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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Selections From the Jane and Jay Braus Collection Fine Arts
Berkshire Museum to October 11
By: - May 18th, 2011This eclectic exhibition throws the doors open wide on the private collection of the Brauses, providing the public the chance to enjoy twenty-six paintings chosen by the couple, including work by a range of renowned 20th and 21st century artists.
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Charles Lindberg in Ludwig Live Theatre
Seven Hills Inn Cabaret in Lenox
By: - May 17th, 2011“Ludwig Live!†is an irreverent song-filled cabaret about composer Ludwig von Beethoven. Produced by Holson Productions, the show stars Charles Lindberg as Beethoven, Katherine Pecevich, and Robin Gerson Wong. It will run June 30 through August 30.
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Ron Della Chiesa Voice of the BSO One Music
Early Years at WBCN
By: - May 17th, 2011For the past twenty years, WGBH announcer, Ron DellaChiesa has been the Voice of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In his Music America program he combined many musical forms including jazz, cabaret and film scores. In the early years he started with Arnie Woo Woo Ginsberg at WBOS and with the FM pioneer T. Mitchell Hastings at WBCN. He was with BCN when it made the transition from classical to rock.
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Arnie Reisman on Boston Media in the 1960s Opinion
Boston After Dark Became Boston Phoenix
By: - May 15th, 2011As part of our ongoing dialogues about the arts and culture in Boston during the 1960s and 1970s we interacted with Arnie Reisman. He was an early editor of Boston After Dark which merged and morphed into the Boston Phoenix. He later moved on to broadcast journalism at WGBH. Among his award winning documentaries was Hollywood on Trial.
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 Buke and Gass July 16 Music
Mass MoCA Courtyard Cafe
By: - May 12th, 2011On Saturday, July 16, at 8 PM Buke and Gass will bring their unique blend of hybrid instrumentation, solid songwriting, dazzling effects and unique harmony to MASS MoCA's Courtyard Cafe.
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Tina Packer in Women of Will to July 10 Theatre
Tina Packer Launches S&Co Season in Lenox
By: - May 12th, 2011Shakespeare & Company presents Women of Will, The Complete Journey: Parts I-V, the masterful summation of Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer ’s 40-odd years spent investigating all things Shakespeare, presented in a five-part series. Performances will run from May 27 through July 10
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Biff to Honor Douglas Trumbull June 4 Film
Special Effects Master and Director
By: - May 12th, 2011Douglas Trumbull, will receive the annual BIFF Achievement in Film Award at the Festival’s 6th Anniversary held June 2 – 5, 2011 in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA. His career included the Special Photographic Effects Supervisor for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Theatre
Busby Berkeley Meets Las Vegas on Broadway
By: - May 11th, 2011Adapted from the 1994 movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Priscilla has been making the rounds since it first opened in Sydney, Australia in 2006. From there it moved to New Zealand in 2008, and then on to the West End of London in 2009, where it is still playing. The current Priscilla comes direct from Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre.
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Mad Jacks BBQ in Pittsfield Food
Launching the Barbecue Project
By: - May 11th, 2011This is the launch of the Barbecue Project. The mandate is to seek out, taste, and report on ever restaurant and pit in the Berkshires. Of which there are now quite a few. We will focus on ribs and pulled pork as well as evaluate sides and the all important variety of sauces. We got off to a great start with Mad Jacks in Pittsfield. With a promise to return to JackJack's Soul Food, also in Pittsfield, when Terrell serves barbecue on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
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Lakers Swept Celtics Down by Three Opinion
The Agony of Defeat
By: - May 10th, 2011Rajon Rondo, playing hurt, missed an easy layup that would have evened the series. Just two points that would have saved a game, series and era. There was a lot of pride last night for the aging and wounded warriors. But youth defeating age is one of the oldest plot lines in sports. The Celtics showed heart and pride while Kobe Bryant and the once dominant Lakers were not only swept but blown away. Now it's up to the Heat to make their bones as the feared and dominating new hoop dynasty.
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George Wein Honored by SPAC Music
34th Year of Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival
By: - May 09th, 2011Jazz impresario George Wein, often referred to as the “father†of modern music festivals, will be honored by Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 25 for his role in founding SPAC’s Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the longest-running and most celebrated jazz events in the world.
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Berkshire Living Folds Word
Seven Year Old Award Winning Publication
By: - May 09th, 2011Seven years ago Michael Zivyak founded the regional magazine Berkshire Living. As editor he brought on board former Berkshire Eagle popular music critic Seth Rogovoy. Over the past couple of years it created a strong on line presence with links to national and local news and arts stories. While it consistently received awards for journalistic excellence like all print publications, particularly startups, it faced a tsunami of challenges. These included a sour economy, limited readership that swells and contracts with seasons, and ever increased costs. It will be missed.
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The Seagull at Main Street Stage Theatre
Hail and Farewell
By: - May 08th, 2011As one expects from community theatre this production of Anton Chekov's "The Seagull" at Main Street Stage in North Adams is rough and uneven. Much of the experience is more endured than enjoyed. But as is appropriate of the genre there were truly stunning and inspired performances by emerging actors. It was thrilling to see the work of young artists destined for stunning careers. After 12 years, for now, Main Street Stage will go dark following this production with some $100,000 to be raised to find its new home.
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Festival of Water and Light Travel
Thailand’s Laem Mae Phim
By: - May 07th, 2011Michael Bedford and Sarah Sutro have recently settled in the Eclipse Mill in North Adams after many years of living and working in Asia. This is the second in a series of essays by Bedford about those experiences.
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James Levine Out for the Summer Music
Cancels Tanglewood and Met Japan Tour
By: - May 07th, 2011The ongoing saga involving the health of BSO and Met Opera artistic director, James Levine, has taken another turn for the worse. After months of speculation he will not appear at Tanglewood this summer. He will not join the Met during its upcoming tour of Japan. He is penciled in to conduct Don Giovanni at the Met on October 13 but let's wait and see.
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Flush With The Walls at the Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
1971 Men's Room Show Pissed Off the MFA
By: - May 07th, 2011Fed up with its lack of interest in contemporary art on June 15, 1971 a group of Boston artists organized a top secret exhibition Flush with the Walls in the Men's Room of the Museum of Fine Arts. It scared the crap out of then director Perry T. Rathbone. Fearing further guerrilla attacks shortly after the infamous stunt the museum appointed Kenworth Moffett as its first curator of Contemporary Art.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra Music
2011-2012 Schedule of Performances
By: - May 06th, 2011The Opening Night concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 season will give music fans an extraordinary opportunity to hear Anne-Sophie Mutter in a program of Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, when she returns to the Symphony Hall stage on Friday, September 30, to make her first BSO appearances in the dual role of conductor and soloist.
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Met Summer HD Encores Music
Play It Again Sam
By: - May 05th, 2011Beginning June 15, the Met will once again present Summer HD Encores, a series of screenings from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in more than 425 movie theaters across the United States.
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Theodoros Stamos, 1922-1997. Word
A 90th Birthday Poem
By: - May 05th, 2011Theodoros Stamos (Greek: εόδωÏος Στάμος), (December 31, 1922 – February 2, 1997). A recent poem by Gerard Malanga on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the abstract expressionist painter.
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Susurrus by David Leddy Theatre
ArtsEmerson in Boston Public Garden
By: - May 05th, 2011In Susurrus, which doesn’t happen in a traditional theatre, audiences follow a map around Boston’s Public Garden as they listen to the piece, adapted especially for Boston, on MP3 player and headphones. Headphones and MP3 player are supplied. Running time is 1 hour 20 minutes (though it can be paused). Journeys take place between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
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Turner Prize Short List Fine Arts
Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw.
By: - May 04th, 2011The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months proceeding 4 April 2011
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George Wein Part Three Fine Arts
George and Joyce Wein Collection of African American Art
By: - May 04th, 2011While George Wein is renowned for his jazz and folk festivals it is less widely known that he and his late wife, Joyce, were major collectors of African American Art. The works were shown at Boston University, Wein's Alma Mater, curated by Patricia Hills. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston bought seven major pieces from Wein to install in its Arts of the Americas wing.
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Tony Nominations Theatre
The Best of Broadway.
By: - May 04th, 2011Nominations for the 2011 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing Best Play
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NEFA Conference at Mass MoCA Opinion
Arts Groups Meet May 19 & 20
By: - May 03rd, 2011Berkshire Creative of Berkshire County, MA, and the New England Foundation for the Arts of Boston, MA, will host the Creative Communities Exchange, a major regional event highlighting successful creative economy work on May 19 and 20, 2011, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.
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Jazz Entrepreneur George Wein Two Music
Storyville to Newport
By: - May 03rd, 2011When Louis and Elaine Lorillard visited Storyville they approached George Wein about doing something in Newport that summer. Inspired by Tanglewood he came up with the notion of a Jazz Festival. The Lorillards, who later divorced, supported the first seasons from the founding of the Festival in 1954 until the Beer Riot of 1962. Two years later Wein returned until a riot wrecked the festival in 1971.
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