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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Rare Loan from Acropolis of Athens Front Page
Kore on View at Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Jun 05th, 2023About 2,500 years ago, the Acropolis of Athens was filled with statues of young women, called korai. Raised on high bases, these dedicated offerings created a forest of shimmering marble women honoring the goddess Athena. One of the finest examples of these objects, known as Kore 670, which rarely leaves the Acropolis Museum, has traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where it is on view through January 8, 2024.
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American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light Front Page
Harvard Art Museums
By: - Jun 05th, 2023This summer, the Harvard Art Museums present over 100 years of dazzling and imaginative artistry through the medium of watercolor. American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light showcases more than 100 watercolors by over 50 well-known and historically underrepresented artists selected from the museums’ deep and diverse holdings—a rare opportunity because of the light-sensitive nature of these works.
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Boston Dynamics's AI Front Page
Dance Spot Dance
By: - Jun 01st, 2023In recent months, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics has been deemed by journalists and other critics as demonic forces that will endanger the future of humanity.
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Mark Morris Launches Pillow Season Front Page
The Look of Love to Music of Burt Bacharach
By: - May 31st, 2023A longtime Pillow favorite, Mark Morris Dance Group will bring audiences The Look of Love, an homage to the music of the late Burt Bacharach, which had its world premiere in 2022 and which Fjord Review called “a breath of fresh, brilliant, joyous—and much needed—air.” A towering figure of popular music, Bacharach is known for his soaring melodies and unique orchestrations influenced by jazz, rock, and Brazilian music.
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The 82 Club Word
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What she learned from plants at Gloucester Writers Center Front Page
By Peter Littlefield Directed by Roy Rallo
By: - May 31st, 2023Lately I've been writing little metaphysical screenplays for dolls, dogs and humans. My friend Roy Rallo - with whom I work in opera - has been shooting them with my help.
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The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman Front Page
At ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - May 31st, 2023The show is based on the novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which was turned into a fine film in 1993 and a more recent film in 2020. The young adult book, as it would now be described, was written in 1911.
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Frankie’s in Lenox Front Page
Superb Osso Bucco
By: - May 30th, 2023Whenever it's on the menu I generally order osso bucco. I have enjoyed it from Palm Beach to Bologna. Even made it from time to time at home. The version at Frankie's in Lenox was among the best ever
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Playwright Mark St Germain Front Page
Anthony Hopkins to Star in Freud's Last Session
By: - May 29th, 2023Many of Mark St Germain's plays have premiered at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. One of his most successful was Freud's Last Session with some 200 global productions. Recently he discussed how the play is being filmed in Ireland starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. He also spoke about his new play The Happiest Man on Earth which is having its world premiere at BSC.
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The Happiest Man on Earth by Mark St. Germain Front Page
Back by Popular Demand at Barrington Stage Company
By: - May 29th, 2023By popular demand Barrington Stage Company brings back a world premiere by Mark St Germain on the stage that bears his name. The Happiest Man on Earth is a one-man show based on the holocaust memoir The Happiest Man on Earth published by Eddie Jaku when he was one hundred years old. It is profoundly performed by Kenneth Tigar.
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Department of Play Front Page
New Urban Planning Paradigm
By: - May 27th, 2023An example of Department of Play’s approach was recently on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360’s exhibition At Play. The collective views its mission as fostering group discovery and involvement in the thoughtful (playful?) envisioning of an evolving urban environment.
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Gypsy at Goodspeed Front Page
Solid But Not Outstanding Production
By: - May 26th, 2023This classic musical was originally written specifically for Ethel Merman, a huge Broadway star, by Jule Styne (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Arthur Laurents (book). It was loosely based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, the stripper/actress/writer.
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Barrington Stage Company Gala 2023 Front Page
Taylor Mac Hosts Night at the Kit Kat Club
By: - May 25th, 2023Hosted by MacArthur Genius-Award-winning playwright, director, and performance artist Taylor Mac, BSC’s Gala will transport attendees to the pre-war Berlin Kit Kat Club for an evening of pleasure featuring a cabaret lineup that will include burlesque artist Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Off Limits for Critics Front Page
No Coverage Allowed This Summer
By: - May 24th, 2023The once fabled Williamstown Theatre Festival, under interim artistic director Jenny Gersten, has cut back this season.
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Nor’easter: Paintings by Terry Ekasala, Rick Harlow, and Craig Stockwell Front Page
At The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield VT
By: - May 24th, 2023Most years, we in New England experience massive storms called Nor’easter’s. In the winter months these epic events usually stop everything for a few days while we dig our way out of snow drifts and wait for electricity to resume. As artists, we relish any reason to stop in our tracks, slow time, and experience stillness.
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David Auburn's Summer, 1976 on Broadway Front Page
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht
By: - May 23rd, 2023Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht) are mothers of 5-year-old daughters; it is summer in Columbus, Ohio and both are connected to The Ohio State University.
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This Unique Place: Paintings and Drawings of Jeff Weaver Front Page
Stunning Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - May 21st, 2023As a painter Jeff Weaver is a man for all seasons. Some of the most engaging works are winter scenes. It’s the Gloucester that tourists never see. He creates meticulous paintings of weathered, storm battered, Gloucester commercial and residential landmarks. The works document vintage images of a working port and fishing community undergoing a change to an economy based on tourism and a glut of generic condos.
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New Publication from MFA Front Page
America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer by Nonie Gadsden with Kate Lanford Joy
By: - May 19th, 2023In a thoughtful introduction, Gadsden makes her case for Modernism, and then hones in on five wonderfully talented but quite different trailblazing industrial designers: Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958), Donald Deskey (1894-1989), Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008), Harley J. Earl (1893-1969), and Belle Kogan (1902-2000).
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Front Page
Vocalists Roberta Donnay and Alexis Cole
By: - May 18th, 2023The headline concerts include two striking vocalists: Roberta Donnay with the Prohibition Mob Band, and the first pairing of vocalist Alexis Cole with the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Free “jazz-al-fresco” takes place on Saturday, June 10, and there will be two jazz brunches.
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Cast For Summer Season Front Page
Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season,
By: - May 18th, 2023The Season opens May 26 with Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, with David Gow and Zoya Martin, outdoors in The Roman Garden Theatre.
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Casting for William Finn's New Brain Front Page
Barrington Stage Company in Association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - May 18th, 2023A New Brain features music and lyrics by BSC Associate Artist William Finn (BSC: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Royal Family of Broadway), book by Finn and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner James Lapine (Broadway: Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George), and direction by BSC Associate Artist Joe Calarco (BSC: Waiting for Godot, Into the Woods, Ragtime), with music direction by Vadim Feichtner (BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway; Broadway: Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and choreography by Chloe O. Davis (Paradise Square).
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Season Closer at Yale Rep Disappoints Front Page
the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson
By: - May 18th, 2023Yes, there are some funny moments and some touching ones, but overall, it is hard to become engaged with the characters. Except for Janice, they appear only in short scenes that allow for little depth of character.
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Blockbuster Planned for Cape Ann Museum Front Page
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - May 16th, 2023Edward Hopper (1882-1967) visited Cape Ann initially at the invitation of his friend and fellow painter, Leon Kroll (1884-1974), and produced his first oil painting outdoors in the United States during that trip. The Whitney Museum is lending Hopper’s five oils painted in Gloucester in 1912, including Briar (sic) Neck, Gloucester (1912); Tall Masts (1912); Italian Quarter (1912); and Gloucester Harbor (1912). The exhibition will mark the first time these works have ever been shown together on Cape Ann.
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Sweet Feat Word
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Fat Ham by Pulitzer Winner James IJames Front Page
American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2023Fat Ham turns Shakespeare’s Hamlet upside down without minimizing the issues the original raises or the brilliance. The play by James IJames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it is easy to see why.
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