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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Lectures at The Mount Word
Eight Weekly Events July 12 through August 30.
By: - Jun 11th, 2010From the “Grand Dame†of Champagne to the “Dark Lady†of American literature, eight intriguing and influential figures are the focus of this summer’s Lecture Series at The Mount. The series, now in its seventeenth season, brings acclaimed biographers and memoirists to Edith Wharton’s estate for fascinating talks exploring an array of cultural icons�"and a few notable iconoclasts. The talks are held every Monday from July 12 through August 30.
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DownStreet Launches June 24 Fine Arts
Summer Exhibitions in North Adams
By: - Jun 10th, 2010With seven additional visual art destinations over last year’s offerings and 11 new galleries, this year’s DownStreet Art initiative â€" organized by the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) â€" not only will increase in scope and size; its installations will highlight communities from around the world.
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The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez Theatre
Boffo at Barrington Stage Company Through June 17
By: - Jun 10th, 2010Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield has launched its season with a sell out, smash hit production of the Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez. There are just a few seats available for the run which ends on June 17. Just when the Main Stage starts the Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd. The hit Whipping Man must give way on Stage Two for a two week run of last year's hit Freud's last Session. The play which premiered with Barrington is having a tuneup prior to opening Off Broadway this summer. Let the games begin.
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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance Fine Arts
Additional Programming for Guggenheim Exhibition
By: - Jun 08th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has opened two additional galleries to complete its presentation of the full-rotunda exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Newly featured works by Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Christian Marclay, and Jeff Wall as well as live performances by Sharon Hayes, Joan Jonas, and Tris Vonna-Michell extend the exhibition’s investigation into themes of memory, trauma, repetition, and appropriation through the use of reproductive media.
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Yasmina Reza's Art on June 24 Theatre
The Portsmouth Museum of Art and New Hampshire Theatre Project Collaborate
By: - Jun 08th, 2010The Portsmouth Museum of Art and New Hampshire Theatre Project have forged a collaboration to present a reading of the award-winning play ‘Art’ by Yasmina Reza on Thursday, June 24th at 7:00 pm. The play, a witty comment on the human condition, has been referred to as a ‘comic gem’ by the Boston Globe.
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Shakespeare & Company Fall/ Winter Theatre
Diverse Schedule Planned
By: - Jun 08th, 2010The Fall/ Winter schedule for Shakespeare & Company will includeThe Real Inspector Hound , The Annual Fall Gala , As You L ike It , The Fall Festival of Shakespeare , The Santaland Diaries , The Mystery of Irma Vep , Shakespeare and the L anguage that Shaped a World , and rounding out the season , Hamlet (The Company’s New England Tour of Shakespeare) will come home for a limited run.
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Dennis Lee Hopper May 17, 1936 People
Method in His Madness
By: - Jun 07th, 2010In 1980 while he was touring to promote a film he acted in and directed, Out of the Blue, I interviewed Dennis Hopper. He excused himself several times becoming more and more gonzo. It was after one of those line breaks that I shot the iconic image that accompanies this obituary. The exchange was so vivid it seems like yesterday. Hopper was an American original who never lived up to his full potential.
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Jacob's Pillow Gala June 19 Dance
Bill T. Jones to be Honored
By: - Jun 07th, 2010Jacob’s Pillow kicks off Festival 2010 on June 19 with the Season Opening Gala, the world-renowned dance organization’s biggest annual fundraising event. Following an exclusive Gala performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre and the presentation of the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award to choreographer and director Bill T. Jones, guests are treated to dinner and dancing to live music. This evening is widely celebrated as a signature summer event in the Berkshires and attracts a multitude of dance lovers, celebrities, government dignitaries, and visitors from around the world every year.
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Spanish Masters of Cinema at the Clark Film
Film Series June 18 to August 27
By: - Jun 07th, 2010In a summer when the Clark is featuring the work of two great Spanish artists, its “Spanish Masters of Cinema†film series, June 18 through August 27, will look at the work of six acclaimed Spanish directors. In the long history of Spanish filmmaking, the great director Luis Buñuel was the first to achieve universal recognition, followed by Pedro Almodóvar in the 1980s. More recently Spanish cinema has achieved high marks from critics and filmgoers alike as a result of its creative and technical excellence, notably Guillermo del Toro’s Academy-Award-winning 2006 masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, the final film in the six-part series
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Mengelberg and Mahler at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Daniel Klein Play June 11 to September 10
By: - Jun 07th, 2010Mahler is an unseen but fully-present character in Mengelberg and Mahler. He is Mengelberg’s cherished friend, his inspiration, his conscience, and ultimately his spiritual salvation. Mahler’s musicâ€"parts of his 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Symphonies, plus "Wenn dein Mütterlein" from the Kindertotenliederâ€"is a full partner in this production. These musical portions do much more than set the scene: they are essential to Mengelberg’s understanding of his own life.
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Berkshire International Film Festival Film
Jason Lehel’s GAIA Won for Best Feature
By: - Jun 06th, 2010The Jury for Berkshire International Film Festival had 8 films in competition; 4 films in the feature documentary category and 4 in the narrative feature category. In the documentary category were AHEAD OF TIME, CLIMATE REFUGEES, FAMILY AFFAIR, and THE OATH. ATLETU, GAIA, MAD SAD & BAD, and MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX were in competition for best feature.
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I Like Ike Architecture
Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
By: - Jun 06th, 2010It was Memorial Day when we visited the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum in his home town of Abilene, Kansas. It seemed like stepping back in a time machine as so little has changed in this middle American hamlet since he left to become the savior of democracy and a leader of the free world. The heart of the complex of five buildings is the modest family home where he was raised as one of seven brothers by fundamentalist parents.
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The Mount Launches First Annual Literary Festival Word
Twenty Acclaimed Authors to Speak July 23-25
By: - Jun 03rd, 2010The Mount announces the launch of its first annual literary festival, Berkshire WordFest, to be held at Edith Wharton's historic estate in Lenox during the weekend of July 23-25, 2010. The festival will bring nearly twenty nationally acclaimed writers to The Mount for sixteen public events over three days.
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Lady of the Camellias Through June 7 Dance
American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City
By: - Jun 02nd, 2010In “The Lady of the Camellias,†a superb, relatively- unknown ballet brought to life by American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York, the ballet’s protagonist, Armand Duval, spends his whole life longing for Marguerite Gautier, a woman who enthralls him, even though she often acts like he doesn’t even exist.
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Pueblo Potter Maria Martinez Fine Arts
In Depth Collection of Denver Art Museum
By: - May 31st, 2010Many American museums display examples of the black ware pottery created by Maria Martinez and painted by her husband Julian. The Denver Art Museum has an in depth collection of these unique pieces in a variety of shapes and decorative styles. It is one of the highlights of their stunning presentation of the Art of the Americas.
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Rose Art for Hire Fine Arts
Brandeis Plans to Parade the Relics
By: - May 29th, 2010The tenure of outgoing Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz is winding down. He leaves in dispgrace vilified by the academic and museum world for proposing to close the renowned Rose Art Museum and sell off part of not all of a collection valued at $350 million. The latest scheme/ scam is to rent the collection in partnership with Sothebys. While the Rose is a Rose this fleur du mal just stinks.
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Snake Rattle and Roll Travel
Don’t Tread on Them
By: - May 29th, 2010Compared to the Burmese Pythons exploding in the Everglades the rattle snakes of the South West are relatively benign. But better to encounter them at the funky reptile museum than out in the wild. The fun of travel is that you never know what is encountered along the way.
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The Carlsbad Caverns Travel
Deep Below New Mexico
By: - May 27th, 2010.The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico were recommended to us as a destination on our second “See America†tour. We drove 3000 miles to have the experience. They are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Jidl Mitn Fidl (Yiddle With His Fiddle) at Mahaiwe Film
Berkshie International Film Festival Event June 6
By: - May 26th, 2010Based on the classic 1936 Yiddish film musical comedy Yidl Mitn Fidl starring the irrepressible Molly Picon, this new English-language adaptation was written by screenwriter and author Stephen Glantz and will be directed by Susan Merson.
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Little Cinema at Pittsfield Museum Film
Hosts Berkshire International Film Festival June 5 & 6
By: - May 26th, 2010Pittsfield Museum’s Little Cinema celebrates 60 years of cinematic excellence . One of the longest-running film festivals in New England, Little Cinema presents first-run foreign and independent films. Little Cinema presents films nightly at 8 p.m. plus a weekly Monday matinee at 2 p.m. Kicking off this historic season is an appropriately historic film, Vincere, (128 minutes, rated R), running from Sunday, May 30 to Thursday, June 3.
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Whitney Museum to Break Ground Downtown Architecture
Renzo Piano Design for Meatacking District in 2011
By: - May 25th, 2010In an historic decision for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to break ground on a new museum building in downtown Manhattan in May 2011. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line, the six-floor, 195,000-square-foot building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, will provide the Whitney with essential new space for its collection, exhibitions, and education and performing arts programs in one of New York’s most vibrant neighborhoods.
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Rusted Roof at the Colonial June 9 Music
Band Has Sold 3 Million Albums
By: - May 25th, 2010Rusted Root will be at the Colonial on June 9 for one performance at 7:30PM. Rusted Root has sold more than 3 million albums worldwide since forming in Pittsburgh in the early ’90s. The band’s worldly style quickly charmed fans of roots music and world rock. Their 1994 album When I Woke went platinum and featured the hit songs “Send Me On My Way,†“Ecstasy†and “Martyr.â€
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Shakespeare & Company Restructures Debt Theatre
Tony Simotes Stabalizes Finances
By: - May 25th, 2010Some months ago we asked former artistic director, Tina Packer, if Shakespeare & Company is out of the woods? She was guarderdly sanguine. Now the new artistic director, Tony Simotes, has managed to pay down a high interest short term loan, settle a construction law suit and restructure the debt. The prospects look far better comining into a full season.
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Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations Fine Arts
Town and Gown in Marfa, Texas
By: - May 23rd, 2010The conceptual/ minimalist artist, critic, philosopher and theorist, Donald Judd (1928-1994) had radical ideas founding a contemporary art museum on a 340 acre former military base in Marfa, Texas. Today Marfa's Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations are major destinations for cultural tourism. As with Dia Beacon, in New York, and Mass MoCA in North Adams there has been a dramatic impact on the local economy and lifetstyle. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of who you talk to. In Marfa we got an earfull.
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Maurizio Cattelan at the Menil Collection Fine Arts
Shock and Awe in Houston to August 15
By: - May 20th, 2010Was our first visit to the sublime Menil Collection in Houston enhanced or diminished by an intervention/ exhibition by the radical Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan? The artist plays on irony but many arts leaders are not amused. They comment that the project by Cattelan is an insult, travesty and sacrilege. Or stroke of genius from a major contemporary artist.
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