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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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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Berkshire International Film Festival 2011 Wrapup Film
Awards Announced
By: - Jun 06th, 2011The Berkshire International Film Festival announced the winners of the annual BIFF Juried Prize Award and the BIFF Audience Award. In the Juried documentary category, the winner was CRIME AFTER CRIME directed by Yoav Potash, the powerful documentary film on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her.
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BIFF Two Film
Part Time Fabulous, On the Ice, !Woman Art Revolution
By: - Jun 06th, 2011Concluding our attendance at the sixth annual Berkshire International Film Festival yesterday we attended three films: Part Time Fabulous, On the Ice, !Woman Art Revolution. While problematic for different reasons the films were consistent with the remarkable quality of the festival organized by founder and artistic director Kelley Vickery.
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Berkshire International Film Festival: One Film
Being There
By: - Jun 05th, 2011Now in its sixth year under founder Kelley Vickery, screened at multiple venues the Berkshire International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday June 2 and ran in Great Barrington and Pittsfield closed on Sunday, June 5. Cinematic treats and surprises were in store for the enthusiastic crowds who attended. A film festival may be the second best thing to do in the dark. BIFF seems to get better each year.
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Carl Belz Two Opinion
Running the Rose Art Museum During Hard Times
By: - Jun 04th, 2011During the era of radical unrest and social change in the 1960s, the black listed professors of McCarthyism nurtured a generation of activists. Brandeis became notorious for the number of its graduates on the FBI Most Wanted lists. That greatly changed growth and philanthropy for the university. It had a significant impact on the Rose Art Museum and its limited resources. Then the Rose family gave $500,000 to start an acquisition fund and Belz initiated a series of annual exhibitions of a major artist,
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Tina Packer and Nigel Gore in Women of Will Theatre
At Shakespeare & Company Will is the Way
By: - Jun 03rd, 2011Having passed the reins as artistic director of Shakespeare & Company to Tony Simotes, founder Tina Packer is free to focus on her craft. Last season there was a workshop of her life work Women of Will: The Complete Journey. Now the cycle of five acts has been refined and tightened as a cycle of performances in marathon this weekend and then spread out individually over the season. It is an epic achievement that has attracted national and global critical attention.
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Katy Kline Interim Director at WCMA People
Joins Williams College Museum of Art in August
By: - Jun 01st, 2011Williams has announced the appointment of Katy Kline, former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1998-2008), as interim director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She will serve from early August until the permanent director is in place.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival's Unanticipated Challenge Theatre
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
By: - May 31st, 2011This week the Williamstown Theatre Festival will start to build the first of seven sets. There is the opening of Streetcar Named Desire on the Nikos Stage opening on June 22. That's just three weeks from now. With tech rehearsals on June 21 and 22 which means the set has to be installed on the 18th and 19th. That's the norm for WTF. But right now a crew of 15 is frantically building the set shops to build the sets. On February 11 the roof collapsed at the Delftree Mill which housed the former props and set workshops.
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Beaver Rescue at the Eclipse Mill People
Memorial Day Saga
By: - May 30th, 2011A Memorial Day picnic and gathering of friends at the Eclipse Mill has an unanticipated dramatic element. In the river bed next to the mill an exhausted beaver was desperately trying to walk up against the current of a waterfall. The drama dragged on until after dark.
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Former Rose Art Museum Director Carl Belz Opinion
Part One of a Dialogue
By: - May 30th, 2011During the tenure of Carl Belz as director of the Rose Art Museum I frequently reviewed the exhibitions and interviewed him for Art New England and other publications. During an extended dialogue Belz spoke in depth about presiding over one of the great collections of modern and contemporary art in the New England area.
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Ron DellaChiesa Three Music
Lennie's and Sandy's
By: - May 29th, 2011In the conclusion of the dialogue with Ron DellaChiesa he discusses the North Shore jazz clubs Lennie's on the Turnpike, run by Lennie Sogaloff and Sandy's Jazz Revival in Beverly the club of Sandy Berman. For the past couple of years he has been working on the soon to be released book Radio My Way.
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Jacob's Pillow Film at BIFF June 4 Film
Narrated by Bill T. Jones
By: - May 29th, 2011Never Stand Still, a new documentary directed by award-winning producer and director Ron Honsa and narrated by Tony Award-winner and Kennedy Center honoree Bill T. Jones will be screened during BIFF on June 4. Never Stand Still is an inspiring film about dance and the extraordinary performers who have dedicated their lives to it; filmed on location at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark and America’s longest running international dance festival.
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Tanglewood Announces Changes Music
Charles Dutoit Leads Opening Night Gala
By: - May 29th, 2011The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced a new conductor lineup for five of the BSO’s 21 concerts to take place during the 2011 Tanglewood season. These represents concerts originally scheduled for James Levine. For reasons of health he has withdrawn from joining the orchestra this summer.
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Yigal Ozeri at NY's Mike Weiss Gallery Fine Arts
Maidens Cum Goddesses
By: - May 25th, 2011In his recent oil paintings at New York's Mike Weiss Gallery, Yigal Ozeri explores personifications of youthful innocence, visualized as lovely young maidens cum goddesses. He situates them lingering in an iconic Eden, poised to confront the dangers and delights that womanhood encompasses.
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June at the Mount Opinion
Historic Lenox Estate Launches Its Season
By: - May 25th, 2011With the arrival of June, The Mount kicks into its summer season and an exciting array of events including a two-day publishing workshop, weekly ghost tours, daily exhibits, and the opening of the Terrace Café.
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Pittsfield Native Kent Jones at BIFF Film
Scorsese Collaborator Presents A Letter to Elia
By: - May 25th, 2011On Saturday, June 4, Pittsfield native Kent Jones, one of the world’s most notable film critics and historians, will appear at the Beacon Cinema to screen and discuss his latest film collaboration with Martin Scorsese, A Letter to Elia, in a Berkshire International Film Festival special event sponsored by the Berkshire Film and Media Commission.
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American Repertory Theater Theatre
Wins Five 2011 Elliot Norton Awards
By: - May 24th, 2011A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus received Outstanding Director for her productions of Johnny Baseball, Prometheus Bound, and HAIR, which also received the award for Best Visiting Production. Thomas Derrah received the Outstanding Actor award for his performance in the one-man show R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, that ran January 15 through February 5 at the Loeb Drama Center.
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NEA Head Rocco Landesmann's Our Town Opinion
Describes New Initiative in Mass MoCA Speech
By: - May 24th, 2011In a speech during the Creative Communities Exchange at Mass MoCA on May 20, Rocco Landesmann, head of the NEA discussed a new program. "The notion of “artist-citizens,†is what led me to propose $5 million of new funding at the NEA called “Our Town.†It’s called “Our Town,†frankly, because that’s a play, I am a theater guy, and getting to name things is pretty much the only prerogative of being chairman."
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