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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Many Happy Returns Opinion
Regifting the Holidays
By: - Dec 28th, 2012Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, marks a feeding frenzy and the launch of Holiday gift shopping. Arguably there is an equally notable Blue Monday in which millions flock to malls returning gifts for cash and store credit. We have friends who have perfected returning merchandise into an art form and philosophy.
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Matisse at the Met Through March 17 Fine Arts
In Search of True Painting
By: - Dec 27th, 2012Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a modest exhibition of just 49 works selected by Rebecca Rabinow, a curator of modern and contemporary art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It offers multiple views of specific themes and subjects. This provides valuable insights to the process and techniques of the artist. The Met show of Matisse is as satisfying as Picasso Black and White at the Guggenheim is a bloody awful mess. In this clash of Titans, and faceoff of Holiday blockbusters, Matisse and the Met win hands down. No contest.
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Xu Bing Phoenix at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Mythical Birds Evoke Contemporary Issues
By: - Dec 26th, 2012There were many daunting impediments in presenting Phoenix a vast sculptural installation by the leading Chinese artist, Xu Bing, at Mass MoCA. This third major project with contemporary Chinese artists remains on view in North Adams for the coming year.
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Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Fine Arts
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
By: - Dec 26th, 2012The exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe originated at Mass MoCA. We reviewed the Guggenheim Museum installation for Maverick Arts in 2008. This was one of three major exhibitions featuring contemporary Chinese artists. The others were Huang Yong Ping in 2006 and the current, 2012-2013 installation by Xu Bing.
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Huang Yong Ping at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective
By: - Dec 26th, 2012This article originally appeared in Maverick Arts a site prior to Berkshire Fine Arts in 2006. Because of the continued interest in contemporary Chinese art by Mass MoCA is has been reposted. The museum is currently showing Xu Bing. This article has a link to a recent exhibition of work by Ping in New York.
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Xu Bing Language Lost Fine Arts
Mass College of Art 1995
By: - Dec 24th, 2012Currently two massive sculptures comprising Phoenix by the Chinese artist, Xu Bing, are installed in the vast space of Building Five at Mass MoCA. We first were introduced to the work of the artist through a 1995 exhibition Language Lost at Mass College of Art. It was our first exposure to contemporary Chinese art which has since moved to the critical mainstream. This is a portfolio of vintage images of that earlier project.
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Chelsea Galleries Stumble Through Holidays Fine Arts
Bubble Bursts Post Sandy
By: - Dec 22nd, 2012Hurricane Sandy flooded the Chelsea galleries resulting in the loss of entire exhibitors and millions of dollars worth of inventory in basement storage areas. During a holiday tour we found mostly business as usual with the major galleries with some still closed for renovation. We provide an in depth slide show of several of the more noteworthy exhibitions.
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Bernini: Sculpting in Clay at the Met Fine Arts
Stunning Exhibition on View Through January 6
By: - Dec 21st, 2012The stunning exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Bernini Sculpting in Clay" includes 29 of the artist’s bozetti, or sketch models in terracotta, standing between 12 and 20 inches tall — along with one or two larger and more finished models, which are as much as three feet tall. The project, which as been co organized with the Kimbell Museum, provides compelling insights to the artist's working process.
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Jacob's Pillow 2013 Dance
Major Venue for Dance in America.
By: - Dec 20th, 2012The 2013 Jacob's Pillow season kicks off with a gala on June 15 and winds down on August 25. Three are numerous highlights including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Compagnie Käfig a word-of-mouth hit of Festival 2012, with six sold-out performances, the return of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, from Brazil Companhia Urbana de Dança, and a return of the stunning, French 3e étage which was astonishing with its 2011 appearance. The legendary Martha Graham Dance Company will perform. Subscriber ticket sales begin January 28 and go on sale to the public on April 8.
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Gutai: Splendid Playground, at the Guggenheim Fine Arts
Post War Japanese Art Feb.15 to May 8
By: - Dec 20th, 2012The Gutai Art Association was founded in 1954 by the influential artist, teacher, and critic Yoshihara Jiro in the town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling fifty-nine artists over its eighteen-year history. The name “Gutai†literally means "concreteness†and captures the direct engagement with materials its members were experimenting with around the time it began.
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Mass MoCA Winter/ Spring 2013 Opinion
Exhibitions and Events
By: - Dec 19th, 2012With one show already nearly sold out (Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum on Saturday, February 16), MASS MoCA'sWinter/Spring season has started with a bang before it's even been announced. The first big event of the season is FREE Day on Saturday, February 9. This annual event attracts thousands to MASS MoCA for a full day of art-making, tours, contests, demonstrations, performances, and more.
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Black Angels Over Tuskegee Theatre
Layon Gray’s Play in Third Year Off Broadway
By: - Dec 18th, 2012For an entertaining, intimate, insightful evening of theatre it doesn’t get much better than Black Angels Over Tuskegee. Leon Gray wrote, directed, and acts in this award winning play now in its third year Off Broadway.
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Picasso Black and White Fine Arts
Chiaroscuro Theme at the Guggenheim to January 23
By: - Dec 17th, 2012For the holidays two blockbuster exhibition provide the chance to compare and contrast the greatest masters of the School of Paris. The Metropolitam Museum is showing Henri Matisse while the Guggenheim features Picasso Black and White. A spin through the Guggenheim proved to be disappointing with a glut of mediocre mid period and late works and just a couple of bona fide masterpieces.
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Gunther Uecker at Haunch of Venison Fine Arts
First NY Exhibition for Group Zero Artist Since 1966
By: - Dec 16th, 2012Now 82 the German artist and member of Zero, which disbanded in 1966, is having his first New York exhibition, at Haunch of Venison, since then. Now and then we encounter one of Gunther Uecker's signature nail pieces at MoMA or in rare Zero exhibitions such as those mounted by Sperone Westwater Gallery. While we enjoyed the opportunity to experience his work in depth it provoked many unanswered questions about his intentionality.
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What’s Wrong with the Whitney Museum Fine Arts
Enervating Mix of Holiday Shows
By: - Dec 16th, 2012With the Whitney Museum of American Art winding down its time on Madison Avenue and preparing for a move downtown near the popular High Line the curators appear to have concoted a yard sale of ho hum exhibitions. There is a deadly combination of the recycled- Richard Artschwager! and Sinister Pop- and a signifier of the alleged bright future Wade Guyton: Os which I just don’t buy into.
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Dezart Performs’ Play Reading Series Theatre
Three Winning One Act Plays
By: - Dec 16th, 2012Dezart Performs’ Play Reading Series is an annual event held every spring in Palm Springs and receives playwright entries from all over the country. This year the organization received 121 submissions. The three One-Acts in this year’s festival are: “Feeding Time at the Human Houseâ€, written by David Wiener and directed by Lenny Ripps. “The Blind Dateâ€, written by Tanis Galik and directed by Don Cilluffo, and “Mourning Glory†written by Rich Orloff and directed by Dezart’s artistic director, Michael Shaw.
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Other Desert Cities at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Jon Robin Baitz Play Fails to Impress
By: - Dec 15th, 2012As a Palm Springs-based theatre critic, I felt I had the inside track on Jon Robin Baitz’s insight concerning his latest play “Other Desert Citiesâ€, now on the stage of LA’s Mark Taper Forum. I was partially correct. Listlessly directed by Robert Egan, features a nice cast in a less than stellar vehicle.
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Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone and the Hirshorn Museum Fine Arts
Forge Evokes 5,200 Lost Schoolchildren
By: - Dec 15th, 2012Americans are shocked and devastated by the slaughter yesterday of schoolchildren and teachers in Connecticut. The conceptual art installation Forge on view at New York's Mary Boone Gallery by Chinese dissident Ai Weiwie evokes the memory of 5,200 schoolchildren. They were killed when the Beichuan Middle School collapsed during a 2008 earthquake through shoddy, cost cutting, "tofu" construction. The Communist regime tried to bury the incident along with the victims. With dire consequences the artist strives to keep their memory alive against all odds.
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Dead Accounts By Theresa Rebeck Theatre
Show Me the Money
By: - Dec 14th, 2012With her third Broadway production, Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck is running on vapors. Perhaps this half backed, ersatz sit-com is a part of the collateral damage of last season's struggles with the brilliant but embattled TV series Smash. She has departed from the show which she originated. Whatever the reason this new play entirely lacks focus. It is little more than a one liner and gag stretched out in two miserable acts. It does however have the star power of Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz and tabloid regular Katie Holmes to sell tickets.
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Zelda Fitzgerald in P.H. Lin Play Theatre
Lost Generation Icon Remains Missing
By: - Dec 13th, 2012Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was the wife and muse of author F. Scott Fitzgerald whose The Great Gatsby helped to define the Jazz Age of the 1920s. P. H. Lin's play Zelda at the Oasis portrays her as a deranged drunk washed up in a down and out New York bar during the Great Depression. In her New York debut Gardner Reed brings passion and energy to Zelda matched by Edwin Cahill in a variety of roles.
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Ravi Shankar at 92 Music
While My Sitar Gently Weeps
By: - Dec 12th, 2012Ravi Shankar, the master of Indian sitar, reached a vast audience during the psychedelic era of the 1960s. His ragas proved to be the ultimate trip or head music for those exploring inner space. In reality his music, rooted in tradition, had nothing to do with drugs. But he used his popularity to leverage the message of world music particularly through an alliance with the Beatle, George Harrison. Eventually, he became reconciled with an estranged daughter, Grammy winner, Nora Jones.
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Santa Fe Artist Joyce Melander Dayton Fine Arts
The Craft of Turning Nature into Art
By: - Dec 10th, 2012Edward Rubin discusses with the artist Joyce Melander Dayton how she stopped being a representational painter and now works primarily in 3-dimensions using textiles, fabrics, glass beads, wool, and wood veneers.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Theatre
Challenging Musical at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Dec 10th, 2012This is the 21st century, and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots†is designed for younger audiences who really dig the Internet, video games, and Blackberry phones along with the many and various “apps†as a way of connecting or communicating and/or learning. “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robotsâ€, is definitely not your father or grandfather’s musical.
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Portrait of Fast Eddie People
New York Critic Edward Rubin on the Fly
By: - Dec 10th, 2012New York critic Edward Rubin is on the short lost of my most amusing, eccentric and entertaining friends. In this thumbnail portrait of the artist we come to know just a teenie bit about him and how he came to be Fast Eddie. So famous that there is a Manhattan saloon named for him in neon.
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Donald Margulies at Geffen Playhouse Theatre
Holiday Show in LA
By: - Dec 10th, 2012Journeyman playwright and 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner in Drama, Donald Margulies, the author of such notable plays as “Time Stands Stillâ€, “Collected Storiesâ€, “Brooklyn Boyâ€, and “Sight Unseenâ€, among others – all dramas, by the way – now sails into less turbulent waters with “Coney Island Christmasâ€, a delightful Christmas season show.
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