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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Daniel Ranalli on Photography in Boston Photography
Recalling Gallerist Carl Siembab
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011In a series of interviews Berkshire Fine Arts is exploring the arts and cultural community in Boston from the 1960s through the present. Photographer and Boston University professor, Daniel Ranalli, has been working and exhibiting in Boston since the 1970s. Initially the only commited gallerist was the late Carl Siembab. It was also the era of Minor White and a legendary program at MIT and the collection of the Polaroid corporation in Cambridge.
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Nari Ward Exhibition at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Sub Mirage Lignum
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Artist Nari Ward will create a massive new exhibition comprising several interconnected works and encompassing an entire floor of MASS MoCA. Visitors can experience the new show, titled Sub Mirage Lignum, as both a large-scale environment and as a series of smaller yet connected spaces. Ward's dramatic sculptural installations are composed of material systematically collected from the neighborhoods where he lives and works or is personally connected to
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Broadway Across America Theatre
Schedule for Shows Touring Boston
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011The organization Broadway Across America is bringing the touring versions of a number of major musicals to Boston in a variety of venues for limited engagements. The schedule of shows is bound to appeal to a road segment of theatre goers. The schedule of shows extends into 2012.
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Kate McNamara Appointed to Boston University Art Gallery Fine Arts
Will Serves as Director and Chief Curator
By: - Mar 01st, 2011Kate McNamara has been appointed to the position of director and chief curator of the Boston University Art Gallery. She has experience curating at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY), Cleopatra's (Brooklyn, NY), Ramapo College (Ramapo, NY).
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Wilco Announces Solid Sound Festival Lineup Music
Levon Helm's Band Among Highlights
By: - Mar 01st, 2011In what promises to be one of the most diverse lineups on this year’s festival circuit, the Chicago rock band Wilco, who headline Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25, will be joined by iconic American singer Levon Helm and his band, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, soul singer Syl Johnson, jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas, alternative country twosome The Handsome Family and more.
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Berkshire Critic Larry Murray Six Opinion
Media Impact of Social Networking
By: - Mar 01st, 2011Blogs and the social networks routinely scoop print media on news, previews and reviews. By the time newspapers cover arts stories they may be days old. Arts organizations continue to rely primarily on print reviews to sell tickets but that has changed dramatically in the past few years. Through blogs and tweets Broadway shows with long previews may be dead in the water by opening night. Through internet coverage audiences make up their minds on ticket sales before reviews appear in print.
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Kate Maguire and Simon Shaw Discuss Colonial/ BTF Plans Theatre
Tommy Can You Hear Me
By: - Feb 27th, 2011During its initial seasons the 100-year-old former vaudeville house, the Colonial Theatre, renovated at a cost of some $23 million, seemed more like a white elephant than a tangible asset. Coming into its first season in a merger with the Berkshire Theatre Festival is proving to be a game changer for theatre and the performing arts in the Berkshires. Artistic director, Kate Maguire, is leading with an ace by headlining Randy Harrison in the rock musical Tommy. See me, feel me, touch me.
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Pinta: The 2010 Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show Fine Arts
Riding the Crest of the Latin American Art Wave
By: - Feb 27th, 2011It was only a few years ago, 2007 to be exact, that ‘The Pinta People’ taking a big gamble took the art world by surprise by mounting the world’s first international Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. With 35 international galleries and countless Hispanic artists from the United States, Spain, Mexico, Central and South America, showing their works, the fair was an immediate hit.
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Eagle Drops Shoe on Berkshire Living Opinion
Slogging Through the Mud Months
By: - Feb 26th, 2011For the past six years Berkshire Living and its related publications have competed for the advertising that had previously been the domain of the Berkshire Eagle/ North Adams Transcript and weekly Advocate. An Eagle news report aggressively explores the sale and merger of Berkshire Living with Today Media. The story includes the personal financial issues of publisher Michael Zivyak as well as recent news coverage of editor Seth Rogovoy who was "discharged from the jury of a high-profile Berkshire Superior Court case after he posted a court-related comment on Twitter."
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Clark Art Institute to Sell a Renoir Fine Arts
Femme cueillant des Fleurs One of Museum's 33 Renoirs
By: - Feb 25th, 2011The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. is offering for sale at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair one of its 33 paintings by the French Impressionist master, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Femme cueillant des Fleurs (Woman picking flowers) depicts Camille Monet, the first wife of Renoir’s fellow Impressionist Claude Monet, who died tragically young. The important painting, estimated to be worth $15 million, has rarely been hung in the museum in recent decades.
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Berkshire Theatre Festival/ Colonial Theatre 2011 Theatre
Blockbuster Season Announced
By: - Feb 24th, 2011This year’s lineup includes three world premiere theatre performances produced by BTF, three separate BTF musical productions on the Colonial stage, a rare appearance by noted columnist Frank Rich and live performances of some of the leading artists in the worlds of theatre, jazz and comedy. Among the organizations that will be co-promoting events will be Lift Ev’ry Voice, the Pittsfield 250th anniversary committee, Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, Word x Word Festival, and ZipStohr Comedy.
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Critic Larry Murray Five Opinion
Blogs and Social Networking
By: - Feb 22nd, 2011In the current political turmoil in the Middle East we have seen how Facebook, e mail, and social networking have resulted in resistance and regime changes. Developments in information technologies have eroded the dominance of traditional media systems. Today with access to the internet and web sites anyone can be a critic or journalist. Murray and Giuliano explore the implications and their role in covering the arts.
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A Charles Ludlam Camp Cult Classic Theatre
Shakespeare & Company Veps Up Winter Blahs
By: - Feb 19th, 2011It was a dark and windy night for the Shakespeare & Company dead of winter production of the Charles Ludlam camp classic The Mystery of Irma Vep. It was an evening of fact and furious costume and character changes for the brilliant actors Aaron McCabe and Ryan Winkles. But his oh so gay play was presented way too straight. Which was, indeed a drag.
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Director Peter Brook at ArtsEmerson Theatre
After 40 Years Returns to Boston with Beckett Project
By: - Feb 18th, 2011The inaugural season of international theatre programming by ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage continues with a celebration of legendary theatre director Peter Brook, in his first return to Boston in 40 years. The program includes the Boston premieres of two different works: Fragments and The Grand Inquisitor. Performances take place March 23—April 3, 2011 at the Paramount Center (559 Washington Street, in Boston’s Theatre District).
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Berkshire Living Magazine Changes Hands Word
Acquired by Today Media
By: - Feb 18th, 2011The publishing conglomerate, Today Media, has acquired the six year old Berkshire Living which also publishes Berkshire Business Quarterly and Berkshire Living home + garden. Out of its Pittsfield office it also produces e-newsletters BerkshireDaily and WeekendPreview, BerkshireLiving.com. Following the sale and reorganization the founder Michael Zivyak remains as publisher and Seth Rogovoy will continue as editor-in-chief.
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Stuart Chase’s Berkshire Museum Resignation Opinion
Clarification and Further Questions
By: - Feb 18th, 2011The Berkshire Museum insists that there is no substance to our speculation that the resignation of Start Chase as its executive director was "abrupt" or the result of a conflict with the Board regarding the use of the Florence Keep & Josephine Crane Fund. It is named for the donors of the works which were sold for $7 million. By e mail Chase responded to a request for clarification of the current status of the acquisition fund and its recent use.
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Art Critic Greg Cook Four Opinion
Maintaining a Critical Distance
By: - Feb 18th, 2011In addition to writing about art for the Boston Phoenix and the new England Journal of Aesthetic Research Greg Cook is also a studio artist. In this final installment of a dialogue Cook describes how he attempts to avoid any perception of conflict of interest. As an artist, however, he feels solidarity with their struggles. In particular he resents the lack of national recognition for all but a few Boston artists.
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Jenny Gersten of Williamstown Theatre Festival People
Anticipating Her First Season as Artistic Director
By: - Feb 16th, 2011Jenny Gersten worked under Michael Ritchie as associate producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival from 1996 to 2004. We discussed plans and ambitions for her first season as artistic director. As a producer she does not direct. She describes administration, budgets and marketing as her "comfort zone" while conveying concerns about the artistic challenges. We discussed welcoming the Gersten era of one of America's great theatre companies.
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Stuart Chase Resigns Abruptly from Berkshire Museum Opinion
Push Comes to Shove in Board Conflict
By: - Feb 15th, 2011Other than a press release nobody is talking about the surprising and sudden resignation of Stuart Chase as director of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. Sources indicate that there was a conflict with the Board about the proper use of $7 million thorough the sale, several years ago, of three paintings by the Russian artist, Boris Dimitrievich Grigoriev (1886-1939).
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Jessica Stone Directs Neil Simon at the Clark Theatre
Actor Director Discusses Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Feb 15th, 2011Jessica Stone met her husband, actor Christopher Fitzgerald, some years ago, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Last summer she made her debut as a director with the smash hit of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Last night she was back in Williamstown for a reading of Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Yesterday we caught up with her in the lobby of the Williams Inn.
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Berkshire Critic Larry Murray Four Opinion
Separating the Personal and Objective
By: - Feb 14th, 2011Interviews provide access to the primary source. There is much to be learned through dialogues with actors and directors. But it also entails a conflict of interest and concerns when we have to write about their work. Does that entail softening the blow when we don't respond to a production? This installment of an extensive dialogue explores the tricky business of honestly informing the reader. It is the reason why some critics refuse to conduct interviews.
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Nixon In China Kindah Live in HD Music
Almost Like Being at the Met
By: - Feb 13th, 2011The cameras of the Live at the Met broadcast of the John Adams opera Nixon in China provided stunning details of singers who proved to be skilled actors. While there is nothing that compares to being there this came rather close to the experience. We attended with just half a house at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2011 Theatre
Three Main Stage Productions One Broadway Bound
By: - Feb 10th, 2011Jenny Gersten, the new artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival ha announced the schedule of three plays this season for the WTF Main Stage. The opener on July 1 is a revival of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Pulitzer Prize winning comedy You Can't Take It With You which is headed for Broadway. Former artistic director, Nicholas Martin, will direct Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. The season ends with a new musical Ten Cents a Dance with music by Rodgers and Hart.
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Hot Tuna Warms Cold Berkshire Night Music
Gutsy Blues at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - Feb 10th, 2011Hot Tuna Blues sizzled at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It launched a busy Valentine celebration in the Berkshires. Barrington Stage is presenting a weekend long V Day Cabaret. Shakespeare & Company is opening a winter run of Mystery of Irma Vep. Williamstown Theatre Festival announces its season on Friday and hosts a reading of a Neal Simon play on Monday at the Clark. The Met Live in HD will screen Nixon in China on Saturday at the Mahaiwe, Beacon and Clark. Here's looking at you sweetheart.
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Invasion a Play by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Theatre
The Play Company NY Opens Feb. 21
By: - Feb 08th, 2011Invasion a play by the Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri that has enjoyed great success in numerous European productions -- will receive its U.S. premiere presented Off-Broadway by The Play Company and directed by Erica Schmidt, opening Monday, February 21 at Walkerspace (46 Walker Street) in Tribeca.
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