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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Guns & Poses by Natalie Giungi Fine Arts
When a Rose Is Not Just a Rose
By: - Oct 16th, 2013The artist Natalie Giungi is exploring thorny issues in creating a uniquely provocative rose garden. Leaning over to smell or examine a blossom there is a shock of discovering its unusual materials. She is in the process of creating an installation of this garden of unearthly delights.
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Theatre
Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis to October 20
By: - Oct 16th, 2013The 2013 Tony winning Best Play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" is running at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis through October 20. The title is a mouthful, but the play itself is a delight.
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Jenny Gersten Leaving Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
To Run Friends of The High Line in New York
By: - Oct 15th, 2013Meeting to recap the third and final year of her contract as Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival Jenny Gersten was coy when I asked what comes next.? Now we know. Gersten is leaving Williamtown for NY's High Line. But she is planning and will help execute next summer's WTF program assuring an orderly transition during the search for a new Artistic Director. There have been three in the past nine years. Who will be the next three and out?
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Les Mis at Beef and Boards Theatre
Serving a Meaty Jean Valjean
By: - Oct 15th, 2013The ambitious Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre in Indianapolis is serving a piping hot version of the spectacular musical Les Miserables. Our correspondent Melissa Hall files a tasty report.
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Lorenzo Pisoni at LA's Mark Taper Forum Theatre
One Man Show Humor Abuse
By: - Oct 15th, 2013The current production on the boards of LA’s Mark Taper Forum is a clever and highly imaginative little gem of a show dealing with the world of clowns entitled “Humor Abuseâ€. It is brilliantly performed by professional clown and actor Lorenzo Pisoni and is winningly directed by co-creator Erica Schmidt.
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Jungle Book in Final Week Theatre
Just Eight More Performances at Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Oct 15th, 2013On October 8 we attended the 100th performance of the boffo, smash hit Jungle Book a stunning fantasy driven musical created and directed by Mary Zimmerman based on the book by Rudyard Kipling. This is the last chance to see a show destined to run forever on Broadway.
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Kiss and Cry at ArtsEmerson Dance
Hands On Dance
By: - Oct 11th, 2013The Belgian company Charleroi Danses presents Kiss and Cry a dance for animation and hands at the Majestic Theatre of ArtsEmerson. Performances continue through October 12. This is one of the most astonishing and original "dance" perrormances we have ever experienced.
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Boston Art, Marathon Bombings, Robert Lowell Opinion
Things That Got Me Thinking
By: - Oct 07th, 2013In this think piece the artist Martin Mugar connects some disparate dots. He reflects on "one of my favorite novels , "Voyage au But de la Nuit" by Celine." The tragedy of the Marathon Bombings. The Red Sox. And "I recall a visit years ago to a Boston gallery.The work on display was some overly tense and fastidiously wrought sculpture by Christopher Wilmarth." He concludes with the Robert Lowell poem "For the Union Dead" from 1960.
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Dialogue With Clarence Fanto One Opinion
Former Managing Editor of the Berkshire Eagle
By: - Oct 05th, 2013In 1987 Clarence Fanto moved full time to the Berkshires joining the Berkshire Eagle as editor of its then new Sunday edition. He left the paper as its managing editor and several years ago rejoined as a reporter and has now slowed down as a freelancer and columnist. For the past several years he has compiled an annual summary of budgets, attendance and box office revenues of the major Berkshire arts organizations. We got together for lunch to connect the dots. There is no dispute over the accuracy of the data he compiles but we differ on its interpretation. Our occasional meetings and e mails are always lively and this is a chance to listen in.
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Akikazu Iwamoto at NY's Stux Gallery Fine Arts
Eye Candy
By: - Oct 05th, 2013Hiroshima-born Akikazu Iwamoto, now forty, fills his compact solo show at Stux Gallery with wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that involve amusing and sometimes frightening bodily transformations. The result was a surprisingly confronting, and often wicked, commentary on our inflated inner desires.
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Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone Fine Arts
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to January 19
By: - Oct 05th, 2013It is hard to balance these two artists’ works. Bacon’s feverish sacks of meat are positively fervent set against Moore’s stolid immovable incapacity; Moore is like a muted child being out-screamed by a naughty sibling. Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone contrasts their work in an exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
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Clybourne Park at Barrington Stage to Oct. 13 Theatre
Coming Too Soon to a Theatre Near You
By: - Oct 05th, 2013The Pulitzer and Tony winning Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris is currently on the short list of most produced plays in America. In a co production with Dorset Theatre Festival where it was staged his summer it runs through October 13 at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. This is its fifth review for Berkshire Fine Arts.
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Now Dig This at Williams College Fine Arts
Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
By: - Oct 02nd, 2013In 2011-2012 The Getty Foundation sponsored Pacific Standard Time which involved 60 cultural institutions in Southern California. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presented "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." The exhibition, which was awarded Best Thematic Exhibit Nationally for 2012 by the International Asssociation of Art Critics (AICA), is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art through December 1.
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When the Throne Becomes Unhinged Opinion
Up a Creek Without a Paddle
By: - Oct 01st, 2013Yet again there was an equipment failure with a toilet seat. On our behalf the installer, Roman, e mailed the manufacturer. No shit. The response was incredible. "Each unit is carefully crafted by master toilet seat carpenters in the mountain region of Kakaastan." But wait, it gets better.
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Debate on Global Warming Opinion
Greenhouse and Political Gas Emissions
By: - Sep 30th, 2013Heading into the fall season the atmosphere cools while political rhetoric heats up. There are pundits and conservatives who argue against global warming or state that it won't be bad. Our science correspondent argues with the assertions in M. D. Harmon’s piece “New Climate Change Report Rains on Computer Model.â€
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Anselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA for 15 Years Fine Arts
Building Developed with Hall Art Foundation
By: - Sep 27th, 2013In collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation a building dedicated to works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, will be on view at Mass MoCA for the next 15 years. Combined with the 25 year agreement for the Sol LeWitt building this greatly enhances the museum as America's foremost destination for contemporary art.
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Kai Althof Institute of Contemporary Art Fine Arts
Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect)
By: - Sep 26th, 2013For his first ICA exhibition in 2005 former curator Nicholas Baume presented the German artist Kai Althoff in the exhibition Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect). entering into this Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art) there was a sensation of being engulfed, overwhelmed and disoriented by a chaotic installation of drawings, paintings, photographs, clips from vintage magazines, listening stations to hear the artist’s recordings, monitors of videos, and piles of as well as a room of stuff. This review was first posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Michael Brown at Mike Weiss Gallery in NYC Fine Arts
Schematics and Silhouettes
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Michael Brown presents a discourse about the machine, history, and nostalgia in his first solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery. Employing both sculpture and drawing, Schematics and Silhouettes reexamines the relationship between the infinite and the self-contained, with a clear rhetoric pulled from America’s westward expansion, our industrial past, and the conceptual work of Buckminster Fuller.
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Dutch Artist and Photographer Erwin Olaf Fine Arts
Berlin: A City Between Worlds
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Dutch artist and photographer, Erwin Olaf, attempts to approach himself with personal definition with his series about the city, “A Homage to Berlin.†I tried to understand his artistic vision during a visit at Wagner + Partner, the institution in Berlin where Olaf’s exhibition is shown, by speaking with the artist. His photographs are timeless; they convey a simple message, and an unparalleled aesthetic.
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Lizbeth Krupp and the Rose Art Museum Fine Arts
Now chair of the Rose Art Museum's Board of Advisors
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Lizbeth Krupp, a leading patron of the arts and collector will serve a three-year term as volunteer leader of the Rose Art Mueum, home to one of New England's principal collections of modern and contemporary art.
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A.R.T & Moscow Art Theatre Schedule Theatre
Advanced Theater Training Productions for the 2013/14 Season.
By: - Sep 25th, 2013The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training announce the productions for the 2013/14 Season. From October 11 through May 30 in Cambridge, Mass.
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Russian Art at the Guggenheim 2005 Fine Arts
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections
By: - Sep 25th, 2013There were just 250 works to convey Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. This exhibition was interesting in view of efforts to write a history of 19th century art and modernism that does not entirely focus on Paris. The highlight of the exhibition conveyed the brilliant but brief Great Utopia that emerged with the Russian Revolution until the rise of Stalin after the death of Lenin. This review of the 2005 exhibition was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Americans in Paris 1860-1900 Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2006
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Regular visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts were readily familiar with many of the works in the 2006 traveling exhibition Americans in Paris 1860-1900. Its renowned permanent collection was augmented with loans of masterpieces including Whistler's Mother and Madame X by Sargent. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Mill on the Floss a Berkshire Landmark Food
Offering Fine Dining for 40 Years
By: - Sep 24th, 2013For a special occasion we dined in the 200-year-old former grist mill in New Ashford on Route 7 between Pittsfield and Williamstown.. For the past 40 years the Champagne family has offered fine dining in the gracious and atmospheric Mill on the Floss. If you stick with the $30 prix fixe menu it's a Best of the Berkshires.
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Berkshire Photographer Benno Friedman Photography
From Wet to Dry
By: - Sep 24th, 2013Since the 1960s when we met at Brandeis University I have followed the work of photographer Benno Friedman. We now live on opposite ends of the Berkshires. Some time back, as first reported in Maverick Arts Magazine, we met for a studio visit and dialogue. I showed his work at the New England School of Art and Design.
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