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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Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee Front Page
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Mar 17th, 2019In Lauren Yee’s tense and scintillating comedy/drama, Cambodian Rock Band, lead character Chum had escaped Cambodia during the height of the atrocities and resettled in Massachusetts. It is produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and plays in repertory through October 27, 2019.
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Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey Front Page
NY's Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Sean O’Casey’s play, The Shadow of a Gunman, now on stage at Irish Repertory Theatre, tricks us into thinking this might be a comedy about drunken and verbose Irishmen.
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The Rape of Lucretia Front Page
Review at Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Boston Lyric Opera’s production and interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s contemporary tragic opera “The Rape of Lucretia” is once again an example of a willingness and commitment to perform dramatically intense and socially relevant subject matter.
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Andy Warhol—From A to Z and Back Again Front Page
Whitney Museum of American Art
By: - Mar 12th, 2019The Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art leads you through the commercial illustrations, personal drawings, paintings, prints, photos, silkscreens, films, videos, music production, his Factory years and more. The last galleries show his giant Mao painting, works in collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the 35-foot mural titled Camouflage Last Supper 1986, a rendition of the Last Supper under camouflage print.
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Judas Kiss in Pasadena Front Page
Just Wilde About Oscar
By: - Mar 12th, 2019“The Judas Kiss”, written by playwright Hare, is deftly directed by Boston Court’s co-artistic director Michael Michetti, and, boldly explores Hare’s raison d’etre for his roman a clef story. Act One of the play is set in the Cadogan Hotel in London, in 1895.
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Diana The Musical Front Page
Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Mar 12th, 2019La Jolla Playhouse presents a new musical about Diana and Charles who as heir to the British throne, at 70, is still waiting. For global fans she was a fairybook princess in real life.
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Earth Wind and Fire at Tanglewood Front Page
Friday June 28 at 7 PM
By: - Mar 12th, 2019n Friday, June 28, at 7 p.m., Earth, Wind & Fire returns to Tanglewood, bringing its U.S. tour to the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Earth, Wind & Fire are a music institution. Over a five-decade history, they have sold out concerts all around the globe, scored eight number one hits, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
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Glory: A Life Among Legends Front Page
By Dr. Glory Van Scott
By: - Mar 10th, 2019“GLORY: A Life Among Legends” is a testament to “the power of art, to the power of commitment, to the power of education, and how taken together they can change a culture.”
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Trenton Doyle Hancock at MASS MoCA Front Page
Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass
By: - Mar 10th, 2019There is always anticipation and suspense when MASS MoCA opens another year long exhibition in its vast Building Five. The current installation is Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass by cartoonist, conceptual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. This time it seems that the generally dead serious curators just want to have fun. It is a show for children of all ages.
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Rock Archivist David Bieber Part Two Front Page
Boston Media and Counterculture
By: - Mar 09th, 2019Several years ago The Fenway Motor Inn, morphed into the boutique, rock themed, Verb Hotel. David Bieber was commissioned to provide vintage memorabelia from his vast archive. Since then, with a small staff, he has been unpacking and cataloguing the collection. He also worked with the late Stephen Mindich to archive The Phoenix material at Northeastern University. Bieber discusses an era in the counterculture of Boston when there was a community of music makers, promo men, writers and DJs. Rent was cheap compared to now and we were living large on other people's money.
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Boston Rock Archivist David Bieber Front Page
Collection of 600,000 Objects
By: - Mar 07th, 2019The vast archive of some 600,000 objects was a primary source for the Bill Lichtenstein film WBCN: The American Revolution. When in college David Bieber became a campus correspondent for Billboard Magazine. In graduate school at Boston University he wrote a thesis on the impact of WBCN and the growing counterculture media on changing the mainstream of Top 40 radio and the straight press. He became music director of WBUR and went on to work for WBCN and the Boston Phoenix. He provides an insightful overview of an era of social and poltical change for the vast college/ youth market in Boston.
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Al Perry Talks About WBCN Front Page
Former Station Manager
By: - Mar 05th, 2019While many during the Golden Age of WBCN had their heads in the clouds former station manager, Al Perry, had his feet on the ground. Somebody had to stay straight and pay the bills. He is a talking head in Bill Lichtenstein's documentary film WBCN: The American Revolution.
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WBCN and the American Revolution Front Page
Bill Lichtenstein Discusses His Documentary Film
By: - Mar 03rd, 2019On March 7 the documentary film WBCN and the American Revolution will have a sneak preview at the DC Film Festival. On March 9, 12 and 13 there will be screenings at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. A world premiere is being planned for Boston in April. The day after wrapping the film Bill Lichtenstein discussed the project which started in 2006. The story of WBCN is set against events from the launch of the radical FM station in 1968 to developments surrounding the resignation of Richard Nixon seven years later.
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Lil’ Britain in Bennington Restaurants
Authentic London Fish and Chips Shop
By: - Mar 01st, 2019When in Bennington, Vermont we have a new go to place for cheap eats. While simple and unpretentious Lil's Britain serves authentic fish and chips, bangers and mashed, and standard pub food.
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York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti Front Page
Restaging Interesting and Worthy Flops
By: - Mar 01st, 2019For 25 years, the York Theatre Company annually has done their “Musicals in Mufti” series featuring little know musicals, flops and those that closed out of town: Minimal sets/props/lighting, a small combo or just a piano, cast with script in hand and in their own clothes
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Bauhaus in Chicago Front Page
100 Years Celebrated at Elmhurst Art Museum
By: - Mar 01st, 2019The Whole World a Bauhaus, the 100th anniversary exhibit of Bauhaus work, is now on display at the Elmhurst Art Museum. There are national and global Bauhaus exhibitions. This one is on view in Chicago.
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Twilight Bowl by Rebecca Gilman Front Page
World Premiere at Goodman Theatre
By: - Feb 24th, 2019The play is Twilight Bowl by Rebecca Gilman, in a world premiere at Goodman Theatre, directed by Erica Weiss with an all-female cast and crew. Bowling is a backdrop throughout—the sport is a symbol of the working class life these young women dream of escaping or are complacent about.
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Wadada Leo Smith’s latest CD Front Page
Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs
By: - Feb 24th, 2019On his highly acclaimed and awarded release, America’s National Park (2017, Cuneiform Records), Leo Smith won DownBeat Magazine’s Best Album of the Year, 2017. It also earned DB’s Annual Critics Poll in 2017 for best artist and trumpeter.
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Tacos Ring the Bell Front Page
Route 20 Out of Pittsfield
By: - Feb 24th, 2019Meeting on a Saturday afteroon in the dead of winter the agenda was a wine stating at Spirited in Lenox. First lunch at a new taco joint just up the road from Pittsfield.
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A New Work by Yale Drama Graduate Karen Hartman Front Page
Good Faith – Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department
By: - Feb 21st, 2019Good Faith – Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department now having its world premiere at Yale Rep through Saturday, Feb. 23 fits into the category of documentary theater. It is also referred to as theater of witness or theater of fact. This form combines elements of documentary – reliance of interviews, documents and media reports of an event.
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Meatloaf Word
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Brian Coleman’s Buy Me Boston Front Page
A Picture Book of Local Ads and Flyers
By: - Feb 20th, 2019Brian Coleman has published several successful books on hip-hop. The latest of which is a picture book “Buy Me Boston: Local Ads and Flyers, 1960s – 1980s, Volume 1.” It is compiled from thousands of scans of pages of vintage publications.
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Violet the Musical in San Francisco Front Page
Book and Lyrics by Brian Crawley and Music by Jeanine Tesori
By: - Feb 20th, 2019The year is 1964. Violet, a young woman with suitcase in hand, is about to board a Greyhound bus to leave her hometown of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Her destination – Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bay Area Musicals offers a lively and well-staged representation of a journey that changes its central figure in unexpected ways.
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Fulfillment Center by Abe Koogler Front Page
A Red Orchid Theatre Production
By: - Feb 19th, 2019Abe Koogler’s play, Fulfillment Center, is the story of four working people (two of them educated ex-New Yorkers) trying to get by in a mid-size New Mexico city. Jess McLeod smoothly directs an excellent cast of four.
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Jensen's in Bennington Vermont Restaurants
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
By: - Feb 18th, 2019Word or mouth and rave on line reviews led us to Jensen's Restaurant on Vermont. We were famished road warriors on the road cruising for diners, drive-ins and dives. This vintage chicken shack was all of the above.
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