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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Berkshire Theatre Festival and Colonial Theatre Opinion
Contemplating Collaboration
By: - Nov 18th, 2010With a $21.6 million renovation the 107-year-old Colonial Theater reopened in Pittsfield in 2006. Running with an average of just under half a house, with too many dark nights, the Colonial has yet to live up to its potential. In a bold move it may partner with the venerable Berkshire Theatre Festival, as early as June, 2011 to produce what are likely to be popular musicals with bankable stars.
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Tom Rush Recalls People
Folk Music in Harvard Square
By: - Nov 17th, 2010When Tom Rush performed at the Colonial Theatre we connected. Currently he is working on his memoirs. Tom took time to answer a couple of questions about how he evolved as a musician while an undergraduate at Harvard. This dialogue evolved out the series of interviews with David Wilson about art and culture during the 1960s in Boston and Cambridge.
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Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards Fine Arts
Guggenheim Benefit December 8
By: - Nov 17th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announces the nominees for Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards, the second annual celebration honoring the notable individuals, exhibitions, and projects that have made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art during the past year. Awards in 14 categories will be presented at a fundraising event to benefit the Guggenheim Foundation and visual arts non-profit White Columns on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, at the nightclub and music venue Webster Hall.
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Benfactors at NY's The Spoon Theatre Theatre
Michael Frayn Play To Nov. 20
By: - Nov 17th, 2010Our New York correspondent, Ed Rubin, states that Retro Productions is among the best of Off Off Broadway. He urges readers to see Benefactors, by Michael Frayn, at The Spoon Theatre through November 20. He says that "Benefactors truly is one of the best acted, best directed plays that I’ve seen this season. Sadly, it will be closing this Saturday."
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Art of the Americas at the MFA Fine Arts
Lord Norman Foster Partners with Malcolm Rogers
By: - Nov 16th, 2010The British born director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Malcolm Rogers, has worked over the past decade with architect, Lord Norman Foster, to expand the museum by some 28%. During an era of economic downturn Rogers oversaw raising $504 million for construction, acquisitions, conservation and programming for the new Art of the Americas wing. It was launched with a dedication and media event. It is anticipated that attendance will spike over the next year putting millions into the local economy.
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David Wilson Three People
Folk Clubs of the 1960s
By: - Nov 14th, 2010During the `1960s David Wilson took a break from editing Broadside to become manager of the folk club Cafe Yana. They got wiped out during the weekend of the Kennedy Assassination when everyone stayed home. Later, Wilson split the gate with Dick Waterman presenting Mississippi John Hurt which was a great success. But then he lost it all presenting blues artist Bukka White. With humor and insight Wilson recalls the Boston/ Cambridge club scene in the 1960s.
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Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Theatre
Barrington Stage Series Launched Nov. 29
By: - Nov 11th, 2010To kick off the “Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y†series, Barrington Stage Company is excited to host “Steve Martin with Deborah Solomon†on Monday, November 29 at 8pm.
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Jack Levine at 95 Fine Arts
Leading Boston Expressionist
By: - Nov 10th, 2010As a social and political satirist Jack Levine took no prisoners. Now dead at 95 Levine, a founding member of the seminal Boston Expressionist, outlived infamy by decades. In his prime, Levine, who moved to New York after WWII, created some of the riveting icons of American Art. He is represented only with minor works in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Met Returns Tut Objects Fine Arts
Agreement Between Museum and Egyptian Government
By: - Nov 10th, 2010Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, announced jointly today that, effective immediately, the Museum will acknowledge Egypt’s title to 19 ancient Egyptian objects in its collection since early in the 20th century.
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BIFF Bugged Film
Screening Nov. 21 in Great Barrinton
By: - Nov 09th, 2010The BIFF’s REEL FRIENDS Film Society, will present, in collaboration with the Berkshire Botanical Garden and The Nature Conservancy, two short films and a discussion with leading experts, about the dangerously invasive Asian Longhorned beetle that has been found in Worcester and more recently Boston, and is threatening to encroach on the Berkshires.
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Guys and Dolls at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Musical Opens Pittsfield Season June 22
By: - Nov 09th, 2010Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, will present the musicals Guys and Dolls and a new production of The Game as part of its summer 2011 Mainstage Season.
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John Douglas Thompson Three People
How Characters Evolve from the Text
By: - Nov 08th, 2010Thompson dismissed preliminary remarks about Macbeth a role he will perform later this year. Any preconceived notions are irrelevant until he finds the character in a careful reading of the text and through the rehearsal process. He discussed how the technique of Viewpoints was used by director Tina Landau in Antony and Cleopatra.
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John Douglas Thompson Two People
Passion and Politics
By: - Nov 08th, 2010There was a stark, minimalist staging of Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage. The use of a trough of water to signify the Nile was discussed. Also the casting of Thompson and Kate Mulgrew as a middle aged couple with more emphasis on politics than passion.
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Tosca at Boston Lyric Opera Music
Art and Politics
By: - Nov 07th, 2010Bostonians of a political mind â€" and who in Boston is not? â€" had the opportunity this fall to see two of the most forthrightly political operas in the repertoire, “Fidelio†and “Tosca,†in quick succession. In “Tosca,†which premiered in 1900, Puccini looked back at that heroic historical period from a century’s perspective.
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John Douglas Thompson on Antony and Cleopatra People
Difficulties and Challenges
By: - Nov 07th, 2010A growing number of influential critics regard John Douglas Thompson as one of the leading, clasically trained actors of his generation. We have engaged in an ongoing dialogue about his canonical roles. It started with Othello, three years ago, at Shakespeare & Company, continuing through Richard III this summer. Following a performance of Antony and Cleopatra, with Kate Mulgrew, we disussed the challening play.
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ART to Stage Porgy and Bess Theatre
Suzan-Lori Parks to Re-imagine Gershwin Opera
By: - Nov 05th, 2010The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announced today that Artistic Director Diane Paulus, Pulitzer prize-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks, and two-time Obie winner Diedre Murray have been chosen by the Gershwin Trusts and the Heyward Trust to re-imagine the Gershwins’ seminal American opera Porgy and Bess.
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David Wilson Interviews: Two People
The Bosstown Sound and Folk Turns Political
By: - Nov 05th, 2010The then young Mike Curb, CEO of MGM Records, hyped an ersatz movement in the 1960s, the ill fated Bosstown Sound. The bands of that era performed at the Boston Tea Party in the South End. The folk music scene in Cambridge focused on Club 47 on Mount Auburn Street. As America was drawn into the Vietnam War David Wilson recalls a shift to radical politics and the protest movement.
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Hans-Peter Feldman Wins Hugo Boss Prize Fine Arts
Guggenheim Museum May to Sept, 2011
By: - Nov 05th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG has announced that German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been named the winner of THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win the biennial honor, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. The prize carries an award of $100,000 and is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation.
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The David Wilson Interviews: Part One People
Broadside and Folk Music in Harvard Square
By: - Nov 04th, 2010During the summer of 1968, Charles Giuliano, Dave Wilson, Sandi Mandeville and Arden Harrison worked together to publish the underground paper Avatar. Wilson was a founder of the influential folk music publication Broadside. This first in a series of interviews covers the early years of the folk music scene in Harvard Square.
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Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage Theatre
Kate Mulgrew and John Douglas Thompson
By: - Nov 02nd, 2010Kate Mulgrew returns to Hartford Stage in an ambitious and powerful production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The great actress has a sublime co star in John Douglas Thompson as her lover the Roman general Marc Antony. This production demonstrates why Cleopatra is regarded as one of the finest roles in the canon.
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A Christmas Carol at Berkshire Theatre Festival Theatre
Fifth Annual Production Dec. 11 to 30
By: - Oct 29th, 2010Eric Hill will reprise his role as Ebenezer Scrooge while E. Gray Simons III will return as Jacob Marley, the now deceased partner of Scrooge. The pair will also co-direct again this season. Joining these two will be four of Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Artists-in-Residence; two graduate students from BTF’s partner academic institution: Brandeis University; and many members of the Berkshire county area, including the wife and twin sons of James Taylor: Caroline (Kim), Henry, and Rufus.
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Berkshire Museum Nixes Expansion Fine Arts
Kamm Collection of Teapots Not Headed to Pittsfield
By: - Oct 28th, 2010Recently, the California collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm visited Pittsfield during a national search for a museum to partner with housing their collection. Over 30 years they acquired 10,000 vintage and contemporary tea pots. Some of them through Pittsfield Gallerist Leslie Ferrin. She hosted a reception in their honor. Today, she and Stuart Chase, director of the Berkshire Museum, announced that the collection will not come to Pittsfield.
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Chaos and Classicism Fine Arts
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to January 9
By: - Oct 28th, 2010Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918- 1936 examines art during an ere overshadowed by the recovery from World War I and the rise of fascism that would result in World War II. This insightful exhibition is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through January 9.
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It's All American: Inaugural Exhibition Fine Arts
New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art
By: - Oct 28th, 2010The New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art (NJ MoCA) launched its programming on October 23, 2010 with a benefit gala and preview of the inaugural exhibition, “It’s All Americanâ€, at the historic Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall Mezzanine in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
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Boston's November Highlights Theatre
From Chorus Line to Lou Gossettt, Jr.
By: - Oct 28th, 2010Our Boston entertainment correspondent, Barbara Brilliant, has tips, links and ticket prices for a range of theatre events. This is a clip and save template for what's going on in November.
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