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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John Douglas Thompson Discusses Macbeth People
Finding Humanity in Their Regicide
By: - Mar 10th, 2011While in tech rehearsals for Macbeth, which has its first preview for Theatre for a New Audience this week, John Douglas Thompson discussed the Scottish Play. He emphasized the humanity of a loving couple who had lost a child. Unlike past interpretations he insists that Lady Macbeth is not an evil, conniving "bitch." He said "The hope is to see our humanity reflected so we can go on a journey with these people."
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Broke-Ology at Lyric Stage Theatre
Nathan Louis Jackson Play March 25 – April 23, 2011
By: - Mar 09th, 2011The Nathan Louis Jackson play Broke-Ology will be presented at Boston's Lyric Stage March 25 – April 23, 2011. The play about the issues of an African American family had it premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. That production moved to a successful run off Broadway. Now it is being restaged in Boston.
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John Douglas Thompson in Macbeth Theatre
Theatre for a New Audience Production March 20 to April 20
By: - Mar 07th, 2011This week the Theatre for a New Audience production of Macbeth, starring John Douglas Thompson, is in tech rehearsal with the first preview on Saturday, March 12. For this much anticipated production Thompson is again directed by Arin Arbus. Two years ago their Othello earned him an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards. Annika Boras partners with Thompson as Lady Macbeth in one of the strongest and most compelling roles in the canon.
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Anthony Rapp Reads The Skin of Our Teeth Theatre
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company March 14
By: - Mar 07th, 2011Commonwealth Shakespeare Company prsents The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder. Anthony Rapp directs this American classic, which won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The free performance is Monday, March 14 at 7pm at the Wimberly Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts
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Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nikos Stage Theatre
Something Old Something New
By: - Mar 07th, 2011The Williamstown Theatre Festival will open on June 22 on the Nikos Stage and close on August 28 on the Main Stage. For her first season as artistic director Jenny Gersten has programmed three Main Stage productions with five on the smaller Nikos Stage. In a new tactic the Nikos Stage will combine perennial favorites A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House with three new plays.
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Williamstown Film Festival at the Oscars Film
Thoughts on Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals
By: - Mar 06th, 2011Last fall the short film God of Love, written, directed and starring Luke Matheny won the Reeve Award at the Williamstown Film Festival. There was an aha, flashback moment when he bounded on stage to pick up an Oscar. The most recent WFF also included stunning Indy films starring Melissa Leo, another Oscar winner, as well as Kim Cattrall who recently was seen in a Masterpiece Theatre series. We discussed these awards and accomplishment with WFF artistic director Steve Lawson.
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Student Art Exhibition at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Moves to Eclipse Mill Gallery March 12 to 27
By: - Mar 04th, 2011The first annual Berkshire student art exhibition was held last night at Mass MoCA. It was a fun event with awards and cash prizes followed by snacks and live music. The exhibition moved to the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams from March 12 to 27. There will be a panel discussion and reception at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on March 19.
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Car Talk: The Musical!!! Theatre
Premiere's at Suffolk's Modern Theatre
By: - Mar 03rd, 2011The new musical – inspired by the hit National Public Radio show of the same name and written and directed by Suffolk University Professor Wesley Savick – will be the first production created for the new Modern Theatre.
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Hindemith' s Cardillac at Opera Boston Music
Rarely Staged and Now We Know Why
By: - Mar 03rd, 2011From the superb orchestral playing and the passionate conducting of Opera Boston’s music director Gil Rose to the committed singing of the entire cast - but especially Sanford Sylvan, for whom the production was mounted - to the well-conceived and well-executed stage direction, one could not have hoped for a better production of a tough modern opera.
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James Levine to Leave BSO September 1 Music
Status of Tanglewood Commitment Unclear
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Because of a number of health related issues, absences, recoveries and setbacks the tenure of James Levine as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will end on September 1. He assumed the position in 2004. Levine serves in a similar role at the Metropolitan Opera where no statement on his status has been released. Having cancelled the remainder of the BSO season it remains to be seen whether he will be able to resume his duties at Tanglewood for the coming season.
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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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