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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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in Atlanta Fine Arts
High Museum of Art June 23 to September 29
By: - May 23rd, 2013Scholars have identified thirty-four, perhaps thirty-five, paintings they now safely attribute to the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632 – December 1675). He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, Today his works are valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Gardner Museum's The Concert was stolen and remains missing. Largely through a successful movie Girl with a Pearl Earring is particularly beloved. It will be on view at Atlanta's High Museum of Art augmented with works from Holland's Mauritshuis. Book a flight between now and September 29.
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Tanglewood Highlights Open Season Music
Schedule from June 21 to July 18
By: - May 23rd, 2013Tanglewood is front ending the 2013 season with popular music programming. It starts with Melissa Etheridge on June 21 and a weekend that also included Warren Haynes and the Pops preforming a tribute to Jerry Garcia. Then Joan Baez paired with the Indigo Girls. Terence Blanchard returns to Lenox on June 28 in a weekend that includes the perennial Garrison Keillor and Jackson Browne. The serious music begins July 5.
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The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan Film
Second Film: Herders’ Calling
By: - May 21st, 2013Najeeb Mirza has filmed, directed and produced a series of documentaries set in Central Asian countries of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgystan. They tell stories of lives well lived in cultures and landscapes so different from our own, yet the human condition of yearnings for love and a meaning of life remain the same.
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Matuschka Maimed, Claimed and Famed Photography
A Life and Career Defined by an Iconic Image
By: - May 21st, 2013A blessing and curse the life and career of the artist Matuschka has been defined by a single iconic image. It has both opened and closed reports on work that came before and after the cover of the New York Times Magazine in 1993. The media entirely focuses on that image and her somewhat complex and freaky life. Attempts to evaluate her as an artist are few and far between.
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Matuschka, Artistic Activist, Activist Artist Photography
Another Vintage Interview
By: - May 21st, 2013The former model, photographer and breast cancer awareness activist Matuschka is the subject of a current 40 year retrospective of her work at Sohn Fine Art in Stockbridge. Much of the work was created in the Berkshires as the jazz entrepreneur and journalist Edward Bride explored in a 2006 interview. Because of the media coverage of the recent elective surgeries of Angelia Jolie this proves to be both timely and provocative coverage of a courageous and interesting artist.
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Arena Stage Mary T. & Lizzy K. Theatre
Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Domestics
By: - May 21st, 2013The most beautifully written and deeply felt of Lincoln retellings is Tazewell Thompson’s play Mary T. & Lizzy K at the Arena Stage in Washington DC. Here the playwright, who is also the director, awards the play’s starring roles to Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd, her seamstress and confident Elizabeth “Lizzy†Keckly, and Ivy, Lizzy’s young assistant, both freed slaves. This production closed on May 5.
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Berkshire International Film Festival Film
Documentary Highlights May 30 to June 2
By: - May 21st, 2013From May 30 to June 2 the Berkshire International Film Festival will be simultaneously be screened with many additional special events at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington and The Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, The festival combines feature fikms and documentaries. There will be some 15 documentaries in the categories of Celebrity and Politics.
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Brill Gallery and Eclipse Mill Gallery Fine Arts
Summer Schedule for 2013
By: - May 20th, 2013The Eclipse Mill at 243 Union Street in North Adams houses the Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Brill Gallery and River Hill Pottery and studio. The pottery is open daily and the two galleries on weekends through the fall. Both galleries have openings of new shows on June 15.
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Matuschka Reacts to Angelina Jolie Opinion
Renowned Breast Cancer Survivor Discusses Options
By: - May 19th, 2013Because her mother and grandmother succumbed to breast cancer the artist/ activist, Matuschka, got tested often. At precisely the age of Angelina Jolie she underwent a radical mastectomy to remove a tumor. Her self portrait on the cover of the New York Times Magazine proved to be iconic. Which is why this week Inside Edition woke her up to comment on the breaking news about Jolie. That prompted her to write this compelling article.
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At Home with Photographer Matuschka Photography
Parrot Fever
By: - May 19th, 2013A former model, Matuschka, created a riveting self portrait revealing a radical masectomy. It was on the cover of the New York Times Magazine and has been published in a Time Life book as one the 100 most influential photographs of the 20th century. With the recent coverage of Angelina Jolie ironically Matuschka is back in the news. Yesterday we attended her 40 year retrospective of self portraits at Sohn Fine Arts in Stockbridge.
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Julianne Boyd on Theatre as Church and State Theatre
Blurring Boundaries Between Artists and Critics
By: - May 18th, 2013Traditionally it was anathema for critics to talk to and socialize with those they write about. With print in decline and the rise of blogs that has changed. But what happens when we are all in bed with each other? It both enriches our understanding and compromises objectivity. The third and final installment of a dialogue with Julianne Boyd may be a case in point.
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Julianne Boyd Part Two Theatre
What Happens When Everyone Does Clybourne Park
By: - May 17th, 2013Surprise. Like every other regional theatre company Barrington Stage has scheduled Clybourne Park. What are the consequences when theatre companies all over America are presenting a short list of recent Broadway and Off Broadway plays and musicals? Does it mean a dumbing down of American Theatre with long term negative consequence?. Two of Barrington's productions this season On the Town and The Chosen have been recently presented by Boston's Lyric Stage.
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Barrington Stage Now Debt Free Theatre
Julianne Boyd Completes $7 Million Campaign
By: - May 15th, 2013Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage in Pittsfield called for a morning chin wag about the upcoming season. That led to a lively discussion of the current state of theatre and impact of criticism. Now in its 8th season the company has just completed raising $7 million. This is part one of an extended dialogue.
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Film
Poignant Documentary Conflates Pain and Comedy
By: - May 14th, 2013Seeing Joan Rivers on stage at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield prompted us to check out the video documentary. It was featured a couple of years ago in the Berkshire International Film Festival. With an appearance by the star at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington. Missed it. Having seen the bitch in heat we were curious to learn more about the insecure, fragile little girl from Brooklyn lurking behind that ferocious, grotesque, surgically altered mask. If you think you know Joan Rivers see this documentary and think again.
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Provincetown's Legendary Sun Gallery Fine Arts
Yvonne Andersen Part Two
By: - May 13th, 2013After leaving Provincetown and Sun Gallery its co founder Yvonne Andersen acquired a global reputation as a pioneer of teaching video animation to children. This led to a position at the Rhode Island School of Design where she taught for 23 year with nine of them as department chair. Partnering with Red Grooms she was acknowledged in a recent Pace Gallery exhibition for creating one of the first Happenings in Provincetown.
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Far From Heaven at Playwrights Horizons Theatre
Williamstown Production Transfers to New York
By: - May 13th, 2013Last summer the musical based on a film with the same title Far From Heaven was developed by the Williamstown Theatre Festival. With the original cast leads Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale from Williamstown it opens at New York's Playwrights Horizons on June 2 with a limited run through June 30.
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Berkshires Remember Joan Rivers Theatre
2013 Performance at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - May 11th, 2013At 81 the sharp witted Joan Rivers has passed from complications at a clinic that are under investigation. In a 2013 appearance in the Berkshires we wrote "With a mask like face, pulled as tight as a drum from numerous nips and tucks, the potty mouthed, eighty something going on sweet sixteen, Joan Rivers prowled the stage of the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield like a tigress in heat hungry for raw meat."
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Other Desert Cities at Old Globe Theatre Theatre
Dry as Dust in San Diego
By: - May 11th, 2013This is our fourth review of Other Desert Cities and second by Jack Lyons who also covered the play at Mark Taper Forum. We will have our fifth review next season from Indianapolis. It begs the question of why every city in American seems to be producing a short list of the same ten overexposed plays.
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Yvonne Andersen on The Sun Gallery Fine Arts
Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown in the 1950s.
By: - May 10th, 2013From 1955 to 1959 the artist Yvonne Andersen and her late husband, the poet Dominic Falcone, operated the legendary Sun Gallery in Provincetown. In one week shows over five seasons, with a combination of group, one man and two man shows they displayed work by about 100 artists. A selection of whom formed the nucleus of the figurative expressionist movement. This summer the Provincetown Art Association and Museum will focus on this activity in Pioneers of Provincetown curated by Adam Zucker. This is part one of a dialogue about that era.
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Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon Fine Arts
Eclipse Mill Gallery May 10 to June 2
By: - May 09th, 2013The Eclipse Mill Gallery at 243 Union Street in North Adams launches its 2013 season with The Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon. The unjuried exhibition which includes work by 47 regional artists remains on view weekends, from noon to 5 PM, from May 10 through June 2.
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50th Theatre Festival in Berlin Theatre
Plays and Events Until May 20th
By: - May 09th, 2013The current Theatertreffen in Berlin is presenting German language plays, classics and modern classics from Medea, War and Peace, to Orpheus Descending, as well as other theatre events and panel discussions. For non German speakers, Berlin will offer again the Berliner Festspiele in June and July of this year; more reasons for a trip to Berlin!
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Snagged Word
A 500 Word Mystery
By: - May 09th, 2013The premise for the story is intriguing: a 500-word mystery that required the following elements: a jug of bootleg moonshine, a stuffed swordfish, a 1959 Soviet armored limousine, and a dead gypsy! Gerald Elias, who resides in Utah and West Stockbridge, is author of the award-winning Daniel Jacobus mystery series (St. Martin’s Press).
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Edith Wharton at Home: Life at The Mount Architecture
A Study by Richard Guy Wilson With Photos by John Arthur
By: - May 07th, 2013Edith Wharton was 35 in 1897 when, in collaboration with Ogden Codman, she published her first work, the widely influential treatise "Decoration of Houses." Eight years later, in 1905, she published her first work of fiction "House of Mirth. " By then the Whartons had been living in The Mount, their estate in Lenox, Mass. for three years. The mansion and grounds expressed many of her theories of architecture, interior deign, and landscape gardening. She left under unhappy circumstances in 1911 never to return to the home she no longer owned.
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The Cape Cod Theater Coalition Theatre
Total Membership Now 22 Organizations
By: - May 07th, 2013The Cape & Islands Theater Coalition is a collaboration of live performance theaters from Woods Hole to Provincetown and the Islands. Best known for its annual Theater Guide and Schedule which this year will be distributed to over 70,000 households and visitors throughout the Northeast, the Coalition also provides the latest theater performance calendars and news through its website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed.
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Oberon Is A.R.T.'s Cutting Edge Second Stage Theatre
Programming for May
By: - May 07th, 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 Beowulf, 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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