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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Legally Blonde The Musical Theatre
The Palm Canyon Theatre In Palm Springs
By: - Feb 21st, 2013With the current production “Legally Blonde The Musicalâ€, at The Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs, the show is weak on story and heavy on singing and dancing. Everyone likes singing and dancing, but not to the detriment of the “book/story†otherwise it becomes merely a dance/singing recital.
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On Broadway At Cabaret Theatre West Theatre
Now In Its Third Season in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 20th, 2013Cabaret Theatre West, now in its third season, is one producing organization that has found that the “cabaret styled†entertainment production is a winning formula. They just get better doing one entertaining and dazzling show after another.
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The 63rd Berlinale Film
February 7-17, 2013
By: - Feb 20th, 2013300,000 tickets were sold for 400 films at this year's Berlinale, the largest film festival in the world?! 19 films from 13 countries were judged in the 'Competition,' all others were screened in Berlin and are looking for distribution and an audience worldwide.
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The Brothers Size By Tarell A. McCraney. Theatre
Old Globe Production Directed By Tea Algic
By: - Feb 20th, 2013The Old Globe’s production of “The Brothers Size†is directed by award winning director Tea Algic. Algic is a very seasoned and a highly respected professional director originally from the Balkans.
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Xu Bing at the Aldrich Museum Fine Arts
The Art of Tabacco
By: - Feb 20th, 2013In 1995 Xu Bing was invited to visit Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Exploring the area around Durham, he visited the Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum, tobacco farms, and the former Liggett & Meyers cigarette factory, experiences that planted the seeds for a body of work that now spans more than a decade. Work by Xu Bing is on view at Mass MoCA for the coming year. We repost this earlier related coverage by permission of Richard Friswell and Arrtes Magazing.
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The Gift at LA's Geffen Playhouse Theatre
New Play by Joanna Murray-Smith Doesn't Cut It
By: - Feb 20th, 2013One of the problems with the piece, at least for me, is that playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, and possibly director Maria Aitken, are not sure what kind of story “The Gift†is supposed to be and what the play is trying to convey.
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Berkshire Festival of Women Writers Word
Schedule of Events March 1 through 7
By: - Feb 19th, 2013Major funding for the Festival of Women Writers is provided by the John A. Sellon Charitable Trust, the Massachusetts Council on the Humanities, Bard College at Simon's Rock, and local Cultural Councils of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, along with many organizations, individuals and businesses.
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Gerry Bergstein: Theory and Practice Fine Arts
Boston's Gallery NAGA March 1 through 23
By: - Feb 19th, 2013Boston has never abandoned its passion for painters. One of the very best currently, in a tradition that stretches back to John Singleton Copley, is the anxious surrealist with agita to the max Gerry Bergstein. A new body of work is always an occasion for celebration.
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The Eccentric Barnes Foundation Fine Arts
Following Litigation Relocated to Philadelphia
By: - Feb 18th, 2013After lengthy law suits breaking the iron clad will of Dr. Albert Barnes, his foundation relocated from its inaccessible suburban home in Marion to downtown Philadelphia in 2012. In 1992, The Barnes Foundation received court approval to send 80 works on tour to generate funds for needed renovations. The Foundation continued to struggle financially, hampered by poor management for a time, the isolation of its location, and local restrictions on parking which reduced the number of visitors. From its inception, the Barnes Foundation has been the focus of ridicule and controversy. Today the collection of 2,500 works is valued at between 20 and 30 billion dollars.
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Larry Smallwood Named Deputy Director Fine Arts
New Postion for Mass MoCA
By: - Feb 18th, 2013With the appointment of Larry Smallwood, MASS MoCA has named its first-ever Deputy Director. Smallwood previously worked for the institution as its first Production Manager in the Performing Arts and later as Visual Arts Production and Technical Manager. He will return to the museum in his new role on February 25, 2013.
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New York City Ballet July 9 to 13 Dance
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
By: - Feb 18th, 2013New York City Ballet brings to its summer stage at SPAC, a world-class program of astonishing breadth and brilliance. From iconic Balanchine gems like Serenade and Stravinsky Violin Concerto, to favorite works by Jerome Robbins including West Side Story Suite and Dances at a Gathering, to exciting new ballets by Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon and Justin Peck, the interplay of tradition and innovation in this season is exceptiona
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Michelangelo's David-Apollo at the National Gallery Fine Arts
Unfinished Sculpture on View Through March 3
By: - Feb 18th, 2013Occasions to see sculpture by the Italian Renaissance master, Michelangelo Buonarotti, are few and far between. From now through March 3 his unfnished Apollo-David is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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The Future of North Adams? Opinion
A Letter to Mayor Dick Alcombright
By: - Feb 17th, 2013Now in his second term as Mayor of North Adams Massachusetts there was hope and expectation of change when he defeated the long term Mayor John Barrett III. Other than a dramatic rise in property taxes there is scant evidence of progress. Many attribute that to catching up with decades of neglect, collapsed infractucture, decline in schools and social services. An architect, gallerist and pragmatic visionary Ralph Brill in an open letter to Alcombright offers a blue print for change and the creation of jobs for the depressed city.
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The Solid Sound 2013 Update Music
Wilco at Mass MoCA June 21 to 23
By: - Feb 16th, 2013Joining the three-day Wilco celebration at Mass MoCA will be the acclaimed singer and songwriter Neko Case, indie-rock heroes Yo La Tengo, jazz adventurists Medeski, Martin and Wood, Duluth's low-fi darlings Low and a reunited Dream Syndicate whose Solid Sound performance will mark the full band's first North American concert in 25 years.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2013 Season Theatre
From Oklahoma to Lion in Winter
By: - Feb 16th, 2013During the July Fourth weekend which launches the Berkshire season the Colonial Theatre will stage the perennial tribute to Ameriana the classic musical Oklahoma. The Stockbridge Main Stage will get a jump start on June 25 with Treat Williams starring in The Lion in Winter. Local legend Karen Allen, who made her directorial debut at the Unicorn Theatre with Moonchildren will return to that stage directing Extremities.
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Saratoga Chamber Music Festival Music
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) August 4 to 20
By: - Feb 11th, 2013The Escher String Quartet – hailed by the Washington Post “as one of the top young quartets†in the world today will open the 2013 Season of the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival on Sunday, August 4 in the Spa Little Theatre.
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Shakespeare & Company Stars for 2013 Theatre
Tina Packer, Olympia Dukakis, John Douglas Thompson Return
By: - Feb 11th, 2013Following a two year tour of Women of Will the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer, returns with The Beauty Queen of Leenane co starring Elizabeth Aspenlieder. Last summer Olympia Dukakis and John Douglas Thompson had hit shows with The Tempest and Satchmo at the Waldorf. This summer they will perform together in the 20th century classic Mother Courage.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Spring Theatre
Programming in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 11th, 2013Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington announces spring 2013. Highlights include a talk by author and illustrator Brian Selznick followed by a screening of Hugo, Masters of the Fiddle with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, humorist David Sedaris , singer/mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau , Cirque Shanghai: Bai Xi, Paul Taylor Dance Company , "Live in HD" broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera, London's National Theatre, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, as well as classic movies.
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Mean Streets: Blizzard of 2013 Opinion
The Big Dig Out
By: - Feb 09th, 2013In Boston's blue collar neighborhoods digging out parking spots evokes survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle. Shovel out a spot and you own it. Move and mark your space with a lawn chair. Leave and hope that its not occupied when you come back. If not all hell breaks loose.
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Berkshire Top Chefs at NY's James Beard House Food
The Berkshire Cure-All On March 1
By: - Feb 09th, 2013On Friday, March 1, seven chefs from the Berkshires organized by Brian Alberg, Executive Chef and Food & Beverage Director at The Red Lion Inn, will present “The Berkshire Cure-All†to New York's James Beard Foundation. The dinner will showcase the culinary talents and farm-to-table efforts of the region with foods prepared using time-honored preserving and curing methods.
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Rebecca Chamberlain at NY's Dodge Gallery Fine Arts
Homatorium I the Artist's Second Dodge Show
By: - Feb 08th, 2013For Homatorium I, Chamberlain creates an environment in the inner gallery resembling the feeling of Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House; marking a shift for Chamberlain, as she focuses for the first time on a singular site.
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Jackie By Elfriede Jelinek Theatre
Nobel Prize Winning Writer at NY's City Center Stage II
By: - Feb 08th, 2013Jackie is part of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek's cycle of "Princess Plays" that she describes as a satirical counterpoint to Shakespeare’s histories, which in German are called “Kings Plays.†She has female role models such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Di and Jackie Kennedy, who, for the 20th Century, is the essential princess. The production history surrounding Jackie is mysterious, and this production may well be the world premiere of the English language translation.
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Lighting From Heaven by Scott C. Sickles Theatre
Dramatizing Publishing Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago
By: - Feb 07th, 2013Workshop Theatre Company presents the New York premiere production of Lightning From Heaven by Workshop Theater Company Artistic Director and award-winning playwright Scott C. Sickles. It is directed by Thomas Coté and will play a limited engagement on the Main Stage at WorkShop Theater (312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor).
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The Human Variations by Blueprint Theatre Project Theatre
Staged In Abby Verbosky's Photography Exhibition
By: - Feb 07th, 2013The backdrop for “The Human Variations†is a photography exhibit featuring the work of Abby Verbosky. Two men. Six women. Drink. Dance. Desperate loneliness. What begins as innocent banter over cocktails at an art opening quickly transforms into fantasy, nightmare and possible redemption. In “The Human Variations" has four movements (Allegro, Largo, Scherzo and Rondo).
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Will Eno's The Flu Season at A.R.T. Theatre
Directed by Marcus Stern
By: - Feb 07th, 2013The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training continues its 2012-13 Season with Will Eno’s The Flu Season, directed by A.R.T. Institute director Marcus Stern. The production runs February 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1 and 2 at 7:30pm at the Zero Church Street Performance Space, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Admission in free.
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