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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Zhou Long’s Madame White Snake Music
Opera Boston Production Wins Pulitzer Prize
By: - Apr 20th, 2011Opera Boston presented the world premiere of Madame White Snake on Feb. 26, 2010 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, where there were three performances and one preview. Madame White Snake, the first opera commissioned by Opera Boston was conceived by its librettist, Cerise Lim Jacobs, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and her late husband Charles.
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The Bookseller of Dhaka Travel
A Tale from Bangaladesh
By: - Apr 20th, 2011Author Michael Bedford and his wife the artist Sarah Sutro have recently settled in North Adams after many years of living and working in Asia. This is the first of what we hope will be a series of writings about their experiences. Here we are introduced to Bedford's rich and observant narrative style.
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Shakespeare & Company Birthday Bash Theatre
Saturday April 23 Bard Turns 447
By: - Apr 18th, 2011On Saturday, April 23 William Shakespeare turns 447. Shakespeare & Company in Lenox is planning a birthday bash. The fun begins at 1 pm with a performance of Hamlet at 7 pm. There will be cake and a toast following the evening performance. That's a lot of family fun with special ticket prices.
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2011 Pulitzer Prize List Opinion
"Madame White Snake’" by Zhou Long at the Boston Opera
By: - Apr 18th, 2011"Madame White Snake’" by Zhou Long, premiered on Feb. 26, 2010, by the Boston Opera at the Cutler Majestic Theatre won for music. Sebastian Smee of the Boston Globe won for criticism.
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Mass MoCA Summer Schedule Opinion
Wilco and Rosanne Cash to Katharina Grosse
By: - Apr 18th, 2011The summer season at Mass MoCA launches with a concert by Rosanne cash on May 28. Not long after, June 24 to 26, North Adams will be transformed into a tent city ersatz Woodstock for the Wilco Solid Sound Festival. There's also lots to see and enjoy in the galleries of North America's largest contemporary art museum.
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Fred Taylor of Scullers Part Two Music
Fifty Nine Years in Show Business
By: - Apr 18th, 2011After nine years of working for the Serta Mattress Company a career in show biz started somewhat by accident. In 1952 Fred Taylor made a reel to reel tape of Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond at Storyville. After that as Taylor says "One thing led to another." For the past 21 years he has been booking jazz for the renowned Boston club Scullers.
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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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