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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Here Lies Love on Broadway Front Page
Concept, Music, and Lyrics by David Byrne
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Once the show actually began, I was engaged. While it is just making its Broadway debut, Here Lies Love, with concept, music, and lyrics by David Byrne, music by Fatboy Slim, and additional music by Tom Gandey and Jose Luis Pardo, began as a concept album in 2010. From there, it ran at off-Broadway’s Public Theater (2013, 2014-15) and London (2014-15), both times garnering multiple awards.
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On Cedar Street at Berkshire Theatre Group Front Page
World Premiere Musical
By: - Aug 20th, 2023On Cedar Street is an intimate, compact musical compressed into one long act on a busy, cluttered set. On Cedar Street which entails the late life romance of widow and widower in rural Colorado is having its world premiere at the Unicorn Theatre of Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Obscene Racine Word
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Here You Come Again Front Page
Goodspeed’s Terris Theater in Chester
By: - Aug 19th, 2023Entering Goodspeed’s Terris Theater in Chester to see Here You Come Again, you view a cluttered living space with decorations for multiple holidays, a disco ball, things hanging from the ceiling, etc. Is this a hoarding situation?
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Kicking the Can of Drawing Front Page
Hegel and Other Matters
By: - Aug 15th, 2023Recently, Jason Travers an artist in the Providence area and a former student from AIB sent me an image of the kind of “drawing” he sees in the asphalt fillings that are ubiquitous on New England roads: an effort to fill in the cracks formed on roads due to frost heaves. The cracks left unattended only speed up the deterioration of the road.
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Living a Daoist Life In Today's World Front Page
Fall Course Offering
By: - Aug 14th, 2023This fall, beginning after Labor Day, I will be offering a new course entitled "Living a Daoist Life In Today's World." The course will be 20 classes long and will include study of the Dao de Ching, The Law Of The Heart, and The 49 Barriers To Spiritual Growth.
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Strong Women in Renaissance Italy Front Page
Fall Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Aug 14th, 2023Strong Women in Renaissance Italy features approximately 100 works of art—sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, illustrated books and prints—largely drawn from the MFA’s collection, alongside eight key loans from the British Library, the Dayton Art Institute, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, the Boston Athenaeum and a private collection. Women became artists, writers, poets, musicians and singers. They acted as patrons and commissioned works of art.
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Summer Stock by Cheri Steinkellner Front Page
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Aug 10th, 2023Summer Stock is a new old-fashioned musical bringing joy to audiences at Goodspeed. It is unabashedly old-fashioned.
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Barrington Stage All Stars Front Page
Julianne Boyd Directs Brian Friel’s Faith Healer
By: - Aug 08th, 2023Julianne Boyd, the founding artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, retired last year. Unburdened by administrative responsibilities, she has been lured back to direct a dark, moody masterpiece, Faith Healer by Brian Friel (1929-2015) the greatest Irish playwright of his Generation. For this triumphant return she cherry picked a dream team trio of Christopher Innvar (Frank), the faith healer, Gretchen Eglof his long abused wife Grace, and Mark Dold as the whimsical roadie Teddy.
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Letting Go: Stillness Front Page
By: - Aug 07th, 2023The Law Of The Heart, an ancient scroll, speaks of the Three Treasures: The Way, The Teacher, and The Scripture. Each plays an important role along the spiritual path we walk.
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Blues for an Alabama Sky By Pearl Cleage Front Page
At Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 06th, 2023In his first season as artistic director Alan Paul has selected the 1995 play by Pearl Cleage. Set during the Harlem Renaissance its a good but not great play given a flawed production directed by Candis C. Jones for Barrington Stage Company.
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August Wilson's Masterpiece Front Page
Fences at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2023The power of Fences derives from the mastery with which August Wilson conflated the mojo of the blues with the paradigms of Greek tragedy. This play is as intricately structured as works by Sophocles and Aeschylus. While rooted in the African American culture of Pittsburgh, Wilson was at heart every bit a classicist.
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Margaret Swan Flow Front Page
Ar Boston Sculptors
By: - Aug 04th, 2023Margaret Swan’s solo exhibition Flow investigates the duality of free-flowing forms versus structures of containment, choreographing an elegant dance between the two. The fluid, curving planes of her polychrome aluminum sculpture suggest movement, while contrasting latticed frameworks create tension and a sense of restraint. The final effect is that of water passing through nets or vessels—triumphantly finding its own way.
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At the Precipice Front Page
Design Museum of Chicago
By: - Aug 04th, 2023The beauty of art and the tragedy of the climate crisis live side by side in a stunning new exhibit at the Design Museum of Chicago. Some 30 pieces ranging in size from framed art to wall-length tell the story of why we are “At the Precipice” in this record-breaking hot and stormy summer of 2023.
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Sweet Feat Word
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Sorrow, Fear and Stillness Front Page
By: - Aug 01st, 2023Each of us, each of us all, have lost someone or something. Each of us has faced fear – fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of death. In the moments of experiencing those fears, and of the sorrow that can accompany them, they were real. In some instances, they were debilitating.
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Jazz in the Berkshires Front Page
Bousquet Jazz Festival
By: - Aug 01st, 2023A series of august jazz programming, is the upcoming month. With our friends at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute paying increased attention to jazz, two local dates by itinerant pianist Peggy Stern, and the second annual Bousquet Jazz Festival, there’s plenty to choose from.
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Eric Gauthier at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
By: - Aug 01st, 2023Now 47, the French Canadian dancer, artistic director, and choreographer Eric Gauthier joined Stuttgart Ballet in 1996, where he rose to the rank of soloist. Initially with six dancers, in 2007 he founded Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
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Le Beau port Word
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Annisquam Seafair Front Page
Books Games and Cotton Candy
By: - Jul 31st, 2023Noted for its Wax Works the Annisquam Seafair is now 178-years-old. We attended this past weekend.
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Tony Bennett at 96 Front Page
Performed at Tanglewood with Lady Gaga
By: - Jul 21st, 2023Tony Bennett who won 20 Grammys has died at 96. With a raspy voice that defied description he was a master of phrasing, swing, and insightful interpretation. I saw him upclose in a 1980s pairing with pianist Dave McKenna for PBS. Then more recently at Tanglewood.
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Barrington Stage Company's Black Voices Matter Front Page
3rd Annual Celebration of Black Voices
By: - Jul 19th, 2023Barrington Stage Company, as part of its Black Voices Matter initiative, is sponsoring the 3rd annual “Celebration of Black Voices” community festival. For 2023, “Celebration of Black Voices” will take place over 4 days - from Thursday, August 10 through Sunday, August 13 on Pittsfield’s West Side. The festival will feature six free events celebrating the local Black community through artistic engagement.
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Jacob's Pillow Week Eight Front Page
Martha Graham Dance Company
By: - Jul 19th, 2023Jacob's Pillow is pleased to announce programming for the eighth week of the 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, when the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will perform Graham’s Cave of the Heart and Errand Into the Maze, and Hofesh Shechter’s CAVE, in the Ted Shawn Theatre from Aug. 16-20.
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Artist and Rastafarian Peter Dudek Front Page
Publishing a Limited Edition Book
By: - Jul 18th, 2023For the past 15 years artist Peter Dudek has been a part of a team of three that manage Bascom Lodge on Mount Greylock. Prior to that, with Maggie Mailer, he managed Storefront Artists Project in Pittsfield. It brought life to the moribund downtown. Recently we met to discuss a limited edition facsimile of a 1951 Met catalogue American Sculpture.
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Dutch National Ballet Front Page
World Class Company at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 18th, 2023The Dutch National Ballet’s first visit to Jacob’s Pillow offered a deep immersion in classical ballet, past and present. On every level it belongs to the top tier of dance in the Berkshires.
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