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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Barrington Stage Announces 2013 Season Theatre
On the Town and New Play by Mark St. Germain
By: - Dec 10th, 2012Barrington Stage Company will launch its season with the musical On the Town from June 12 to July 13. It will be followed by The Chosen, Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel has been adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok. A rare for Barrington Shakespeare play completes the main stage season with Much Ado About Nothing. The St. Germain Stage features The Chosen, Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel which has been adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok. Followed by the musical Southern Comfort and a premiere of Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah by Mark St. Germain.
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Mamet on Broadway Theatre
Hit and Miss
By: - Dec 10th, 2012As a testament of "America's greatest living playwright" there is a currently a double header of plays by David Mamet on Broadway. A proven chestnut "Glengarry Glen Ross" starring Al Pacino is just up the street from a new work "The Anarchist" with Patti LuPone and Debra Winger. With mixed reviews "Glengarry" is a hit while following dreadful reviews "The Anarchist" is a flop. But "The Anarchist" may have suffered a particularly vicious treatment by the NY media. Perhaps in another life in regional theatre productions it will come to be regarded as a great work in the late oeuvre of Mamet.
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On Being Taught Not to Fly Opinion
Up Up and Away
By: - Dec 01st, 2012At the Picasso retrospective at MoMA, once again I was startlingly reminded that art has a mind of its own. As I passed by Picasso’s cubist portrait of Diaghilev and paused to look at it, a flash went off in my head. Despite the fact that Diaghilev was embedded in the picture, while I was free to roam, we shared the immediate recognition that both of us were alive.
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Rita Coolidge at the Clark Music
Heart Warming Holiday Concert
By: - Dec 01st, 2012Last night at the Clark Art Institute in ever sense there were chestnuts roasting on the fire as Rita Coolidge, backed by the Williamstown Gospel Choir, delivered a heart warming program of Christmas music. Between songs she chatted intimately with the audience sharing insights to her Cherokee heritage, comments about her one and only ex husband, Kris Kristofferson, and life on the road. The set of carols was peppered with top forty hits gleaned from two Grammy awards and a life on the road that started on tour with Delaney and Bonnie in the early 1970s.
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Wilco Tickets on Sale Music
Solid Sound Festival Returns This Summer
By: - Nov 30th, 2012OMG, OMG. Hurry hurry hurry. Wilco Tickets are on sale to Mass MoCA members starting today. The "early bird" three day passes at a bargain $99 will go quick as a blink. But once they're gone there will be a discounted $124 for the passes which after this window of opportunity will cost $149. So be the first kind on your block to score passes to this sure to be awesome event.
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Daniel Day Lewis Riveting as Lincoln Film
Spielberg/ Kushner Film Among Year's Best
By: - Nov 30th, 2012Daniel Day Lewis is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. As such he chooses roles carefully. In Lincoln, directed by Stephen Spielberg with a script by Tony Kushner and input by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, he has taken on an American icon. It is a career challenge to portray a character carved into the face of Mt Rushmore and cast in bronze in Washington's Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. The gift of this superb film is the richness of nuance he brings to the man we thought we knew.
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Two Time Grammy Winner Rita Coolidge Music
Delta Lady on Surviving Mad Dogs and Englishmen
By: - Nov 28th, 2012Growing up the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Tennessee, as a kid, Rita Collidge listed to R&B broadcast by WLAC out of Gallatin.Hearing Little Richard for the first time she was shaking all over. After Florida State and a year in Memphis she drove to California with Leon Russell in his Thunderbird. She recorded with Delaney and Bonnie before heading out solo which she has been doing ever since. There was a stint as a duo with Kris Kristofferson the father of her daughter. Then the epic tour of Mad Dogs and Englishmen with Joe Cocker who remains a close friend. Through it all she remained level headed while true to her faith and values.
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Rita Coolidge Discusses Her Cherokee Heritage Music
Part One of a Dialogue with the Renowned Singer
By: - Nov 28th, 2012Prior to a Christmas gig at the Clark Art Institute on Friday, November 30 we spoke at length by phone from her home north of San Diego. Now a grandmother of three by a daughter with former husband, Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson, we delved deeply into her Cherokee heritage. That led to rewarding collaborations exploring Native music with Robbie Robertson. This is part one of a dialogue.
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Zelda at the Oasis by P.H. Lin Theatre
Play Focuses on Complex Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: - Nov 28th, 2012F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were the heart and soul of the Lost Generation of the Roaring Twenties. Wildly eccentric the brilliant and witty Zelda was the muse for Scott. It is often implied that he stole her ides for his best selling novels and short stories. Both of their lives devolved in tragedy as the era for which they were signifiers passed. This new play by P.H. Lin focuses on her alone and on the prowl at the Club Oasis in New York City during the Depression years of the 1930s.
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Tanglewood 2013 Music
Five Pops But No James Taylor
By: - Nov 27th, 2012Because three Pops concerts last summer drew audiences of 10,000 each the number is upped with two more this coming season. The kickoff on June 23 will feature comic and banjo player Steve Martin. On the all important and yet to be fully announced July 4th weekend Keith Lockahrt will conduct Pops with guest artist, the Country singer, Vince Gill. Michael Feinstein and Audra MacDonald are also penciled in for Pops as well as the perennial John Williams Film Night and the epic Tanglewood on Parade.
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Museum of Fine Arts Pimps its Masterpieces Fine Arts
Fenway Visitors Find a Bare Cupboard of Favorite Works
By: - Nov 26th, 2012It is usual for the world's great museums to swap their masterpieces for special exhibitions. It is the quid pro quo of doing business. Currently, however, an unusually large number of its greatest treasures are missing from the walls of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Some 26 works, however, have been loaned strictly for cash by the entrepreneur Marco Goldin and his for profit organization Linea d’Ombra. In Italy Goldin is known as "The King Midas of the art world." If that's the case what should we call deal maker Malcolm Rogers of the MFA?
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Jessica Park at The Good Purpose Gallery Fine Arts
Visions on the Spectrum II in Lee, Mass.
By: - Nov 25th, 2012As part of its ongoing effort to support the arts for students with autism and other learning differences, the College Internship Program in Lee, Mass. is featuring Jessica Park’s paintings, and also the glass sculpture of Hoogs and Crawford, at its Good Purpose Gallery through January 2, 2013.
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Spiral a Violent Spin on Cops and Robbers Television
Brilliant Series a Global Hit for French TV
By: - Nov 25th, 2012Critics are unanimous that the four seasons of the cop show Spiral is the best TV drama ever produced in France. The series has been syndicated in 70 countries and was a huge hit for BBC. Curiously the brilliant, gritty view of the underside of the French judicial system has not been seen on American television. But the fist three seasons, available for streaming on Netflix, is totally addictive. Sprial is as good if not better than HBO's The Wire. Be warned, however, its ultra vi.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theatre 2013 Theatre
Four New World Stage Presentations
By: - Nov 21st, 2012Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces four new World’s Stage presentations in 2013—bold theatrical events from across the globe, each in its own voice, provoking discussion on issues of international significance. On the heels of celebrating the Year of Creative Scotland with two critically acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland productions this fall, Chicago Shakespeare Theater continues to demonstrate its commitment to engage audiences in global issues.
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Thanksgiving Letter Opinion
Response by Jaune Quick to See Smith
By: - Nov 21st, 2012In a Thanksgiving letter to family and friends I described how Natives and Pilgrims sat as brothers in celebration. Followed by a comment that today there are few is any Native Americans in our region. My friend Jaune Quick to See Smith eloquently corrected me. She offers much to think about during this time of annual celebration.
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Sleep No More at NY's Emursive Theatre
A Unique Theatrical Experience
By: - Nov 19th, 2012Emursive Co. introduced "Sleep No More" to an American audience and/or participants if you are game. What better place to rattle and shake but in New York City. It is an import from the UK and what fun!
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Does Art Matter Opinion
In the Eye of the Beholder
By: - Nov 18th, 2012There are ways to consume culture at affordable prices. There are half price tickets for Broadway shows and lawn access at Tanglewood. A movie costs about ten bucks or you can see it on Netflix. Kids pirate downloaded music and videos. But it takes deep pockets to travel the world visiting great monuments and museums. Only the mega rich can afford to own the contemporary art displayed in galleries and museums. For social and economic reasons the fine arts are more elitist and esoteric than other art forms. Then there are matters of taste- High Brow, Middle Brow and Kitsch.
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Jane Hudson Reflects on Art Education Opinion
Former Faculty Member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Nov 17th, 2012We asked Jane Hudson, a now retired faculty member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, for another opinion on the BFA dialogue "Can Art Be Taught." With her husband Jeff Hudson, a Museum School graduate, they initiated a video art department for the school. Later Jane became involved with the MFA program graduate students in a broad range of media. Currently they live in Williamstown and have the business Hudson's Antiques on the campus of Mass MoCA.
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The Palm Desert Stage Company Revives Mark Twain Theatre
Is He Dead Adapted by David Ives
By: - Nov 16th, 2012The Palm Desert Stage Company kicks off its third season in the Joslyn Center’s Arthur Newman Theatre with Mark Twain’s revived comedy/farce “Is He Deadâ€, adapted by Chicago-born and New York City-based author/playwright David Ives. The comedy is stylishly and briskly directed, by the valley’s reigning comedy/farce director Tres Dean. (Dean directed another Ives’ play, “All in the Timing†at College of the Desert, just last month).
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Olde Forge’s Kirk Grippo Food
Chef/ Owner of Popular Berkshire Hangout
By: - Nov 15th, 2012Chef Kirk Grippo has owned and managed the popular Berkshire pub Olde Forge Restaurant, in Lanesboro on Route 7, for the past fifteen years. He was setting up for a party but paused long enough to chat with us. The annual Festival of Trees at the Berkshire Museum is among the events which he caters. He discussed how it takes a staff of 60 to keep up with the busy restaurant.
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Birches and Baobab Trees Photography
Ancient Spirit Trees
By: - Nov 15th, 2012Birches have fascinated me for many years! In 2009 we were introduced to Baobab Trees during a trip to Senegal, West Africa. Baobab Trees are also ancient trees with attributions of mystical powers since Millennia. The photo project attempts to convey some of the mysteries.
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Olde Forge Restaurant in Lanesboro Food
Winging It
By: - Nov 14th, 2012There are 18 rotating taps for beers including imports and regional seasonals. With more than 200 bottled beers including high end Belgian brews. Add to that state of the art, famous wings. Bottom line The Old Forge in Lansboro, a short drive from Pittsfield, is a Best in the Berkshires destination. Expect long waits on weekends and a boisterous full house. For affordable comfort food the menu is diverse and ambitious.
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James Bondage Film
Rebooting Double Oh No 7 Franchise
By: - Nov 13th, 2012Now 50 the James Bond franchise was running on vapors until an extreme overhaul with Daniel Craig in Casino Royale in 2006. That was followed by Quantum of Solace in 2008 and now Skyfall. There are two more Bond films starring Craig scheduled over the next four years. By then he will be a ripe old 46. In dog years but actually just 44 since the films have already been shot. But, any way you run the numbers, Bond is showing his age.
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Ian Grey's Hummingbirds Photography
Berkshire Photographer Launched Project in 2005
By: - Nov 12th, 2012Ian Grey's hummingbird project started soon after he and glass artist Isabella Raven moved to a wooded property in Florida a mountain hamlet on Route Two a short distance from North Adams. Over the course of seasons he developed an ever more refined strategy for capturing the birds which hover in space while drawing nectar from plants. From an average of 15,000 images per season he culls that down to a handful of keepers to print and exhibit.
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Can Art Be Taught Opinion
Outing the MFA Industry
By: - Nov 10th, 2012Traditionally one became an artist by apprenticing in the studio of a master. Basic skills and ideas were passed along. L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, or The Academy, was established during the French Revolution to teach artists and architects to design and create buildings and public art paintings and sculptures. In diploma granting artisan programs art schools and conservatories taught the skills to pursue a career as an artist, musician or actor. In recent years this has morphed into the art education industry which self perpetuates by granting more BFA and MFA degrees than necessary. There is more supply than demand.
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