from all over the globe as they try and spot the stars, directors, producers, writers, cinematographers, and distributors amid the glitz and glitter of its star-studded 1200 Gala attendees on Saturday, January 4th, at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
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Body & Soul at Museum of Arts and Design, NYC Fine Arts
New International Ceramics until March 2nd, 2014
By: - Dec 28th, 2013The current exhibition at MAD, "Body & Soul," presents an international survey of artists, who feel compelled to comment on aspects of our human condition through ceramic sculptures. It is an emotional roller-coaster! - Two other major exhibitions are on view: "Fashion Jewelry, The Collection of Barbara Berger" and most astonishing, "Out of Hand, Materializing the Post Digital."
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Rethinking Stones an Exhibition and Video Project Fine Arts
Inspired by a 2000 Visit to Neolitihic Avebury in the U.K.
By: - Dec 28th, 2013Inspired by recent visits to neolithic sites in Ireland, and memories of Stonehenge some years ago, we reconnected with the artist Jane Hudson about an exhibition we worked on together. The project Stones in the gallery of the New England School of Art & Design was stunning and deeply complex. This is a dialogue about that work and the ancient sites which inspired the exhibition.
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Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China Fine Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Through April 6
By: - Dec 28th, 2013Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through April 6 is the most compelling and insightful contemporary exhibition currently on view in New York museums. Unquestionably some of the most important work of the past few years has been created by Chinese artists. There are 70 works on view by 35 artists in this fascinating exhibition.
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Top Ten from Indianapolis Theatre
Picks by Theatre Critic Melissa Hall
By: - Dec 27th, 2013Our Indianapolis theatre correspondent Melissa Hall posts her list of the season's top ten productons. They come with links to the original reviews.
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Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen Brothers Film
A Small Dark Folkie Film Getting Huge Hype
By: - Dec 26th, 2013Inside Llewyn Davis is a dark, moody, misanthropic take on a failed folkie bumming around Greenwich Village in 1961. It is being hailed as another work of genius, arguably the best film, by the Academy Award winning Coen Brothers. It's a nice little film that has some charming moments but let's leave it at that.
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Management Dust Up for Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Tony Simotes Will Report to Executive Director Jerry Bilik
By: - Dec 24th, 2013Not long after he took over as Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company in 2009 Tony Simotes had to deal with near extinction caused by some $10 million in debt. With the board and managing director, Nicholas J. Puma, great strides were accomplished to reduce and restructure debt bringing stablity to the company which Tina Packer founded in 1979. In a major change the board has created the new position of Executive Director, Jerry Bilik, whom Simotes and Puma will report to. Those close to the company see this as a long term step foward.
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Pinter's Betrayal More Sizzle than Steak Theatre
OO7's Daniel Craig and Oscar Winning Wife Rachel Weisz
By: - Dec 23rd, 2013The revial of Harold Pinter's 1978 play "Betrayal" was all but sold out before opening night. The excitement was generated by a chance to see the gorgeous married couple, current 007, Daniel Craig, and Oscar winner, Rachel Weisz. Rounding out and even upstaging that glamorous duo in a taut love triangle is Rafe Spall. If you have really deep pockets for scalper tickets in the $400 range see this play before it closes on January 5.
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