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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Summer Stock by Cheri Steinkellner Front Page
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Aug 10th, 2023Summer Stock is a new old-fashioned musical bringing joy to audiences at Goodspeed. It is unabashedly old-fashioned.
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Barrington Stage All Stars Front Page
Julianne Boyd Directs Brian Friel’s Faith Healer
By: - Aug 08th, 2023Julianne Boyd, the founding artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, retired last year. Unburdened by administrative responsibilities, she has been lured back to direct a dark, moody masterpiece, Faith Healer by Brian Friel (1929-2015) the greatest Irish playwright of his Generation. For this triumphant return she cherry picked a dream team trio of Christopher Innvar (Frank), the faith healer, Gretchen Eglof his long abused wife Grace, and Mark Dold as the whimsical roadie Teddy.
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Letting Go: Stillness Front Page
By: - Aug 07th, 2023The Law Of The Heart, an ancient scroll, speaks of the Three Treasures: The Way, The Teacher, and The Scripture. Each plays an important role along the spiritual path we walk.
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Blues for an Alabama Sky By Pearl Cleage Front Page
At Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 06th, 2023In his first season as artistic director Alan Paul has selected the 1995 play by Pearl Cleage. Set during the Harlem Renaissance its a good but not great play given a flawed production directed by Candis C. Jones for Barrington Stage Company.
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August Wilson's Masterpiece Front Page
Fences at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2023The power of Fences derives from the mastery with which August Wilson conflated the mojo of the blues with the paradigms of Greek tragedy. This play is as intricately structured as works by Sophocles and Aeschylus. While rooted in the African American culture of Pittsburgh, Wilson was at heart every bit a classicist.
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Margaret Swan Flow Front Page
Ar Boston Sculptors
By: - Aug 04th, 2023Margaret Swan’s solo exhibition Flow investigates the duality of free-flowing forms versus structures of containment, choreographing an elegant dance between the two. The fluid, curving planes of her polychrome aluminum sculpture suggest movement, while contrasting latticed frameworks create tension and a sense of restraint. The final effect is that of water passing through nets or vessels—triumphantly finding its own way.
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At the Precipice Front Page
Design Museum of Chicago
By: - Aug 04th, 2023The beauty of art and the tragedy of the climate crisis live side by side in a stunning new exhibit at the Design Museum of Chicago. Some 30 pieces ranging in size from framed art to wall-length tell the story of why we are “At the Precipice” in this record-breaking hot and stormy summer of 2023.
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Sweet Feat Word
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Sorrow, Fear and Stillness Front Page
By: - Aug 01st, 2023Each of us, each of us all, have lost someone or something. Each of us has faced fear – fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of death. In the moments of experiencing those fears, and of the sorrow that can accompany them, they were real. In some instances, they were debilitating.
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Jazz in the Berkshires Front Page
Bousquet Jazz Festival
By: - Aug 01st, 2023A series of august jazz programming, is the upcoming month. With our friends at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute paying increased attention to jazz, two local dates by itinerant pianist Peggy Stern, and the second annual Bousquet Jazz Festival, there’s plenty to choose from.
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Eric Gauthier at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
By: - Aug 01st, 2023Now 47, the French Canadian dancer, artistic director, and choreographer Eric Gauthier joined Stuttgart Ballet in 1996, where he rose to the rank of soloist. Initially with six dancers, in 2007 he founded Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
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Le Beau port Word
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Annisquam Seafair Front Page
Books Games and Cotton Candy
By: - Jul 31st, 2023Noted for its Wax Works the Annisquam Seafair is now 178-years-old. We attended this past weekend.
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Tony Bennett at 96 Front Page
Performed at Tanglewood with Lady Gaga
By: - Jul 21st, 2023Tony Bennett who won 20 Grammys has died at 96. With a raspy voice that defied description he was a master of phrasing, swing, and insightful interpretation. I saw him upclose in a 1980s pairing with pianist Dave McKenna for PBS. Then more recently at Tanglewood.
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Barrington Stage Company's Black Voices Matter Front Page
3rd Annual Celebration of Black Voices
By: - Jul 19th, 2023Barrington Stage Company, as part of its Black Voices Matter initiative, is sponsoring the 3rd annual “Celebration of Black Voices” community festival. For 2023, “Celebration of Black Voices” will take place over 4 days - from Thursday, August 10 through Sunday, August 13 on Pittsfield’s West Side. The festival will feature six free events celebrating the local Black community through artistic engagement.
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Jacob's Pillow Week Eight Front Page
Martha Graham Dance Company
By: - Jul 19th, 2023Jacob's Pillow is pleased to announce programming for the eighth week of the 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, when the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will perform Graham’s Cave of the Heart and Errand Into the Maze, and Hofesh Shechter’s CAVE, in the Ted Shawn Theatre from Aug. 16-20.
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Artist and Rastafarian Peter Dudek Front Page
Publishing a Limited Edition Book
By: - Jul 18th, 2023For the past 15 years artist Peter Dudek has been a part of a team of three that manage Bascom Lodge on Mount Greylock. Prior to that, with Maggie Mailer, he managed Storefront Artists Project in Pittsfield. It brought life to the moribund downtown. Recently we met to discuss a limited edition facsimile of a 1951 Met catalogue American Sculpture.
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Dutch National Ballet Front Page
World Class Company at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 18th, 2023The Dutch National Ballet’s first visit to Jacob’s Pillow offered a deep immersion in classical ballet, past and present. On every level it belongs to the top tier of dance in the Berkshires.
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Music at Williams College Front Page
Schedule for 2003 to 2004
By: - Jul 17th, 2023Williams College presents many free concerts during the academic year. This is the schedule of upcoming events.
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Sound of Music Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jul 15th, 2023The production uses elements from the original script as well as elements from the movie and subsequent Broadway revivals. This means that the two songs Richard Rodgers wrote for the film – “I Have Confidence in Me” and “Something Good” are included and the original “An Ordinary Couple” is omitted.
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Indigenous People of Cape Ann Front Page
Separating Fact from Myth
By: - Jul 12th, 2023In response to an article The Disappeared of Cape Ann, posted to the Giuliano book site, Mary Ellen Lepionka, an authority on the subject sent a lengthy response. During the occasion of Gloucester 400th Plus much scholarly information is coming to light. Her research is presented here as a letter to the editor.
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Provincetown's White Line Prints Front Page
At the Museum of FIne Arts
By: - Jul 12th, 2023Drawing from the collection of the late Leslie and Johanna Garfield, this exhibition focuses on the work of six artists: Ada Gilmore Chaffee, Maud Hunt Squire, Ethel Mars, Mildred McMillen, Juliette Nichols, and B. J. O. Nordfeldt—the first pioneering group that came together in Provincetown to practice color woodblock printing.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
By: - Jul 12th, 2023For nearly three decades, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has thrilled audiences around the globe with its full-throttle, high-intensity performances on five continents and in over 20 countries, committed to its mission of “bringing unity to the world one dance at a time.” The diverse and inclusive company is made up of dancers “who blur lines and boundaries and exude an innate passion” (The Guardian). With their programs set to music from Kendrick Lamar, David Bowie, Metallica, and Lenny Kravitz, the company reinvents ballet with a mix of methods, styles, and cultures that engages and delights.
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Mark Morris at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Bacharach/ David The Look of Love
By: - Jul 11th, 2023Jacob's Pillow launched its season with the Mark Morris Dance Group performing an hour long work Bacharach/ David's The Look of Love. During this soggy summer how apt that Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.
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Connecticut Critics Circle Awards Front Page
Best of the Best
By: - Jul 08th, 2023A powerful production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at the Yale Repertory Theatre and an exuberant production of “42nd Street” at Goodspeed Musicals took top honors at the 31st annual Connecticut Critics Circle Awards (ctcritics.org).
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