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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Tru at Music Theatre of Connecticut Front Page
Jeff Gurner Plays Truman Capote
By: - May 01st, 2021Jeff Gurner plays Truman Capote in this production directed by Kevin Connor. Guner does not hide Capote’s self-destructive tendencies and he manages to keep Capote from sounding like a whiner. On some level, he makes us see and feel Capote’s pain.
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MIT List Visual Arts Center Front Page
A Series of Simmer Walks
By: - Apr 30th, 2021MIT List Visual Arts Center has organized This Way, a series of nine artist-designed walks and experiences that offer us diverse points of entry—some intimate explorations of physical embodiment and sensory experience, others guided modifications of scale, space, and geography, or novel considerations of language, architectures, or landscapes. Borrowing its title from a 1961 series by conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn, while also drawing inspiration from Fluxus and the dérive or “drift” of the Situationists, This Way takes up themes of movement and performance, ritual and meditation, and both abstract and concrete explorations of a range of spaces we occupy.
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Homo Electric by Steve Nelson Front Page
Rethinking Human Evolution
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Based on past and current research Steve Nelson posits that the designation for our species Homo sapiens be upgraded to Homo electric. While human anatomy evolves at a glacial rate the species responds to cultural and technological developments. None more-so than diverse uses of electricity. Prior to which we communicated face to face or by snail mail. It took weeks for news to travel across our nation. The telegraph changed that followed by the Atlantic Cable, wireless and telephones. During the pandemic kids are educated through remote learning and parents work from home. We have evolved through our electronic devices.
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FreshGrass at MASS MoCA Front Page
Tenth Annual Festival
By: - Apr 29th, 2021FreshGrass features bluegrass traditionalists and innovators on four stages and platforms throughout the museum’s 16-acre campus. Festival programming also includes FreshScores, a silent film with original live music; FreshGrass commissions and world premieres; instrument and industry workshops; pop-up performances and retail; and local Berkshire food and spirits vendors.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Front Page
Fundraiser on June 5
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Seats and tables are now available for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s annual fundraiser, to be held outdoors under a tent at the Bas Relief Park behind Provincetown Town Hall on Saturday, June 5 at 4pm Eastern.
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Peter Brooke at Gallery Naga Front Page
Light Slides
By: - Apr 28th, 2021Peter Brooke: Light Slides will open to the public on Friday, April 30. Due to Covid-19 precautions, there will be no public reception for the artist. The artist will be present on May 15 and 22 from 1-4pm to chat with visitors. Gallery NAGA’s hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5, with no appointment necessary. Brooke’s paintings are fabrications based solely on memories of his travels and surroundings.
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Mezze Celebrates Morocco Front Page
Tagine Djaj Mqualli, from Meknes
By: - Apr 27th, 2021Our staff pick is inspired by tagine Djaj Mqualli, from Meknes, one of Morocco's imperial cities and an incredible agricultural region producing and trading olive oil since Roman times. This dish is often featured as part of Iftar, the evening meal following 15 hours of fasting, prayer, and reflection that is eaten at sunset during Ramadan.
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American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University Front Page
Return Engagement of The Conjurors’ Club
By: - Apr 27th, 2021American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces today the ensemble of magicians to perform in the return engagement of The Conjurors’ Club created by Vinny DePonto and Geoff Kanick. Back by popular demand, the live interactive multi-magician experience runs online April 28 - May 16, 2021.
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Guggenheim Museum Programming Front Page
Works & Process Live and On Line
By: - Apr 22nd, 2021The performing arts series Works & Process announces the addition of 6pm performances at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a part of New York state’s “Safely Bringing Back the Arts” pilot program. Since March 19, under the guidance of the Department of Health, two concurrent series of performances produced by Works & Process are taking place in the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. These reduced-capacity events are among the first indoor performances the state has permitted since it closed venues due to the pandemic a year ago, reaching a milestone in the recovery of the city’s cultural sector.
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Bang on a Can Front Page
OneBeat Marathon Live Online Sunday, May 2,
By: - Apr 21st, 2021Bang on a Can announces the hourly schedule for the second OneBeat Marathon – Live Online – on Sunday, May 2, 2021 from 12pm - 4pm EDT, curated by Found Sound Nation, its social practice and global collaboration wing. Over four hours the OneBeat Marathon will share the power of music and tap into the most urgent and essential sounds of our time. From the Kyrgyz three-stringed komuz played on the high steppe, to the tranceful marimba de chonta of Colombia's pacific shore, to the Algerian Amazigh highlands and to the trippy organic beats of Bombay’s underground scene – OneBeat finds a unifying possibility of sound that ties us all together.
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Huntington Theatre World Premiere Front Page
Black Beans Project to Live Stream
By: - Apr 21st, 2021The Huntington presents Black Beans Project, a world premiere digital work by Huntington artist-in-residence Melinda Lopez and award-winning performer Joel Perez, directed by Jaime Castañeda, and available for on-demand streaming from May 11 – 30, 2021.
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Mezze Restaurant Goes Whole Hog Front Page
Chef Nick Cooks It Snout to Tail
By: - Apr 20th, 2021Mezze is a destination for fine dining in Williamstown. Last week, Chef Nick broke down his first whole East Mountain Farm heritage pig since before the pandemic. This brings us hope. Hope to continue supporting our farmers, hope to continue to serve you from nose to tail, and hope that we'll continue expanding how we gather together, together. hich hails from Italy; it is a zero ABV spirit that replaces gin though possesses a similar flavor profile.
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Jacob's Pillow 2021 Front Page
Onsite Events Run June 30-August 29
By: - Apr 20th, 2021Onsite events run June 30-August 29, with online streaming through September 23. Newly imagined—with the safety of artists, staff, and audiences at the forefront of all planning—the Festival will feature commissioned works and world premieres, present new site-specific performances created especially for the Pillow’s 220-acre campus, and engage hundreds of artists who have had incredibly limited performance opportunities for the last year.
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Newport Music Festival 2021 Front Page
53rd Season From July 4-20
By: - Apr 19th, 2021Newport Music Festival announces the complete seventeen-concert schedule for its 53rd season, from July 4-20, 2021. All concerts will be held outdoors at historic mansions and venues in Newport, Rhode Island including The Breakers, Bellevue House, Castle Hill Inn, The Chanler at Cliff Walk, King Park, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, Norman Bird Sanctuary, and Rough Point. The full schedule is included below and available at www.newportmusic.org. Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 19.
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Amazons Among Us by Donna Dodson Front Page
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 19th, 2021The world needs new heroines, and Dodson creates them for this exhibition. In her new series of wood sculptures, Dodson re-imagines Albrecht Durer’s “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” as Amazon warriors.
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Living Without Fear Front Page
Our Place in the World
By: - Apr 18th, 2021Laozi says the great Way is easy. Once we find our place in the world, and learn to live in harmony with it, this may be true. Part of finding our place, though, is living without fear.
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Hemingway on PBS Front Page
An Enigma Wrapped in Mystery
By: - Apr 18th, 2021Hemingway was an enigma wrapped in a mystery that could always get away with things that ordinary people could or word never do. He relished his celebrity status to the hilt and he was a party-going charmer when he needed to be. He was envied by men, and was desired by women from afar. In his twenties he had matinee idol looks, and worked them to his advantaged.
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Opera San Jose Live Streams Front Page
A Trilogy of One Act Operas
By: - Apr 17th, 2021What a pleasure to see Bay Area opera companies offering alternatives to traditional live performance productions until we are able to return to the opera houses to experience their magnificence as intended. Following its streaming production of “Three Decembers” by Jake Heggie, Opera San José now offers a curated trilogy of one-act operas. Marital relationships, or more loosely, love constitutes the common bond among the trio. With each requiring only two singing parts, they are highly conducive to the strictures of pandemic era productions.
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The Clark Art Institute Front Page
Celebrates Earth Day on April 22
By: - Apr 16th, 2021The Clark Art Institute celebrates Earth Day on Thursday, April 22, with two guided programs that invite visitors to connect with nature and art on the Clark’s campus. Clark educators lead ninety-minute outdoor experiences that inspire participants to write, draw, move, and more as they explore the unique natural settings of the Ground/work exhibition.
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Noah Haidle’s Sweet and Painful play, Smokefall Front Page
An Encore by Goodman Theatre
By: - Apr 15th, 2021Noah Haidle’s sweet and painful play, Smokefall, directed by Anne Kaufman, staged by Goodman Theatre in 2013-14, and now streaming as part of Goodman’s Encore series.
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Spring at Hancock Shaker Village Front Page
Come See the Adorable Baby Animals
By: - Apr 15th, 2021It's spring at Hancock Shaker Village. That means time for one of its most popular events. For family fun come see all the newborn animals from lambs and piglets to chicks and goats.
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Huntington Theatre 2021 Front Page
Season Starts in Late August
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Huntington announces the return to live, in-person performances following an incomparable year-and-a-half of stages left dark because of the global pandemic. The 7-play season will begin on August 27, 2021 and take place primarily at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End while The Huntington Theatre undergoes a transformational renovation; one production will take place at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Clark Art Institute Free May 2 Front Page
First Sundays Free Program
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, May 2. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is necessary.
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Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum Front Page
Under New Management: The Commodification of the Permanent Collection
By: - Apr 13th, 2021Debuting on April 24, 2021 in the Lampos Gallery, Under New Management: The Commodification of the Permanent Collection features works from Fuller Craft’s permanent collection selected by guest curators and Boston-area artists Oliver Mak, Kenji Nakayama, and Pat Falco. Operating as a fictitious marketing company, MFN Integrated Solutions, the curatorial team aims to activate the collection.
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Lisa Ramirez Performs Eliot's The Waste Land Front Page
April is the Cruelest Month
By: - Apr 13th, 2021John Wilkens has adapted “The Waste Land” to the stage as a vehicle for a solo performer. Oakland Theater Project has produced the staging, starring the multi-talented Lisa Ramirez and directed by Michael Socrates Moran. This production is the first live performance with a live audience sanctioned by Actors Equity in the state of California since the start of the pandemic. But to accomplish the approval, the performance is outdoors, and the audience remain in their cars.
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