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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Judi Dench in Philomena Film
On the Road Again
By: - Dec 22nd, 2013The odyssey-saga of “Philomenaâ€, wonderfully portrayed by Academy Award winning actor Judi Dench, and her co-star, a wry, world-weary Steve Coogan (who also co-wrote the screenplay with writer Jeff Pope) sends these two unlikely “detectives†on a journey to track down Philomena’s son Mark Anthony, the baby she gave up for adoption fifty years ago.
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Brian Dennehy at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
The Steward of Christendom by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry
By: - Dec 22nd, 2013In The Mark Taper Forum production “The Steward of Christendomâ€, by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry, the play is set in the early 20th century before, during and after the volatile Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916 and the bloody 1919 – 1922 Irish Civil War. It is deftly and steadily directed by Steven Robman, and stars Brian Dennehy as Thomas Dunne, the former police superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
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Terry Teachout’s Definitive Book on Duke Ellington Music
We Loved Him Madly
By: - Dec 21st, 2013Wall Street Journal theatre critic, Terry Teachout, wrote a superb jazz biography "Pops: A Life of Duke Ellington." That became the one man play with John Douglas Thompson "Satchmo at the Waldorf" which opens soon Off Broadway. Now Teachout has written an even better biography "Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington." He is in the process of transforming that material into a play.
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Robert Indiana: Beyond Love at Whitney Museum Fine Arts
First New York Museum Retrospective for Pop Artist
By: - Dec 20th, 2013Robert Indiana created the "Love" logo that became an icon of American design. But its commerical success made him a pariah in the New York art world. After several years of being snubbed he fled to Vinalhaven, Maine in 1978 where he continues to live. The current Whitney Museum retrospective, his first in New York, is a critical success for the one trick pony of Pop art.
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Balthus at the Met and Magritte at MoMA Fine Arts
Surrealist Holiday in New York
By: - Dec 19th, 2013Dream surrealism has always been accessible to the general public. During the Holiday season in New York, through January 12, there is an intriguing double header. The relatively small but concise "Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations" is on view at the Metropolitan while "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" is featured at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Taking the Holidays in Strad Music
On Performing with the Legendary 1718 Firebird Violin
By: - Dec 19th, 2013Musician and author Gerald Elias reports on an offer he could not refuse. "I got to perform on the 1718 “Firebird†Stradivarius, one of the greatest violins in the world. Ever." Now based in Utah he travels to Tanglewood each summer to play with his former BSO colleagues. He also writes mystery novels with classical music themes.
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Mark Rylance’s Bard on Broadway Theatre
Twelfth Night and Richard III Both Masterful
By: - Dec 18th, 2013In the theatrical event of the season, if not decade at least, two time Tony winner Mark Rylance has brought a tandem of Shakespeare plays to Broadway. On stunning and thrilling back to back nights at New York's Belasco Theatre we saw first Twelfe Night and then Richard III. Both were produced as close as possible to Elizabethan standards including all male casts. Don't miss these magnificent plays which run through mid February.
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Welcome Home Sonny T in New York Premiere Theatre
By Seven Time Emmy Winner William Electric Black
By: - Dec 17th, 2013William Electric Black has won seven Enmmys writing for family and kids TV shows. With Welcome Home Sonny T he shows considerable chops taking on adult themes. This is the first of five intended plays focused on inner city violence. It is a high voltage theatrical experience.
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Stephan Kaplan's Exquisite Potential Theatre
West Coast Premiere in Palm Springs
By: - Dec 17th, 2013“Exquisite Potential†by playwright Stephan Kaplan, recently recently had its West Coast Premiere at Dezart Performs in the Pearl McManus Theatre in Palm Springs. The comedy drama is one of two plays that ended in a tie as “audience favorite†from Dezart Performs annual staged play reading festival in April of this year.
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The Subject-Object Model in Zombie Art Fine Arts
Bottom Feeding on the Undead
By: - Dec 16th, 2013Another take on the new abstraction and it ain't pretty. Simone Weil said that culture moves in grand arcs either ascending or descending. Assuming the movement is down, could it be we have reached the bottom?
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art Fine Arts
Dublin’s 17th Century Former Royal Hospital Kilmainham
By: - Dec 08th, 2013Relaunching after renovations the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented two special exhiitions- Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) the Irish born furniture designer, and architect and Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) a British-born–Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist. Her mother was Irish.
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Beef and Boards Annual Holiday Show Theatre
Chowing Down on Christmas Cheer in Indy
By: - Dec 07th, 2013The Beef & Boards Orchestra is excellent as always; highlighted center stage on the all-new set by Michael Layton. Dominic Sheahan-Stahl provides a fitting salute to the military with his rendition of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.â€
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Book Thief Steals Hearts and Minds Film
Forbidden Literacy in Nazi Germany
By: - Dec 06th, 2013“The Book Thief†based on the international best selling novel of the same name by Markus Zusak, is intelligently and sensitively directed by Brian Percival, from a wonderfully crafted screenplay by Michael Petroni. It’s a small, touching story with large emotional issues that is flawlessly and understatedly performed by a cast led by Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, and Oscar nominee Emily Watson, and stars young French-Canadian teen actress Sophie Nelisse in the title role as Liesel Meminger.
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Dallas Buyers Club a Film Scorcher Film
Matthew McConaghey As a Wasted Hustler Dying of AIDS
By: - Dec 06th, 2013Don’t miss the gritty, grungy, and f-bomb laden film “ Dallas Buyers Club†starring Matthew McConaghey. McConaghey, a Hollywood handsome, leading man, lost more than 40 pounds in order to play the role of Ron Woodroof, a Texas hustler and rodeo rider/electrician with Aids, who turned drug dealer in the recently released “Dallas Buyers Clubâ€.
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Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil Fine Arts
Vast Installation at Mass MoCA on View for a Year
By: - Dec 05th, 2013Building Five of Mass MoCA is one of the largest and most magnificent spaces for contemporary art in North America. It is always fascinating to see how artists respond to the daunting challenge. Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil is now on view for the coming year.
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Mandy Greenfield For Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Tenure Begins September 2014
By: - Dec 04th, 2013As she has for the past three seasons Jenny Gersten will plan the 2014 program for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In September Mandy Greenfield will take over as artistic director. Currently she is Artistic Producer at Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Trinity College and the Book of Kells Fine Arts
Viewing Ireland's National Treasures
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013During the 1979 traveling exhibition Treasures of Early Irish Art I first viewed the Book of Kells. Given the long line of visitors it proved to be a brief encounter. That also was the case during a recent visit to the Old Library of Trinty College in Dublin. It was an absorbing and enchanting experience of the essence of Irish heritage.
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London's Hot New Tryon St Gallery Fine Arts
Near the Saatchi Museum
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013The new Meridian exhibition at the recently launched Tryon St Gallery, (just a stone’s throw from London’s Saatchi gallery), explores the universal human fascination with finding our place in the world and recording it through maps and mapping.
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Malcolm Morley at Britain's Ashmolean Museum Fine Arts
Beyond Photo Realism
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Malcolm Morley is not a Photorealist. His painting can convey a Photo-realist quality when reproduced in a publication, but to the eye of the viewer there is a subtle yet conscious energy to the paint. There is covert mark-making in Morley’s Superrealist works. If an “ism†was to be found it was in the artist’s self-categorisation—before discarding the method and the category of Superrealism in order to follow an expressionistic route—a route already alluded to in his noticeably surreptitious energy.
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Boston Baroque Pops the Cork Music
Concerts to Celebrate the New Year
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Following its annual tradition, Boston Baroque will once again "pop the cork" in grand style on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! This year's celebratory concerts feature a rousing all-Bach program with Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 & No. 4 and Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee Cantata) BWV 211 along with champagne and chocolates at intermission.
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Mahlerpalooza Music
When a Musical OD Lands You in Intensive Care
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013I’m writing this in the MRU of a local hospital. MRU stands for Mahler Recovery Unit. I’m here for the long haul – six weeks of Rossini overtures, early Haydn symphonies and Scott Joplin piano rags. Mahler addiction respects no boundaries – rich, poor, the highly educated or just plain working-class folks – the MRU has them all.
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Laure Prouvost Wins Britain's Turner Prize Fine Arts
Based on Video Installation Wantee
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Laure Prouvost, winner of the fourth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has been awarded the prestigious Turner Prize for her video installation Wantee, tribute to a fictional grandfather inspired by Kurt Schwitters.
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2014 Boston Pops Season Music
Fun Fun Fun From May 7 to June 14
By: - Dec 02nd, 2013The 2014 Boston Pops spring season will introduce audiences to debut appearances by Warren Haynes (5/13 & 14), Tony award-winning Billy Porter (5/20 &21), and conductor Sarah Hicks (5/23 & 24), as well as first-time collaborations with the New York-based jazz band sensation The Hot Sardines (5/28-30) and Cirque de la Symphonie (5/16 & 17),the wildly unique circus act that brings its aerial flyers, acrobats, dancers, and jugglers to orchestral stages throughout the country. Opening night features comic Jason Alexander.
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Nils Frahm at Le Poisson Rouge Music
Music Between Minimalist and Electronic Conglomerate.
By: - Dec 02nd, 2013The concert featuring the music of Nils Frahm was sold out at New York's Le Poisson Rouge. His combination of ambient modern classical falls somewhere between minimalist and electronic conglomerate.
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When Silence is Golden Opinion
Restaurants Serve Rock Concerts with Food
By: - Nov 30th, 2013From restaurants to the mall there is no escaping America's terrible taste in music. In addition to serving food restaurants insist on providing a rock concert. Usually it's the kind of music you go out of your way to avoid. Tell them to turn it down or off.
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