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: Never Sorry at BIFF Film
For China Ai Weiwei or the Highway
By: - Jun 04th, 2012This past week the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei was absent from the Serpentine Gallery in London for a new work created in collaboration with the architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Previously he worked with them on the renowned "Birdsnest" design for the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. Since release on bail following months of interrogation in June, 2011 the artist has been forbidden to communicate with the media or leave the country.
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BIFF in Pittsfield Film
A Rainy Saturday at the Movies
By: - Jun 03rd, 2012After the opening night of Ethel on Thursday we continue coverage, Friday through Saturday, of the seventh annual Berkshire International Film Festival. Yet again there was a stunning mix of features and unique documentary films.
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Michael Snow and Wanda Koop at Mass MoCA People
Dialogue with Canadian Master Artists
By: - Jun 01st, 2012During the intensely busy opening weekend we attempted to interact with artists in the sprawling Mass MoCA survey Oh Canada. The selection mostly focused on younger and lesser known artists. The exceptions proved to be two internationally recognized artists Wanda Koop and Michael Snow.
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Omari Hardwick to Film Verses & Flow Television
TV One Debuts August 31.
By: - Jun 01st, 2012On June 11, “Verses & Flow†will begin filming its second season at the historical Belasco Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. This year’s host is American actor and Georgia native, Omari Hardwick.
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Ethel Opens 7th Annual Biff in Great Barrington Film
Kathleen Introduces Sister Rory’s HBO Documentary
By: - Jun 01st, 2012A matriarch of the Kennedy dynasty, Ethel, the widow of Robert and mother of eleven, is a sporty, fun loving but guarded private individual. When HBO decided to commission a documentary they asked her daughter Rory. Everyone was shocked when Ethel consented to be interviewed by her youngest daughter. What Ethel declines to discuss is warmly fleshed out for her nine surviving children. It provided a stunning launch to the 7th annual Berkshire International Film Festival
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Berkshire International Film Festival Film
Complete Schedule May 31 to June 3
By: - May 30th, 2012The 7th Annual season of The Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) will celebrate this year with the latest in independent feature, documentary, short and family films. The festival runs from May 31 – June 3, 2012 in Great Barrington and June 1 – June 3rd in Pittsfield, MA and will be showcasing over 70 films in independent filmmaking.
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OMG Canada at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Daunting Survey of Canadian Art
By: - May 28th, 2012From now through March, 2013 Mass MoCA will display the first major museum level survey of contemporary Canadian art in the United States. The work of sixty plus artists was selected through a process of some 400 studio visits over the past few years by curator Denise Markonish. It's a lively, upbeat, sprawling exhibition but don't expect any quick answers to the question of what is Canadian about Canadian art. Mostly it's like contemporary American art just less familiar and farther north,.
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Edward Maeder Seminar at Berkshire Botanical Gardens Fine Arts
The Rose in Art and Fashion—700 Years June 12 to 14
By: - May 28th, 2012The eminent curator and author Edward Maeder will lead a three-day seminar at Berkshire Botanical Gardens (BBG) with lectures on "The Rose in Art and Fashion—700 Years", and "Gardens in the Decorative Arts". The lectures will be followed by hands-on demonstrations and workshops: "Exploring Paper Possibilities with Collage and Floral Inspiration". The events will be held June 12 to 14, at BBG, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 01262
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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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