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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MASS MoCA's Book Club April 3 Word
Features Artists Johnny Carrera and Tom Phillips
By: - Mar 19th, 2013The second installment of MASS MoCA's Book Club will feature artists Johnny Carrera and Tom Phillips. It will be held on April 3rd at 6pm in the Life's Work exhibition. Unlike traditional book clubs, this program makes connections between museum exhibitions and the written word.
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Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon Fine Arts
Eclipse Mill Gallery Call for Artists
By: - Mar 19th, 2013The annual Berkshire Salon will be shown at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass from May 10 to June 2. For a handling fee of $15 all artists are invited. Drop off times are 3 to 7 pm on Sunday, May 5 and Monday, May 6. The exhibition, which is hung salon style, usually includes fifty or more artists. The gallery is located on Route Two within walking distance of Mass MoCA.
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Clarence Darrow Tonight at Coyote StageWorks Theatre
One Nighter Featured Brilliant Laurence Luckinbill
By: - Mar 19th, 2013Laurence Luckinbill as Clarence Darrow, brings the famous lawyer of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, up close and personal, delivering a penetrating, riveting, and insightful portrait of the man many thought they knew but didn’t.
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Fast Eddy Reports from Indianapolis Opinion
On the Road with Our Peripatetic Critic
By: - Mar 19th, 2013Having returned from Paris, in a blur, our correspondent Edward Rubin is reporting from Indianapolis this week. This was a typically witty, gonzo, e mail note he dashed off to friends and colleagues. It captures the wit and flavor of life on the road. And why he is known as Fast Eddy to his pals.
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Mountaintop at San Diego REPertory Theatre Theatre
Danielle Mone-Truitt and Larry Bates Co-Star
By: - Mar 19th, 2013San Diego REPertory Theatre’s current production of “The Mountaintopâ€, written by Katori Hall, and deftly directed by Roger Guenveur Smith, is right on the money. It’s a talky two-character exploration leading up to of the last day in the life of Martin Luther King Jr, as imagined by playwright Hall.
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Joan Baez and Indigo Girls at Tanglewood Music
Shed Performance on Sunday, June 23
By: - Mar 18th, 2013American folk singer Joan Baez, and folk rock duo the Indigo Girls, have been added to the 2013 Tanglewood line-up, with a special concert in the Shed on Sunday, June 23, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. Joan Baez and the Indigo Girls last performed at Tanglewood on August 30, 1990. Also performing this year will be Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five and Guster with support from Boothby Graffoe as part of their 30 city “Last Summer on Earth Tour†on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, at 7 p.m.
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Neal Rantoul: Wheat, Washington, 2009-2012, Photography
Danforth Museum Opens April 7
By: - Mar 18th, 2013Neal Rantoul: Wheat, Washington, 2009-2012, opens at the Danforth Museum in Framingham on April 7, 2013. This exhibition is an exploration of subject matter Rantoul has consistently revisited over the past decade—the wheat fields near Pullman, Washington.
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Chris Busa, Camille Paglia, Theosophy and Peggy Lee Fine Arts
Considering Leftist Political Theory in Contempoirary Art
By: - Mar 18th, 2013Chris Busa, the publisher/ editor of Provincetown Arts Magazine responded on Facebook to an essay which Mugar posted on Jed Perl’s new collection of essays “Magicians and Charlatans." Busa drew a parallel between Perl’s disenchantment with the current art scene and that of the contrarian arts commentator Camille Paglia. This exchange is the focus Mugar's essay which is reposted from his blog.
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Modern Lovers vs Aerosmith Music
Roadrunner or Dream On for Massachusetts State Song
By: - Mar 16th, 2013A well-meaning state representative introduced a bill that would have made Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner†the official state rock song of Massachusetts. Now, a pair of Boston-area representatives have introduced a rival bill to make Aerosmith’s “Dream On†the official Commonwealth rocker. Here's a bit of vintage show and tell about the bands.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery 2013 Fine Arts
Season Launched with High School Invitational on April 20
By: - Mar 16th, 2013The artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery at 248 Union Street in North Adams announces its program for the 2013 season. It starts on April 20 with the annual High School Invitational in cooperation with Mass MoCA. The always lively Berkshire Salon follows from May 10 through June 2. A diverse schedule is planned including photography by the late Leonard Freed, Pin Hole Photography, and large format photographs by Chad Kleitsch. Joan Carney will be featured during Open Studios in October. The season ends with holiday themed small works November 15 to December 22.
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Netflix Gambles on House of Cards Television
$100 Million for So So Original Programming
By: - Mar 15th, 2013Last year Netflix initiated original programming with the series Lillyhammer starring Steven Van Zandt as a mobster in witness protection in Norway. It was mildly amusing. Now Netflix has taken a step forward with a remake of the classic BBC mini series House of Cards. The American version stars the always masterful Kevin Spacey who is not enough to bind together a sprawling often absurdly out of control political drama.
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2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Fine Arts
On View October 3, 2013 through January 5, 2014.
By: - Mar 15th, 2013After receiving nearly 900 entries for the 2013 Portland Museum of Biennial: Piece Work exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) announces the names of the 28 artists selected to participate. The exhibition is the PMA’s eighth consecutive biennial.
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Boston Phoenix Incinerates Opinion
Venerable Alternative Weekly to Cease Publication
By: - Mar 15th, 2013It started in 1966 as Boston After Dark a weekly entertainment guide launched by Jim Lewis then a student at the Harvard Business School. Stephen Mindich was its theatre critic and later bought in as partner. After Mindich bought out Lewis he later acquired the Cambridge Phoenix. The renamed Boston Phoenix was the flagship of an alternative media empire that has now crashed and burned. It leaves a remarkable legacy of journalism and criticism.
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Gaetano Pesce's L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) Fine Arts
NY's Fred Torres Collaborations March 21 to May 25
By: - Mar 15th, 2013L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) the name of the exhibition, refers to a cabinet designed by Gaetano Pesce in 2009 of two people locked in an embrace. In addition to its “namesake†cabinet, the exhibition will feature some of Pesce’s rarely seen drawings, maquettes, lighting and furniture from the 1970s. On view at Fred Torres Collaborations from March 21-May 25, 2013.
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Longterm Impact of Monsanto's Roundup Seeds Opinion
Supreme Court Screws American Farmers
By: - Mar 14th, 2013Our science correspondent and organic farmer Jimmy Midnight explores in detail why our food ain't what it used to be. He states that. As a farmer myself, I would not use glyphosate, or plant any (Monsanto) Roundup Ready seeds, because I presume they’re not safe to use, eat, or feed. If it’s perfectly safe to eat or feed, why does it suddenly become dangerous in the hands of the world’s small-time agricultural operators? On May 13 The Supreme Court upheld the copyright of Monsanto against a farmer planting cheap, second generation seed purchased from a grain elevator.
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Against the Grain at Museum of Art and Design Fine Arts
Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design
By: - Mar 14th, 2013Featuring nearly 90 installations, sculptures, furniture, and objects, Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design explores the most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking today. It is on view March 19 through September 15, 2013 at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
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Over, Under, Next At Hirshhorn Museum Fine Arts
Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present
By: - Mar 13th, 2013The first in a series of permanent collection-related exhibitions leading up to the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2014, “Over, Under, Next†surveys an era in which the definition and scope of art were continually expanded through the avant-garde’s embrace of “non-art†materials.
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April Is Jazz Appreciation Month Music
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Announces Special Events
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Berkshires Jazz, Inc. announces several new events that celebrate April as Jazz Appreciation Month, a long-standing initiative of the Smithsonian Institution. The spring programming spans the timeframe from late March to early May, and includes CD release concerts featuring the Claire Daly Quartet and the Jeff Holmes Quartet.
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Arts and Culture Demonized Opinion
Government Support for Arts Declining
By: - Mar 12th, 2013This is the second in a series of articles on the crisis in the arts by Larry Murray. They are reposted with permission of Berkshire On Stage. He reports that appropriations to state arts agencies grew by 110 percent between 1992 and 2001, reaching an all-time high of $450.6 million in 2001 before decreasing to $354 million in 2008. Since 2008, state appropriations have decreased by 27 percent, close to 1996 spending levels.
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Nudel in Lenox Nominated for Food & Wine Award Food
Bjorn Somlo, Chef-owner Featues Unique Cuisine
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Bjorn Somlo, chef-owner of Nudel Restaurant in Lenox, has been nominated one of the top 100 chefs for The People’s Best New Chef award for FOOD & WINE® magazine. This is Somlo’s second nomination for an award honoring up-and-coming innovators who have run their own kitchens for five years or fewer.
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Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's King Executioner Theatre
Theater for the New City March 21 to April 7
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre presents "King Executioner," written and directed by Vit Horejš with musical score by Frank London (The Klezmatics). This enigmatic tale of early World War II is based on a novel by Polish magical realist Tadeusz Nowak. New York's Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., presents the work March 21 to April 7.
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Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival Music
Program for June 29 and 30
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Following the successful celebration of the festival’s 35th anniversary in 2012, this year’s festival headliners include Tony Bennett, Buddy Guy, David Sanborn & Bob James, McCoy Tyner Quartet featuring special guest John Scofield, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kevin Eubanks, Gregory Porter, and Rudresh Mahanthappa among others.
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Ai Weiwei: According to What? Fine Arts
Traveling Exhibition Tours Five Museums
By: - Mar 11th, 2013We visited Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn in DC mid February. The five museum tour or work by the dissident, iconoclast Chinese artist will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art from April 5 through July 28. Ai who remains under house arrest in China is one of the world's most influential and controversial artists.
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The Arts and The Economy, Interconnected Gears Opinion
A Series Exploring Arts and Fiscal Challenges
By: - Mar 10th, 2013With this richly detailed and insightful series on the crisis of the arts we welcome back to Berkshire Fine Arts, Larry Murray, a valued colleague and founding contributor of Berkshire Fine Arts. For the past few years he has been publisher/ editor of Berkshire on Stage and more recently joined Broadway World as its Berkshire Correspondent. He has spent decades involved in and thinking about arts management as marketing and PR manager, administrator, and, for the past several years, critic and reporter.
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Mana Contemporary Honors Marina Abramovic Fine Arts
Performance Artist Developing Hudson Based Museum
By: - Mar 09th, 2013The performance artist Marina Abramovic is known for extreme, punishing rituals. They entail endurance over long intervals that recall the actions of the post war German artist Joseph Beuys or those of Chris Burden. Her work, with recreations of a number of her classic pieces with living performers were presented in a retrospective at MoMA with additional performances staged at the Guggenheim Museum.
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