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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Adapted Chekhov's The Seagull Front Page
At Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - May 25th, 2022Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Seagull—adapted, translated and directed by Yasen Peyankov—is set in a large country house in the Russian countryside. The time is indeterminate and the dialog is modernized. But it’s still Chekhov, so everyone is miserable.
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Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame Front Page
Produced by West Bay Opera
By: - May 24th, 2022Despite the difficulty of casting Russian language opera, two are present in the American repertoire, “Eugene Onegin” and “Pique Dame” (“Queen of Spades” in English). Although the former premiered 11 years earlier than the latter, they share the same DNA, including source material derived from Alexander Pushkin.
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Gorging in Gloucester Food
Bounty of the Sea
By: - May 23rd, 2022For our first road trip in three years we visited my sister Pip and ancestral home on Cape Ann. We worked on research for a new book Pip and Me Growing up in Gloucester. It was a week of fabulous seafood and time with friends.
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The Elliot Norton Awards Front Page
Presented by Boston Theater Critics Association
By: - May 23rd, 2022The Boston Theater Critics Association's 39th Elliot Norton Awards stream live May 23 at 8 PM. Winners of over two dozen categories will be announced during the virtual ceremony. John Douglas Thompson receives the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence,
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Large Works by Philip Malicoat Front Page
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - May 20th, 2022Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to present Philip Malicoat: Large Works. On view June 10 - July 24, the exhibition is curated by two of the artist's granddaughters, Breon Dunigan and Robena Malicoat. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 10 from 6-8pm.
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Front Page
Lineup for June 17-19 Festival
By: - May 20th, 2022Event to feature jazz in the park, brunches, and headline performersKarrin Allyson, Houston Person, Michael Benedict and Bopitude
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Vincent Giaranno Realist and Muse at Clark Gallery Front Page
Quotidian Striving for Sublime
By: - May 19th, 2022Since Courbet the notion of realism has taken on many nuances from then to now. The current exhibition of hyper realism, pulchritide and kitsch by Vincent Gairrano at Clark Gallery is a stretch and arguably a bridge too far.
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Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play) Front Page
By Sam Chanse, Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - May 19th, 2022I know. Your first question will be “What’s with that name?” Each of the three elements in the title reflects something of significance in the play. It wouldn’t be my choice, but at least you can say that it represents the many layered nature of the narrative.
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Woodstock's Half Million Front Page
Excavating What Was Left Behind
By: - May 19th, 2022For two weeks in June, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts will turn into an archeological dig site for students from Binghamton University. Their goal? Uncover the untold stories of Woodstock, and provide insight into the entire experience of the iconic festival.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Front Page
Four Finalists for Design for Espace Riopelle
By: - May 19th, 2022The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is moving a step closer to the realization of the future Espace Riopelle with the unveiling of the candidates selected by the jury to move on to the final stage of the architectural design competition launched last March.
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New York City Opera in Bryant Park Front Page
Four Free Performances
By: - May 12th, 2022New York City Opera will present a season of four free, live performances this summer as part of their Park Series in Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America. Each performance features City Opera's brightest stars as well as members of the City Opera orchestra and will begin at 7pm on the Bryant Park Stage.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues Front Page
Down and Out in Paris in the 1970s
By: - May 11th, 2022The Dishwasher Dialogues is a tale of being down and out in Paris in the 1970s. George James Light and Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi share tales of staying alive working at Chez Haynes a soul food restaurant. It reads like a hipster's Beggars Opera. Literally this is a saga from rags to almost riches.
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X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Front Page
Pulitzer Prize Winner by Composer Anthony Davis
By: - May 11th, 2022The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Odyssey Opera, two of today’s leading innovators on the classical musical scene, present the New England premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis’s seminal opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986) on June 17, 2022, at the Strand Theatre, a short distance from the house where Malcolm Little lived in his teenage years in Roxbury. This sprawling, genre-bending biographical opera unfolds the astonishing life of one of the most misunderstood men in history.
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Lake Poem Word
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Joshua Henry at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
10th Anniversary of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
By: - May 10th, 2022Barrington Stage Company (BSC), celebrates the 10th Anniversary and Re-Opening of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center with Broadway’s Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys, Hamilton, Carousel) in an Encore Concert, Joshua Henry Up Close, on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m.
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Rose Art Museum Front Page
Four Major Acquisitions
By: - May 09th, 2022The Rose Art Museum announced the acquisition of four significant works that will enter the museum’s permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the museum’s endowment, the most recent acquisitions include Jeffrey Gibson’s BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (2021), Barkley L. Hendricks’s photograph Self Portrait with Black Hat (1980–2013), Peter Sacks’s mix-media work Without Name (2020), and Marie Watt’s Forerunner (2020)
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Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive Front Page
May On LIne Exhibition
By: - May 09th, 2022Refrigerator Poetry is pleased to present the May 2022 Visual Art online group exhibition organized by archive director, Perri Neri. Refrigerator Poetry can be defined as a multiplicity of voices being created out of the experiences being had in the moment. The artists in this month’s exhibition come to us from all over the world with work completed since 2020. Stylistically diverse and from different generations and circumstances, these artists offer brilliant connections of our collective human existence.
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Bob Fosse’s Dancin' Front Page
at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - May 08th, 2022There are stars just waiting to explode into supernovas when Bob Fosse’s Dancin' opens in New York during the 2022-2023 season, as director and musical stager Wayne Cilento (who won the Tony Award for his star turn in the original production) brings his revived and re-imagined production back to New York.
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Dr. Josephine R. Flynn Word
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Sergei Isupov: Past and Present Front Page
Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams
By: - May 05th, 2022Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Nicole Chesney: Albedo Front Page
On View at Gallery NAGA
By: - May 05th, 2022Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body.
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Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet Front Page
May at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - May 05th, 2022“Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet” is on display for all of May at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. He is an Adams-based painter, printmaker and digital artist.
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Figuration Reconsidered Front Page
Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World
By: - May 05th, 2022The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.
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Guild of Berkshire Artists Front Page
Upcoming Events
By: - May 05th, 2022The Guild of Berkshire Artists has upcoming events. The History of Illustration with Bob Horvath. Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel.
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Berkshire Mountain Distillers Cultural Cocktails Front Page
Toasting the Arts This Summer
By: - May 04th, 2022Participating cultural organizations include Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Berkshire International Film Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Community Access to the Arts, The Clark, Hancock Shaker Village, Jacob’s Pillow, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, MASS MoCA, The Mount, Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare & Company, The Trustees and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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