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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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Opens SPAC Season Dance
Master Class and “Arts Alfresco†Celebration of Art, Wine & Food
By: - May 25th, 2012Modern dance masterpieces by choreographer Bill T. Jones, one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the world of modern dance and the artistic creator of Broadway hits Spring Awakening and Fela!, will come to SPAC’s Amphitheatre Stage on Thursday, June 7 @ 8 p.m.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Held Global Portrait Paint Party Fine Arts
Friend Me Projects in Toronto, Canada, Originated Celebration
By: - May 23rd, 2012The Berkshire communities of artists and non artists alike were invited to participate on May 6th in North Adams, Mass. National and international artists were also invited to email a jpeg and dedicate a portrait to the project. Eventually, all portraits will be seen on the ' Friend Me Projects' website, along with future Global Portrait Parties and other media events. The North Adams portrait paint party became the first outside of Canada and here, the BFA Gallery is showing many fine results.
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Tanglewood Rethinks Labor Day Weekend Music
Rocking Out with Train, Evanescence and Pops
By: - May 23rd, 2012Train is back on track for Friday, August 31. Followed by Pops, on Saturday, and then a hard rock tandem of Evanescence and Chevelle rounding out a solid Labor Day Weekend in the Shed. This is a dramatic change of policy for Tanglewood making for a weekend with broad audience appeal second only to the Fourth of July. This last blast of summer will surely draw large audiences to Lenox. Then its back to work and school.
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Berkshire Museum to Erect Wigwam Fine Arts
Rethink! American Indian Exhibition Opens July 7
By: - May 22nd, 2012The front lawn of Berkshire Museum will soon be home to an authentic wigwam. The Museum staff is working with two Wampanoag Indians to build an authentic wigwam, which will be used to enhance programming in conjunction with the Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Rethink! American Indian Art at Berkshire Museum, opening July 7, 2012.
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Photojournalist Gillian Jones at Gallery 51 Fine Arts
Surveying 20 Years of Covering the Berkshires
By: - May 22nd, 2012For the past twenty years photojournalist Gillian Jones has covered the Berkshires as a staff member of the North Adams Transcript. Her images have also appeared in the Berkshire Eagle and other publications. A survey of her work opens at Gallery 51 in North Adams on May 27 and remains on view through June 24.
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration Music
All Star Concert July 14
By: - May 21st, 2012The musical centerpiece of the evening will be the Tanglewood 75th Celebration Concert featuring performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, as well as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, led by conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons. These legendary Tanglewood ensembles will be joined on stage by several of today’s leading artists, including violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianists Emanuel Ax and Peter Serkin, and vocalist James Taylor.
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Mr Finn's Cabaret Opens May 25 & 26 Theatre
New Venture for Barrington Stage Company
By: - May 19th, 2012Barrington Stage Company announces the first season of performances at the brand-new 49-seat Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.
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A Slap in the Facebook Opinion
IPO Flatlines on Second Day of Trading
By: - May 19th, 2012Maybe you are among the 900,000, 000 Facebook friends wanting to own a piece of the company. At $16 billion the first day IPO was the third greatest ever. Those initial mega investors planned to flip for huge profits on the second day of trading to the general public. By the end of the day the stock rose a staggering twenty three cents. BFD.
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Emerging America Festival Line-Up June 21-24 Theatre
Presented by ICA, A.R.T and Huntington Theatre
By: - May 18th, 2012The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announce additional events and offerings as part of the third Emerging America— an annual festival featuring groundbreaking performance by American artists June 21 to 24.
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Mass MoCA Brings Art to Downtown North Adams Fine Arts
New Bus Stop Open for Business June 28
By: - May 16th, 2012On Thursday, June 28, 2012, Kidspace at MASS MoCA will open the Bus Stand, a public artwork by Queensbury, New York-based artist Victoria Palermo, who was inspired by her 2010 Kidspace artist-in-residency in the North Adams middle schools to create a colorful work of art on Main Street that would combine the functional with the aesthetic.
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Berkshire Salon Through June 10 Fine Arts
Fifth Annual Eclipse Mill Gallery Exhibition to June 10
By: - May 16th, 2012The lively and much anticipated Fifth Annual Berkshire Salon 2012 is dedicated in memory of the recently deceased Eclipse Mill resident Norman Thomas. A grid of his Cubist/ Pop paintings is featured in the installation of works by some forty regional artists. The Salon is open on weekends in North Adams from May 18 through June 10.
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Wynton Marsalis at Tanglewood August 20 Music
Season Closes with Pops/ Michael Feinstein/ Christine Ebersole Sept. 2
By: - May 16th, 2012While not exactly an overhaul, Mark Volpe appears to be tweaking the programming at Tanglewood. Sticking with the mantra of Tanglewood as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra means facing the reality or an eroding, senior audience. The annual season ending Tanglewood Jazz Festival has been scrapped replaced by booking A list jazz artists Wynton Marsalis and Christain McBride in Ozawa Hall and Pops in the Shed for a boldy revamped Labor Day weekend. And that's not all.
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Casandra Speaks at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Norman Plotkin World Premiere
By: - May 16th, 2012Artistic Director Tony Simotes and Shakespeare & Company are pleased to present the world premiere of Cassandra Speaks by Norman Plotkin. In a tour de force performance, the versatile Tod Randolph takes on the role of Dorothy Thompson.
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Totally Tubular Seasonal Depression Television
Some TV Shows Terminal Others See You Next Year
By: - May 15th, 2012For the past couple of weeks the ads have proclaimed "Watch the series finale of House or Desperate Housewives." Or the season's finale of Smash and Madmen. Now what? Endless reruns? Baseball? Video Games? Recreational drugs? TV is about not to be TV. Yikes.
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Exploring New York Galleries Fine Arts
Simone Subal, On Stellar Rays, and Miguel Abreu
By: - May 14th, 2012Welcoming our New York correspondent Amanda Parmer who will cover galleries and alternative arts events. Expect her to roam off the beaten track. Here she explores work in three galleries.
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2012 Drama Desk Awards Theatre
The Best of Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2012There is some overlap between the nominees for the Tony Awards and the list for the Drama Desk Awards. Bernadette Peters was passed over for Follies but appears here. Nina Ariadna a front runner for her role in Venus in Fur is snubbed. Chinglish, ignored by the Tonys is listed. During awards season it is interesting to compare and contrast.
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Clark Art Institute Focuses on China Fine Arts
Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China
By: - May 11th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents rare Chinese burial objects in an exclusive exhibition that considers both the discovery and the impact of modern Chinese archaeology, Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China, open June 16 – October 21, 2012. The exhibition features objects recently excavated from sites in the Shanxi and Gansu provinces and never before seen outside of China.
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Luis Miguel at Caesar's Palace September 13 to 15 Music
That's Vegas Baby
By: - May 11th, 2012Latin music superstar Luis Miguel will return to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace for a record sixth consecutive year during Las Vegas Mexican Independence Day weekend 2012 Thursday, Sept. 13 – Saturday, Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. The three night engagement is presented jointly by AEG Live and Caesars Palace.
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WIlliamstown Theatre Festival Casting Theatre
Old and New Friends
By: - May 11th, 2012That opening night for the 2012 season, June 26, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival is inching ever closer. In her second season as artistic director Jenny Gersten is finalizing casting for a lively mix of classics and new works. Many WTF alumni like Blythe Danner and Brooks Ashmanskas are on board as well as last season's Lily Taylor. We are excited to see Tyne Daly penciled in. As a sidebar to the 62 Center for the first time Mass Moca is in the mix hosting a new work by rock star David Byrne.
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Roger Kizik at Dedee Shattuck Gallery Fine Arts
Westport, Ma. Through June 3
By: - May 09th, 2012With Rick Harlow and John McNamara during the 1980s Roger Kizik was identified by Boston Globe art critic, Robert Taylor, as Epic Abstractionists. They were widely shown as a trio including the Institute of Contemporary Art. For many years Kizik was a member of the staff of the Rose Art Museum. He lives and works in New Bedford. The show at Dedee Shattuck Gallery features his quirky, epic scaled figuration.
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Fifth Annual Berkshire Salon Fine Arts
Eclipse Mill Gallery Opening May 18
By: - May 09th, 2012The Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams announces a call for artists to participate in its non juried Fifth Annual Berkshire Salon. The Salon opens May 18, 6 to 8 PM, and runs through June 10.
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Monadnock Music Festival 2012 Music
Opening Night July 6 Peterborough Town House
By: - May 07th, 2012As it closes in on a half century of presenting exceptional classical music to New England, the Monadnock Music Festival is already beginning a new era with the announcement of its 2012 season.
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Barrington Stage Company Updates Theatre
Coplete Season Listings
By: - May 05th, 2012May 23 – June 10. LUNGS, by Duncan Macmillan. Directed by Aaron Posner. New England premiere. St. Germain Stage (formerly Stage 2) at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. An intimate drama about a young couple contemplating whether or not to have a child in a time of global anxiety. And that's not all.
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Patricia Hills, Letter #5 from Southern California Fine Arts
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - May 05th, 2012Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 at the Museum of Contemporary Art was curated by long-time MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel. It was intended to be a prequel to Schimmel’s 1992 exhibition Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s. But Schimmel knew many of the artists included in Under the Big Black Sun from an exhibition he did back in 1977 for the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, called American Narrative/Story Art: 1967-1977.
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The 2012 Whitney Biennial Fine Arts
Ennui of the New
By: - May 04th, 2012Back in 1932 the first Whitney Annual was unique. Since 1973 it has been the Whitney Biennial. Now there are lots of global Biennials. In that context the Whitney tries it keep up and stay relevant. The current version curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders has fewer works displayed with more space. As a signifier of recent trends one floor is devoted to performances not necessarily by artists. The downsized project is easier to digest but also quicker to forget.
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