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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Jamin' the Jive Word
Mingus Cutting Brubeck
By: - Apr 25th, 2016With great artists gathered for Festivals entrepreneur George Wein liked to match them up for impromptu jam sessions. They didn't always work like when Charles Mingus on bass joined pianist Dave Brubeck for a hilarious cutting contest. Brubeck would lay down a lick which Mingus then took apart and reassembled like a bop crossword puzzle.
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Agnes of God in Palm Springs Front Page
Coyote StageWorks at Annenberg Theatre
By: - Apr 23rd, 2016Whoever says one has to go to New York or LA to see great theatre obviously hasn’t seen, but should see, the current Coyote StageWorks production of “Agnes of God” currently on stage at the Annenberg Theatre in Palm Springs.
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Guggenheim Installs Golden Potty Word
All That Glitters Is Not Art
By: - Apr 22nd, 2016In the current art world nothing succeeds like excess. The venerable Guggenheim Museum has installed a golden potty an alleged work of art by Maurizio Cattelan. In the Dada tradition of Duchamp it appeals to New Yorkers sitting on the throne who believe their shit is gold.
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Royals in the News Word
Prince Dead All Hail the Queen
By: - Apr 21st, 2016A bitter sweet day of Royals in the news. Champagne toasts for the Queen now 90. Posed with her brood. While the artist known as Prince pronounced dead at 57.
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Eclipse Mill Book Launch May 6 Front Page
Event Features Five North Adams Authors
By: - Apr 21st, 2016Five residents of the Eclipse Mill will present a book launch and reading in the gallery on Friday, May 6 at 8pm. The free event and reception will occur at 243 Union Street, North Adams, Mass. 01247. The participants include Charles Giuliano, Astrid Hiemer, Vin Jensen (Ien Nivens) and Sarah Sutro.
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Stonehenge Word
Great Circle of Stones
By: - Apr 21st, 2016The great circle of stones vividly evoke pre-Christian Britain when Druids worshiped the gods in harmony with earth and the passage of time.
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Alpine Hotel Word
View of Central Park
By: - Apr 21st, 2016Come Labor Day, back from Boston, gallery gig started. In transition stayed in hot sheet Alpine Hotel at Columbus Circle. From its eventual penthouse awoke to view of Central Park.
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Royal Flush Word
Grouse Hunting at Balmoral
By: - Apr 21st, 2016I was just eight when that other Charles was born. From then on he seemed like a younger brother. Over the years in the darkest hours we have roamed the highlands during holidays at Balmoral Castle. Now seniors we wonder when or if he will be King.
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American Repertory Theatre 2016/ 17 Season Front Page
Award Winning Theatre in Cambridge
By: - Apr 20th, 2016“Our 2016/17 season features work that will engage our audiences in current conversations around gender, class, and identity; pivotal moments in Irish and Argentinian history; and the crisis in our American education system.” stated A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. “I am delighted to welcome back to the A.R.T. Anna Deavere Smith, Bill Rauch, and Jo Bonney, and to introduce many new artists.” She continued, “Incubating and developing new work is critical to our mission of expanding the boundaries of theater. Instead of helming a production next season, I am excited to be dedicating my time to the development of new work, which will result in productions for future seasons.”
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Brandenburger Tor Word
When the Circus Came to Town
By: - Apr 20th, 2016Visiting Berlin some years ago we stayed at the apartment of Horst and Bettina Hiemer the actor cousin of Astrid. From the balcony of their apartment we looked down at Cirque de Soleil a short distance from the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of the city.
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Watson and the Shark Word
Conflating Havana and Boston Harbor
By: - Apr 20th, 2016During a celebration of Tall Ships ancient square riggers anchored in Boston Harbor. It inspired conflating the setting the dramatic Copley masterpiece Watson and the Shark. The event occurred in Havana but it has been reenacted in Boston. Copley created three versions of the amputation which has now been upgraded.
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Steppenwolf Premieres Mary Page Marlowe Front Page
Six Actors Portray Tracy Lett's Main Character from 12 to 69
By: - Apr 20th, 2016Tracy Letts’ script for the Steppenwolf Theatre world premiere production, Mary Page Marlowe, explores her identity in 11 scenes and 80 minutes. In his dramatic deconstruction of a life, the scenes are not performed in any ordered way and Mary Page is represented from age 12 to 69 by six different actors. (And a baby doll. Originally three actual infants were to alternate as infant Mary Page, but director Anna D. Shapiro decided during previews that was too much verisimilitude. Shapiro has children herself, so I don’t know why she thought a baby would do what it was being directed to do. Directing babies would be like herding cats.)
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ATCA in Philly Front Page
2016 Theatre Conference
By: - Apr 19th, 2016"In our time, theater here began to blossom about 25 years ago," wrote Howard Shapiro, a Philadelphia-based theater critic and ATCA's conference chairman in a welcome note to attendees. "And about 15 years ago the scene exploded. Of the 50-plus stage companies that pay their actors, designers and creative teams, about 35 hold Actors' Equity contracts at any given time. Metropolitan Philadelphia is now home to more than 1,000 Equity members, plus sizable communities of scenery, costume, lighting and sound designers; directors and playwrights. The theater community is a minor Philadelphia industry."
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Amalfi Coast Word
To Catch a Thief
By: - Apr 18th, 2016The cliff line drive, high above the Mediterranean, from Sorrento to Amalfi is spectacular but terrifying. It was the setting for the enduring Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief (1955) which paired Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. She later quit Hollywood to marry Prince Rainier and share the rule of the tiny Monaco. The Princess was 52 when she died on September 14, 1982, a day after suffering a stroke while driving, causing her to crash. Her daughter Stephanie survived the accident.
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Artist Rafael Mahdavi Word
School of Paris
By: - Apr 17th, 2016With family in Wellesley the artist Rafael Mahdavi commuted to a studio in the Marais arrondissement of Paris. He is fluent in several languages including Farsi and has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and America. In 2000 we met in his Paris studio to plan a tandem of exhibitions for New England School of Art & Design/ Suffolk University as well as Boston's French Library. With a shoestring budget we shipped large paintings to and from Paris rolled in a tube sent by Fed Ex as table cloths. This was a means of avoiding prohibitive French taxes. Sight Unseen proved to be an ambitious and insightful international exhibition.
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Actress Irina Maleeva Front Page
Appears in The Meddler with Susan Sarandon
By: - Apr 15th, 2016Irina Maleeva, born in Bulgaria but who has lived in the United States for over 40 years, started her movie career at the tender age of 14 while living in Italy. She was discovered by famed filmmaker Federico Fellini and went on to work with some of the premiere filmmakers including Orson Welles.
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Al the Arab Word
Hipster Wizard
By: - Apr 15th, 2016We knew the consummate hipster Albert Hamway by the colorful sobriquet Al the Arab. But may, in fact, have been Armenian or Lebanese. Mentor and friend he was a running mate while on the lam in the Lower East Side.
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Sonny Rollins Word
Tenor Titan
By: - Apr 14th, 2016Tenor titan, Sonny Rollins, is the last of the greatest generation of post bop jazz. While a troubled teen he launched a career with many phases and changes that has lasted for decades.
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Nick Cave at MASS MoCA Front Page
Preview of October Installation
By: - Apr 13th, 2016African American artist, Nick Cave, creates ritual, fetish costumes Sound Suits which transform and vitalize issues of gender, identity and race. With curator Denise Markonish he discussed an installation that will open at Mass MoCA on October 15 in the vast Building Five.
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Degenerate Art Word
Les Fleurs du mal
By: - Apr 13th, 2016Too often great artists drawing on their family and wrecked lives as inspiration for theatre and literature pay a terrible price for that Faustian contract. So it was with the American masters, O'Neill, Williams, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. There is the vicarious pleasure of experiencing their work.
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Lester Johnson In Provincetown Front Page
ACME Fine Arts Exhibition Opens on May 20
By: - Apr 12th, 2016The watercolors and ink works making up the exhibition were selected from the artist’s estate by ACME Gallery Director David Cowan. Collectively they chronicle Johnson’s response to the landscape that surrounded him during his summers in the art colony during the 1950s, and reveal how the sights of Provincetown informed the development of his unique and important visual voice.
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Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Front Page
2016 Season
By: - Apr 12th, 2016Waterford, CT – The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center announced today the 2016 summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development at the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Puppetry Conference, and Cabaret & Performance Conference.
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Great American Songbook Word
Liza, Feinstein and Cook
By: - Apr 12th, 2016During an ATCA meeting in Indianapolis we visited the Performing Arts Center in nearby Carmel, Indiana. The artistic director of the stunning theatre is Michael Feinstein. The complex houses the growing archive for his advocacy of the Great American Songbook. Through his performances and collecting activity the mandate is to keep vibrant the legacy of more than a century of great Broadway musicals. He was joined that night by Barbara Cook. That summer at Tanglewood Liza Minelli took a train from New York to join him as a guest on stage.
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Herbie Hancock Word
Lyrical Post Modernist
By: - Apr 11th, 2016From 1963 to 1968 Herbie Hancock played piano for the Miles Davis Second Great Quintet. It included a teenager Boston drummer, Tony Williams, Ron Carter on bass and, after some changes, Wayne Shorter on horns. Hancock was fired for flimsy reasons and replaced by Chick Corea who was replaced by Keith Jarrett. Hancock continued to record with Miles after he was sacked. Later the Quintet reformed as V.S.O.P. with Freddy Hubbard replacing Davis.
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ATCA Celebrates Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone Front Page
Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award
By: - Apr 10th, 2016The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” as the winner of the 2015 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2014.
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