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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Affleck’s The Town Film
Cops and Robbahs
By: - Oct 01st, 2010Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is the master mind of a gang of bank robbers from Charlestown. While The Town is better than most of the dogs Affleck has starred in, since his 1997 Oscar he shared with boyhood friend Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting, it's more good than great. It was fun to see all those shots of Boston but other than nostalgia and scenery this was pretty run of the mill.
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Ed Bride and Pittsfield CityJazz Festival People
Sixth Annual Event Oct. 8 to 21
By: - Sep 30th, 2010The sixth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival will run from October 8 to 21. There will be lots of free events as well as ticketed concerts at the Crowne Plaza and Colonial Theatre. There is also a vital educational component with performances and jazz history in local schools. Over ribs and corn bread we talked with organizer Ed Bride about his life long passion for jazz.
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Julian Schnabel at the Art Gallery of Ontario Fine Arts
What Goes Around Comes Around
By: - Sep 27th, 2010Those who admire the films of Julian Schnabel, nominated for an Academy Award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, are hardly aware that he was once a well known artist. That was then and this is now. New York critic, Ed Rubin, writes about his sprawling exhibition in Toronto. It is Schnabel's first major museum show since a Whitney retrospective in 1987. Rubin discusses the exhibition as "a comeback."
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TV or Not TV for 2010 Television
On Automatic Pilots
By: - Sep 27th, 2010For the past couple of weeks we have been bombarded with pilots for new shows. After a summer of reruns it is fun to see favorites resume and sort out the cliff hangers. The surgeons of Grey's Anatomy are getting back on track after the season ending slaughter. House is getting it on with Dr. Cutty. Mayhem again prevails on Wisteria Lane. There are also a slew of wannabes most of which are just bloody awful as usual. But there is always a ray of hope. There's more to the tube than You Tube.
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Miller's Crucible in Pittsfield Theatre
At Barrington Stage to Oct. 24
By: - Sep 26th, 2010Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd Artistic Director and Producing Director Richard M. Parison, Jr., concludes the 2010 Mainstage season with Arthur Miller’s American classic The Crucible, with performances beginning October 6 and running through October 24.
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New York City Ballet Dance
At 62 Center Williamstown Oct. 15
By: - Sep 26th, 2010The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance presents principal dancers from the New York City Ballet in a special performance of George Balanchine’s Davidsbündlertänze. As in the original production, the work is performed with a solo pianist. The evening includes a discussion of Schumann’s music by Marjorie Hirsch, Professor of Music.
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Brilliant Arts and Entertainment Opinion
October 2010
By: - Sep 26th, 2010Boston correspondent Barbara Brilliant offers a selection of highlights of arts and entertainment for October. We are moving into high season with many options for audiences.
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Tony n' Tina's Wedding People
Shakespeare & Company Gala Oct. 9
By: - Sep 25th, 2010Coming off the heels of its most successful summer season to date, Shakespeare & Company celebrates its Fall Gala with a very special one-of-a-kind performance of the famed Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding on Saturday, October 9th beginning at 5:00pm. The Fall Gala while honoring Artistic Director Tony Simotes and Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer will also benefit the Company’s thriving Education Program.
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Stoppard’s Real Inspector Hound Theatre
Shakespeare & Company Launches Shoulder Season
By: - Sep 25th, 2010In this hilarious production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound the director, Jonathan Croy, has let a brilliant cast off the leash. Much of the humor of this production reaches well beyond the witty, convoluted script of Stoppard. The actors have been encouraged to improvise creating wonderfully inventive physical comedy. There is so much slap stick and flinging about that the cast must be black and blue during the run of this must see show.
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Paris Hilton Banned in Japan People
Drugs and the Stars
By: - Sep 23rd, 2010Poor little rich girl Paris Hilton was denied entry into Japan because of her recent drug bust in Vegas. After a tough night in a hotel, perhaps a Hilton and its VIP suite, she boarded her private jet and returned to party another day in the USA. Drugs and the stars. What else is new?
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$3 Million Gift to Portland Museum of Art Fine Arts
In Memory of Emily Eaton Moore
By: - Sep 22nd, 2010The Portland Museum of Art announces a bequest in memory of Emily Eaton Moore from her family. The gift of $3 million is one of the largest received by the museum during the past decade.
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John Cage a Genius for Eternity Fine Arts
Report from Belgium
By: - Sep 22nd, 2010The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on a traveling exhibition of work by the daunting and widely inflentiual composer and artist John Cage. During his lifetime Cage was a persistent experimenter who made few if any concessions to his audience. One of his most notorious works entailed four minutes and thirty three seconds of piano music composed for silence.
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Rick Harlow's The Black Line Journey Film
Screened Oct. 2 at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Sep 22nd, 2010For a number of years the North Adams based artist, Rick Harlow, has spent extended periods of time living and working with the indigenous peoples of Colombia. He has created a film which documents The Elders Project which entailed visiting more than fifty sacred sites in January, 2010. The film The Black Line Journey will be screened at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on Saturday, October 2, at 7 PM, followed by a discussion with the artist. The film will premiere during a documentary festival in Bogata, Colombia later in the month.
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Shao Fan at Contrasts Gallery Fine Arts
Shanghai Exhibition Oct. 10 to Nov. 11
By: - Sep 21st, 2010An Incurable Classicist, an exhibition of 21 oil paintings by renowned artist Shao Fan, will be on view at Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai October 10 to November 11, 2010 at No 181 Middle Jiangxi Road, g/f, Shanghai, China. Shao Fan’s paintings are modern interpretations of traditional ‘Literati’ thought and aesthetics, exploring the ramifications of philosophical and cultural changes taking place in China today. His first major solo exhibition.
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Leonard Nimoy at Mass MoCA People
Lecture October 21
By: - Sep 20th, 2010Photographer Leonard Nimoy, whose exhibition Secret Selves is on display through January 2, 2011, at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) will offer insight into his creative and technical process during a talk at the museum on Thursday, October 21, at 5 PM. Nimoy strives to reveal his subjects' other half in Secret Selves. Shot in nearby Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2007, the series is exhibited for the first time at MASS MoCA.
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Greylock Arts Patterns of Play Fine Arts
Group Exhibition in Adams to Oct. 30
By: - Sep 20th, 2010Yet again the special exhibition at Greylock Arts, in Adams, Mass. combines humor with aspects of new technologies. This describes some but not all of the works which also entail more traditional aspects of illustration, books, and doll making. The opening celebration included a hilarious performance of the naughty pupets Prices of Persuasion by Ithai Benjamin, a former student of Petit's, and Destiny Mazursky.
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David Cole Launches Dodge Gallery Fine Arts
New York Exhibition Opens October 2
By: - Sep 19th, 2010David Cole created an American Flag for the courtyard of Mass MoCA using cranes and enormous ersatz knitting needles. The artist was associated with Boston's Judy Rotenberg Gallery which closed recently. The director of the gallery Kristen Dodge is launching her New York Gallery with an exhibition of his work.
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Berkshire Forum 2010 Opinion
The Commerce of Culture
By: - Sep 18th, 2010With three days of programming the arts and the creative community were underplayed in the recent Berkshire Forum. Although the arts are a major employer and drive the economy of the Berkshires just one session was devoted to this essential agenda. The too few seats at the table excluded any representatives from the four major theatre companies, or even Jacob's Pillow. Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson was included in another panel where he commented on the important Wilco Festival this summer.
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Berkshire Forum 2010 Opinion
Thinking Beyond Pride of Place
By: - Sep 17th, 2010The founders of the first Berkshire Forum Tina Chase and Mary Collins George intend to move forward with planning next year. Despite a thin attendance for the three days of lectures, panels and performances they report nearly breaking even. A daunting range and depth of information and insights was provided. It evoked expanding and redefining the branding of the Berkshires. A highlight among many was the dialogue with Boston Globe editor Martin Baron.
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Emily Dickinson in Words & Song Music
Cantilena Chamber Choir Oct. 10
By: - Sep 13th, 2010The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a concert, “Emily Dickinson in Words & Song" on Sunday, Oct. 10, at 5 p.m. The performance at Trinity Church will feature music by Aaron Copland: “Emily Dickinson Songs†and Eliot Carter: “Musicians Wrestle Everywhere,†“Heart Not So Heavy. Also on the program is Samuel Barber’s "Let Down the Bars O Death," and Alice Parker’s Emily Dickinson songs and music by Libby Larsen.
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Photographer Don Snyder 1934- 2010 People
Tangled Up in Blue
By: - Sep 13th, 2010For a significant period of his life the visionary photographer, alchemist, and guru, Don Snyder, lived in the Berkshires. Don and his wife Mikki raised a family in a cottage on the property of the photographer, Benno Friedman. During an era of love peace and happiness an extended family frequently gathered at Benno's for seasonal celebrations. Don was a singular presence in this community of artists and free spirits. Don photographed Gerard Malanga and I just moments after we first met. We have collaborated yet again to remember a remarkable artist and friend.
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The Mount Fall Programming Opinion
Season Ends on Halloween
By: - Sep 10th, 2010The season at Edith Wharton's historic home The Mount in Lenox, Mass. remains open with programming through October 31. There are many reasons to visit during the fall foliage season.
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Pops Tickets on Sale Music
Holiday Schedule Now Available
By: - Sep 10th, 2010Tickets will go on sale for the Boston Pops Holiday Series on Monday, September 13. Continuing one of Boston’s most beloved traditions, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops open the 2010 series on Wednesday, December 8, and the 37 concert series will run until Sunday, December 26. Holiday Pops tickets, ranging in price from $27-$125, depending on date and time, will go on sale at 8 a.m. on Monday, September 13, online at bostonpops.org.
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Berkshire Forum September 14 to 16 Opinion
The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield
By: - Sep 09th, 2010A three-day conference promising inspiring ideas and stimulating dialogue led by a remarkable network of business owners, economists, social innovators, technology visionaries, cultural enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and thought leadersâ€"bound by a devotion to region worth preserving and an interest in shaping its cultural and economic future.
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Illustrious at Eclipse Mill Gallery Fine Arts
North Adams Exhibition to October 3
By: - Sep 08th, 2010The exhibition Illustrious at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through October 3 features the work of 14 artists: Barbara Armata, Susan Baker, Varujan Boghosian, Shepherd Fairey, Robert Henriquez, Astrid Hiemer, Bruce Koscielniak, Howard Cruse, Erika Marquardt, Melanie Mowinski, Marianne R. Petit, Robert Rendo, Thor Wickstrom. Ten of these artists live and work in Adams and North Adams. The project focuses on aspects of narrative in illustration, cartoons, children books, artist's books,and posters.
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