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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Part Time Fabulous at BIFF Film
Alethea Root and Don Presley in U.S. Debut
By: - May 23rd, 2011Filmmakers Jules Bruff (TIXE Films), Alethea Root and Don Presley (Truth 13 Productions), in partnership with Eleonore Daily, and Cheryl Stewart (howUNoriginal Productions) will make their U.S debut at the prestigious Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) on June 3rd and June 5th with PART TIME FABULOUS. Great Barrington native and independent filmmaker, Alethea Root, returns home for her directorial debut of PART TIME FABULOUS and Berkshire’s own award-winning, folk singer Meg Hutchinson lent her poignant song Being Happy for the trailer. No U.S. distributor is attached at this time.
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The Lab Shows Anne Ferrer Billowing Beauty Fine Arts
Music by Carol Worthey
By: - May 23rd, 2011The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interactions between high energy, “outrospective†exhibitions and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. It is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lexington, New York.
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Ron DellaChiesa WGBH DJ Two Music
Dawn Patrol in Boston's Jazz Clubs
By: - May 23rd, 2011WGBH DJ, Ron DellaChiesa spun the platters for his show Music America by day and hung out with the jazz greats at Boston's jazz clubs. Recalling the great artists who performed at Lulu White's in the South End, The Merry Go Round room in the Copley Plaza Hotel, Lennie's on the Turnpike, Sandy's Jazz Revival in Beverly and Fenton Hollander's Jazz Cruises in Boston Harbor.
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Zero Hour with Jim Brochu Extended to June 10 Theatre
Boffo Bonanza for Barrington Stage Season Opener
By: - May 22nd, 2011Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield has jump started the Berkshire season with a smash hit. Bravo. On every level Jim Brochu is just immense in the one man show he has written and stars in Zero Hour. For ninety riveting minutes he channels the immense and complex comic genius and notorious SOB the fabulous Zero Mostel. This show is selling out fast on Barrington's intimate Stage Two.
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NEA Head Rocco Landesmann at Mass MoCA Opinion
Wrapup of Creative Communities Exchange
By: - May 21st, 2011Last February NEA head, Rocco Landesmann, dropped a bomb when he applied the need for Darwin's concepts of Survival of the Fittest for the over expanded and under financed theatre community in the face of diminished audiences. During remarks at a lunch that concluded a conference at Mass MoCA he thanked its director, Joe Thompson, for publicly supporting his controversial but insightful position. It provided a lively bookend to the Creative Communities Exchange sponsored by Berkshire Creative and NEFA.
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Creative Communities Exchange Opinion
Conference at Mass MoCA by NEFA and Berkshire Creative
By: - May 20th, 2011Artists and arts administrators from all over New England gathered at Mass MoCA for Creative Community Exchange. During breakfast the attendees were greeted by the organizers, Rebecca Blunk, director of New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and Helena Fruscio, the director of Berkshire Creative.
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El Anatsui at the Clark Art Institute Fine Arts
Williamstown Exhibition June 12 to October 16
By: - May 19th, 2011The works of contemporary European and African artists will take their place alongside French Impressionism in summer 2011 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. From June 12 through October 16, visitors will encounter the monumental sculptures of acclaimed artist El Anatsui in the Clark’s Stone Hill Center, and from June 12 through September 5, Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth will be on view in the Clark’s original 1955 museum building.
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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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