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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Jacobs Pillow Announces 2012 Season Dance
Highlights of 80th Year of World Class Dance
By: - Dec 19th, 2011January 2012 will kick off the momentous 80th Anniversary of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark, National Medal of Arts honoree, and America’s longest-running international dance festival. Founded in 1933 by modern dance pioneer Ted Shawn as a retreat for his company of Men Dancers, Jacob’s Pillow has been a mecca of dance for eight decades.
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Young Hitler at Williams College Fine Arts
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906- 1913
By: - Dec 17th, 2011Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906- 1913 was an ambitious exhibition researched by former Williams College Museum of Art curator Deborah Rothschild
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Century City at Tate Modern Fine Arts
Seminal 2001 Exhibition
By: - Dec 17th, 2011In 2001 Tate Modern, then a relatively new institution, surveyed the art of the Twentieth Century. For each decade a different global city was focused on. Each of these ten segments were individually curated. The whole proved to be remarkably insightful. This article was originally posted to Maverick Arts.
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Denise Markonish Part Three People
Curating a Survey of Canadian Art for Mass MoCA
By: - Dec 16th, 2011For the past three years Mass MoCA curator, Denise Markonish, has trekked across Canada making hundreds of studio visits. When not on the road she has researched exhibitions and catalogues. Few American curators and critics are as broadly informed on the vast and complex topic of contemporary art in Canada. It is a project she took on almost by default given the general lack of interest and commitment. In June the museum will exhibit the work of 64 artists in what should prove to be an eye opening and ground breaking overview. This is the third and final segment of a critical dialogue.
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Denise Markonish Part Two People
Projects for Mass MoCA
By: - Dec 15th, 2011The concept of Mass MoCA was initiated more than twenty years ago by Tom Krens then the director of the Williams College Museum of Art. When he departed for the Guggenheim Joe Thompson took over. The museum opened some eleven years ago with Laura Heon as chief curator and her associate Nato Thompson. Both have since parted. The team of curators Susan Cross and Denise Markonish accentuate Chapter Two of the museum's evolving history. When Markonish was hired the museum was in the midst of an ugly conflict over a later abandoned project by Christoph Buchel in the vast Building Five.
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Denise Markonish Part One People
Mass MoCA Canadian Show Opens May 26
By: - Dec 15th, 2011On May 26 Mass MoCA curator, Denise Markonish, will present the result of a three year long survey of contemporary art in Canada. From some 400 studio visits she has selected roughly sixty artists. During an in depth dialogue we explored our common roots as alumni of Brandeis University and its troubled Rose Art Museum. In this first installment we explore her education and career as a young curator prior to joining the staff of Mass MoCA. The article has links to parts two and three.
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Mass MoCA Winter/ Spring Schedule Opinion
A Mix of Music and Arts
By: - Dec 14th, 2011In the galleries the new exhibition Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer's Conundrum will open on February 5, while the group exhibition Invisible Cities debuts on April 15. Series offered this season will include the exciting Alt Cabaret which features music and dance and MASS MoCA's Thursday night Cinema Lounge series, titled Strategic Thinking, with four films most followed by Q&As with filmmakers.
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WBCN Documentary in the Works Film
Bill Lichtenstein an Award-winning Film Maker
By: - Dec 14th, 2011WBCN was the pioneering Boston radio station which brought rock to the FM dial in 1968, and reflected the social ferment of the times. It went off the air in 2009, but now an honored documentary film maker, Bill Lichtenstein, who once worked at BCN is doing a documentary about the station’s early days, and crowdsourcing content and funding for the project.
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James Aponovich Part Two People
Is Conceptual Realism an Oxymoron
By: - Dec 13th, 2011Working nine to five, six and a half days a week, the realist painter James Aponovich sees himself as an art worker. Over a year which ends in May he has set a goal of completing one new painting a week. All 52 works will be shown at the Clark Gallery in June. While he has been out of the New York art world for several years in 2014 he is scheduled for a one man show at the prestigious Hirschl & Adler Gallery. This is the second and final installment of a dialogue with the New Hampshire based artist.
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Painting Marathon by James Aponovich: One People
A Painting a Week for a Year Then a Show at Clark Gallery
By: - Dec 11th, 2011James Aponovich is regarded as among the foremost American realist painters. He is in the midst of a conceptual project to finish a painting a week for a year. It was the subject of a broadcast on Chronicle this past week. In May the entire series of 52 paintings will be shown at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Mass. This was an occasion to catch up with a superb artist and old friend.
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Chorus Line Opens Colonial Summer Theatre
Great Mix for Berkshire Theatre Group’s Second Season
By: - Dec 10th, 2011For the second season this summer there will be head to head musicals in Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group has announced that A Chorus Line will be presented at the Colonial Theatre. While a few blocks away Barrington Stage will feature Fiddler on the Roof. Both theatre companies have yet to announce their complete summer season of plays and performances.
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De Kooning at MoMA Through January 9 Fine Arts
Soul on Ice
By: - Dec 07th, 2011The vast survey of some 200 works by Willem de Kooning at the Museum of Modern Art through January 9 potently recalls the era of my formative years when painting was the paradigm and art still mattered. For all of us who studied art in the 1950s and 1960s de Kooning was a God. Recently I worshiped in a temple of his works. But in order to create such horrific, visionary paintings more than likely the artist made a pact that damns him to an after life in purgatory if not hell.
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Occupy Northern Berkshires Movement Growing Opinion
Eclipse Mill Meeting in North Adams December 10
By: - Dec 05th, 2011The unemployment rate in North Adams is over ten percent (with the U.S. avg. at 8.6%). Recent job growth is increasingly negative, with core stores such as Staples [albeit not locally-run] recently closing its North Adams store with its 20+ employees in December. Occupy Northern Berkshires meeting at the North Adams' Eclipse Gallery, 243 Union Street, at 7PM on Saturday, 10 December.
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The Barra MacNeils at Clark Art Institute Music
A Celtic Holiday Concert
By: - Dec 05th, 2011The Barra MacNeil band from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia has performed and recorded for the past 25 years. They returned to the Clark Art Institute after a lapse of seven years. The sold out audience delighted in a traditional Christmas celebration. Now and then we joined in with the merry singing.
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Tex Mex in Lenox Food
Too Far North of the Border
By: - Dec 04th, 2011This vast restaurant on the main drag between Pittsfield and Lenox changes hands and food themes every couple of years. Tex Mex attracts drive by tourists during high season but is on life support during the winter months. In order to survive restaurants must attract a local audience to sustain year round. Significantly, during our disappointing visit the cavernous space was virtually empty.
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Another Story About Angelina Jolie Opinion
The Most Beautiful Woman on Earth
By: - Nov 28th, 2011A thousand words inspired by The Most Beautiful Woman on Earth as stated last night by Bob Simon interviewing her for 60 Minutes. Easy on the eyes she didn't have a whole lot to say. Maybe being that beautiful says it all.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Berliner Ensemble Theatre
Bertold Brecht - Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
By: - Nov 27th, 2011It's a storied threatre, the Berliner Ensemble! Bertold Brecht premiered his 'Three Penny Opera' there in 1929. He opened with 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' in 1954, when he took over the theatre at Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Today's production, presented with a 2011 vision by director Manfred Karge and ensemble, delivered food for thought as it did in 1954.
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Black Friday Opinion
Holiday Mauling of America
By: - Nov 25th, 2011Today, Black Friday, millions of Americans got malled. I stayed home and reflected on Christmas past. Oops, excuse me, Holidays past. Seems like nowadays nobody believes in Santa.
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David A. Ross Four Fine Arts
Edifice Complex of Mega Museums
By: - Nov 25th, 2011In this fourth and final installment David Ross discusses the phenomenon of museum expansions and the creation of global satellites by the Guggenheim. He applauds Adam Weinberg for moving the Whitney to the Meatmarket. Surprisingly, he says that as the Whitney's director he would have lacked the guts for such a bold decision.
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Young and the Restless Fine Arts
Delia Brown, Will Cotton, Tim Gardner. Hilary Harkness, Damian Loeb
By: - Nov 23rd, 2011In 2001 Peter Plagens wrote about a new group of New York realists in a rather nasty manner. Not content to discuss their work he also had things to say about their then media inspiring life style. About which I begged to differ. This is a re posting of the article which appeared in Maverick Arts.
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Okwui Enzezer Part Three Fine Arts
A Letter from Austria's Robert Fleck
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011This is the conclusion of a three part report on documenta X which opens in June, 2002, in Kassel, Germany. Leading up to Kassel are Five Platforms, starting with, “Democracy Unrealized,†in Vienna, Austria, in March, 2001. This segment deals with controversy surrounding the decision to open the first Platform in Vienna which is the subject of an art boycott.
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Okwui Enwezer on Documenta Part Two Fine Arts
A Dialogue from 2000
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011We met and discussed the upcoming Documenta after its organizer Owkui Enwezer gave a presentation at MIT.
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Okwui Enwezer on Documenta Fine Arts
Five Platforms
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011We spoke with t he organizer of Documenta XI in 2000.
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David A. Ross Part Three Fine Arts
Hits and Misses of a Former Museum Director
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011David A. Ross started a career in museums at 20 while still an undergraduate. He became curator of video art for the Everson Museum of Syracuse. His career as a museum director ended abruptly, at 53, in 2001 when he was fired just short of four years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Currently he lives in Beacn, New York and commutes as chair of the MFA in Art Practice program at New York's School of Visual Arts.
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Santyagraha by Philip Glass Music
Gandhi Inspired Opera Sung in Sanskrit
By: - Nov 21st, 2011The genius of Philip Glass, viewed as our greatest living composer, is to create transformative, trance inducing meditations on the greatest figures in our history and culture. Mahatma Gandhi, and his twenty year non violent struggle against racism in South Africa informs the opera Satyagraha. This past weekend we experienced an absorbing but frustrating experience of the opera Live in HD at the Clark Art Institute.
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