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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Linda Leslie Brown's Plastiglormate Front Page
At Boston's Kingston Gallery
By: - Oct 03rd, 2018Just when you think you have a handle on the work of Linda Leslie Brown she does something different. As always there is a fresh sense of adventure to Plastiglomorate an exhibition of sculpture at Boston's Kingston Gallery.
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Red Gates Word
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The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson Front Page
At Town Hall Theatre Company
By: - Oct 03rd, 2018For the greater part, history has been made by and written by men. Like Olympe, Lauren Gunderson hopes to rectify gender imbalances in some small measure by sharing the stories of four women who impacted and were victims of the French Revolution
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Dining in Gloucester Restaurants
Bounty of the Sea
By: - Oct 02nd, 2018A visit to Cape Ann presents a number of fabulous dining options. It's best to stick with seafood which comes fresh from the docks. The only problem is being confined to three meals each for an all too short seven days.
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Tom Krens at The Clark Art Institute Front Page
Four Lectures Planned
By: - Oct 01st, 2018Kicking off the series on October 21 is the lecture “Art, Money, Oil, and Guns: The Saga of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.” The lecture traces the narrative arcs of two important elements that combined to produce the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, an extraordinary new museum Tom Krens has called “the Apotheosis.” He is the former director of the Guggenheim Foundation.
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Paula Vogel’s compelling Indecent, Front Page
At Victory Gardens Theater.
By: - Oct 01st, 2018Indecent blends time-jumping scenes with an occasional dance routine and klezmer-flavored music. It’s a fine example of a dramatic play with music. The story and its characters are paramount and the music provides a lyrical underpinning. It’s an epic story told on a very personal level.
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Jean-Luc Ponty at The Cabot Theatre Front Page
Jazz Violin in Beverly, Mass.
By: - Oct 01st, 2018The 850 seat, Art Deco, Cabot Theatre in Beverly, Mass. has been beautifully renovated. It is proving to be a perfect setting for jazz concerts. Recently we enjoyed an evening with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. It was a compelling retrospetive of The Atlantic Years.
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Luigi Pirandello’s Naked Front Page
New Translation at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Sep 30th, 2018The avant-garde master and Nobel Prize winner, Luigi Pirandello, was a prolific writer including some 40 plays. Other than the iconic Six Characters in Search of an Author they are rarely produced today. Notably Berkshire Theatre Group is presenting a new translation of the 1922 melodrama (his term) Naked.
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The Agitators at Gloucester Stage Front Page
Remarkable Friends Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony
By: - Sep 26th, 2018Beyond their names most folks don't know much about abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, and women's suffrage leader, Susan B. Anthony. The remarkable play, The Agitators, by Mat Smart, offers more than a history lesson at Gloucester Stage. It has been given a compact and powerful production sharply directed by Jacqui Parker.
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Cherokee Red Word
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Shaw's Arms and the Man Front Page
Chicago's City Lit Theater
By: - Sep 26th, 2018City Lit Theater’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play, Arms and the Man, takes full advantage of its broad humor. Perhaps Shaw’s most frothy script, director Brian Pastor directs it with panache, although he sometimes lets his cast drift into silliness.
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Pirandello's Naked Front Page
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre,
By: - Sep 26th, 2018Pirandello is best known for his 1921 play Six Characters in Search of an Author, but he wrote a huge volume of novels and short stories, as well as 20 major plays. Trap Door’s production of Naked is engrossing and sometimes confusing, but Martinovich’s direction is smooth.
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Jay for a Day Word
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Crystal Bridges a Landmark Museum of American Art Front Page
Founded by Alice Walton in Bentonville Arkansas
By: - Sep 16th, 2018The largest work of art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is the museum itself, which serves as an anchor for the examination of architecture as art. The design of pods floating over a pond is the creation of Moshe Safdie.
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HIR By Taylor Mac Front Page
Transitional Theatre at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 16th, 2018HIR by Taylor Mac, at Shakespeare & Company, demonstrates that we are now well beyond LGBT. The new acronym is LGBTTSQQIAAF. For Maxine who is transitioning to Max the correct pronoun is hir passing through ze. The playrwight answers to the pronoun judy. The play which took 17 years to create is described as Mac's most biographical.
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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Front Page
Edward Albee Play at Chicago's Interrobang Theatre Project
By: - Sep 15th, 2018The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is certainly a problem play, in the classic sense in which characters debate critical social issues in a realistic context. Think Ibsen, “kitchen sink drama” and the socialist plays of the 1920s and ‘30s. Albee also makes many references to classical tragedy, literature and Greek mythology throughout The Goat.
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Schoenberg in Hollywood at Boston Lyric Opera Front Page
Tod Machover World Premiere
By: - Sep 14th, 2018From November 14-18, Boston Lyric Opera will bring Arnold Schoenberg back east with the world-premiere production of Tod Machover’s “Schoenberg in Hollywood.” Machover has been hailed for his compositions and also for creating new technologies that allow the boundaries of music to be taken beyond even the atonal heights Schoenberg attained.
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Heartbreak Hill Word
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Pretty Woman the Movie as Musical Front Page
Hooker as Hoofer with a Heart of Gold
By: - Sep 13th, 2018The producers of Pretty Woman probably thought they had a sure fire hit. After all, the 1990 movie made Julia Roberts a major star and Richard Gere more of a star. It combines familiar elements: the hooker with a heart of gold, a Cinderella story, and the redemption of a man consumed by greed (think Scrooge).
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Chicago on Stage Front Page
Four Short Reviews
By: - Sep 13th, 2018Chicago critics Nancy Bishop and Matthew Nerber team up to cover four plays with brief reviews. This is one approach to focus on the wealth and diversity of productions in the Windy City.
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Dostoyeksky’s Crime and Punishment Front Page
At Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre
By: - Sep 12th, 2018Dostoyeksky’s Crime and Punishment is a thriller, a slow-paced intellectualized thriller. If you haven’t read the novel since college days, Chris Hannan’s 2013 adaptation—on stage at Shattered Globe Theatre—will sneak up on you.
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Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti Front Page
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 10th, 2018Gaetano Donizetti is recognized as a master of bel canto, with its vocal ornamentation, agility, vibrato, glissando, and precise demands on breath and register control. Although not designed as companions, he wrote operas of three queens in that style, now known as the Tudor Trilogy – Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux.
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Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Front Page
A Twofer at San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 10th, 2018In an unusual alteration, perhaps opera’s most famous closing line, “La commedia è finita” which is written for Canio, is spoken by Mamma Lucia, who is a character from Cavalleria. This change is the most explicit link between the two operas, and it also suggests that the speaker represents humanity, demanding an end to the destructive chaos of primitive morality evidenced in both pieces.
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Detroit ’67 by Dominique Morisseau Front Page
Produced by Aurora Theatre
By: - Sep 09th, 2018Dominique Morisseau’s scintillating Detroit ’67 encapsulates that tragic time through a lens that never leaves the basement of a black ghetto home over several days that July. Set near the corner of 12th Street and Clairmount, this intersection would become the epicenter of death and destruction in Detroit.
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Amazing Grace Word
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