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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James Taylor Marathon at Tanglewood Music
Knee High On the Fourth of July
By: - Jul 02nd, 2011Last night James Taylor joined the Pops conducted by John Williams in the shed at Tanglewood. It was the second of four performances, before a sold out crowd of 18,000, representing an abundance of riches from the Berkshire base troubadour regarded as a national treasure. Tonight, Saturday, he takes a breather yielding the Shed to another Tanglewood franchise, Garrison Keillor.
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Three Hotels at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Room Service
By: - Jul 01st, 2011Three Hotels by Robin Baitz, which opens the Main Stage season for Williamstown Theatre Festival is a small thing in a really big package. A superb production with magnificent sets has pumped up a slight evening of three monologues by two actors in three acts without intermission. While taking on the mega issues of corporate greed and the genocide of African babies one emerges with ambivalence toward a couple who sold their souls and suffered the consequences.
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Brandeis University Resolves Rose Art Museum Lawsuit Fine Arts
Museum to Observe Its 50th Year
By: - Jun 30th, 2011Today, Brandeis University president, Fred Lawrence stated in part "I am very pleased to inform you that Brandeis and the four plaintiffs involved in the Rose Art Museum litigation have reached an agreement to settle the case. As a result, their claims have been dismissed. In addition, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General has officially terminated its review of Brandeis." The Rose will remain open.
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Jessica Hecht Discusses Blanche DuBois Theatre
Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 30th, 2011In her eighth season with Williamstown Theatre Festival Jessica Hecht has taken on one of the most challenging roles of her career. We discussed a life in theatre as well as an interpretation of Streetcar Named Desire that is based entirely on a careful reading of the script. It is quite different from the audience's perceptions based on the classic film with Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh.
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Mark Morris and Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood Dance
Stravinsky’s Renard a Morris World Premiere
By: - Jun 29th, 2011Last night in Ozawa Hall, the Mark Morris Dance Group, presented a delightful and intriguing program with two works set to Igor Stravinsky and two to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The annual visit to Tanglewood included a world premiere set to Stravinsky’s Renard.
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Solid Sound Festival Wraps Music
Levon Helm Band and Autumn Defense
By: - Jun 27th, 2011When Levon Helm, fronting a twelve piece band, performed to close the three day Solid Sound Festival, the audience had thinned by at least a third from the peak of 6,300 on Saturday night for Wilco. Folks by then had departed to get home and rest before work on Monday. We also caught a set by Autumn Defense fronted by Wilco members John Stirratt and the oh so pretty and charming Pat Sansone. Solid Sound was awesome.
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Wilco Solid Sound Festival Day Two Music
Here Comes the Sun, Kindah
By: - Jun 26th, 2011During the second of three days for the Wilco Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA inclement weather was again a factor. The sun played hide and seek with 6,000 rock fans.There was a letup that allowed taking in hour long sets by bands performing on several stages. By late afternoon showers returned. But the bad weather front retreated in time for the featured Wilco set on the muddy Joe Thompson Field. Overall it has been a fabulous festival.
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Wilco Performs at Mass MoCA Music
Singing in the Rain
By: - Jun 25th, 2011There was a light drizzle last night about a half hour before Wilco was scheduled to appear on stage in the vast Joe Thompson Field at the edge of the sprawling North Adams campus of Mass MoCA. By show time it was a downpour.
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Moca's Joe Thompson Discusses Wilco Opinion
Second Year of Museum's Solid Sound Festival
By: - Jun 25th, 2011There was risk taking and expensive infrastructure development, last year, when Joe Thompson, director of Mass MoCA, launched Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Much of the start up costs will be absorbed with a commitment for the the rock band to return over the next few years. We spoke with Thompson about the impact of the event on the museum and Northern Berkshire County.
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Niobe, Regina de Tebe by Agostino Steffani Music
At Great Barrington's Mahaiwe June 24 & 25
By: - Jun 24th, 2011The Boston Early Music Festival North American premiere piece de resistance is the long-forgotten 17th century opera “Niobe, Regina de Tebeâ€. It travels from Boston to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on June 24 and 25. The rarely produced early opera is not to be missed.
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Jessica Hecht’s Poignant Blanche DuBois Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 24th, 2011In the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Tennessee Williams's 1947 American classic, Jessica Hecht as Blanche, and Sam Rockwell, as Stanley, offer fresh and very different interpretations than the paradigms for the roles set by Elia Kazan's great 1951 film version starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. This reinterpretation of an American standard gives an unique twist to the experimental Nikos Stage under new artistic director Jenny Gersten.
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Big Opera and Ballet for Little Cinema Film
Berkshire Museum Expands Programming
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema today offers bi-weekly, high-definition digital broadcasts of world class opera and ballet performances from around the world. These broadcasts feature acclaimed performances by leading performance troupes, from some of the world’s finest theatres and concert halls.
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Pissarro Lecture at the Mahaiwe July 7 Fine Arts
Michael Cassin of the Clark in Free Speech
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Michael Cassin, Director, Center for Education in the Visual Arts at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present a free lecture on the Clark's major summer exhibition Pissarro's People on Thursday, July 7 at 7:00 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. In this special lecture, Cassin will introduce the people in Pissarro’s paintings.
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Connecting the Dots in Northern Berkshire County Opinion
From Pissarro at the Clark to Wilco at Mass MoCA
By: - Jun 22nd, 2011This weekend the Wilco Solid Sound Festival will bring upwards of 6,000 rock fans to Mass MoCA. In addition to music this young audience will enjoy a massive exposure to contemporary art. It is just the kind of demographic that promises synergy and future audiences for other North Adams/ Williamstown arts organizations including the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art and Williamstown Theatre Festival. It takes strategy, marketing and PR to promote visiting Northern Berkshire County as more than just a day trip.
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Summer Arts Previews Opinion
Hot Time Summer in the City
By: - Jun 21st, 2011Our Boston correspondent Barbara Brilliant has tips for what's going on in the city and region. With a preview of Porgy and Bess coming to American Repertory Theatre starring diva Audra McDonald.
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Guys and Dolls Sizzles at Barrington Stage Theatre
Red Hot Launch for Main Stage Pittsfield Season
By: - Jun 20th, 2011In 1950, as a little shaver, Mom took me to the original Broadway production of the then five time Tony winning musical Guys and Dolls. Now, decades later, be still dear heart, the production at Barrington Stage evokes a thrilling rush of childhood memories. I was enchanted then and just as ecstatic now. This is the smash hit and sure sell out that launches a fabulous new Berkshire season.
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Memory of Water at Shakespeare & Company Fine Arts
Cast Adrift
By: - Jun 19th, 2011The contemporary play The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson has been given a spirited and at times hilarious production at Shakespeare & Company. But a first rate, brilliant cast and totally committed performances are not enough to salvage a messy play that sinks to the bottom under the weight of trying to combine tragedy, a funeral, with comedy.
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Reflections on Melville: Arthur Yanoff and Kay Canavino Fine Arts
Arrowhead and the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2011This summer Arrowhead, the Pittsfield historic site and former home of Herman Melville is presenting its first ever special exhibition of contemporary art "Reflections on Melville." Inspired by the collaboration of Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne this is a project by the painter Arthur Yanoff and the photographer Kay Canavino. A second part of the project will be on view starting June 24 at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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Flush With the Walls 40 Years Later Fine Arts
Does the MFA Give a Crap About Boston Artists
By: - Jun 17th, 2011Forty years later to the day a group of Boston artists, organized by Boston Phoenix art critic, Greg Cook, recreated a preemptive strike on the uptight and stuffy MFA. In a roto rooter event artists hung their works in the male and female rest rooms of the venerable Fenway dowager. The exhibition and reception was busted, rather politely, after just twenty hilarious minutes. But 21 artists can now put the MFA on their resume. Three of the artists, Robert Guillemin (Sidewalk Sam), David Raymond, and Jo Sandman reprieved their original participation. The big question focused on whether or not the MFA has really changed over the past 40 years?
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It's Official Colonial and Berkshire Theatre Festival Merge Theatre
Randy Harrison Opens at the Colonial in Tommy
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Nearly seven months after two of Berkshire County’s preeminent producing and performing theaters said that they intended to join forces, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer Kate Maguire announced that both have merged into one organization: Colonial Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Festival Merger Corporation.
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Ralph Brill Discusses Eclipse Gallery Projects Fine Arts
Melville Also at Arrowhead and Mill Children
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Each year Eclipse Mill gallerist Ralph Brill initiates a North Adams based, national and international project. There will be a summer long exhibition focused on Herman Melville, featuring the painter, Arthur Yanoff, and photographer, Kay Canavino, at Melville's home, Arrowhead and at the Eclipse Mill (June 24 to July 24). That will be followed by another exhibition, Mill Children, which notes the 100th anniversary of when Lewis Hine photographed Child Labor in North Adams. The Melville project opens with a reception at Arrowhead on Friday, June 17, starting at 6 PM with a house tour at 6:30 PM.
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Relief Sculptures by El Anatsui at the Clark Fine Arts
Renowned African Artist Disusses His Work
By: - Jun 13th, 2011In 1999 the African artist, El Anatsui, found a bag of foil wrappers from the tops of liquor bottles. They came from a factory near his studio. In the studio he experimented and first showed the works he produced with the recycled material in 2002. Since then he has become an international art star and now employs up to thirty assistants. Three large works are on view at the Clark Art Institute through October. Having written about the work over the past few years it was insightful to meet with the artist and discuss his unique practice.
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Wiilliamstown Theatre Festival Opens June 22 Theatre
Streetcar Named Desire Stars Jessica Hecht
By: - Jun 11th, 2011Williamstown Theatre Festival has released the full cast and creative team for Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, which will open the Nikos Stage productions for the 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) and will run June 22, 2011 through July 3, 2011, opening June 23, 2011 at 7:30pm.
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Carl Belz Three Opinion
Legacy and Future of the Rose Art Museum
By: - Jun 08th, 2011Asked about the attempt of former Brandeis president, Jehuda Reinharz, to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its renowned collection, the museum's former director, Carl Belz, responds "blah, blah, blah." In this final installment of a dialogue he speaks in greater depth of the contributions of former curator, Susan Stoops, now with the Worcester Art Museum, and the artist/ preparator, Roger Kizik.
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Tanglewood Offers Special Deals Music
Affordable Ways to Hear Great Music
By: - Jun 07th, 2011During the 2011 season, June 25-September 4, Tanglewood is offering a number of ticket programs designed to give visitors and Berkshire residents a wide variety of options when planning their visit to the BSO’s summer home. Ticket deals and programs include free tickets to children and young adults 17 and under and discounted tickets for students 18 and over.
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