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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Fred Taylor on Jazz in Boston, Part One Music
When Copley Square Was Swingin
By: - Apr 17th, 2011For the past 21 years Fred Taylor has been booking the renowned jazz club Scullers. Before that he ran the legendary Jazz Workshop and Paul's Mall. With razor sharp memory Taylor discussed highlights of a career in music that started almost by accident in 1952. With amateur equipment he recorded Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond at Storyville for Fantasy Records. He has been at it ever since.
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Ilona Kudina at Scullers Music
A New CD: Nothing But Illusion
By: - Apr 16th, 2011In her native Latvia Ilona Kudina was initially trained by her father. There was no formal training in jazz which she heard on the radio or jammed with musicians in clubs. Eventually she earned a scholarship to the renowned Berklee College of Music and has remained in Boston since graduation. The gig at Scullers also served to launch a superb new CD Nothing But Illusion.
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Red Sox Nation in a Tailspin Opinion
Panic in April as Team Goes 2-10
By: - Apr 16th, 2011There is no joy in Mudville. Who knew when my buddy Mark invited us to opening day at Fenway that would be just one of two wins by mid April. You have to go to the record book for a slower start. This from the team that pre season was predicted to make it all the way to another World Series. You wish. Panic mode strikes fear in Red Sox Nation. Say it ain't so Joe. The fix is in.
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Lester Johnson at Acme Fine Arts Fine Arts
A Leading Figurative Expressionist Artist
By: - Apr 15th, 2011My overview of Figurarative Expressionism was deleted by the artist, Lester Johnson, from the 1987 museum exhibition catalogue. The essay has finally been published by Acme Gallery in Boston on the occasion of a stunning and insightful exhibition. It is sad and astonishing that the remarkable works on view are not adorning the walls of major American museums. It is time for a reevaluation of this major artist.
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Snow White at the Mount Theatre
Co Produced with the Colonial and Berkshire Theatre Festival
By: - Apr 15th, 2011This summer, in partnership with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and The Colonial Theatre, The Mount--the historic estate of Edith Wharton--is introducing family friendly outdoor theatre. Nightly performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will run from July 20 through July 30.
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Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellowships Theatre
Applications Accepted Through May 18
By: - Apr 15th, 2011Huntington Theatre Company is now accepting applications for the 2011-2013 cohort of Huntington Playwriting Fellows (HPFs). Huntington Playwriting Fellows have a home at the Huntington with two-year residencies.
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Zero Hour Opens at Barrington Stage May 18 Theatre
Jim Brochu Channels Zero Mostel
By: - Apr 15th, 2011Barrington Stage Company presents Zero Hour Jim Brochu’s acclaimed play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel. Zero Hour kicks off the season from May 18 through June 5, 2011 at BSC Stage 2, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield, MA. | .
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Chihuly at the MFA a Glass Act Fine Arts
Bellagio on the Fenway
By: - Apr 14th, 2011Unquestionably Dale Chihuly has entirely revised and updated the ancient medium of blown glass. Literally, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts will be blown away by gallery after gallery of spectacular sculptural installations. But all that glitters is not gold. Even ringmaster Malcolm Rogers of the MFA can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Wilco Solid Sound Update Music
Improved Camping Amenities
By: - Apr 13th, 2011The previously announced Solid Ground tent site has been enhanced since its initial announcement. The nearby site, offered by MASS MoCA in partnership with the city of North Adams, will include a food service tent with late night hours, pay-per-use showers and simple recreational gear for kids (basketballs, etc.) plus porta-potties and drinking water.
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Opening Day at Fenway Park People
Wait Till Next Year
By: - Apr 13th, 2011Yaz threw the first pitch for opening day at Fenway Park. Mark Favermann invited me as well as Ben Kilgore and Joe Beggan to join him and 40,000 other fans. It was such a thrill. Hard to believe that Ben was late, With their worst start in decades, 0 for 6 by then, the Sox managed to beat the Yankees taking two out of three for the series. Predicted to go all the way the Sox have sucked so far.
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Mary Hrbacek at NY’s Creon Gallery Fine Arts
Entwined Depicts the Forest Primeval
By: - Apr 13th, 2011Though Entwined covers a scant 4 years, Mary Hrbacek, has been traveling the world taking photographs, and making charcoal drawings and painting of trees that have shed their leaves and exposed their so-called bones. The artist has worked in Asia and Europe, as well as Brooklyn, and New York’s Central Park, for over ten years. The work ios on view at New York's off the beaten path Creon Gallery through April 30.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Flip Flop Theatre
Season Opener a Switcheroo
By: - Apr 13th, 2011A Broadway bound production of You Can't Take It With You was initially announced to open the first season with Jenny Gersten as artistic director of the renowned Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recently WTF revealed Plan B. Now it appears that Robin Baitz’s two-person drama Three Hotels will be the leadoff. That is a cast and production cost reduction from 15 actors to two. We link to Larry Murry who has the full story for Berkshire On Stage.
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Ella Baff Recalls Cunningham and Cage Dance
Gala to Feature Philip Glass and Benjamin Millepied
By: - Apr 12th, 2011In the third and final installment of an interview with Ella Baff, the artistic director of Jacob's Pillow, she discusses plans for the season opening Gala on June 18. Benjamin Millepied, who is the life and artistic partner of Natalie Portman, is the co chair of the event. Philip Glass will give a rare solo performance. Baff recalls with emotion Merce Cunningham who was unable to attend to receive a reward from Pillow. We also discussed his collaborator John Cage.
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Ella Baff of Jacob's Pillow Two Dance
Receiving the National Medal of Arts
By: - Apr 04th, 2011Ella Baff, the artistic director of Jacob's Pillow, described meeting the President and First Lady during an award ceremony at the White House as a "peak experience." She discussed travel to Cuba where she covered 30 companies in five days. This summer Mark Morris and his company will open the season for Tanglewood and close it for The Pillow.
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Ella Baff of Jacobs's Pillow Dance
Part One of a Dialogue
By: - Apr 03rd, 2011Recently Ella Baff was invited to the White House to receive the National Medal of Arts on behalf of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. We discussed her early years in music and dance and how that later shaped her global vision for its world renowned programming. As a part of its mandate there are an average of 200 free events in a dense three month Berkshire program on three stages.
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Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Dance
Mass MoCA and Jacob's Pillow Celebrate Rumba
By: - Apr 02nd, 2011This spring, Jacob’s Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA come together once again to present acclaimed Afro-Cuban folkloric music and dance group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. The rumba celebration will occur at Mass MoCA April 30 and May 1.
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Boston Opera Season Starts in October Music
Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Boston
By: - Apr 02nd, 2011Even while the current season continues through late spring, Boston’s two leading opera companies have announced their schedules for the 2011/2012 season. Opera Boston will offer three productions and Boston Lyric Opera will offer three main stage productions in addition to an off-site Opera Annex production for the third year in a row.
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Regime Change at National Arts Club Opinion
O. Aldon James Takes a Well Earned Vacation
By: - Mar 31st, 2011While drawing no salary for the past 25 years, as president of the renowned National Arts Club in New York, O. Aldon James, with his twin brother John, and their inner circle of friends have enjoyed remarkable perks. After decades of fights, feuds, law suits and scandals it is the end of an era as the NAC Board announced recently that James is taking a "well earned vacation."
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Robin Williams Roars on Broadway Theatre
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo By Ragiv Joseph
By: - Mar 31st, 2011Better late than never, amazingly, Robin Williams is starring in his first Broadway play. With droll irony he is purring and pawing his way through Ragiv Joseph's acclaimed Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Williams on stage, bantering with the audience as the ghost of a slaughtered tiger is just sublime. But that proves to be only about a third of the play which lags when he is not around.
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Frances McDormand in Good People Theatre
Southie Shines on Broadway
By: - Mar 30th, 2011After enduring the tough winter months there were signs of life on Broadway. There were droves of tourists on line for half price tickets in Times Square. Mostly tourists want those splashy musicals. But you jump the queue for a drama. There were no deals, however, for the mostly sold out run of Good People. We paid full freight for a lousy seat at the back of the house. But it was worth every penny to enjoy a fabulous performance by Frances McDormand.
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TFANA’s Grisaille Macbeth Theatre
Arin Arbus Directs John Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras
By: - Mar 29th, 2011Under the skillful direction, Arin Arbus, Theatre for a New Audience is presenting a version of Macbeth notable for its naturalism, clarity, passion and compelling humanity. A superb cast is electrified by the galvanic, sexually charged performances of John Douglas Thompson and his leading Lady Macbeth, Annika Boras. This is a compelling new paradigm for the perennial Scottish Play. Prepare to be amazed.
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Boston Philharmonic Spring Concerts Music
Benjamin Zander Conducts with Cellist Natalia Gutman
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Benjamin Zander, Music Director and Conductor of The Boston Philharmonic, will present the orchestra’s spring concert series featuring Shostakovich: Second Cello Concerto with Special Guest cellist Natalia Gutman, and Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, April 30 at 8:00 PM at Jordan Hall in Boston and Sunday, May 1 at 3:00 PM and Monday, May 2 at 7:00 PM at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge.
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Jon Anderson of Yes at Somerville Theatre Music
Rock Concert on April 23
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Yes was one of the more progressive art rock bands. Its former leader Jon Anderson has a new CD. He is touring with a stop at the Someville Theate on Saturday, April 24. He will perform solo in a Boston-area concert. On the heels of turning 66 on October 25, 2010, and the recent finish of a triumphant U.K Tour with keyboardist Rick Wakeman (a longtime YES band mate) he celebrate the release of their new album, The Living Tree.
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Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera Music
Tod Machover Production at Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Mar 19th, 2011“Death and the Powers†was created during the past few years and is experiencing its American premiere this week in Boston. (It was premiered in Monaco and will be presented in Chicago in April.) It is a high-tech work on a science fiction theme, but it also features a couple of lyrical arias and a love story.
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The Ilona Kudina Jazz Quintet Music
Performing at Scullers April 6
By: - Mar 19th, 2011The Ilona Jazz Quintet, spans two generations and two continents featuring legendary drummer Billy Hart, trumpet titan and Berklee faculty member Greg Hopkins together with two bright lights of the younger generation of jazz players--pianist Vardan Ovsepian and bassist Akili Jamal Haynes, Kudina will perform at Scullers Jazz Club [DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA 02134] on Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 PM.
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