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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So So or So What Mad Men Returns Television
Mad As Hell Over Launch of Season Six
By: - Apr 08th, 2013Last night we watched Masterpiece Theatre and Tivoed the relaunch of Mad Men. Starting at 10 we were able to fast forward through two hours worth of ads. While it was fun to cut to the chase what we saw was mostly a muddle. A double time season opener is designed to set up plot points but there was little of the magic that got us hooked on the award winning series.
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State Rep Gail Cariddi Meets with Arts Community Opinion
April 13 in Adams
By: - Apr 07th, 2013Members of the Berkshire arts community will meet with State Rep Gail Cariddi to urge her to encourage the Massachusetts House and Senate to increase the state’s allocation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) by $3 million to a total of $12.5 million. The event will occur on April 13th 6 PM at 47 Park St. (The Old Firehouse) in Adams MA.
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MASS MoCA’s Timely Reboot Fine Arts
Closes Oh, Canada and Opens Three Exhibitions
By: - Apr 07th, 2013Set aside, a day, week, month or year to fully absorb and comprehend the obsessive/ compulsive details of a troika of new special exhibitions at Mass MoCA. The sprawling contemporary art museum in North Adams has just launched Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, One Minute Film Festival: 10 Years, and Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera. During a gala celebration we caught just a tantalizing glimpse of dauntingly dense and complex work.
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Buzkashi! Shown at MASS MoCA Film
Final Film in Series: Compete! - The Human Tower
By: - Apr 06th, 2013Cinema Lounge at Mass MoCA screened the Canadian Indi-Film BUZKASHI! recently, which was shot in Tajikistan, Central Asia. Buzkashi, an ancient sport, is vaguely a cross between rugby and polo with few rules. The ‘ball,’ however, is a headless goat. There may be 200 riders on a huge field and slowly the film develops the game and its main characters into a fantastic tale set in a vast and fascinating landscape.
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Green Day's American Idiot in Indianapolis Theatre
A Rockin' Good Time
By: - Apr 05th, 2013American Idiot, based on the Green Day album of the same name, bursts onto the stage at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis, with a flurry of lights and blasting guitars. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, this show has all three in spades.
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Vico Fabbris Floralies Fine Arts
Fantasy Botanicals at Boston's Gurari Collections
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Gurari Collections presents an exhibition of watercolor paintings and work-on-paper by the artist Vico Fabbris. Entitled FLORALIES, the exhibition expands upon the artist's exploration of imagined botanicals.
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Indianapolis Museum of Art Fine Arts
Ai Weiwei: According to What Through July 28
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Although Indiana is a staunchly conservative red state the Indianapolis Museum Art is currently hosting a survey of work by the world's most radical living artist. Ai Weiwei: According to What? will be on view through July 28. There is an encylopedic collection of some 54,000 works. We also visited the nearby 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park which opened in 2010.
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Courtney Love at Lyman Allyn Museum Fine Arts
Rock Songer as Artist with David LaChapelle
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Courtney Love the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the punk band Hole is also a visual artist. Her first museum exhibition Mentoring Courtney Love: David LaChapelle and Courtney Love will be on view at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut form April 13 through August 10.
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Barrington Stage Presents Linda Lavin July 8 Theatre
Schedule for Mr. Finn's Cabaret Series
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013Featuring an eclectic mix of Broadway standards and cabaret songs, Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress Linda Lavin’s new cabaret will show you why Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls her “…a human tornado who lets nothing stand in her way…She has a jazz side, can swing and scat and even growl like Louis Armstrong, and displays a special fondness for Brazilian bossa nova.†T
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Gardner Museum Theft Investigation Fine Arts
You Can Help
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Theatre
College of the Desert (COD) Production
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013In the College of the Desert (COD) production at the Pollock Theatre, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestâ€, director Tres Dean gives full rein to his talented cast to do just that which they do in spades.
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A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder Theatre
The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in San Diego
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013“A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder†is currently at The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley stage in San Diego’s Balboa Park. This world premiere musical comedy conjured up by the remarkable team of Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, and brilliantly directed by Darko Tresnjak, is an early Christmas gift to the city of San Diego. It's taking place at one of America’s finest Regional theatres.
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Menopause the Musical Theatre
Night Sweats at Indy's Beef and Boards
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013For a girls's night out Menopause the Musical is a no sweat, fun musical. It runs through May 12 at Indy's Beef and Boards dinner theatre. Women going through "The Change" interact compassionately while shopping at Bloomingdales.
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Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook Meet the Press Music
Faith Prince and Megan Hilty To Join Feinstein at Tanglewood
By: - Apr 02nd, 2013When Michael Feinstein appeared at Tanglewood last summer Liza Minnelli hopped the train with him at the last minute and popped on stage to thrill the audience in The Shed with "New York New York." While Faith Prince and Megan Hilty are confirmed as guests this summer we asked him if there is a chance that Barbara Cook may also board his Lenox bound Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barbara, who loves Tanglewood, just smiled.
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Why ATCA Indianapolis Opinion
Best of the Midwest with Boys and Girls on the Bus
By: - Apr 01st, 2013We return from an intensive visit of the American Theatre Critics Association in Indianapolis with more questions than answers. Mostly about the state of the arts in America's heartland. A busman's holiday evokes taking the pulse.
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Clark Art Institute's Works by George Inness Fine Arts
Major Gift by Frank and Katherine Martucci
By: - Apr 01st, 2013The Clark Art Institute will present its eight Inness landscapes in an exhibition, "George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci," which will be on view June 9–September 8, 2013. The presentation will unite new acquisitions with two works by Inness, Wood Gatherers: An Autumn Afternoon and Home at Montclair, that were purchased by Sterling Clark and have been a part of the Institute’s collection since 1955.
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Going Going Gone and I Am Peter Pan Theatre
Sunday Morning at Indy Fringe Theatre
By: - Mar 30th, 2013On Sunday morning, the final day of the American Theatre Critics Association meeting in Indianapolis we encountered life on the edge of the arts. It was insightful to learn about and experience Fringe theatre in Indy and hear from fringers in Cincinnati and St. Louis. It was so absorbing that Astrid Hiemer of BFA bounded on stage and became a character in the improv piece Going Going Gone.
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Shakespeare & Company Adds Programming Theatre
Dance, Music, Zany Antics and More
By: - Mar 30th, 2013Shakespeare & Company’s 36th Performance Season just keeps getting bigger and better! Artistic Director Tony Simotes is pleased to announce additional programming filled with dance, music, zany antics and more with four new additions to the already scheduled line-up.
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Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 Theatre
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Indianapolis
By: - Mar 29th, 2013Forty years ago when Indy's Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre was founded it was a fad. With annual ticket sales of some 150.000 now it is only one of seven equity companies that remain. More low brow than high brow, none the less, its production of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 was a flat out hoot. In particular the blonde bombshell Crystal Mosser was a smash.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited Theatre
At Coachella Valley Repertory Company
By: - Mar 29th, 2013A few years back Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country for Old Menâ€, was turned into an Academy award-winning movie. His current allegorical play “Sunset Limitedâ€, deftly directed by Ron Celona and starring ML Berry as Black, and Don Oscar Smith as White, is a curious piece.
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The Lyons at Indy's Phoenix Theatre Theatre
Dark Comedy Stars Diane Kondrat
By: - Mar 29th, 2013The dark comedy The Lyons which had a run on Broadway has been staged at The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. It stars veteran actor Diane Kondrat, as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family. The macabre action is set in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband visited by their two over the top children. The familial cruelty evoked is outrageously hilarious. Kondrat's Rita Lyons is a character we love to hate.
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An Indy Insider's View of ATCA Visit Opinion
Celebrating the Arts in Indianapolis
By: - Mar 28th, 2013During the American Theatre Critics Association meeting in Indianapolis we met with Melissa Hall who posts to the blog StageWrite Indy. With this take on a visit from out of towners we welcome her as a contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. We will look forward to her coverage.
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Dance Kaleidoscope of Indianapolis Dance
A Program Set To Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf
By: - Mar 28th, 2013The performance of Piaf Plus which we attended in Indianapolis by the 41-year-old Dance Kaleidoscope was a compelling conflation of narrative inflected American Modernism with a decidedly French accent. The choreography was created by the company's 22-year-long artistic director and former member of the Martha Graham company, David Hochoy. While elegant and conservative the dance had spectacular elements evked by lead dancers Jilian Godwin and Zach Young.
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Mass MoCA's FreshGrass Festival Music
Performers Announced for September 20 to 23
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Del McCoury, Leftover Salmon, The Infamous Stringdusters, Sam Bush, The Lone Bellow, and Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys are part of the first wave of performers announced for the FreshGrass festival. Bill Evans, Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown, Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall, The Wood Brothers, Dan Zanes, Elizabeth Mitchell, Lake Street Dive, The Gibson Brothers, Noam Pikelny and Friends, John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Elephant Revival, Darol Anger, and Mandolin Orange are also confirmed.
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Stephen Metcalfe's Strange Snow was Film Jacknife Theatre
Groves Cabin Theatre, in Morongo Valley, CA.
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Stephen Metcalfe's stage play “Strange Snow†became the basis for the 1989 movie “Jacknifeâ€, starring Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, and Cathy Bates.The powerful and compelling drama currently dazzling audiences at the Groves Theatre, is brilliantly directed by actor/director Abe Daniels, and features a wonderful cast of three Desert Theatre League award winning actors: Donette Swain, Kurt Schauppner, and Abe Daniels.
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