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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Lamb Shanks Food
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Lincoln Center's Flying Over Sunset. Front Page
Musical About Early Acid Trips
By: - Jan 08th, 2022In the late ‘50s-early ‘60s, LSD (before Dr. Timothy Leary) was a trendy drug used by both psychiatrists and other to help individuals explore their past and their subconscious. Among the well-known people who experimented with the drug was actor Cary Grant, novelist Aldous Huxley and playwright/journalist/diplomat Clare Boothe Luce.
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The Musical Kimberly Akimbo Front Page
NYC’s Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater
By: - Jan 07th, 2022Kimberly Akimbo the newly penned musical with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Shrek the Musical) and music by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Caroline, or Change) is the most loving, loveliest, and poignant theatrical experience of the year.
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BSO Appoints Executives Front Page
Maureen Flores, as Chief Development Officer, Asadour Santourian, as Vice President
By: - Jan 07th, 2022Gail Samuel, Eunice and Julian Cohen President and CEO of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, today announced the appointment of two new executive leaders Maureen Flores, as Chief Development Officer, and Asadour Santourian, as Vice President, Tanglewood Music Center & Learning. Both appointments are effective January 2022.
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Fire and Ice Word
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Why Casablanca is an Iconic Film Front Page
TCM Encores Jan. 23 and 26
By: - Jan 06th, 2022When the movie “Casablanca” merged the powerful elements of love, war, and destiny in 1942, the film and its producers never saw the phenomenal appeal or its success coming until it won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1943. Eighty years later it still deserves a shout-out for American filmmaking exceptionalism.
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Remaking West Side Story Front Page
Screenwriter Tony Kushner and director Stephen Spielberg
By: - Jan 05th, 2022The original film of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story was released in 1957. Why mess with a masterpiece? Now we have a remake collaboration by living legends screenwriter Tony Kushner and director Stephen Spielberg. While arguably not better it certainly is different and relevant for a new generation of viewers. Look for the fabulous 89-year-old Rita Moreno (Academy Award winner for her 1961 portrayal of Anita) as Valentina, the widow of the store owner ‘Doc.”
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My Father's Portraits Front Page
Aesthetic and Psychic Legacy of Raeford LIles
By: - Jan 05th, 2022During three years in New York in the 1960s I (Charles Giuliano) was assistant director of East Hampton Gallery. Raeford Liles was one of the artists we represented. A native of Birmingham, Alabama he came from a military family. During WW11 he was a fighter pilot in the South Pacific and later served with SAC based in Paris where he studied art and cooking. There PTSD caused a breakdown leading to a lifetime of treatment and medication. He often spoke of his daughters with whom he had a complex relationship. This is explored in a remarkable essay by Barbara Liles. A chapter of a larger work in progress it was published by Southern Humanities Review.
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What’s in a Name Word
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Turducken Food
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39th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony Front Page
What to Do With Post Holiday Trees
By: - Jan 01st, 2022You are invited to attend the 39th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Friday, January 7, 2022, 4:00 pm, Harbor Hotel beach, Provincetown Harbor (snow, storm or shine); bring something non-toxic to burn on a tree boat. Sponsored by the IRS, International Re-Rooters Society, Jay Critchley, President
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Music for Abandoned Amusement Parks Front Page
Uncanny Masterpiece by East Boston's Sal Baglio
By: - Jan 01st, 2022In an uncanny masterpiece musician Sal Baglio, in Music for Abandoned Amusement Parks, captures the ambiance of colorful East Boston. Journalist Frank Conte is the venerable chronicler of the hood.
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Spatchcocked Duck Food
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Jazz in the Berkshires Front Page
What Are You Doing for New Years
By: - Dec 30th, 2021This very special concert features the amazing flutist Andrea Brachfeld with Insight: Bill O’Connell, piano; Harvie S, bass; and Jason Tiemann, drums
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Good Government Word
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What’s on Netflix and Amazon. Front Page
Good, Bad and Ugly
By: - Dec 28th, 2021In the dead of winter baby it's cold outside. It's time to curl up on the couch and hunker down with Netflix and Amazon. Here is a cheat sheet of what we've been watching.
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Discombobulated Word
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The Play That Goes Wrong Front Page
And That's the Truth
By: - Dec 22nd, 2021The premise of the play that actually goes wrong is introduced by Chris Bean, president of the Cornley University Drama Society (played by Matt Mueller). The drama society is staging the play The Murder at Haversham Manor in the USA, a production made possible, the program notes, by the British-American Cultural Exchange Program.
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The Perennial Woman in Black Front Page
Produced by American Conservatory Theater
By: - Dec 20th, 2021The Woman in Black has drawn sufficient audience to run on London’s West End for over 30 years – second in longevity only to Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap.” It’s had productions around the world and has been translated into 14 languages. Not bad bona fides. Produced by American Conservatory Theater it plays at ACT’s Strand Theater, 1127 Market St., San Francisco.
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Donald for Christmas Word
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Croakability Word
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The Art of Donald Shambroom Front Page
A Hegelian/ Kantian Struggle
By: - Dec 18th, 2021Donald Shambroom’s art embraces a hybrid notion of the societal whole and the individual as its own kind of whole. He leans on the structure of a visual language derived from Rauschenberg to insert images of faces known from mass media side by side with those of people in his immediate family. Sometimes there is text given the same weight as the faces and bodies.
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Shakespeare & Company News Front Page
First Three Titles For 45th Season
By: - Dec 16th, 2021Shakespeare & Company announces the first three titles slated for production during its 45th Season, beginning in June 2022. Two works by Shakespeare and a modern production will open the season, which also marks the one-year anniversary of The New Spruce Theatre – Shakespeare & Company’s 500-seat amphitheater, constructed in the summer of 2021.
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Unpacking NFTs Front Page
Art or Scam
By: - Dec 15th, 2021NFT art is a new way of categorizing digital artworks that enables artists to monetize their creations. A pertinent question: how does valuing a physical artwork compare to valuing a virtual work of art? It turns out that the value of NFTs and crypto art is based on the value of cryptocurrency. NFTs are sold on the basis of Ether or Ethereum. The Ethereum is translated into monetary value. For example, if an NFT sells for 2 Ethereum, that would translate at the moment into about $2,255 dollars. If the speculative value of the Ethereum drops, then so does the value of the artwork.
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Morning Sun Front Page
Manhattan Theatre Club
By: - Dec 11th, 2021The magic of this play lies in the everyday ordinariness of each character’s lives which frequently tend to echo our own. I might add, when the lights went down there was not a dry eye in the house. Nor was there a heart left untouched.
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