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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Oscar Winner Sebastain Lelio Directs Disobedience Front Page
Jewish Life in England
By: - Jun 02nd, 2018“Disobedience” is a mesmerizing, interior, fascinating, and affecting screenplay that carefully structures the movie to squeeze maximum emotional impact from its two stars, which it does in spades. It’s a bold and daring film even by today’s standards.
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Joe Thompson Takes a Plunge Front Page
MASS MoCA Director and Taryn Simon’s A Cold Hole
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Fully clothed in an elegant summer suit, MASS MoCA director, Joe Thompson, during the opening of “A Cold Hole" by the artist Taryn Simon, jumped into her icy installation. That was truly shocking but what happened next is even more of a hoot.
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Fed and State Support for Berkshire Arts Front Page
Making $1 Worth $10
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Arts leaders and the media met at Shakespeare & Company to hear good news about state and federal funding. With manufacturing long gone from the region cultural tourism is the major industry. The arts season attracts more than 400,000 visitors and generates 4,000 plus jobs. Congressman Richard Neal announced $348,000 in NEA funding for the Berkshires. The federal funding cycle provides $900,700 to the Massachusetts Cultural Council and $1,092,400 to the New England Foundation for the Arts to benefit cultural groups across the state. He reported that the NEA this year got an increase of $3 million for a total of $152,849,000.
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Love Never Dies Actually Should Have Front Page
Messy Sequel to Phantom of the Opera at Hartford's Bushnell
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Love Never Dies, the sequel written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Glenn Slater (lyrics) and Ben Elton (book) is based on the novel The Phantom in Manhattan. Of these, only Webber was involved in the original Phantom. It runs at the Bushnell, in Hartford, Conn. through Sunday, June 3
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Schön and Schön: From Generation to Generation Front Page
Mother and Daughter Collaborate on Ceramic Sculpture
By: - May 30th, 2018For the first time mother and daughter collaborated to create a large, abstract, ceramic vessel emblazoned with evocative faces. With other works by both artists it resulted in a special exhibition Schön and Schön: From Generation to Generation. It remains on view, through June 28, at the North Hill community complex in Needham, Mass. Nancy Schön, now 89, is renowned for her "Make Way for the Ducklings" bronze sculptures in the Boston Public Gardens. Ellen Schön is the Ceramics Studio Supervisor and an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University College of Art and Design.
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David Henry Hwang Musical Soft Power Front Page
World Premiere at The Ahmanson Theatre in LA
By: - May 29th, 2018Playwright David Henry Hwang’s newest musical play “Soft Power”, now enjoying its world premiere on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, is an excellent example of readdressing the domination of White culture of the West to the rising prominence and influence of Asian societies along the ‘silk roads’ of the East. Hwang is a prolific American-born playwright of Chinese ethnicity.
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Still Waiting for Godot Front Page
Irish Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
By: - May 29th, 2018Druid Theatre of Galway, Ireland, has brought its radiant production of Samuel Beckett’s Godot to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for an abbreviated run. Directed by Garry Hynes, Druid’s artistic director, the play stars four renowned Irish actors. The stars are Didi and Gogo (Vladimir played by Marty Rea with Aaron Monaghan as Estragon), the two souls waiting at a country crossroads for someone named Godot.
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Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain Front Page
Launches Barrington Season in Theatre Named for Him
By: - May 28th, 2018Wih medieval ignorance and devastating consequeneces science deniers dominate key cabinet positions in the reactionary Trump administration. Fundamentalism and misinformationm result in parents refusing to vaccinate children. These issues and concerns create uncanny relevance for the revival of Mark St. Germain's 1991 play Typhoid Mary. It launches the season for Barrington Stage Company on the stage that bears his name.
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Big Foot Word
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Boston Publisher Stephen Mindich at 74 Front Page
Presided Over Once Formidable Phoenix Media Empire
By: - May 25th, 2018While he lacked stature, Stephen Mindich, who died this week at 74, cast a giant shadow. As a hip capitalist at the height of his power he was an ersatz Citizen Kane of Boston's counter culture industry of print and broadcasting media. In 2013, his Phoenix empire exhinguished never again to take flight from the embers of fame and fortune.
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The Originalist by John Strand at Court Theatre Front Page
Cat and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
By: - May 23rd, 2018The story told in John Strand’s play The Originalist is set in the 2012-13 term in which Scalia (Edward Gero) hires as one of his clerks a high-achieving, outspoken Harvard Law School graduate who happens to have political views directly opposed to his. Jade Wheeler plays Catherine (Cat) as ready to spar with her boss and mentor on judicial issues that came before the court as well as other political issues
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Tony Nominated Revival of Carousel Front Page
Josh Henry Dominates as Bill Bigelow
By: - May 22nd, 2018In a controversial, but Tony nominated revival of Carousel, the verbal and physical abuse of Julie Jordan (Jessie Mueller) by leading man Billy Bigelow (Josh Henry) has been toned down but not eliminated. With the heightened awareness of the Me Too movement one has the right to question why we are seeing this on Broadway? While dated and deeply flawed, arguably, it is one of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.
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Berkshire Museum Plays Bait and Switch Front Page
Juried Show Art of the Hills Opens on June 2
By: - May 22nd, 2018On Sunday, June 2, the Berkshire Museum is hosting a festive opening for its summer-long juried exhibition Art of the Hills. Of 230 who applied works by 36 regional artists will be on view. I will not cross picket lines to attend the "celebration." There are no plans for Berkshire Fine Arts to view or review the exhibition.
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CAVS Fellows Gather to Celebrate Front Page
50 Years of Art Science and Technology at MIT
By: - May 18th, 2018The former faculty and fellows of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies gathered from all over the world for a 50th anniversary exhibition and celebration. There was a lively reception in the ground floor gallery of the MIT Museum which faces MASS Ave in Cambridge. The exhibition continues in galleries above. The museum moved to this more accessible building several years ago. The project also entailed galleries in the Rotunda area of the main building on the MIT campus.
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Foucault You Man Word
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Moore and Picabia Lost for Gain Word
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Suddenly Last Summer at Raven Theatre Front Page
Enthhralling Play by Tennessee Williams
By: - May 14th, 2018The play is set in the misty garden of a mansion in New Orleans’ Garden District in late summer 1936. Violet Venable (Mary K. Nigohosian), a wealthy widow, is telling the story of her poet son Sebastian, who died under mysterious circumstances the previous summer in Spain.
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Margaret Swan at Boston Sculptors Gallery Front Page
A Decades Long Appreciation
By: - May 13th, 2018Margaret Swan is an artist I have followed with much appreciation over decades. Her recent exhibition "Aloft" at Boston Sculptors Gallery was insired by the rigging, spars and sails, of tall ships. With this latest work there is a readily identified thread that reveals the aesthetic DNA of an artist who has been sharply focused through the years. Yet again the reliief pieces of varying scale are pristine in thought and execution.
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Unlocking an Inner Universe Word
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Nana and Hitler Versus Picasso and the Others Front Page
Two New Documentary Films
By: - May 10th, 2018Two recent documentaries, both directorial feature film debuts, approach the memory and history of World War II from distinctly different and refreshing perspectives. Serena Dykman’s “Nana” is a eulogy, not only for her grandmother, Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant but for all victims of the Holocaust. Claudio Poli’s “Hitler versus Picasso and the Others” is a thorough history of the labyrinthine fate of European art during World War II.
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Arnie Reisman on Boston's Counter Culture Front Page
Golden Age of Arts and Media from 1969 to 1981
By: - May 08th, 2018The critical success of "Astral Weeks" by Ryan Walsh has brought national media attention to Boston's counter culture in 1968. Following a prior interview with former Cambridge Phoenix editor, Harper Barnes, we pick up on the other side of the Charles River with former Boston After Dark Editor, Arnie Reisman. This continues our coverage of arts and media during a golden age from 1969 to the demise of The Real Paper in 1981.
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Two Minds by Lynne Kaufman Front Page
At The Marsh in San Francisco
By: - May 08th, 2018The Marsh San Francisco is noted as the Bay Area’s premiere home for solo theatrical performance. With Two Minds it doubles the cast size and the richness of the drama.
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Zoe Lewis’ Cabaret in Provincetown Front Page
Bootleggers Rock Monday at The Mews
By: - May 07th, 2018To our surprise, a Monday night at Provincetown's The Mews, in early May, the joint was jumping. It was packed to the gills for a fabulous night of cabaret with pianist/ singer/ raconteur Zoe Lewis and the Bootleggers. It was the absolute highllight of a pre season week on the Cape.
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Buddy Holly on Stage in Chicago Front Page
February 3 the Day the Music Died
By: - May 06th, 2018Playwright Janes is an English writer and producer who works in TV, film, radio and stage. Buddy—The Buddy Holly his best-known work and ran for 14 years in London’s West End and toured in the U.K. for 17 years. Buddy has also been on Broadway, toured the U.S., Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
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2018 AM-DOCS Film Festival Front Page
Annual Program in Palm Springs
By: - May 06th, 2018Seven years ago, AM-DOCS Film Festival founder Teddy Grouya, felt that filmmakers of documentaries needed a proper festival of their own to display their diverse and wide-ranging, special subject-matter films. Accordinglt, the documentary film genre has been presented a festival format with all the trimmings.
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