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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On the Town Boffo at Barrington Theatre
Directed by Tony Winner John Rando
By: - Jun 17th, 2013The first musical of Leonard Bernstein On the Town is rarely produced. This season however there are two. The first at Boston's Lyric Stage and now in the Berkshies at Barrington Stage. With tony winner John Rendo directing and choreography by Emmy winner Jushua Bergasse don't be surprised if a producer takes this revival to Broadway. Musical theatre just doesn't get better.
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Jeffrey Gibson: Native New Yorker Fine Arts
Fancy Dancing
By: - Jun 16th, 2013Currently on view at the ICA is an installation of work by Jeffrey Gibson. This is a reposting from Maverick Arts of a 2006 studio visit with the artist. It was research for the Suffok University exhibition Native New Yorkers.
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Jeffrey Gibson at the ICA Fine Arts
Native Heritage Informs Contemporary Art
By: - Jun 16th, 2013We first saw works by Jeffrey Gibson at Boston's Samson Projects. I included Gibson in a four man exhibition Native New Yorkers with Jason Lujan, Peter Jemison and Mario Martinez. Later he was in a group show at the Aldrich Museum and is currently featured at the ICA. A solo exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, is on view at the National Gallery in New York to Sept. 8, 2013.
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Cold War and Islamic Terrorism Opinion
What To Do About It
By: - Jun 16th, 2013Yuri Tuvim is a now retired engineer who emigrated as an adult from the former USSR. He contributes the occasional opinion and travel piece. The views he expresses are not those of the publisher and editors of Berkshire Fine Arts. As a dissident in Moscow he was a close friend of Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner, a former resident of Newton, who danced at Tuvim's wedding.
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Stoppard's Translation of Heroes by Sibleyras Theatre
Wordy Absurdity at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 15th, 2013In a Tom Stoppard translation from the French of the Gérald Sibleyras 2003 play Le Vent Des Peupliers we have a wordy and challenging evening of theatre at Shakespeare & Company. Not much happens but director Kevin G. Coleman sets a brisk comic pace. The play will alternate with Master Class through the summer season.
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Tanglewood 2013 Music
Complete Schedule of Concerts
By: - Jun 14th, 2013Here is a complete listing of scheduled concerts for the 2013 Tanglewood season.
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Michelangelo at the Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
Drawings from Casa Buonarroti to June 30
By: - Jun 14th, 2013There are few if any works by Michelangelo in American collections. In February we viewed a single sculpture at the National Gallery. Through June 30 there are 25 drawings from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. While modest in scale this is the most extensive exhibition of his drawings since 1988 at the National Gallery. The selection includes eleven figure studies and fourteen architectural works.
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Annette Miller Masterful as Maria Callas Theatre
Shakespeare & Company Through August 18
By: - Jun 13th, 2013For the all too brief span of a decade Maria Callas was the best paid and most renowned opera singer of her era. Not known for meticulous adherence to the score or its conductor her dramatic interpretations were thrilling, inventive, controversial and inconsistent. As was her personal life as mistress to the richest man in the world Aristotle Onassis. The play focuses on Callas past her prime flogging students in a master class whom she stridently refers to as victims.
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Jim Jacobs Word
On the Fly
By: - Jun 13th, 2013When I worked as an intern for the Egyptian Department of the MFA next door Jim Jacobs was a student of classics curator Cornelius Vermule. We have been friends ever since although I rarely get to see him. Last night he flew in for a visit but vanished by dawn.
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Tony Feher at the DeCordova Museum Fine Arts
Evoking Duchamp and Dada of the Absurd
By: - Jun 12th, 2013Marcel Duchamp invented the categories of Found Object, Readymade and Assisted Readymade. With wit and an economy of means he created a small but seminal oeuvre of iconic objects. Because of his continuing influence Duchamp may be regarded as the greatest artist of the 20th century. By default. His humor and inventiveness richly inform the retrospective by Tony Fehrer at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass.
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Brandeis 50th Reunion Opinion
Recalling the Radical Class of 1963
By: - Jun 11th, 2013When we arrived on campus in the fall of 1959 Brandeis University was just eleven years old. As a result of the Holocaust and the black listing of McCarthyism the young university recruited the most radical faculty in America. It graduated renowned activists and revolutionaries in many fields. Then on a par with the best and brightest just what is its academic rank today? I asked President Frederick Lawrence if Brandeis has abandoned its radical legacy devolving to the equivalent of a Jewish Tufts University?. He provided a less than satisfactory response.
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Labor of Love Opinion
A Primer on Orchestral Musician/ Management Relations
By: - Jun 10th, 2013It was quite an eye-opener when I saw my first organizational chart of the BSO. Scratching my head, I asked, “Hey, where are the musicians on this chart?†as for the life of me I couldn’t find us...Today, musicians are trying desperately to fend off 40 percent salary cuts, plus concomitant reductions in orchestra size, length of season, pension and health care.
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His Girl Friday at La Jolla Playhouse Theatre
John Guare's Spin on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
By: - Jun 10th, 2013John Guare has a new take on the classic screwball comedy The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The original story was a pointed study in the shenanigans committed by news reporters, predatory journalists, scoundrels, and scalawags, all in search of a “scoop†during the good old days when newspaper ink coursed through the veins of anyone with a by-line.
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2012 Film Mighty Fine Film
Written and Directed by Debbie Goodstein Rosenfeld
By: - Jun 10th, 2013The 2012 film “Mighty Fineâ€, written and directed by Debbie Goodstein Rosenfeld, stars Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri, Andie McDowell of “Groundhog Dayâ€; beautiful, new-comer Rainey Qualley, and Jodelle Ferland. The story revolves around the Jewish family, the Fine’s, who have just moved from Brooklyn to New Orleans in the 1970s.
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Garbage Time Opinion
Trash Talk in the Berkshires
By: - Jun 10th, 2013Each season Gerald Elias returns to the Berkshires from Utah to play violin with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He reports with dismay, however, the daunting task of cleaning up all the trash dumped on his property by passing cars. Can you believe it? This year four 33-gallon heavy-duty lawn and garden bags. It gives new dimension to the checkout question at the super market, paper or plastic?
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Tiny: A Story About Living Small Film
BIFF Screening by Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith
By: - Jun 04th, 2013In a era of staggering average student debt and few substantial job options for graduates is living small the best revenge? For just $28,000 Christopher and Marete built their dream house with spectacular views of the western landscape. With an amusingly miniscule 120 square feet of home sweet home.
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More Williamstown Theatre Festival Updates Theatre
Dominique Morisseau 2013 L. Arnold Weissberger Award
By: - Jun 04th, 2013Brooks Ashmanskas, De'Adre Aziza, Reed Birney, Joey Slotnick, and Omar Metwally are among the actors who will take part in this Williamstown Theatre Festival summer’s productions. Dominique Morisseau has been awarded WTF’s 2013 L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Playwriting for her play Paradise Blue. She will receive a $10,000 grant and receive a reading as part of WTF’s FRIDAYS@3 series, as well as publication by Samuel French, Inc.
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2013 BIFF and That Film
8th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival
By: - Jun 03rd, 2013During the four day festival with 75 screenings we managed three days with seven films and one short film. So we review only a slice of the 8th annual Berkshire International Film Festival. Even with limited exposure it was an intense and absorbing experience.
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Berkshire Museum Named Smithsonian Affiliate Fine Arts
Access to Smithsonian's 136 Million Objects
By: - Jun 01st, 2013The Berkshire Museum has been named a Smithsonian Affiliate, a prestigious designation that marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration between the two institutions. The relationship will facilitate the loan of Smithsonian artifacts and traveling exhibitions as well as the opportunity to develop innovative educational collaborations.
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Musical Comedy Whore With David Pevsner Theatre
Desert Rose Playhouse
By: - May 31st, 2013“Musical Comedy Whoreâ€, is not as prurient, sexy, or as self-serving a show as straight audiences might imagine. The audience, both gay and straight, is listening to the life story of a man who passionately bares his soul because he believes in honesty.
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Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival Film
13th Annual in Palm Springs California
By: - May 31st, 2013The 13th Annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California that just concluded its most successful festival to date. Producer and Festival Host Alan K. Rode, kept beaming to full houses for four days in the Camelot’s 500-seat theatre as he welcomed and thanked new and old noir aficionados for coming to year “lucky thirteenâ€. Some came from as far away as the East coast and Canada.
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Collision 19; 22 Artists from 8 Countries Fine Arts
Boston Cyberarts Gallery June 14 to July 28
By: - May 31st, 2013Boston Cyberarts Gallery presents COLLISION:19, organized by the COLLISIONcollective and guest juried by Boston Cyberarts assistant director, Stephanie Dvareckas. COLLISION:19 includes twenty two artists from eight countries around the world whose work lingers at the junction of art, technology and science. Chosen from an international open call, COLLISION:19 exemplifies the diverse range of work produced by artists working under the influence of technology.
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Miserable Memorial Day Weekend Opinion
Snow Capped Mt. Greylock
By: - May 27th, 2013The wind howled and it rained cats and dogs during a cold, blustery Memorial Day Weekend. The annual launch of the summer season was a total wipeout. We woke up to a record setting view of snow capping Mt. Greylock which closed the road to the summit. We hunkered down, turned on the heat, and sipped herbal tea. Resorts and high end hotels opening up for the season took a beating. It gave a new spin to the term staycation.
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Bashir Lazhar at Barrington Stage Theatre
Juri Henley-Cohn as an Algerian Refugee in Montreal
By: - May 27th, 2013The play Bashir Lazhar by Évelyne de la Chenelière preceded Monsieur Lazhar which was a 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film. The play, translated from French by Morwyn Breubner is being presented to enthusiastic audiences at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. It is a one man performance by an American actor, Juri Heney-Cohn with a convincing Algerian accent.
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A.R.T.'s Second Stage Oberon Theatre
Events for June
By: - May 23rd, 2013OBERON, the American Repertory Theater’s second stage and club theater venue, continues its mission to bring exciting and original programming. A destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square, OBERON is the home of the A.R.T.’s hit productions of Pirates of Penzance, The Lily’s Revenge, Futurity, The Donkey Show, Cabaret, and Prometheus Bound and Ryan Landry’s Rocky Horror Show. OBERON is also a thriving incubator for local and visiting talent.
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