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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Marguerite Bride Exhibits at Marketplace Cafe Fine Arts
Pittsfield Show Opens April 14
By: - Apr 05th, 2012A solo show of watercolors by Pittsfield artist Marguerite Bride entitled “Let There Be Lighthouses†will be on exhibit the entire month of April at the Marketplace Café, 55 North Street, Pittsfield. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, April 14, from 5-7 pm.
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Roaring Twenties at Ozawa Hall June 2 Music
Presented by Close Encounters with Music
By: - Apr 05th, 2012The cabaret beckons at Ozawa Hall Saturday, June 2, 6 pm as Close Encounters With Music ushers in the summer season in the Berkshires. In a performance that evokes the twenties of the last century—a time exemplified by Art Deco, Prohibition, the loosening of social restraints, Jazz, the Charleston and flappers—“Roaring Twenties†offers a panorama of composers and styles that defined and shaped the era: Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Alexander Zemlinsky, Hanns Eisler, Cole Porter, Poulenc, Schoenberg, and Erwin Schulhoff provide a bi-continental glimpse into a decade that still looms colorful, mythical and seductive in cultural history.
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Four Evenings of Favorite Poems Word
North Adams Public Library
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Thurs. April 12 is the 1st evening of a new series of poetry readings : 'Shakespeare as You Like It' ! This will be followed by : April 26 - Wit and Whimsy, May 10 - Puzzling Poetry, May 24 - Poetry As Song. Bring a poem to read aloud or speak from memory at a gathering on poetry's power to transform.
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Whitney Biennial 2012 Fine Arts
Inside Edition
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
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Boston Pops Season Starts May 9 Music
Previews with Video Clips
By: - Apr 05th, 2012The Boston Pops 2012 season under the direction of Keith Lockhart, opens in style on May 9 with Broadway sensation Bernadette Peters performing many of the signature songs that have made her one of this country’s legendary stars of the stage and screen. The Boston Pops 2012 unifying theme, Visions of America, inspires a season dedicated to celebrating many of this country’s greatest musical traditions, culminating in a multimedia “Visions of America Photo Symphony†program to end the season on June 14, 15, and 16. These special concerts will feature R&B sensation Patti Austin, jazz vocalist Steve Tyrell, photographs by Joseph Sohm, music by Roger Kellaway, and lyrics by the unrivaled team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, with a recorded narration provided by Clint Eastwood.
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Hancock Shaker Village Fine Arts
2012 Calendar of Events
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) announces the living history museum’s 2012 plans at a press conference today. The 52nd season will run from April 7 through October 28. It includes a major new exhibition titled A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA, which features the work of photographer Noel Vicentini, who was hired as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1936 to document the Shaker villages in upstate New York and western Massachusetts for the newly-formed Index of American Design.
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Vermont Open Studios May 26 and 27 Fine Arts
20th Year of the Annual Event
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Yellow signs will once again dot the Vermont landscape over Memorial Day Weekend, leading locals and tourists alike to the workspaces of 259 artists and craftspeople who will open their studios to the public for Vermont Open Studio Weekend's landmark 20th year.
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Zehra Khan at Berkshire Community College Fine Arts
Animal Practice at Koussevitzky Art Gallery a
By: - Apr 04th, 2012“Animal Practice†an exhibit by Zehra Khan, will be on display in the Koussevitzky Art Gallery at Berkshire Community College (BCC) from Monday, April 2 through Friday, May 2.
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Huntington Theatre Company Honors Michael Maso Theatre
EventHosted by Joanna Gleason Raised $739,000
By: - Apr 04th, 2012The Huntington Theatre Company raised $730,000 in support of its education and community programs at last night’s Spotlight Spectacular gala honoring 30-year managing director Michael Maso with its highest honor, the Wimberly Award. Tony Award-winning Broadway star Joanna Gleason (Sons of the Prophet, Into the Woods, “The West Wingâ€) hosted the event at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel that was attended by 430 guests.
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Mad as Hell Television
Fat Betty and Other Surprises
By: - Apr 03rd, 2012After an absence of a year and a half, eons in the entertainment industry, the enormously successful and innovative Mad Men returned with a two hour bundle of plot points. Absent from the season's launch with Don Draper's ex wife Betty now remarried. She returns as the bored housewife, sulking and consoling her misery with afternoon snacks. It's a shock to encounter the formerly svelte and glamorous January Jones (currently pregnant in real life) as 'fat Betty.'
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ArtsEmerson Film Program May 4 to 26 Film
Gotta Dance: The American Movie Musical 1929-1953
By: - Apr 02nd, 2012ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage closes its second season of adventurous, independent and repertory films with the final entry in Gotta Dance, an ambitious five-month survey of the American film musical; late-period Renoir and the second annual Festival Focus showcase. Films are screened at Emerson College’s Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston), in the Bright Family Screening Room.
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Face the World - Global Portrait Party: Eclipse Mill Edition Fine Arts
Invitation to Sign Up for Event of May 6, 2-5 PM
By: - Apr 01st, 2012Facebook Fans and Non Facebook Friends alike, you are invited to participate in the Eclipse Mill portrait party. Please sign up, bring a photo of a friend; we supply everything else and assistance during the painting process. Prior experience is not required, but we count on participants and visitors with lots of good will to make this event a celebration of global friendships.
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Ahmad Jamal at the Colonial Theatre Music
New Album Blue Moon and European Tour
By: - Apr 01st, 2012The recently released CD Blue Moon is being hailed by critics as among the best of a recording career that started in 1955. With an amazing rhythm section of Herlin Riley, drums, Manolo Badrena, percussion, and Reginald Veal, bass the iconic jazz pianist performed at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield. They are about to embark for Italy to launch a European tour in support of the critically acclaimed new album.
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American Theatre Critics Association Honors Yusseff El Guindi Theatre
Ken LaZebnik and A. Rey Pamatmat Also Honored
By: - Apr 01st, 2012The American Theatre Critics Association has named Yussef El Guindi’s Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a play about immigration and assimilation, winner of the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2012. The Steinberg/ATCA recognizes the best American scripts that premiered professionally the previous year outside New York City.
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Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki at Gallery 51 Fine Arts
Strange Soup Exhibition Through April 22
By: - Mar 31st, 2012Since their move to North Adams from New Mexico the work of Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki has been included in several group shows. The exhibition Strange Soup at Gallery 51 presents their emotionally charged, visceral work in depth. During the opening we spoke with Wysocki about the origin and meaning of her Lumplanders.
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Danforth Museum Annual Juried Exhibition Fine Arts
An Open Call to Artists
By: - Mar 31st, 2012The Danforth Museum in Framingham, Mass. is accepting on line applications for it's annual juried exhibition through April 4. There are links in this letter that will take interested artists to the museum's website.
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Boston Speakers Series at Symphony Hall Opinion
Bill Clinton Launches Program October 3
By: - Mar 30th, 2012Like its inaugural season that sold out before the first lecture, The Boston Speakers Series sophomore season features some of the country’s most respected thinkers over seven Wednesday evenings, approximately once a month, beginning with President Bill Clinton in October.
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Mass MoCA Surveys Canadian Art Fine Arts
Oh Canada Opens May 26
By: - Mar 29th, 2012A members' reception for the opening of Oh, Canada will be held on Saturday, May 26, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM. At 9:00 PM, Brandon Canning, co-founder of Broken Social Scene, will DJ a dance party interspersed with musical interludes by Oh, Canada artist/musicians to celebrate the opening. Other Canadian performing artists will grace MASS MoCA's stages and courtyards throughout the summer and fall.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Theatre
Schedule of Summer Program
By: - Mar 29th, 2012Highlights include comedic evenings with the Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music (July 14) and Freddie Roman's Friars Club Comedy Festival (July 15), performances by legendary modern dance troupes MOMIX (July 6 and 7) and Paul Taylor Dance Company (July 26, 27, and 28), musical concerts by Tony winner Faith Prince (July 21), Kennedy Center Honors recipient Barbara Cook and Grammy nominee John Pizzarelli (August 4), and by Grammy Award winners Judy Collins and Jimmy Webb (August 26)
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The Hunger Games: Futuristic Teen Gladiators Film
Leaves Audiences Starving for Sequels
By: - Mar 28th, 2012During the opening weekend of The Hunger Games there was a record setting feeding freny resulting in a box office of $155 million and another half of that abroad. The sci fi adventure film conflates the adolescent tribalism of Lord of the Flies with a spate of gladiator themes films that started back with the silent version of Ben Hur in 1925. So there is nothing new or different here other than the stunningly beautiful Jennifer Lawrence in another Oscar potential performance as the gritty survivor Katniss Everdeen.
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Berkshire Museum Calendar Fine Arts
Exhibitions and Events Through July 15
By: - Mar 27th, 2012In addition to exhibitions the Berkshire museum features an aquarium and the renowned Little Cinema. Here is a break down of exhibitions and events through mid July.
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Barrington Stage Company Calendar Theatre
Performances and Events Day by Day Through October
By: - Mar 27th, 2012The season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield kicks off on May 23 and stretches through October. This is a cheat sheet to mark your calendar. Here is a day by day break down of the entire theatre season.
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Aston Magna Celebrates 40th Season Music
Gala June 9 at Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall
By: - Mar 27th, 2012Aston Magna Music Festival (Daniel Stepner, Artistic Director) America’s oldest annual summer festival in America devoted to music performed on period instruÂments, celebrates its 40th Anniversary Season in the Berkshires. This summer’s concert series from June 8 through July 7 is devoted to music spanning from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
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Ain Gordon at Mass MoCA April 28 Theatre
Not What Happened
By: - Mar 26th, 2012After a weeklong residency, writer, director, and actor Ain Gordon will present his new contemporary theatre piece Not What Happened on Saturday, April 28, at 8 PM in MASS MoCA'S Hunter Center, as part of MASS MoCA's series of work-in-progress showings. Gordon's work, which The New York Times calls "smart" and characterized by "genuine emotion", investigates the notion of place as it relates to forgotten histories.
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FreshGrass Festival at Mass MoCA Music
No Wilco But Fiddle Music September 21-23
By: - Mar 26th, 2012With the Wilco Solid Sound Festival on hiatus Mass MoCA is beefing up its now annual FreshGrass Festival. The three day event will occur from September 21-23 with a lively mix of known and emerging bluegrass artists. This is a step in the right direction for extending the shoulder season in Northern Berkshire county. Order early and save on weekend passes on sale April 11.
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