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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Joan Baez and Indigo Girls Captivate Tanglewood Music
Mesmerizing Music on Sun Drenched Berkshire Afternoon
By: - Jun 24th, 2013Fifty years ago I first heard Joan and Bob at the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge. Much has changed since then but a regal Baez, accompanied by The Indigo Girls demonstrated why she remains the queen of folk music. It was a stunning Tanglewood concert during a gorgeous afternoon in the Berkshires.
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Wilco Day Two Music
Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA
By: - Jun 23rd, 2013Opening the festival on Friday night Wilco performed a set of requests. Last night they returned to Joe Thompson Field, under a moonlit sky, to deliver a set of 28 songs. Fans came from far and wide for the third and most successful of the Solid Sound Festivals which concludes this afternoon.
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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet July 3-7 Dance
Launching 2013 Jacob's Pillow Programming
By: - Jun 22nd, 2013Jacob’s Pillow presents Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, July 3-7. These fiercely-talented performers present Tuplet by Nederlands Dans Theater’s Alexander Ekman; Grace Engine by 2011 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award winner and Artistic Director of Kidd Pivot, Crystal Pite; and Norwegian choreographer Jo Strømgren's wild Necessity, Again.
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Wilco By Request at Mass MoCA Music
Third Solid Sound Festival
By: - Jun 22nd, 2013Last night Wilco returned to Mass MoCA to headline the third Solid Sound Festival this weekend. Under a big bright moon on a perfect evening they performed a set of requests for some 4,000 mellow fans. We got a contact high as pungent skunk weed perfumed the Berkshire air.
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Jayne Atkinson Headlines WAM Benefit Theatre
June 30 Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
By: - Jun 21st, 2013WAM Theatre, presents Claiming Her Place, a benefit to be held Sunday, June 30 at 7pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. Co-produced and hosted by Tony nominee Jayne Atkinson, the evening will feature a celebrity panel discussing the challenges women face in the entertainment industry. The panel includes: Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under),Michel Gill (House of Cards), Marin Mazzie (Tony Nominee), Linus Roache (Law & Order) and Debra Jo Rupp (That '70s Show).
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Tanglewood Trails Music
Annual Return to Boston Symphony Violin Section
By: - Jun 21st, 2013In an annual trek from the Utah Symphony to Tanglewood violinist and author Gerald Elias opts for the scenic route. It is always exciting to rejoin the Boston Symphony Orchestra with its many perks of which he writes "For me, at the top of the list was Tanglewood."
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Barrington Stage Outs Muckrakers Theatre
Ripped from the Headlines Play by Zayd Dohrn
By: - Jun 20th, 2013The new play Muckrakers by Zayd Dohrn is surely provocative and timely as breaking news. It explores the dichotomy of Big Brother spying on our privacy and extreme measures for government agencies to expose and prevent acts of terrorism. While advancing vital and relevant issues how does this translate into a compelling evening of theatre? For that, heads or tails. Your call.
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Caucasian Chalk Circle at Classic Stage Company Theatre
Brecht's Liars, Killers, Cheats, and Self-Servers
By: - Jun 19th, 2013Serving up a dish of rotten folk, with one or two good ones thrown in for good measure, is the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle nicely directed by CSC’s artistic director Brian Kulick.
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Samurai at the Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
Bushido: The Way of the Warrior and the Art of War
By: - Jun 18th, 2013Like many Americans I was exposed to bushido and the samurai tradition through the films of the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. My interest in Samurai weapons and armor dates from my first visit to the Museum of Fine Arts as a child. This summer for children of all ages the MFA is mounting the remarkable and thrilling exhibition Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection.
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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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