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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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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In/Visible: Women of Two Worlds Fine Arts
Clark's uCurate Program Features Ashley Smith
By: - Feb 06th, 2013The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents In/Visible: Women of Two Worlds, the second exhibition created through its interactive uCurate program. In/Visible, an intriguing look at the worlds of women, was created by clergywoman Ashley Smith of Stephentown, New York and is on view through March 10.
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Smash Reboots Television
Season Two Launch Sophomoric
By: - Feb 06th, 2013Despite creative mood swings the Theresa Rebeck created Smash was among our favorites TV shows last year. After a so so first season the drama focused on bringing a musical to Broadway was on the cusp of being cancelled. Rebeck was sacked and replaced by Joshua Safran of the former show Gossip Girl. A number of characters and subplots have been dumped and new story lines inserted. The relaunch, however, was a muddled mess. If ratings plummet, as well they should after the two hour bomb of a relaunch, this show may not be around much longer.
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The Steve Miller Band Tanglewood July 29 Music
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! August 29
By: - Feb 04th, 2013Steve Miller Band performs on July 29. The witty and fast-paced radio program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! appears in the Shed on Thursday, August 29. Let the good times roll.
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Sundance Award Winner Valley of Saints Film
Special Screening at Images Cinema on February 8
By: - Feb 04th, 2013Images Cinema is hosting an event organized by the Muslim Student Association of Williams College, a film screening of “Valley of Saints†with director Musa Syeed on Friday, 2/8 at 5pm. The film will be introduced by Syeed, and the film will be followed by a Q&A with the director..
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Super Bowl Was Just That Opinion
A Guy Thing
By: - Feb 04th, 2013A bunch of guys from the loft, all artists, hunkered down in front of Opie's huge, Hi Def, smart TV to scoff snacks and enjoy the super bowl. It was a guy thing; a night of raging testosterone for the annual ritual. Lots of fun and actually a heck of a game.
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2013 Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts Film
Screened at Images Cinema February 16
By: - Feb 02nd, 2013During the Academy Awards celebration there is mostly apathy for categories like best Animation Shorts. Most of the home viewing audience have not seen the nominated shorts. On February 16 Images Cinema in Williamstown will screen all five nominated shorts. The hour and a half program on Saturday morning provides terrific family entertainment.
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Music from the Big House Film
Canadian Blues Singer Rita Chiarelli at Angola Prison
By: - Feb 02nd, 2013As the inmates tell us in this stunning documentary by Erin Faith Young and Tony Burgess at Louisiana's legendary, Angola Prison "Life means life." In a search for the roots of the blues Canadian musician, Rita Chiarelli, worked with the inmates to perform "Music from the Big House."
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Old Globe's Pygmalion Heads to Williamstown Theatre
Opens at Williamstown Theatre Festival July 18
By: - Jan 31st, 2013The production which Jack Lyons reviewed is being restaged with some changes at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. “Pygmalionâ€, the sparkling comedy production on the Old Globe’s Shiley Stage, in San Diego stars Robert Sean Leonard of TV’s “House M.D.†as Henry Higgins. The production, steadfastly directed by Nicholas Martin, (former artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival) co-stars San Diego favorite, Paxton Whitehead as the redoubtable Colonel Pickering and Charlotte Parry as Eliza Doolittle. Parry’s Eliza is one of the best Eliza’s seen on any stage in a long time. At WTF she is played by Heather Lind.
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri Theatre
Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre Company
By: - Jan 31st, 2013CV Reps production of “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks†is a heart-warming play that is sure to please everyone who sees it. CV Rep now in its second season in its new theatre digs at The Atrium, in Rancho Mirage, California is building a reputation as a “go to†theatre for actors who like CV Rep’s two- hander format.
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John Hodgman Leads Solid Sound Comics Music
Wilco's Mass MoCA Festival June 21-23
By: - Jan 30th, 2013Comedian, author, television personality and historian John Hodgman returns to Solid Sound 2013 to present another hand-picked line-up of comedic talent on Saturday, June 22. The Solid Sound Festival, brainchild of the Chicago-based musical innovators Wilco, returns to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams on June 21-23.
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The Art of Scent, 1889 - 2012 Fine Arts
New York’s Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Jan 29th, 2013Perfumes, fragrances and scents are everywhere in our lives - natural and artificial ones! The Museum of Arts and Design in New York challenges the American public for the first time to recognize creators and creations: Fragrances - as artists and 'Olfactory Art.' The Art of Scent exhibition presents convincingly developments of the last 125 years in the perfume industry, and fragrances that had the most impact over time.
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Sure Sure Davi Det Hompson: 1976-1995 Fine Arts
ZieherSmith Gallery Feb.2 to March 2
By: - Jan 29th, 2013Sure Sure Davi Det Hompson: 1976-1995 is an unconventional retrospective organized from the artist’s estate. A respected young American member of Fluxus in the late '60s and early '70s, Hompson’s initial successes included a solo exhibition of sculpture and prints at Alexander Iolas Gallery and his inclusion in canonical exhibitions such as Art by Telephone at MOCA Chicago, the Whitney’s Ray Johnson: New York Correspondence School Exhibition and Yoko Ono’s This Is Not Here
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Electric Paris at the Clark Art Institute Fine Arts
Let There Be Light
By: - Jan 28th, 2013In the 1840s, Paris was one of the first cities to experiment with electric street lighting, and a huge increase in gas light in the 1850s secured the capital’s reputation as “The City of Light.†By the 1880s, electricity began to illuminate high-profile boulevards, and culminated in the widespread installation of incandescent electric street lighting across the city in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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The Women at the Annenberg Theatre Theatre
More Stars Than in Heaven
By: - Jan 28th, 2013Now in its fourth year of presenting Equity productions to audiences of the Coachella Valley, the Palm Springs- based theatrical group presented a star-studded Fundraiser and a staged reading production of “The Women†at the Annenberg Theatre on Saturday, January 19, 2013.
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Martin Mugar and Paul Pollaro at Bromfield Gallery Fine Arts
Aspects of Extreme Painting
By: - Jan 25th, 2013In an essay to accompany a two man exhibition at Boston's Bromfield Gallery a regular BFA contributor, Martin Mugar, asks "Why the pairing of Martin Mugar and Paul Pollaro’s paintings? The obvious difference binds them together as artists in the tradition of Western Painting: Mugar loves color and Pollaro value. Mugar’s color hints at an overall value and Pollaro’s values suggest colors."
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The Zincograph by Vladislav Todorov Film
Bulgarian Film at Palm Springs International Film Festival
By: - Jan 25th, 2013The screenplay written by Bulgarian educator and novelist Vladislav Todorov is based on his novel “The Zincographâ€. It’s a wildly inventive and whimsically directed movie by Emil Christov that stars Ruscen Vidinliev in a winning performance in how to succeed in Balkan politics without really existing.
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Tanglewood Tickets on Sale January 27 Music
Time to Mark the Summer Calendar
By: - Jan 25th, 2013his Sunday, January 27, is the first opportunity for the public to purchase tickets for the recently announced popular artist concerts at Tanglewood including a Melissa Etheridge performance (June 21); the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration featuring guitarist and vocalist Warren Haynes with the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart (June 22); a Jackson Browne concert, featuring special guest Sara Watkins (July 4); and an Ozawa Hall performance featuring jazz bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding in her Tanglewood debut (August 4).
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