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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Sundance Film Festival: One Film
Being There
By: - Jan 30th, 2011For the second year documentary film producer/ director, Jon Goldman, visited the Sundance Film Festival. In this first installment of his journal he describes getting there, travel companions, and the challenges of securing tickets to screenings and events. He reports on Sing Your Song featuring Harry Belafonte. And Pariah a film relating the family conflict of a lesbian coming of age.
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Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights Music
A Jazz Memoir
By: - Jan 29th, 2011The book by Herb Snitzer Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir includes a stunning portfolio of 84, vintage, black and white portraits and performance shots of mostly deceased jazz musicians. There is also a compelling and richly anecdotal narrative of a life, he was born in Philadelphia in 1932, chronicling America's greatest original art form. Along the way he was an editor of the seminal publication Metronome.
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Lisa Corrin to Leave as Director of WCMA People
Will Join the Williams Fine Arts Faculty
By: - Jan 26th, 2011Today Lisa Corrin called to let me know that as of June 30 she will be leaving as director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She is currently rehanging the permanent collection of the museum. It will reopen during the spring with eight major exhibitions and related programming. She will join the Willams fine arts faculty. Also she will be a fellow at the neighboring Clark Art Institute next year and serve as a visiting scholar in the Museum Studies program at New York University.
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Newport Jazz and Folk Festival Now Non Profit Music
Founder George Wein Remains in Charge
By: - Jan 26th, 2011The famed Newport Jazz Festival® and Newport Folk Festival®, held in Newport, RI, since 1954 and 1959 respectively, have returned to their original roots as non-profit events. The Festivals will now be produced under the umbrella of Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., a newly-formed 501(c)(3) organization. They will still be produced by George Wein and his veteran staff.
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M.C. Escher at the Berkshire Museum Fine Arts
A Maze Ing
By: - Jan 26th, 2011During the opening weekend of M.C. Escher: Seeing the Unseen the Berkshire Museum was packed. With school vacations and ski season it is likely that the museum will be mobbed with families from now until May 22. As this large selection of work demonstrates Escher was a master and genius but in a class by himself. In the populist museum there is a crowd pleasing companion exhibition Henry Klimowicz: Constructs.
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Hot Tuna at the Colonial Feb 9 Music
Charlie Musselwhite Also on Bill in Pittsfield
By: - Jan 25th, 2011Hot Tuna Blues is coming to the Colonial for a one-night only concert on Wednesday, February 9 at 7:30pm. The performance joins Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady) with Chicago blues icon Charlie Musselwhite and singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale.
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Eight Exhibitions at Williams Fine Arts
Yale Collaborates with WCMA
By: - Jan 25th, 2011The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) announces the themes of each of the eight exhibitions that are opening this spring as part of the museum’s massive reinstallation project entitled Reflections on a Museum. This project is an opportunity to re-discover WCMA and what makes it unique: its commitment to raising questions about the function and meaning of art across time and cultures and the role of museums in shaping understandings of art.
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Berkshire Theatre Critic Larry Murray Opinion
On and Off Broadway Part One
By: - Jan 25th, 2011Initially, Larry Murray and Charles Giuliano divided coverage of the four major Berkshire theatre companies as well as the Colonial and Mahaiwe. Murray retired to the Berkshires after a long career as a publicist and marketing specialist for a range of organizations including the BSO, Boston Ballet, and Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company. He started his own blogs Arts America and Gay in the Berkshires. Last season he left BFA to focus on a new site Berkshire on Stage. This is the first of several dialogues about his career in the arts and an overview of the critical condition.
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AICA-USA Announces Awards Fine Arts
Cooper Union Event March 14
By: - Jan 24th, 2011The AICA-USA awards ceremony, which has been held annually for more than 25 years, will take place at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14 2011 at 6 PM. Awards will be presented by a group of distinguished artists and curators. Elizabeth C. Baker will be honored with a special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism. Museum curators, artists and critics from around the country are expected to attend.
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Boston Art Critic Greg Cook Opinion
Part One of a Dialogue
By: - Jan 22nd, 2011During the 1960s Charles Giuliano was the art critic for Boston After Dark which evolved as The Boston Phoenix. Later distinguished Phoenix art critics included Kenneth Baker, David Bonetti and Christopher Millis. Currently Greg Cook is the art critic for the Phoenix. Spanning generations this is part one of a dialogue on covering the Boston art world and the state of criticism.
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Modern Theatre at Suffolk University Theatre
Schedule of Winter/ Spring Events
By: - Jan 21st, 2011For its inaugural season The Modern Theatre of Suffolk University is offering a diverse schedule of films, performances and lectures. Many of these events are free and open to the general public.
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MC Escher: Seeing the Unseen. Fine Arts
Berkshire Museum to May 22
By: - Jan 21st, 2011Berkshire Museum's winter exhibition, a major show of the work of one of the 20th century’s most popular artists, MC Escher: Seeing the Unseen. This world premiere experience, conceived and curated by Berkshire Museum, offers a fresh perspective on an iconic artist, one who innovatively brought together graphic design, fine art, and an interest in natural history that makes him an excellent subject for a one-artist exhibition at Berkshire Museum.
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Opera Boston's Cardillac Music
Hindemith's Opera Feb. 25 and March 1
By: - Jan 19th, 2011Opera Boston continues its 2010-11 season with the New England premiere of Paul Hindemith’s 1926 opera Cardillac, in a new production starring baritone Sanford Sylvan, at the Cutler Majestic Theatre (219 Tremont St., Boston). Performances take place Feb. 25 and March 1, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. Sung in German with English titles.
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Tanglewood and Mass MoCA Butt Heads Music
Wilco and Earth Wind and Fire Conflict on June 25
By: - Jan 19th, 2011The Wilco Solid Sound Festival is set for June 24 to 26 at Mass MoCA. Tanglewood launches its season the following Fourth of July weekend with three dates for perennial favorite James Taylor. In a surprise move Tanglewood has announced a prequel to the Taylor weekend. It will present the vintage soul group Earth Wind and Fire on Saturday, June 25, while Wilco will rock in North Adams. What gives?
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Tangelwood Rocks Music
Earth Wind and Fire and Steely Dan
By: - Jan 19th, 2011Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bands Earth, Wind, and Fire and Steely Dan are being added to the 2011 Tanglewood season line-up. Earth, Wind, and Fire will perform on Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed as part of the band’s 40th anniversary tour. Steely Dan will perform on Tuesday, July 26 at 7 p.m. in the Shed. Tickets for both events go on sale February 6, 2011.
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The Mount Receives $300,000 Architecture
Anonymous Gift Addresses May Crisis
By: - Jan 19th, 2011Under dynamic executive director, Susan Wissler, The Mount, the former estate of author Edith Wharton, has struggled to stabilize the National Historic Landmark. While there has been progress in debt reduction a tipping point is approaching. In May a $1 million principal repayment is due. In this tough economy that's a daunting amount to raise in the next few months. When news of the crisis was reported an anonymous donor stepped forward with a donation of $300,000. Hopefully that will inspire further giving to meet the imminent deadline.
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Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Theatre
Barrington Stage Simulcasts
By: - Jan 19th, 2011Barrington Stage Company (BSC) and Knesset Israel (KI) continue the “Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y†Simulcasts at Barrington Stage with seven programs for winter/spring 2011. The popular satellite broadcast series brings lectures, interviews and readings from nationally and internationally recognized political figures, entertainers, newsmakers and authors to communities across the U.S. and Canada.
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Karen Allen's White Irish Drinkers Film
Film Event at Mahaiwe Feb. 5
By: - Jan 18th, 2011The Berkshire International Film Festival and the Mahaiwe present a screening event of Karen Allen’s new critically acclaimed film, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS on Saturday, February 5 at 7 pm with Karen Allen, Peter Reigert, writer and director John Gray and other cast members in attendance.
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Wilco Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA Music
Tickets for North Adams Event June 24 to 26
By: - Jan 18th, 2011After months of hints and rumors it is now official. The Wilco Solid Sound Festival returns to Mass MoCA in North Adams June 24 to 26. There are many changes and improvements. Unlike last year patrons may now opt for single day tickets which are cheaper than a weekend pass. But there are a limited number of one day tickets so if that's your preference plan to act swiftly.
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A Guggenheim Museum for Helsinki Architecture
NY Museum in Dialogue with Finland
By: - Jan 18th, 2011Yet again the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is developing plans for a satellite museum. This time in Helsinki Finland. Former Guggenheim director, Tom Krens, initiated expansionist ambitions. Now they appear to continue under his successor Richard Armstrong.
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Murakami at Versailles Fine Arts
Rococo Kitsch
By: - Jan 17th, 2011Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme a descendant of the French king Louis XIV and head of the Coordination de la Défense de Versailles, an organization formed to prevent Jeff Koons from exhibiting at Versailles was less than amused by a recent exhibition by the Japanese master of contemporary kitsch, Takashi Murakami. Our peripatetic correspondent Edward Rubin files this report from Paris.
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Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Dance
2011 Dance, Music and Film
By: - Jan 13th, 2011The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) presents ambitious performing arts programming for Winter/Spring 2011, including world-premiere dance, revolutionary theater and a vaudevillian spectacular. The New Music Now series returns with three exciting concerts of adventurous music, and the ICA presents its first "live documentary," narrated by filmmaker Sam Green alongside live performances by sound artist David Cerf and band The Quavers (featuring special guest Brendan Canty of Fugazi).
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Celebrating Pittsfield Through Photography Photography
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
By: - Jan 12th, 2011The first event of Pittsfield ’s yearlong 250th birthday celebration kicks off this Friday, January 14th, with the opening reception for the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts’ new show Celebrating Pittsfield, a juried exhibition showcasing photographs of Pittsfield in honor of the city’s 250th anniversary in 2011. The opening reception will be on Friday, January 14th from 5pm to 7pm.
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Lysistrata at NY's La Mama Theatre
Theodora Skipitares Production Opens Feb.6
By: - Jan 12th, 2011The world-premiere adaptation of LYSISTRATA by the renowned puppet artist, writer and director Theodora Skipitares – which mixes Aristophanes’ ancient comic tale about a group of Greek women who withhold sex from their husbands and lovers with video and newsreel footage of actual modern-day international sex strikes – is being presented by La MaMa ETC in association with Skysaver Productions, with an opening set for Sunday, February 6 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan.
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Lord of the Flies to Bug Barrington Stage Theatre
Christopher Innvar to Direct Fall Production
By: - Jan 12th, 2011A long term acting associate of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Christopher Innvar, received rave reviews last year for directing The Whipping Man. He will direct again during the fall season with a production of William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies.
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