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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Williamstown Film Festival Part Two Film
Three Films Featuring Women: Cattrall, Hunt and Leo
By: - Oct 19th, 2010The first weekend of the two part Williamstown Film Festival offered three features with compelling performances by mid career women: Kim Cattrall, Melissa Leo and Helen Hunt. All three films also include juvenile actors. Significantly, these superb independent films are looking for distribution deals. Right now they are making their way around the festival circuit, connecting with enthusiastic audiences. Veteran character actor, Brian Dennehy, appeared in two of the three films.
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Williamstown Film Festival: Week One Film
Baldwin and Osborne on Wilder Pack MoCA
By: - Oct 18th, 2010Steve Lawson, the artistic director of the Williamstown Film Festival has created a remarkable program for its 12th season. In addition to a program of shorts and three feature films the highlight of the first of two weekends was a packed house at Mass MoCA for a tribute to Billy Wilder with a dialogue between actor Alec Baldwin and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
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Trio by Mario Fratti Theatre
Theatre for the New City, NY, to Oct. 24
By: - Oct 18th, 2010What many people do not know, having been blindsided by the limelight of "Nine" has brought to the playwright, is that Mario Fratti has written some 80 plays which have been performed around the world in 19 languages in over 600 theatres.
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November at the Colonial Theatre Opinion
Tommy Tune to Arlo Guthrie
By: - Oct 15th, 2010November iz shaping up as a busy month for the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It starts with The Spencers, Nov. 6 then sweeps in Tommy Tune on the 12. Kate Clinton appears on the 13th with Ani DiFranco on the 16th followed by Arlo Guthrie, 20th, Kathy Mattea, 27th and Sound of Christmas, 30th. That brings us up to the Holidays with lots of merry cheer.
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Boris Godunov October 23 Music
Met Live in HD Continues
By: - Oct 15th, 2010The Met Live in HD series continues with Boris Godunov on Saturday, October 23 at noon. It will be shown in the Berkshires at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Beacon Cinema, in Pittsfield, and at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. The new production opened with rave reviews on October 11.
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Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine Fine Arts
Legacy of Boston Expressionism
By: - Oct 15th, 2010When the Boston Expressionist Hyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 to August 26, 2009) passed away none of his works were on view in the major New England museums. Bloom, his partner Jack Levine, and Karl Zerbe were the leaders of what is regarded as the most significant and influential movement of artists in Boston during the 20th century. Their neglect has been a scandal for Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. We are informed that a work by Bloom will be hung in the new wing of the MFA which opens in November. It remains to be seen how the museum will treat Levine and Zerbe. The MFA owns a minor work by the still living Levine which it acquired through the WPA.
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Jacob's Pillow On Line Dance
Offering Curated Selection of PillowTalks
By: - Oct 15th, 2010Jacob’s Pillow Dance, international arts presenter and home of America’s longest-running dance festival, now offers a curated online selection of informative and entertaining PillowTalks. Based in Becket, Mass., Jacob’s Pillow hosts more than 160 free pre-show talks, post-show interviews, and hour-long PillowTalks during its annual Festival. PillowTalks are a series of hour-long moderated discussions with choreographers, performers, historians, filmmakers, and experts in the arts and related fields.
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Covering the Art Wars Opinion
Schjeldahl in the New Yorker and The Globe’s Smee
By: - Oct 14th, 2010In the exercise of power, influence and ego art critics often like to make or break individuals and movements. The combative stances perpetuate the notion of artists as warriors. High art is depicted as a clash of the titans. The great artists are simply the last ones standing.
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On the Verge at Main Street Stage Theatre
North Adams Production Oct. 14 to 30
By: - Oct 13th, 2010Main Street Stage in North Adams presewnts On the Verge, by Eric Overmyer. The play previews Thursday, Friday and Saturday October 14, 15 and 16th at 8 p.m. There will also be a free matinee for members of North County senior citizen centers on Sunday October 17th.
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The Blue Flower at American Repertory Theatre Theatre
Musical Opens in Cambridge Dec. 1
By: - Oct 13th, 2010The American Repertory Theatre opens the musical The Blue Flower by Jim and Ruth Bauer at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square, Cambriidge. Under the direction of Will Pomerantz it brings to life the German artists of the end of World War I that emerged from devastation and chaos to form the movements of Expressionism and Dada that morphed into Surrealism. The production opens on December 1 with previews and runs through January 8.
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Suffolk University Opens Modern Theatre Architecture
Revitalizing Boston's Theatre District
By: - Oct 12th, 2010The long closed 1914 Modern Theatre will reopen on November 4. The former movie house on Boston's Washington Street has been renovated in the continuing down town expansion of Suffolk University. The venue will present productions of the Suffolk theatre department as well public programming. The theatre is intimate with just 185 seats. Suffolk also operates the C. Walsh Theatre on its Beacon Hill campus.
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Arthur Miller's The Crucible Theatre
Barrington Stage Company Brilliantly Initiates a Berkshires Dialogue
By: - Oct 12th, 2010In the best sense of community theatre Barrington Stage has created a dialogue for the Pittsfield Schools by staging Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The iconic American masterpiece is currently being taught. BSC has created unique access for students and special programming to fully explore the play. The production combines a superb production and magnificent acting with an insightful educational mandate.
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Clark Posts Near Record Summer Attendance Fine Arts
Picasso Looks at Degas Draws 120,000
By: - Oct 12th, 2010Significant critical acclaim and widespread audience interest in its two exhibitions, Picasso Looks at Degas and Juan Muñoz, propelled attendance at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to near-record numbers this summer. The Clark recorded total visitation of approximately 120,000 from its June 13 public openings through the close of the Labor Day weekend, making 2010 the second-highest attendance season in the Clark’s history.
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Tony and Tina's Wedding People
S&Co. Gala Fuggedddahboutit
By: - Oct 10th, 2010How fitting that there was a play within a play for the annual gala that hilariously raked in a ton of bling for Shakespeare & Company. The founding artistic director, Tina Packer, exchanged vows with the current one, Tony Simotes. That was followed by the ersatz wedding of Tony Nunzio and Tina Vitale. Their family of made men and wannabes made it up from Joisey and Queens to mix with, and loosen up, an assembly of Berkshire blue bloods who shelled out top coin for the privilege.
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A Tea Party for Pittsfield People
Kamms Seek Museum for Collection
By: - Oct 09th, 2010Over the past 30 years the Los Angeles based Sonny and Gloria Kamm have acquired 10,000 tea pots. Currently, they are seeking a museum partner to house their collection. The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield appears to be a finalist. To house the Kamm's Tea Pot Museum the plan would be to acquire a church property in the heart of the city.
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BIFF Howls October 15 Film
Special Screening About Allen Ginsberg Poem
By: - Oct 08th, 2010Howl by Allen Ginsberg is the most enduring poem of the Beat Generation. There will be a special screening of a new film about the controversial poem on October 15 at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington. It is being presented by the Berkshire International Film Festival.
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Meet Me in St. Louis Travel
Connecting with David Bonetti
By: - Oct 08th, 2010The renowned art critic, David Bonetti, has recently returned to Boston, Brookline actually. We visited him while he was in the process of packing and moving from St. Louis. He had resigned from the St. Louis Post Dispatch. David proved to be a fabulous guide as we zipped about viewing the many art treasures of the vibrant city. We have an extensive slide show of that experience.
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Arnold Trachtman at 80 Fine Arts
Celebrating A Pre-eminent Protest Painter
By: - Oct 07th, 2010Arnold Trachtman is the best Boston painter you probably have never heard of. Part of that is his own fault for sticking to a life long commitment to depicting social and political issues in art when that is definitely not in fashion. We pay tribute to a great artist and friend on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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A Letter from Buenos Aires, Argentina Fine Arts
Escape from St. Louis
By: - Oct 06th, 2010A career as an art critic started in Boston at The Phoenix. Some years ago David Bonetti departed for San Francisco where he wrote for The Chronicle and the Examiner. When they merged he moved on to the St. Louis Post Dispatch from which he has retired and returned to Boston. He reports on an extended visit to Buenos Aires with particular attention to its eclectic museum collections. We welcome him as a friend and colleague who will occasionally be writing from Boston.
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Steve Lawson of Williamstown Film Festival People
A Life in Theatre and Film
By: - Oct 06th, 2010In 1969, while a sophomore at Williams College Steve Lawson worked that summer for the then young Williamstown Theatre Festival. From a base in Williamstown he divides his time in New York and LA keeping up on theatre and film. He is the Executive Director of the Williamstown Film Festival which will have its 12th season from October 15 through 24. Over two weekends the festival will screen 33 films.
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Williams College The Place for Taste Food
Food for Thought
By: - Oct 04th, 2010The combination of the 10th anniversary of the magazine Gastronomica founded by Williams Professor, Darra Goldstein, and an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art by Pepon Osorio inspired a day long symposium exploring all aspects of food and definitions of taste. This was the notion of you are what you eat explored to the max.
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Affleck’s The Town Film
Cops and Robbahs
By: - Oct 01st, 2010Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is the master mind of a gang of bank robbers from Charlestown. While The Town is better than most of the dogs Affleck has starred in, since his 1997 Oscar he shared with boyhood friend Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting, it's more good than great. It was fun to see all those shots of Boston but other than nostalgia and scenery this was pretty run of the mill.
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Ed Bride and Pittsfield CityJazz Festival People
Sixth Annual Event Oct. 8 to 21
By: - Sep 30th, 2010The sixth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival will run from October 8 to 21. There will be lots of free events as well as ticketed concerts at the Crowne Plaza and Colonial Theatre. There is also a vital educational component with performances and jazz history in local schools. Over ribs and corn bread we talked with organizer Ed Bride about his life long passion for jazz.
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Julian Schnabel at the Art Gallery of Ontario Fine Arts
What Goes Around Comes Around
By: - Sep 27th, 2010Those who admire the films of Julian Schnabel, nominated for an Academy Award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, are hardly aware that he was once a well known artist. That was then and this is now. New York critic, Ed Rubin, writes about his sprawling exhibition in Toronto. It is Schnabel's first major museum show since a Whitney retrospective in 1987. Rubin discusses the exhibition as "a comeback."
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TV or Not TV for 2010 Television
On Automatic Pilots
By: - Sep 27th, 2010For the past couple of weeks we have been bombarded with pilots for new shows. After a summer of reruns it is fun to see favorites resume and sort out the cliff hangers. The surgeons of Grey's Anatomy are getting back on track after the season ending slaughter. House is getting it on with Dr. Cutty. Mayhem again prevails on Wisteria Lane. There are also a slew of wannabes most of which are just bloody awful as usual. But there is always a ray of hope. There's more to the tube than You Tube.
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