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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Stuart Chase’s Berkshire Museum Resignation Opinion
Clarification and Further Questions
By: - Feb 18th, 2011The Berkshire Museum insists that there is no substance to our speculation that the resignation of Start Chase as its executive director was "abrupt" or the result of a conflict with the Board regarding the use of the Florence Keep & Josephine Crane Fund. It is named for the donors of the works which were sold for $7 million. By e mail Chase responded to a request for clarification of the current status of the acquisition fund and its recent use.
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Art Critic Greg Cook Four Opinion
Maintaining a Critical Distance
By: - Feb 18th, 2011In addition to writing about art for the Boston Phoenix and the new England Journal of Aesthetic Research Greg Cook is also a studio artist. In this final installment of a dialogue Cook describes how he attempts to avoid any perception of conflict of interest. As an artist, however, he feels solidarity with their struggles. In particular he resents the lack of national recognition for all but a few Boston artists.
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Jenny Gersten of Williamstown Theatre Festival People
Anticipating Her First Season as Artistic Director
By: - Feb 16th, 2011Jenny Gersten worked under Michael Ritchie as associate producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival from 1996 to 2004. We discussed plans and ambitions for her first season as artistic director. As a producer she does not direct. She describes administration, budgets and marketing as her "comfort zone" while conveying concerns about the artistic challenges. We discussed welcoming the Gersten era of one of America's great theatre companies.
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Stuart Chase Resigns Abruptly from Berkshire Museum Opinion
Push Comes to Shove in Board Conflict
By: - Feb 15th, 2011Other than a press release nobody is talking about the surprising and sudden resignation of Stuart Chase as director of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. Sources indicate that there was a conflict with the Board about the proper use of $7 million thorough the sale, several years ago, of three paintings by the Russian artist, Boris Dimitrievich Grigoriev (1886-1939).
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Jessica Stone Directs Neil Simon at the Clark Theatre
Actor Director Discusses Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Feb 15th, 2011Jessica Stone met her husband, actor Christopher Fitzgerald, some years ago, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Last summer she made her debut as a director with the smash hit of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Last night she was back in Williamstown for a reading of Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Yesterday we caught up with her in the lobby of the Williams Inn.
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Berkshire Critic Larry Murray Four Opinion
Separating the Personal and Objective
By: - Feb 14th, 2011Interviews provide access to the primary source. There is much to be learned through dialogues with actors and directors. But it also entails a conflict of interest and concerns when we have to write about their work. Does that entail softening the blow when we don't respond to a production? This installment of an extensive dialogue explores the tricky business of honestly informing the reader. It is the reason why some critics refuse to conduct interviews.
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Nixon In China Kindah Live in HD Music
Almost Like Being at the Met
By: - Feb 13th, 2011The cameras of the Live at the Met broadcast of the John Adams opera Nixon in China provided stunning details of singers who proved to be skilled actors. While there is nothing that compares to being there this came rather close to the experience. We attended with just half a house at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2011 Theatre
Three Main Stage Productions One Broadway Bound
By: - Feb 10th, 2011Jenny Gersten, the new artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival ha announced the schedule of three plays this season for the WTF Main Stage. The opener on July 1 is a revival of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Pulitzer Prize winning comedy You Can't Take It With You which is headed for Broadway. Former artistic director, Nicholas Martin, will direct Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. The season ends with a new musical Ten Cents a Dance with music by Rodgers and Hart.
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Hot Tuna Warms Cold Berkshire Night Music
Gutsy Blues at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - Feb 10th, 2011Hot Tuna Blues sizzled at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It launched a busy Valentine celebration in the Berkshires. Barrington Stage is presenting a weekend long V Day Cabaret. Shakespeare & Company is opening a winter run of Mystery of Irma Vep. Williamstown Theatre Festival announces its season on Friday and hosts a reading of a Neal Simon play on Monday at the Clark. The Met Live in HD will screen Nixon in China on Saturday at the Mahaiwe, Beacon and Clark. Here's looking at you sweetheart.
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Invasion a Play by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Theatre
The Play Company NY Opens Feb. 21
By: - Feb 08th, 2011Invasion a play by the Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri that has enjoyed great success in numerous European productions -- will receive its U.S. premiere presented Off-Broadway by The Play Company and directed by Erica Schmidt, opening Monday, February 21 at Walkerspace (46 Walker Street) in Tribeca.
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Hat Dance: Cook and Giuliano Three Opinion
The Critic as Artist and Curator
By: - Feb 07th, 2011Can one be a servant of two masters? What happens when art critics Greg Cook of the Boston Phoenix and Charles Giuliano of Berkshire Fine Arts wear more than one hat as artists and curators. This installment of their extended dialogue focuses on Giuliano's epxeriences working with artists as director of exhibitions for New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University.
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Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Music
Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Feb 05th, 2011The singing, the sine qua non of bel canto opera, was terrific – full-blooded and deeply committed. The international cast of soloists sang their hearts out for an unfortunately small audience. There were more than a few moments of thrilling vocalism.
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Critic Larry Murray Three Opinion
From PR and Marketing to Berkshire on Stage
By: - Feb 05th, 2011After a career in marketing and PR for the BSO and Boston Ballet, and years running Arts Boston, in the past few seasons Larry Murray has made the transition to theatre critic. In this installment the publisher/ editor of Berkshire On Stage discusses how a life in the arts has entailed both side of the footlights.
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Robin Williams To Make Broadway Debut Theatre
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
By: - Feb 04th, 2011A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo begins previews on March 11 prior to its official opening night March 31. The play is directed by two-time Tony nominee Moisés Kaufman. The Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor Robin Williams will make his Broadway acting debut in play.
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Secrecy and Scandal in New French Film Film
Images Cinema Feb. 7 to March 7
By: - Feb 04th, 2011Images Cinema in Williamstown will host the Secrecy and Scandal in New French Film series on Mondays, February 7 – March 7 at 7pm. Admission is free; all films will be in French with English subtitles.
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Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis or Death Quits Music
Boston Lyric Opera Mordant, Bitterly Humorous
By: - Feb 02nd, 2011Viktor Ullmann’s “The Emperor of Atlantis or Death Quits†at Boston Lyric Opera is a wry, mordant, bitterly humorous contribution to the theater of the absurd. (Indeed, what could be more absurd than writing an opera in a concentration camp?) And, against all odds, it is deeply humane and absurdly hopeful. We who are about to die, serenade you.
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Sundance: It's a Wrap Film
Regrets He Has a Few
By: - Feb 02nd, 2011By the time Jon Goldman and his friends staggered to Salt Lake City the Sundance Film Festival was a blur of intoxicating impressions and exhilarating ideas. Some of the initial plans and ambitions were unfulfilled. There were logistics and schedules to juggle. Much of what occurs at festivals proves to be serendipitous. Filmmakers like Goldman, who is three years into Oil in the Family, hope to connect and advance their projects. Those fortunate enough to be exhibited seek to find distribution deals. Ten days at Sundance can be like a week of shooting craps in Vegas.
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Sundance Three Film
Watch Till You Drop
By: - Feb 01st, 2011By this third installment Goldman and his companions are a bit fried having taken in so many films. This comes with the territory of covering Sundance and other major film festivals. Among the films discussed are Lost Kisses, Terri, Buck, and The Last Mountain. There is also valuable networking for Goldman's film in progress Oil in the Family.
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Richard Skipper is “Carol Channing†In Concert Theatre
Hello Dolly It's So Nice to Have You Back
By: - Feb 01st, 2011Richard Skipper, the multi-award winning, triple threat actor, singer, and dancer – the guy does everything - has been channeling the “real†Carol Channing in plays and concerts all over the world for some 25 years. If he wasn’t such good friends with the 90 year old Channing who occasionally flies around the country with her husband to attend ‘Skipper playing Channing’ soirees – well, one would think he was a stalker
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WAM Theatre Spring Berkshire Events Theatre
How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less
By: - Jan 31st, 2011WAM Theatre announces Spring 2011 events including a 24 hour theatre project across state lines, an ensemble presentation exploring feminism in the lives of young women today and a festival of solo works written and performed by women to benefit the training of at least one community midwife at Edna’s Hospital in Somaliland.
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Larry Murray of Berkshire On Stage Opinion
Recalling Sarah Caldwell and E. Virginia Williams
By: - Jan 31st, 2011Larry Murray moved from promoting the Pocket Mime to the BSO and Boston Ballet. He also worked with the legendary opera promoter Sarah Caldwell. He was on duty and fielded the press calls when his friend Arthur Fiedler passed away. In this second installment Murray describes his early years in theatrical marketing and PR.
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Hermann Nitsch at Mike Weiss Gallery Fine Arts
Vienna Actionist Plans New York Event
By: - Jan 31st, 2011The rituals of the Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, often entailed slaughtered animals, their blood and entrails, nude bodies and music which he composed. He is planning a major event in New York with the Mike Weiss Gallery.
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Sundance Film Festival Two Film
Recruiting Isabella Rossellini
By: - Jan 31st, 2011In his second year at Sundance director/ producer, Jon Goldman, was networking for a work in progress Oil in the Family. He was also there to select films for the 20th annual Woods Hole Film Festival. He is excited that Isabella Rossellini may attend and screen her new film. By this report Goldman and his companions had seen eleven films of which he provides highlights.
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Phoenix Critic Greg Cook; Two Opinion
Museums and Local Artists
By: - Jan 31st, 2011In this installment, rural critic, Charles Giuliano, and metropolitan critic, Greg Book of the weekly, Boston Phoenix, compare and contrast issues of covering their arts communities. A primary difference is how the arts in the Berkshires are integral to driving the cultural economy. Cook comments on an uneasy relationship between museums and the community of local artists.
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Boston Arts Tips: Feb. March Opinion
Ajax at ART and Lots More
By: - Jan 31st, 2011So far Boston is on track for a record winter of snow. But take heart, dear Valentines, Barbara Brilliant had lots of suggestions for how to artfully hunker down until spring. The uplifing Marry Poppins will surely cheer your spirits. There are also performances to enjoy for free.
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