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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Metropolitan Musum of Art Celebrates Ringo People
70 Years Young on July 9
By: - Jun 29th, 2010On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will inaugurate a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will remain on view to the public through December 2010 in the Museum's second-floor Musical Instruments Galleries. On loan from Ringo Starr, it was originally presented to him by the Ludwig Drum Company during The Beatles' 1964 visit to Chicago when the legendary rock group, in which Mr. Starr was the drummer, was on its first tour of the United States.
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B. Amore's Street Calligraphies Portfolio
Recelty Shown at Boston Sculptors
By: - Jun 29th, 2010The work I am doing now has everything to do with those early interactions between my hands, my being, and the exterior world. My hands and thoughts have been the bridge between the worlds, even the fact that I still prefer to write on this white page with a soft lead pencil is evidence of the same basic tendency. Whenever I was sick, lying in bed with the Book of Knowledge encyclopedia spread about me, cutting paper into smaller pieces and stapling them together to make small books into which I would transcribe drawings of monkeys, etc. Hours spent happily reading or making art are still primary pleasures for me.
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 Fine Arts
Into the Woods at Home of Daniel Chester French
By: - Jun 28th, 2010The juror for Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 is Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The sculptors in the exhibition are: Gabriel Edward Adams, John Belardo, Rick Brown, Tim De Christopher, Philip Grausman, Peter De Camp Haines, Sarah Haviland, Phyllis Kulmatiski, Nina Levy, Tim Prentice, Mary Ellen Scherl, and Christopher Smith.
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Winter's Tale for Summer Fun Theatre
Opens July 15 at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 27th, 2010The Winter’s Tale illuminates Founders’ Theatre this summer as Director Kevin G. Coleman unleashes Shakespeare’s theatrical mastery and verbal powers at their greatest height. The production features the return of long-time Company actor Jonathan Epstein as Leontes, King of Sicilia, and Elizabeth Aspenlieder as Hermione, his Queen, and a cast of 17 other seasoned Company actors and newcomers.
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Beeline Ramblers Music
Berkshire Musicians Summer Schedule
By: - Jun 27th, 2010Fran Mandeville and Lisa Burnstine Mandeville live in North Adams but they make sweet music all over the Berkshires. Here is a schedule of the Beeline Ramblers for the summer season. If you catch them at the Dreamaway Lodge in Becket be sure to enjoy dinner. Tell em we sentyah.
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The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown Theatre
Relationship Drawn Out at Berkshire Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 27th, 2010The conceit of The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is that the couple Cathy (Julie Reiber) and Jamie (Paul Anthony Stewart) follow separate time lines through their relationship and marriage that terminates in a bitter divorce. He is an author with no life experience other than his own bathos and she is an aspiring actress with meager talent. We found little to care about this train wreck of a relationship. If that's your cup of tea walk don't run to Berkshire Theatre Festival.
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The Arts Redefine North Adams Opinion
Mass MoCA, Wilco, Down Street, and Tons More
By: - Jun 26th, 2010This summer through fall foliage the arts are flourishing in North Adams. Now in its eleventh year Mass MoCA is lending a helping hand to a vital, imaginative and ever more vital arts community. New Mayor Dick Alcombright is working shoulder to shoulder with Joe Thompson of Mass MoCA, MCLA, local galleries, artists and community leaders. Now in its third year there are 35 stops on the Down Street arts map. There's a free trolley to get you around town. Events include a huge Wilco Festival at Mass MoCA, the Eagle Street Beach Party, and River Lights III. A world record sidewalk drawing is in the planning stages. Lots of family fun from now till whenever.
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Thoughts on Provincetown Artist Edwin Dickinson Fine Arts
Publishing Off and Online
By: - Jun 25th, 2010Recently the art historian John L. Ward posted a comment on our coverage of the Edwin Dickinson exhibition at the Preovincetown Art Association and Museum. He is the author of Edwin Dickinson, A Critical History of His Paintings. Correspondence with him resulted in this meaty and provocative article. This is our fourth review of an important but neglected artist.
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It’s Jewdy’s Show: My Life as a Sitcom Theatre
Judy Gold Stands Up at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 25th, 2010So, what's a nice Jewish, six foot three inch, Lesbian, mother of two doing in the Berkshires? Standup at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Who would believe it? Trying to get enough money for an apartment with two bathrooms so her kids stop like pissing in the sink already. This Jewdy, yeah, she spells it Jewdy, is such a comic. Like the Borscht Belt, only gay. And in Williamstown where the rich goyim live. That's funny.
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Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd a Slice and Dice Theatre
Cadaver Pies Served Hot at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 24th, 2010Sweeney Todd, the masterpiece of the now 80-year-old genius, and Williams grad, Stephen Sondheim, is given a state of the art, Broadway level production at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. With no compromise on artistic integrity this is stunning musical theatre in an intimate setting. We enjoy signifiying, titubating performances and magnificent music up close and personal at a fraction of Broadway ticket prices. This is Berkshire theatre at its finest.
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Pilobolus Has a Ball Dance
Annual Event July 10
By: - Jun 22nd, 2010In Litchfield County,Connecticut on Saturday, July 10, at Quatre Vents in Washington, Pilobolus will have a ball.. Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter has donated two invitations to the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Pilobolus artistic collaborators Art Spiegelman and Dan Zanes will attend the gala. They will be sowing the seeds of the company’s 40th anniversary. The title for the anniversary season is Pilobolus at 40: Collaborating on the Future.
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Berkshire International Club People
Steamy Summer Picnic
By: - Jun 22nd, 2010It was a gorgeous summer day for the seasonal picnic of the Berkshire International Club. A group of some 70 members gathered around a cool and inviting pool. There was a fabulous spread of food to share including an array of sinful deserts. Many languages were spoken as friends exchanged tales of travel and adventure.
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Patrick Meyer’s K2 a Cliffhanger Theatre
At Berkshire Theatre Festival to July 3
By: - Jun 20th, 2010One in four climbers never make it off K2 the second tallest and most challenging mountain in the world. The 1983 play by Patrick Meyer K2 is given a riveting performance providing a spectacular and spell binding launch for the 82nd season of the venerable Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass. The play is sure to be a smash hit sellout during its all too brief run through July 2.
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Mount Stages Wharton's Summer Theatre
Her Hot Ethan Runs August 18-29
By: - Jun 19th, 2010Tickets go on sale Monday, June 21, for Edith Wharton’s bittersweet coming-of-age story, performed by the Wharton Salon August 18-29 at The Mount. Following last summer’s sold-out run of “Xingu,†The Mount is pleased to welcome the Wharton Salon back this season for Summer, adapted by Dennis Krausnick and directed by the Salon’s founder, Catherine Taylor-Williams. The play, based on the 1917 novella Wharton fondly called her “hot Ethan,†is the story of a young woman who loses herself in the passion of a summer love affair.
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July Art Highlights Opinion
Boston, Berkshire and New York
By: - Jun 19th, 2010Everything is coming up roses for the North Shore Music Theatre, because they are back in business. They reopen with Vicki Lewis in the smash musical GYPSY. Vicki is most remembered for her five seasons playing Beth on the NBC sitcom “NewsRadio.†She also appeared on “Seinfeld†and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.†GYPSY is a Broadway classic and a multi award-winning musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents.
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Simon and Garfunkel Cancel Tanglewood Music
Tour Postponed Because of Illness
By: - Jun 17th, 2010The scheduled appearance by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel at Tanglewood on July 27 has been cancelled. Art Garfunkel continues to recover from a vocal paresis. The tour was originally planned to start in April. It was then shifted to July. Now it is postponed indefinitely. Garfunkel is expected to recover but not in time for the summer concerts. With James Levine out for the season this is the second Tanglewood cancellation in less than a week. There is speculation about how these cancellations will impact tourism and the hospitality industry.
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The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City Fine Arts
Peabody Essex Museum Opening September 14
By: - Jun 17th, 201090 objects of ceremony and leisure â€" murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné â€" will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will reveal the contemplative life and refined vision of one of history’s most influential rulers with artworks from one of the most magnificent places in the world.
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Lester Johnson 1919 to 2010 Fine Arts
A Leading Figurative Expressionist
By: - Jun 17th, 2010Lester Johnson, who died recently at 91, was one of the leading artists of the Figurative Expressionist movement which developed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Much of this activity occurred at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown as well as in New York. The two other primary artists were Jan Muller who died in 1958 and Bob Thompson who was 29 when he died in 1966. Although there was no direct connection Figurative Expressionism saw related developments in San Francisco and Chicago. The movement was pushed aside with the emergence of Pop art then reformulated as Rhino Horn from 1967 to 1978.
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Barbara Cook at Mahaiwe August 15 Music
Elaine Stritch Postponed
By: - Jun 16th, 2010In a bit of musical chairs, Tony award winner Barbara Cook replaces a scheduled appearance by Elaine Stritch at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. The much anticipated concert will occur on August 15. The Stritch appearance has been postponed because she is joining the Broadway cast of Sondheim's A Little Night Music. This season Cook appeared on Broadway in Sondheim on Sondheim.
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Martin Beauregard at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
Drive End Through September 19
By: - Jun 15th, 2010From June 17 to September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum.
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Bowery Gallery at 40 Fine Arts
Chelsea Opening of Pages June 24
By: - Jun 15th, 2010The artist run Bowery Gallery is celebrating forty years with an exhibition of current members. Pages opens on June 24. at 530 West 25th St. in Chelsea. Over the decades some 150 artists have been associated with the gallery. An illustrated catalogue accompanies this project.
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Mengelberg and Mahler by Daniel Klein Music
Robert Lohbauer in World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 14th, 2010Berkshire based playwright Daniel Klein has collaborated with Emile Fallaux, who directs, on the the world premiere of Mengelberg and Mahler, a one person play, at Shakespeare & Company. It stars company veteran Robert Lohbauer. While Mahler fans may find much to like about this intimate performance it left us unmoved. The script while well crafted was not adequately conveyed by the actor. On opening night, however, Lohbauer was given a standing ovation by some of the audience.
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James Levine Withdraws from Tanglewood Music
Slots Filled by Renowned Conductors
By: - Jun 14th, 2010In April James Levine, the artistic director of Boston Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera, underwent back surgery. While he planned a season for Tangelwood he has now withdrawn from the program. It is hoped that he will recover in time for the fall seasons of the BSO and Met. This is a repeat of his absence from Tanglewood following surgery after the opening concerts in 2008. Given chronic health issues there is speculation about his long term role in Boston and New York. Renowned conductors will fill the vacant slots in Lenox this season.
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Rosanne Cash at the Colonial June 29 Music
Performing the List Johnny Cash Gave Her
By: - Jun 12th, 2010The genesis of Rosanne Cash’s new album The List dates back to a day in 1973 when Cash’s father, the incomparable Johnny Cash, discovered some gaps in her knowledge of American roots music. He spent the rest of the day making a list on a legal pad, and at the top he put “100 Essential Country Songs†handed it to her and said, “This is your education.†She will perform this material at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on June 29.
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A Cole Porter Tribute Music
You're the Tops at the Pops
By: - Jun 11th, 2010.The music of Cole Porter bubbled like champagne at Symphony Hall. Keith Lockhart conducted in a thoroughly enjoyable evening of Pops. He was joined by Broadway stars including Kelli O’Hara, Jason Danieley and Matthew Anderson.
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