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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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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Mad Men Back on TV Television
Time Flies When You're Not Having Fun
By: - Mar 26th, 2012Last night with a blockbuster, two hour opening episode Mad Men, after an endless hiatus, returned to launch Season Five. In TV years the once hip hit series may be over the hill. Mad Men may run out of gas as it struggles to win back fans. There is always something new and fresh competing for our attention. In a Twitter era, Mad Men and its fixation on the 1960s may be, like, so over.
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Chunky Moves Mass MoCA Dance
Connected with Strings Attached
By: - Mar 25th, 2012At 45 the Australian choreographer, Gideon Obarzanek, is leaving Chunky Move the dance company he founded to assume a position as associate artist with the Sydney Theatre Company. He is currently touring with his final work for the company, Connected, which was performed at Mass MoCA in partnership with Jacob's Pillow.
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Ethan Lipton's No Place to Go Theatre
Joe's Pub at New York's Public Theater
By: - Mar 24th, 2012Currently drawing crowds at Joe’s Pub in NY's Public Theatrer due to good reviews, word of mouth, and what appears to be a cult following is Ethan Lipton’s and his 3 piece orchestra’s (saxophone, guitar, and bass) musical journey No Place To Go. Lipton brings to mind the plaintive lyrics of Leonard Cohen, as well as Pete Seeger.
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Ric Haynes: Children of the Empire Fine Arts
Exhibition at Boston's Hall Space
By: - Mar 23rd, 2012The current exhibition at Boston's alternative gallery, Hall Space, is a selction of prolific, narrative paintings produced in the past year by Ric Haynes. He is an artist whom we have followed, appreciated, curated and reviewed over several decades. For me Haynes has been a guru and shaman of which this evocative and absorbing work is a rich manifestation.
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Sweet Cheeks Serves Designer Barbecue Food
Top Chef Finalist Tiffani Faison Opens Hot Boston Eatery
By: - Mar 22nd, 2012In Sweet Cheeks Boston touts a contender for first team, All American Barbecue. At a price. This is an upscale designer rib joint pretending to have rustic charm in a densely seated noisy ambiance. The meat is awesome but some of the sides just suck big time. Former Top Chef finalist Tiffani Faison needs to step up her game.
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Lessons of the Soviet Collapse Opinion
The Times They Are a Changing Not
By: - Mar 21st, 2012Twenty years ago the mighty Soviet Union collapsed. Its legacy includes many things, from Sputnik to training Palestinian terrorists. One phenomenon especially deserves our attention. I strongly believe that by examining the Soviet failure we can learn something of vital importance.
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The Lyons Previews Start April 5 Theatre
Transfers to Broadway's Cort Theatre
By: - Mar 21st, 2012Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS -- a critical and popular success when it debuted last fall at Vineyard Theatre -- transfers to Broadway's Cort Theatre (138 W. 48 St.) with its entire original cast intact, including the Tony Award-winning stars Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, along with Michael Esper, Kate Jennings Grant, Brenda Pressley and Gregory Wooddell. The Vineyard Theatre production of THE LYONS will be presented on Broadway by producer Kathleen K. Johnson. Mark Brokaw directs.
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Patssi Valdez of Asco Part Three People
From No Movies to Carlos Castaneda
By: - Mar 21st, 2012Decades later the art world has caught up with the LA based, four person, Asco. Patssi Valdez, the only woman in the group, insists that all four voices be heard. Until now she has rarely talked about this legacy with the media. She had long since moved on from that period and work. Troubled by chronic migraines in the 1980s she worked with the healer Howard Lee and then for two years joined a group led by the legendary Carlos Castaneda.
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Jeff and Jane at Williams Inn April 21 Music
Space is the Place
By: - Mar 20th, 2012If you missed their now legendary gig at Mass MoCA in January there is another opportunity for the senior set to cheer on the antique rockers Jane and Jeff Hudson in a rave-up at the Williams Inn on April 21. Don't miss this vintage, synth/ pop rock, dance music.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Theatre
Legacy of Blues Women of the 1920s
By: - Mar 20th, 2012The formidable August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom isn't really about the legendary blues woman of the 1920s and her music. The erastz recording session is a trope for Wilson's views of social and cultural issues of the 1920s in a cycle of ten plays representing ten decades. All of which have been produced by the Huntington Theatre Company.
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Next to Normal at SpeakEasy Extended to April 22 Theatre
2010 Pulitizer Prize Drama in Boston Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2012In 2010, the deep and dark musical Next to Normal, with music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. While a stunning work of literature, it would seem to be a hard sell for audiences for whom the notion of musical implies a light and easy, tuneful evening of song and dance. The stunning and galvanic production at SpeakEasy Stage Company brilliantly and inventively directed by Paul Diagneault with prodigious music direction by Nicholas James Connell was anything but that.
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Letter from Southern California Fine Arts
Exhibitions: Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Mar 19th, 2012At Boston University Professor Particia Hills teaches American Art. She is the author of books on Alice Neel and Jacob Lawrence among others. She has curated exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art accompanied by catalogues. She arrived early for the annual meeting of the College Art Association to view a series of exhibitions assembled as “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980.†This is the first of her reports.
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Invisible Cities at Mass Moca Fine Arts
Exhibition opening April 15 Includes Four New Commissions
By: - Mar 16th, 2012Invisible Cities features works by Lee Bul, Carlos Garaicoa, Liz Glynn, Mary Lum, Emeka Ogboh, and Sopheap Pich, with new commissions by Diana Al-Hadid, Kim Faler, Francesco Simeti, and Miha Strukelj.
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100 Years (Version #4, Boston, 2012) Fine Arts
Boston University Art Gallery Through March 25
By: - Mar 16th, 2012The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents 100 Years (version #4, Boston, 2012), curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Curator of Performa. The exhibition traces the development of performance art over the past century with a wealth of assembled archival documents, film, photography, and audio previously unseen.
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ICA: The International Experimental Cinema Exposition Film
Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m.
By: - Mar 13th, 2012The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), with an introduction by curator and TIE founder Christopher May, on Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m. in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. Tickets for the screenings are $10 general admission or $8 for members, students, and seniors.
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Patssi Valdez of Asco Part Two People
How a Mural Walked Through East LA
By: - Mar 11th, 2012When Asco agreed to meet and create an event at a particular time and date Patssi Valdez states that she never knew what to expect. Gronk arrived at her home as a Christmas tree. Willie was a mural and Passi dressed as the Virgin Mary with glitter and platform shoes. They cavorted through East LA as A Walking Mural straight into the history books. Their friend Harry took the documentary photographs.
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Patssi Valdez of Asco Part One People
Bi-Coastal Exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art.
By: - Mar 11th, 2012During the opening weekend and seminar associated with the bi-coastal exhibition "Asco Elite of the Obscure a Retrospective 1972-1987 " at the Williams College Museum of Art we met and spoke briefly with one of the four artists, Patssi Valdez. Later we spoke at length by phone when she returned home to LA. She spoke of the drive early on to make it into the art history books. Due to this major exhibition, catalogue, seminar and this coverage, that dream has become a reality. This is the first segment of a dialogue with a charming art star,
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