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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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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Kissing the Bleepin’ Blarney Stone Travel
Blessed With the Gift of Gab
By: - Nov 27th, 2013When visiting Ireland it's obligatory to Kiss the Blarney Stone. Which I managed in my own fashion. The Castle is a dump. Better to be a peasant in a cottage with a turf fire than a lord living in that damp pile of stone.
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Wicked in Indy Theatre
At Murat Theatre until December 1
By: - Nov 27th, 2013It is fun to rediscover why the prennial Wicked sustains as one of America's most popular musicals. Through December 1 it is playing at The Murat Theatre in Indianapolis.
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New York Bound, Islip Museum, Long Island Fine Arts
International Book Art Biennial, until December 29, 2013
By: - Nov 26th, 2013Artist and curator, Dorothea Fleiss of East-West Artists, Stuttgart/Germany, has brought exceptional and imaginative works by book artists from around the globe to East Islip, Long Island, New York. 100 pieces are on display by more than 70 artists. They will touch visitors in many different ways.
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Twelve Angry Men Theatre
Pasadena Playhouse to December 1
By: - Nov 26th, 2013Sheldon Epps is a director with a strong personal vision, and he’s been on the mark, more times than he’s missed it. In selecting “12 Angry Menâ€, a play with twelve white characters, he challenges the audience to accept six black actors playing roles written for white characters.
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A Worm in Paul Rudnick's Apple Theatre
Gay Eden Remake at Desert Rose Playhouse
By: - Nov 25th, 2013It may be somewhat funny at times and the actors are working hard to breathe life into a less than stellar plot line, but Paul Rudnick's “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told†directed by the usually reliable Jim Strait, fails to engage on a couple of levels.
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Venus in Fur in San Diego Theatre
Whipping Up David Ives Play
By: - Nov 24th, 2013Playwright David Ives’ play “Venus in Furâ€, is scheduled to become the most produced play in America during 2013-2014 according to American Theatre magazine that keeps track of such things. Caroline Kinsolving and Jeffrey Meek star in the San Diego Repertory Theatre production though December 8.
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Dublin Pubs Food
Irish Comfort Food
By: - Nov 24th, 2013They say that a seven course gourmet Irish meal consists of a six pack and baked potato. Imagine then our surprise to discover traditional Irish food in cozy Dublin pubs. Washed down, of course, with a fresh pint of Guinness.
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Hindemith and Me Music
Celebrating a Titan of Contemporary Music
By: - Nov 23rd, 2013If I had the means and the energy, I’d organize a festival of some sort. Instead I’m commissioning a Hindemith Bobblehead for my office. Barack Obama has one. So does Oprah, so why not Hindemith? I’m going to stick it on a small pedestal with a plaque that has my favorite Hindemith quote: “There are 12 tones. Treat them carefully.†You gotta love that guy. i
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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life Fine Arts
At Atlanta's High Museum Through January 12
By: - Nov 21st, 2013The first installation of the collaboration between the musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art explored the birth of American landscape painting through the works of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand. American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America premiered at the Louvre in January 2012.
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2014 Tanglewood Schedule Music
James Taylor Returns July 3 and 4
By: - Nov 21st, 2013The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces the schedule for its 2014 Tanglewood program. Aftar a hiatus last year, as has become traditional, James Taylor returns for the Fourth of July Weekend. On July 5 Renee Fleming will appear on the opening night of the classical program. Popular artists will be announced as they are booked.
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Mira Schendel at Tate Modern Fine Arts
Retrospective of Brazilian Modernist
By: - Nov 20th, 2013While described by critics as the Doyenne of Brazilian modernism the work of Mira Schendel (Zurich, Switzerland, 1919 - São Paulo, 1988) is not well know outside of her adopted country. The Swiss born artist is the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern in London through January 19.
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Spiraling Downward: From Minimal to Material Fine Arts
Systems of Abstract Art
By: - Nov 20th, 2013Robert Linsley's New Abstraction has an interesting blog post on the notion of symmetry that got me thinking about several of the artists that he mentioned and an earlier blog on Stella who is his “main man†in Modern painting.
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2014 Whitney Biennial Fine Arts
Museum Announces Participating Artists
By: - Nov 20th, 2013Yet again controversy surrounds who's in and who's out with the release of the list of artists selected for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. To stir the pot this time three outside curators will be given one floor each of the museum. With no compromises that will ensure the individual taste of the designated curators. The museum's curators will advise on the installations.
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Ana Mendieta at London's Hayward Gallery Fine Arts
Outstanding Among Feminist Museum Exhibitions
By: - Nov 19th, 2013For a variety of social and political motivations the majority of modern and contemporary museum level exhibitions we viewed recently in Dulin and London featured feminist reclamation projects for women artists of varying degrees of obscurity. Of these the large restrospective of work by the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta at Hayward Gallery required no PC underpinnings. Her work clobbered us with its primal power and originality.
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Newport Jazz Festival to Celebrate 60th Music
Greetings From Its Founder George Wein
By: - Nov 19th, 2013I’ve been producing the Newport Jazz Festival since 1954 and I'm proud to announce that the festival will be celebrating its 60th anniversary on August 1 - 3, 2014. This may be the first time you're hearing from me personally, but I know I've met many of you festival-goers while riding around on my golf-cart, known as the "Wein Machine." It's always great to talk with fellow jazz-lovers.
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Ladykillers Revived in the West End Fine Arts
Reconfiguring the Classic Alec Guinnss Comedy
By: - Nov 18th, 2013We opted to end a run of theatre in Dublin and London on a light note. Ladykillers in the West End was as warm and soothing as a nice cup of tea. The wonderfully crafted play was as richly satifying as the indelible classic 1955 film, released by Ealing Studios, which specialised in those wonderful, now iconic comedies.
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Émilie La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight Theatre
WAM Production of Lauren Gunderson Play
By: - Nov 17th, 2013The approach of this WAM production of Émilie La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson has the twist of "Let us now praise not so famous women and trash men." The guy in this case is no less than Voltaire, her lover and collaborator, portrayed as a clown and misogynist. PC aside this is an enjoyable evening of theatre on the Mark St. Germain Stage in Pittsfield through November 24.
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The Pride By Alexi Kaye Campbell Theatre
London Revival of 2008 Award Winnng Gay Drama
By: - Nov 16th, 2013The lobby of the revival of the 2008 gay themed play The Pride is plastered with pull quotes from five star reviews. The play has also won a ton of awards. On the strength of that lavish praise was saw this London play. It proved to be more disappointing than bad. The audience, however, often responded to humor and poignancy that eluded me.
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