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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Modern Terrorism by Jon Kern in West Va. Theatre
Contemporary American Theatre Festival to July 28
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013Jon Kern, a writer for The Simpsons, was inspired by the aborted bombing attempt in Time Square to create the comedy Modern Terrorism: Or They Who Want to Kills Us and How We Learn to Love Them. This darkest of comedies attempts to humanize and humorize a suicide bomber avenging American drone strikes and attacks on Islamic citizens.
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Summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fine Arts
Visiting Modern and Contemporary Galleries
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013The artist Martin Mugar recently visited the modern and contemporary galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He discusses the challenge of emergring from the shadow of the renowned artists on view. As well as releasing the muse of his own limitations.
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Music
Downtown Lee July 25-28
By: - Jul 16th, 2013The jazz weekend kicks off at 6pm on Thursday, July 25 with the screening of “A Life in E Flat,†a biographical profile of the legendary alto saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master and 4-time Grammy winner Phil Woods. Through a special arrangement with Jazzed Media, producers of jazz films and CDs, the screening at the Lee Library on Main Street is free and open to the public.
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Spice Dragon in Pittsfield Food
Asian Confusion Food
By: - Jul 15th, 2013With a winning combination of Asian Fusion food, ambiance, and moderate prices Spice Dragon in Pittsfield is a popular destination. Over several visits, however, the food and service has been inconsistent. Busy nights stretch the limits of understaffed and inexperienced front of house and an ability to get food to tables in a timely manner. In Pittsfield, however, there isn't much competition for dining on this level.
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Merchant of Venice at Old Globe Theatre
Summer Shakespeare Festival in San Diego
By: - Jul 15th, 2013San Diego's Old Globe annual Shakespeare Summer Theatre Festival in the Lowell Davies Outdoor Theatre is in full sway. The second production is the ambivalent and oft misinterpreted story “The Merchant of Veniceâ€, deftly directed by Adrian Noble. Scholars for centuries have debated the true meaning of the Bard’s play.
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MediTerra in North Adams Food
Authentic Turkish Delight
By: - Jul 14th, 2013It is difficult to find authentic international cuisine in the Berkshires. Owner Fahri Kakakaya has recruited a fellow Turk, Ahmet Alcay, as chef and relaunched the large space on Main Street in North Adams as Medi-Terra, American Mediterranean Bistro. There are Italian items on the menu but we opted to try the superb and unique Turkish Cuisine. We strongly recommend this for a winning combination of tasty, exotic flavors, affordable prices and a comfortable, uncrowded ambiance. Try it for salad and sandwiches at lunch or come back for a leisurely dinner with beer and wine.
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A Typical WTF Press Conference? Theatre
Actors are People Too
By: - Jul 13th, 2013The Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) season is in high gear. We attended the first WTF press conference to cover the next two productions of 'Pygmalion' by George Bernard Shaw and Johnny Baseball, the Boston Red Sox story, now a musical. It turned out to be a lively event!
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Rocco Sisto in Rarely Produced Richard II Theatre
Launching a S&Co. Tetraology of Four History Plays
By: - Jul 13th, 2013Over the next four years Shakespeare & Company will present a tetralogy of four history plays. The cycle begins this season with Richard II directed by Timothy Douglas and starring Rocco Sisto. Next year Johnathan Epstein will directed Henry IV.
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Mass MoCA Opens Kiefer Building September 27 Fine Arts
Work by German Master on View for 15 Years
By: - Jul 12th, 2013Initially Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson denied that there would be a new Kiefer Building. We reported it anyway ages ago. Thompson confirmed it during a recent interview and now its official as reported today in the Berkshire Eagle. The fun begins on September 27.
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Kate Burton in Stoppard’s Riveting Hapgood Theatre
Quantum Mechanics of the Spy Game
By: - Jul 12th, 2013I think I saw a great production of Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, starring Kate Burton at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But then there's the Uncertainty Principle. Whether one enjoys this show depends upon whether you view it from a Newtonian or Quantum Mechanics point of view. It may or may not be the best drama of the Berkshire season. In a Stoppardesque sense.
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Batter Up for Johnny Baseball at Williamstown Theatre
Controversial ART Musical Steals Second Base
By: - Jul 11th, 2013If shows are not instant hits in regional theaters they rarely get a second chance. It is especially difficult to develop musicals. Johnny Baseball, a musical about the Boston Red Sox and the Curse of the Bambino, opened at American Repertory Theatre in June, 2010. The idea started in 2003 and development, with six new songs and other changes continues. It opens on July 24 at Williamstown Theatre Festival. During a recent press conference we asked about love/ hate relationships which resulted in Globe critic Louise Kennedy losing her job in reaction to her Johnny Baseball review.
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National Arts Club Settles with The James Group Opinion
Former Director Aldon James and Associates Ousted
By: - Jul 10th, 2013Several years ago, after decades of abuse of authority for the personal gain of its former director O. Aldon James his twin brother and associates, the National Arts Club in New York's Gramercy Park has enjoyed its day in court. James and his associates occupied considerable residential and storage space, filled with trash and flea market items, at below market rates. They have been ordered to pay back $900,000 and vacate their apartments by July 31.
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Robert Sean Leonard in WTF's Pygmalion Theatre
Talks About Life After Dr. Wilson on House
By: - Jul 10th, 2013Robert Sean Leonard appeared as Dr. Wilson the best friend of the curmudgeon Hugh Laurie's Dr. House from 2004 to 2012. They shot 175 episodes of the TV series House. That left Leonard the financial freedom to pick and choose roles in theatre. From July 17 to 27 he stars at Williamstown Theatre Festival as Professor Henry Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin. The production, with changes, originated at the Old Globe in San Diego.
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Summer Shakespeare in San Diego Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Old Globe
By: - Jul 10th, 2013It is fitting that “Midsummer…â€, creatively directed by Ian Talbot, be the selection to kick off the 2013 Old Globe’s summer festival season. It’s one of Shakespeare’s most enduring comedies filled with oddball characters and silly liaisons and situations.
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Foreign Affairs – at Berliner Festspiele Theatre
Comments and Thoughts
By: - Jul 09th, 2013The Berliner Festspiele 2013 continue: From June 27 to July 14 with an array of performances etc. under the title: 'Foreign Affairs.' Theatre, music, dance, video, multi- and interdisciplinary works to actively draw in the public have been scheduled. Foreign, as in new and cutting edge - and foreign, as in international companies and artists, are presented.
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Broadway in the Berkshires Theatre
Stars Shine in Benefit for Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jul 09th, 2013Broadway in the Berkshires, produced by Deborah Grausman and hosted by John Douglas Thompson, was presented as a benefit for the Education and Training programs of Shakespeare & Company. Singer and actor Grausman, appearing this summer in Master Class, was able to call in favors from her many and diverse Broadway, Off Broadway and S & Co. colleagues. Over 300 tickets were sold and upwards of 75 Shakespeare & Company artists and other special guests were also in attendance. The benefit raised $110, 000.
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Letter from Berlin #3: Anish Kapoor Fine Arts
The Beautiful and the Sublime
By: - Jul 08th, 2013Kapoor in Berlin (closing November 24) is a show I had looked forward to seeing, and it did not disappoint. Anish Kapoor (born 1954 in Mumbai; British citizen, recently knighted) creates massive sculptures from different materials that vary from forms that look like prehistoric rock formations, to highly reflective steel, to sticky red wax. Two years ago I was delightfully overwhelmed with his Cloud Gate, 2004-06, installed at the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago.
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Oklahoma at the Colonial in Pittsfield Theatre
Like Watching Corn Grow
By: - Jul 07th, 2013The iconic 1943 Oklahoma, with the magnificent music of Rodgers and Hammerstein would seem to be a shoe in hit for the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfeld. While the production has stunning moments, caveat emptor, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. After five decades the jingoism and heart on the sleeve Americana which wowed audiences during World War II is hardly convincing today.
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Five Guys in Pittsfield Food
Evaluating Berkshire Burgers
By: - Jul 06th, 2013A franchise of the Five Guys chain of burger joints has opened in a Pittsfield mall. The Pit Bulls offer their reflections on the dining experience as well as views of the science of the perfect burger.
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Scorching BSO Tanglewood Opening Night Music
Joshua Bell and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’s Tchaikovsky
By: - Jul 06th, 2013The Koussevitzky Music Shed and lawn were packed for the opening last night of the 76th season of BSO's renowned Tanglewood Music Festival. Solo violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’s performed an all Tchaikovsky program. While heart warming, under sauna like conditions, the musicians and audience were over heated and drenched by the end of a muggy, oppressive evening.
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Kate Burton on Stoppard's Hapgood at WTF Theatre
Three Generations of Burton Family Theatre
By: - Jul 05th, 2013While a graduate student at Yale Kate Burton first performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1980 with Frank Langella and Christopher Reeve as leading men. In 1987 she returned with her husband , Michael Ritchie, who later took over as artistic director, with Jenny Gersten as his associate. From July 10 to 21 she stars at WTF in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood. She took time from rehearsals to discuss finding her own way in theatre as the daughter of Richard Burton. Next year Nicholas Martin will direct Kate and her son Morgan Ritchie in Chekhov's The Seagull for Boston's Huntington Theatre.
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American Hero by Bess Wohl at WTF Theatre
Taking a Bite Out of Corporate America
By: - Jul 03rd, 2013Bess Wohl returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival for her sixth season and second as a playwright. American Hero a send up of the fast food industry and corporate America is a side splitting hoot. While a hilarious play it also leaves us with food for thought. As Jack Nicholson would say "Give me a BLT but hold the lettuce, hold the bacon and hold the tomato." Or ham on wry.
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Joe Thompson Maps Five Year Plan People
Cultural Synergy Raises Tide for North Adams and Williamstown
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013This time next year the Clark Art Institute will open its Tadao Ando designed campus expansion. Mass MoCA unveils its new Anselm Kiefer building this fall. That adds to its existing Sol LeWitt building. The resultant boost in visitation, as well as more events like the recent Solid Sound Festival, are a part of plans for the expansion and growth of business, tourism and jobs for a region with twice the rate of state unemployment. That's down from seven times the unemployment rate in the early 1990s.
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Behind the Scenes with Wilco at Mass MoCA People
I Was a Solid Sound Rockumentary P.A.
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013During the recent Solid Sound Festival Jack Criddle, who grew up on the Mass MoCA campus as the son of its chief preparator, Richard Criddle, returned to town from his home in Brooklyn. He shares behind the scenes adventures as a part of the production crew of TrixieFilm which documented the three day event which drew just shy of 8,000 participants.
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Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at National Gallery Fine Arts
When Art Danced with Music Through September 2
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music, showcases collaborations with more than 130 original costumes, set designs, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, photographs, and posters, focused around specific historical performances. It is on view at the National Gallery through September 2.
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