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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Death and Texas Word
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The New Agit Prop Front Page
American Repertory Theatre
By: - Sep 01st, 2021The press release for fall programing at American Repertory Theatre contained a signifying statement.
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Last Rose Word
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Mothers of the Bride by Meghan Maugeri Front Page
Produced by Pear Theatre
By: - Aug 31st, 2021Starting with the latter 20th century, divorce, remarriage, and nonmarriage have become so prominent that the would-be-bride may have several significant women to share these charged moments with. Or maybe none. Yet those same consternations go on, right down to the decision whether to go through with the wedding. Playwright Meghan Maugeri has plumbed this territory with a well-written play.
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Oval Office Word
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Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories Front Page
MFA To Display Two Extant Quilts of Harriet Powers
By: - Aug 31st, 2021This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will bring together the only two extant quilts made by Harriet Powers (1837–1910), displaying the iconic works together for the very first time since they were made by the artist in the 19th century. The famous Pictorial quilt (1895–98) from the MFA’s collection and the Bible quilt (1885–86), on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will be featured in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, opening October 10.
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Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970 Front Page
Harvard Art Museums
By: - Aug 30th, 2021Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics.
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Chicken Shit Word
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Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts Front Page
Off the Rails
By: - Aug 29th, 2021The program has had a good long run of 16 years. It was a writing program for people who wanted to write about art, with an emphasis on literature, philosophy, the relation between aesthetics and politics, and the history and future of the image.
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North Adams Artist Peggy Schiffer Front Page
On Tap for Blue Heron Virtual Exhibition
By: - Aug 29th, 2021SchifferNolandStudio will be the featured artist for the September/October show with Blue Heron Gallery Online. The show will run from September 13 until October 14. Peggy Schiffer and Sam Noland are the two-person collaborative known as SchifferNolandStudio, and their creative practice includes photography, digital media, painting, and other elements
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Giacomo Puccini's Tosca Front Page
Produced by San Francisco Opera
By: - Aug 29th, 2021What is it about “Tosca” that endows it with near universal appeal? There have been naysayers who find the action and music of verismo to be too violent and vulgar, but they are now few. To begin with, this is a mature and confident Puccini in the follow up to his equally renowned “La Boheme.” The opera’s dissonant, ominous opening salvo of the Scarpia theme announces the tragedy to come, while the ensuing score resounds with rich melody, haunting leitmotifs, and several memorable “greatest hits” arias.
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Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Front Page
At the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute through Sept. 19
By: - Aug 28th, 2021The Clark took a chance in featuring an unknown artist as its major summer exhibition. By word of mouth momentum has built for "Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway." The work of the artist was as narrow and deep as the fjords of his native Norway. While beloved in his native land he is unknown to all but a few art historians and specialists of 20th century Scandinavian art.
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Having Our Say- the Delaney Sisters First 100 Years Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Aug 28th, 2021These two sisters, 103 and 101 at the time of the play, regale us with incidents and observations on their lives and opinions. And what experiences they are. They talk about their family’s history (and photos are projected) of slavery and freedom.
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Sandra Oh is The Chair on Netflix Front Page
Cancel Culture on Campus
By: - Aug 27th, 2021Sandra Oh stars as The Chair in a six episode comedy on Netflix. Set on small college Pembroke it is a broad and hilarious satire of cancel culture on campus. While played for laughs the hit comedy has evoked a dialogue about its uncanny, over the top, accuracy. It's the truth that makes this hilarious series sad and all too compelling.
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Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle Front Page
At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Aug 26th, 2021Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artist’s earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile in France at the end of his life.
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Comfort Food Food
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2021 Challenging for Vineyards Front Page
Les Alexandrins, Rhone Valley
By: - Aug 25th, 2021After a mild winter, a dry mid-spring and a July that seemed more like a November, our wine-growers have really been through the mill.
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Lorie Hamermesh at Gallery Naga Front Page
After a 15 Year Hiatus Now Desire/Shame
By: - Aug 24th, 2021After a nearly 15 year hiatus from art making and exhibiting, Lorie Hamermesh is back in a daring and spectacular fashion at Gallery NAGA for a solo exhibition accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog and essays by fellow Boston artists Carol Daynard and Cameron Barker.
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Knights Orchestra Returns to the Clark Front Page
Celebrates Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Exhibition
By: - Aug 24th, 2021On Saturday, September 4, at 4 pm, the renowned Knights Orchestra returns to the Clark as part of its programming to highlight Norwegian culture in celebration of its Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway exhibition.
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Rice and Beans Word
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Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin Front Page
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021“Eugene Onegin” not only represents the greatness of Russian opera but is one of the fine representatives of the whole operatic idiom. Director Alessandro Talevi marshals the creative team to give a look that blends traditional and modern elements.
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Andrea Brachfeld and Insight Front Page
Jazz in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021A remarkable program features Insight with Andrea Brachfeld. The quartet represents a who’s-who of today’s jazz scene. Headed by the acclaimed award-winning flutist Andrea Brachfeld, Insight includes Bill O’Connell, piano; Harvie S, bass; and Jason Tiemann, drums. The repertoire will feature “If Not Now, When,” Andrea’s original composition, made possible by a New Works grant from Chamber Music America.
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Chuck Close at 81 Front Page
An Appreciation
By: - Aug 21st, 2021Martin Mugar posted this in 2005 to the site Art Deal. Overcoming many physical and emotional handicaps Chuck Close prevailed leaving a daunting legacy of work.
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Hurricane Word
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Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Front Page
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 20th, 2021Shakespeare’s frequent conceits include mistaken identities, confused love matches, supernatural interventions, play-within-a-play, and multiple plot lines, but “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” embraces them all, and more. Several threads are interspersed and overlapping throughout the play and opera’s narrative that may cause confusion to the uninitiated.
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