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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Mark Volpe on Tanglewood’s Non-Classsical Programming Opinion
Thinking Inside the Box
By: - Sep 07th, 2010During the recent, season ending, Tanglewood Jazz Festival we spoke with Mark Volpe, the managing director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has had his hands full, yet again, with another medical absence by maestro, James Levine. Despite the concerns of some classical critics regarding the continuity and consistency of the orchestra, for the most part, the season has been successful. Even magical. But regarding non-classical programming, of which there is very little in the program, he was quoted making harsh remarks in the Berkshire Eagle. We asked him about that and were surprised but guardedly pleased by his response.
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Hoosac River Lights September 11 Opinion
Third Annual North Adams Event
By: - Sep 07th, 2010Ralph Brill a gallerist in the Eclipse Mill in North Adams reminds us that Mermaid Beatrice is swimming her way up the Hudson River. She splashes into North Adams after dark on Saturday night as the highlight of the Third Annual Hoosac River Lights event.
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2010 Saratoga Wine & Food and Fall Ferrari Festival Food
Higlighting Lidia Bastianich
By: - Sep 07th, 2010Celebrity chef, best-selling author and successful restaurateur Lidia Bastianich will highlight the 2010 Saratoga Wine & Food and Fall Ferrari Festival presented by the Italian Trade Commission, September 10 â€" 12. Bastianich joins world-class Italian auto designer Andrea Zagato and Presenting Sponsor, the Italian Trade Commission, in headlining the festival, a series of events over three days celebrating Italy’s excellence in wine, food and automobiles. Proceeds from the event will benefit Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s educational programs.
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Basie Band Swings at Tanglewood Music
Eddie Daniels and Bob James in Broadway Boogie
By: - Sep 06th, 2010Day two of the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival. A change in the weather brought out a great crowd on the lawn for the afternoon concert. It headlined the Count Basie Orchestra with Eddie Daniels and Bob James featuring their Broadway Boogie. This closes the season in Lenox.
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MIT and the Arts Opinion
Full Schedule of October Events
By: - Sep 06th, 2010The Massachuetts Institute of Techology offers a great range of arts events many of which are free to the general public. We have the complete breakdown of the dense October calendar.
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Harvard Art Museums Fine Arts
Fall Schedule of Events
By: - Sep 06th, 2010The Harvard Art Museums present their line-up of fall programs, including gallery talks about Perisan art, American landscape painting, British art, conservation, contemporary sculpture, ancient Greek mythology, and Italian Renaissance art. The In-Sight lecture series returns with evenings dedicated to Alfred Stieglitz, the recently acquired “Barberini Faun†sculpture, the Statue of Meleager, and Max Beckmann. The popular Stories series returns this Octoberâ€"dedicated to the epicâ€"with separate sessions designed for family and adult audiences.
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Kurt Elling at Tanglewood Music
Headlining Annual Labor Day Jazz Festival
By: - Sep 05th, 2010Grammy winner, and arguably the greatest jazz singer on the planet, Kurt Elling headlined the Saturday evening performance of the two day, Labor Day weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival. There were sets by emerging artists, Brandon Wright and Kelley Johnson during dining sets in the Jazz Cafe. The packed Ozawa Hall enjoyed the afternoon live broadcast by John Pizzarelli and his clan.
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Crosby Stills and Nash at Tanglewood Music
The Dinosaurs Tour
By: - Sep 02nd, 2010When not collecting social security, or hanging out at the senior center shooting pool Crosby, Stills and Nash are out on tour. They brought their dino rock to Tanglwood last night to a sedate, not sedated, audience. Nice way to end a summer in the Shed.
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American Repertory Theatre Opens with Cabaret Theatre
Diane Paulus Previews Season
By: - Aug 30th, 2010The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus, is pleased to announce further details of its 2010/11 Season, beginning on August 31 with Cabaret, followed by Alice vs. Wonderland, The Blue Flower, R. Buckminster Fuller â€" The History (and mystery) of the Universe, Ajax, Prometheus Bound, and Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera.
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Maine Museums Rescue 19th Century Banners Fine Arts
To Be Shown in Maine Historical Society in Portland
By: - Aug 30th, 2010Sixteen Maine museums, historical organizations, and their supporters came together in an unprecedented collaboration to save an important collection of Maine artifacts, seventeen rare, 19th-century hand-painted banners commissioned by the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. The banners were purchased for $125,350 and will be housed at the Maine Historical Society in Portland.
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Met Live in HD at the Clark Music
Also at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington
By: - Aug 30th, 2010In addition to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Great Barrington, the enormously popular Met Live in HD series of broadcasts has now been expanded to the Northern Berkshire Audience. The series, which is sure to sell out, as it has at the Mahaiwe for the past two seasons, will start on October 9 with Wagner's Das Rheingold.
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Artists and the Academy Opinion
Is There a Doctor in the House
By: - Aug 29th, 2010The glut of artists with MFA degrees has made it difficult to find tenure track positions in colleges and universities. There is now an industry in cranking out artists through degree programs. What is changing the playing field is the progressive standard of a doctorate in the fine arts for tenure track positions. Try to imagine Dr. Michelangelo, Matisse with an MFA, or Picasso teaching Photoshop at a state university in the midwest. What a mess as we start a new semester.
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Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance Theatre
At Berkshire Theatre Festival Thorough September 4
By: - Aug 28th, 2010Recovering alcoholics, who isn't, are advised not to see Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, at Berkshire Theatre Festival which will surely induce budding. If you do see this play it will take dozens of AA meetings and months of therapy to recover from the grim experience. By no stretch is this an entertaining and enjoyable evening of theatre. Unless you are a masochist with a taste for the enervating.
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Laramie Project at ArtsEmerson Theatre
New Programming Launched September 24
By: - Aug 28th, 2010The inaugural season of world-class international theatre programming by ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage kicks off with the Boston debut of The New York-based Tectonic Theater Project, performing two works: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, by Moisés Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris and Stephen Belber.
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Ute Lemper Last Tango in Berlin Music
Multivalent Global Cabaret at the Colonial
By: - Aug 28th, 2010The remarkable singer, cabaret artist, actress, and painter, Ute Lemper, utterly captivated the audience last night at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It was a rich and diverse global excursion as she performed in five languages; English, her native German, Spanish, French and even Yiddish. The material spanned Brecht/ Weil and Jacques Brel to lyrics by the beat poet Charles Bukowski. Out there.
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John Douglas Thompson Reshapes Richard III People
A Critical Dialogue Focused on S&Co's Production
By: - Aug 27th, 2010Recently Ben Brantley of the New York Times posted a rave review of John Douglas Thompson as Richard III in a production at Shakespeare & Company. There are now only a few performances left of this summer long event. We engaged with Thompson is an extended dialogue about his radical interpretation of Richard III.
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Sidewalk Sam Projects for North Adams People
Matisse Blossoms on Holden Street
By: - Aug 26th, 2010Next summer there are plans for Sidewalk Sam and an army of volunteers to create the world's largest sidewalk painting in the parking lot of Mass MoCA. To give the folks in North Adams a hint of the immensity of that project, and to assist with fund raising, during the Down Town celebration Sam and his wife Tina were on hand to help create an enormous Matisse on Holden Street. Everyone involved had a blast.
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Tina Packer's Fifteen Hour Marathon Theatre
Women of Will at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 26th, 2010Now that she has stepped down as founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company Tina Packer is finally able to focus on her own career as an actress. She has brought to fruition a project that has absorbed her for decades. Over three days she presented five acts totaling some 15 hours on stage with her partner Nigel Gore.
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Picasso Looks at Degas Fine Arts
Clark Art Institute to September 12
By: - Aug 24th, 2010Picasso Looks at Degas is among the best exhibitions currently on view in American museums. It remains at the Clark Art Institute until September 12. This is its only American venue before it travels to Barcelona.
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2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival Music
Annual Event September 4 and 5
By: - Aug 24th, 2010As the summer season of 2010 winds down it is time yet again to swing in the Wood. The a nnual Tanglewood Jazz Festival returns to Lenox for he last hurrah of summer on September 4 and 5. Get a groove on before heading back to school and work.
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The Memory Show at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Alzheimer’s: The Musical
By: - Aug 23rd, 2010The grim theme of Alzheimer's disease and its devastating impact on an estranged Jewish mother and her daughter moved back home is an unlikely inspiration for a musical. No less. This new work by the young team of Sara Cooper and Zach Redler tries really hard to please and entertain. It is their first fully staged affort.
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Absurd Person Singular at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Alan Ayckbourn's Hilarious British Comedy
By: - Aug 20th, 2010Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield exits laughing with its final Main Stage production a British Comedy Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn. This past season his Norman Conquests was revived on Broadway leading to more regional productions of his plays. If you need a few laughs check out this zesty madcap farce.
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Jeff Buckley's The Last Goodbye People
What's Next for Williamstown Hit Musical
By: - Aug 19th, 2010The all too brief two week run of the smash hit The Last Goodbye with the music of the cult rocker Jeff Buckley conflated with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has come to an end on August 20. The world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival was more like an extended workshop. Everyone agrees this show is Broadway bound. We met with the creative team of Michael Kimmel and Lauren Fitzgerald who insist on taking "their baby" through just one measured step at a time.
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Fifth of July at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Asking and Telling
By: - Aug 18th, 2010With two men kissing on Broadway in Lanford Wilson's 1978 play Fifth of July it caused a buzz and sold tickets. In the current Williamstown Theatre Festival production this evokes little beyond an apathetic, ho hum response. It was challenging to care about this play and its over played, outrageous, self absorbed and often obnoxious characters. There were however some finely drawn, tender and endearing moments midst all the screaming and bathos.
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Joe Finnegan Comments on WTF Season Opinion
First Season as General Manager in Williamstown
By: - Aug 18th, 2010A large part of the success of Nicholas Martin's final of three seasons as Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival has been the year round presence of the Williamstown resident, General Manager, Joe Finnegan. With a strong background in finance, for the past year, he has brought a professional status to his passion for theatre. With WTF back on track signified by rave reviews and sold out shows he looks forward to working with the new artistic director, Jenny Gersten.
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