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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Celebrate the Constitution on September 17 Front Page
No Better Place Than Philadelphia
By: - Sep 09th, 2016Since 2004, September 17 has been officially recognized as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, a day on which to learn about the Constitution. And there’s no better place to celebrate and learn than the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, established by Congress to “disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a non-partisan basis in order to increase the awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.”
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Allyn Burrows Named Artistic Director Front Page
No Stranger to Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Sep 08th, 2016Shakespeare & Company announces that actor and director, Allyn Burrows, a long-time member of the Company, has been named its new Artistic Director.
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Key to Olson's Maximus Word
Time, Space and Polis
By: - Sep 08th, 2016From the beginning my the poetry project that began in August, 2014 my consigliore, Robert Henriquez, has emphasized Charles Olson, and his epic Maximus, as a resource and connector. For most it is a complex and daunting work. As he put it "an acquired taste." It takes fortitude to take it on and bend to its monumentality and density. In one of his best poems Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 (Withheld) Robert feels that we have the essence of his intentionality. Imagine my astonishment yesterday to find "Letter # 27" in The World Famous Non Stop Seagull Opera Meets the Fishtones at the Strand an evocative CD by legendary rocker and Gloucester native Willie "Loco" Alexander.
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Many Gloucesters Word
An End to Great God Cod
By: - Sep 07th, 2016Circumnavigating Cape Ann there are many harbors and inlets each with their own flavor. There is a vast social, political, economic and ethnic spectrum. Initially they came to fish and farm. Now, behind the scenes, speculators are buying up priceless but decrepit waterfront property with its wharves and fish processing plants.
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Gloucester Movie Night Word
Dating Au Pair
By: - Sep 07th, 2016Making out with the au pair after a night at the movies I parked little Pip on the swing. She was scared of the dark.
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Olson’s Short Word
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The Rothschilds at Stage Door Theatre Front Page
Through October 16 in Margate, Florida
By: - Sep 06th, 2016“The Rothschilds” is based on a real-life European family whose members established a powerhouse banking operation and secured rights for their fellow Jews during a time of anti-Semitism in late 18th century Europe. Family members faced boulder-size odds throughout their efforts, making their dream seem impossible.
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Quixotic Windmills Word
Gloucester's Man of La Mancha
By: - Sep 06th, 2016Windmills generating renewable energy. A good idea in a terrible location marring forever the precious Gloucster profile.
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Blessing of the Fleet Word
Our Lady of Good Voyage
By: - Sep 06th, 2016During Colonial times they settled in Gloucester's Stage Fort Park to work the Grand Banks. Ever diminished that continues to this day. Now a handful of boats earn a living from the sea. Hard times impact ethnic balance as Italians and Portuguese sell their homes, abandon neighborhoods, and move away from the trade of their ancestors.
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Leviathan Word
Gloucester's Maud / Olson Library
By: - Sep 05th, 2016Ralph Maud (1928-2014) was a colleague and friend of Charles Olson, and a leading authority on Olson’s life and work. Maud was interested in the sources of Olson’s poetry, and undertook the ambitious task of identifying and collecting a copy of every book Olson had ever owned, read, or referred to. The Maud / Olson Library opened close to the Gloucester Writers Center in June.
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Pigeon Cove Tavern Front Page
At Emerson Inn, Rockport, Mass.
By: - Sep 04th, 2016With a magnificent ocean view from the terrace Pigeon Cove Tavern at the Emerson Inn in Rockport coudn't have been better. There was a perfect mix of fine dining, ambiance and impreccabler service.
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Old Movies Word
Annisquam Family Dinner
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Sister Pip, a Buddhist and vegetarian, is a fabulous cook. For this family dinner in Norwood Heights there was entertainment, old movies that Mom shot, and cassatta a Sicilian cake that Paula and Aunt Esterre brought from Brooklyn.
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Willie Loco Alexander Word
Ill Be Good with The Fishtones
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Back in the '60s I covered The Lost with Willie Loco Alexander at The Cheetah in New York. I remided him of the gig when he came to my reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We swapped a book for his latest CD. We played it one the ride home to the Berkshires.
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Fitz Henry Lane Word
Gloucester's Harbor Master
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Walking with crutches the artist Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) made his way down from a stone house to a dory in Gloucester Harbor. There as a passenger on schooners he visited and painted the harbors and inlets along the Atlantic coast. A large collection of his paintings are on view in the Cape Ann Museum.
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Artist’s Retreat Word
Media Not the Message
By: - Sep 04th, 2016Without the usual distractions of computer and TV there was initial frustration. In retreat the reactive mind unwinds slowly gradually allowing in more gentle thoughts. Making room for Gloucester and its fishy legacy.
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Gloucester Frame Shop Word
126 East Main Street
By: - Sep 03rd, 2016The former frame shop of poet Vincent Ferrini is now home to the Gloucester Writer's Center. We spent a week in its book -lined single room touched by the poets.
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Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman Front Page
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Sep 03rd, 2016This production is worth seeing less, I believe, for a seldom-seen, lesser Ibsen play, than for a sensitively directed, brilliant cast. The plot development may be drawn out and repetitious, but its dramatic effect onstage is mesmerizing.
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Carl Belz at 78 Front Page
For 24 Years Director of Rose Art Museum
By: - Sep 03rd, 2016For 24 years Carl Belz was the director of the Rose Art Museum where he was a champion of regional artists with an emphasis on women. There was an annual major exhibition sponsored by Lois Foster who was later instrumental in his ouster when she and her husband Henry were the primary donors of an addition in their name designed by Graham Gund. Belz passed away recently at the age of 78.
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Grateful Dead Word
On Dad’s Head
By: - Aug 27th, 2016Like Queequeg in Moby Dick collecting heads. Not shrunken. Dad's from med school and my Tibetan skull bowl used for drinking blood.
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Summer at the Movies Front Page
Some You Might Have Missed
By: - Aug 27th, 2016A number of quirky little subversive gems a made for a delightful summer. “The Lobster” had only a limited release in March and came into the theaters of middle America at the end of May, making it, by default, a summer movie for those of us not living in New York or LA. Then came “Swiss Army Man,” “Wiener-Dog,” “Captain Fantastic” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.”
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This Old House Word
Signs of the Time
By: - Aug 26th, 2016Zipping along the back road. Short cut tom Pittsfield taken thousands of times. Passing old house ever more decrepit. Interesting to look at as a romantic ruin. Then, good grief, can it be Trump for President signs. Can it be a prank? The surreal semiotic of the creep who would be president.
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The Hypochondriac by Moliere Front Page
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Aug 26th, 2016Antoni Cimolino’s production is showy, full of brilliant moments, superbly cast, and elaborately staged. But what should be a souffle soon begins to feel like a heavy, overfilled, over-spiced stew.
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Little Richard Word
Those Fabulous Fifties
By: - Aug 25th, 2016Back in the Fifties rock and roll incinerated my generation. Nobody smoked it like that wild child Little Richard.
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Chorus Line in Charleston Front Page
Opens 85th Season of Footlight Players
By: - Aug 25th, 2016The production of A Chorus Line which opened the 85th season of Footlight Players in Charleston was so fresh and lively that it was hard to fathom that the musical premiered some four decades ago. The smallish stage was packed with 26 hopefuls auditioning for just eight roles.
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Steve Martin's Meteor Shower Front Page
World Premiere at Old Globe Theatre
By: - Aug 24th, 2016“Meteor Shower”, Steve Martin's latest play, is currently wowing audiences at the Old Globe with his far-out sense of humor that deals with the social mores of 1990s California. It has already been extended twice.
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