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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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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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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