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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The Mount 2016 Front Page
Schedule of Events
By: - Apr 01st, 2016The Mount in Lenox announces its schedule of events for the 2016 season.
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Giverny Goes Pop Word
Monet's Lily Pond
By: - Apr 01st, 2016When Claude Monet died at 86 in 1926, with the sculptor Rodin, he was the most famous and successful artist of his generation. By then Picasso and Cubism had changed the art world. Legally blind, with numerous operations, he painted ever more abstract versions of the beloved lily pond of his rural home at Giverny. Here we reconfigure his art with post modernism.
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Caryatids Word
Liberated from Captivity in the British Museum
By: - Mar 31st, 2016That scoundrel Lord Elgin looted the sculptures from the Acropolis and sold them to the British Museum. There they have languished ever since. Here, however, we see the Caryatid from the Erectheum returned to the light of day.
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Brian Dennehy Special Guest for P'Town Gala Front Page
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
By: - Mar 30th, 2016The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival (TWP Fest) announces that the multi-award-winning actor Brian Dennehy, recognized for his interpretation of many of Eugene O’Neill’s complex characters, will be the guest of honor at their annual dinner. The gala is to support this fall’s 11th festival, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams: Beyond Success with performances from theaters around the world throughout the charming seaside town from Sept 22 – 25, 2016. The Gala will take place on June 4.
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O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey Into Night Front Page
Court Theatre Production in Chicago
By: - Mar 30th, 2016If Eugene O’Neill is the master of dysfunctional family plays, then Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the masterpiece of the genre. Recognized as one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, the play won the Tony for best play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1957. Currently it is being produced by Court Theatre in Chicago through April 10.
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Visiting Hampton, Virginia Front Page
History and Adventure
By: - Mar 30th, 2016We began our visit to Hampton, Virginia with a tour of the Hampton History Museum. This museum recounts the history of America’s oldest, continuous English-speaking settlement from its inhabitance by Kecoughtan Indians to its role as original home of NASA and the U.S. space program.
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Jonathan Norton's Mississippi Goddam Front Page
Wins ATCA's 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award
By: - Mar 30th, 2016The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces that Jonathan Norton has won its 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville on April 9.
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Lexington Kentucky Front Page
Bluegrass Country
By: - Mar 30th, 2016Lexington is in the heart of the Bluegrass Region , the second largest city in Kentucky and Horse Capital of the World. It is famous for horses, bourbon, tobacco and Southern Hospitality. The Bluegrass region is renowned as the world’s largest equine “nursery”. Hundreds of horse farms surround Lexington , giving this modern city a park-like setting.
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Marilyn in Paris Word
Not Fade Away
By: - Mar 30th, 2016Born Norm Jean Baker she emerged as Hollywood's brightest star. Profiled as a dumb blonde Marilyn Monroe, tormented to an early grave, had a brilliant comedic touch. Just by chance we encountered her on a hot summer day, skirts billowing, in the Marais.
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Sensual Tenor Stan Getz Word
Brought Bossa Nova to the Mainstream
By: - Mar 29th, 2016There were so many ups and downs, mood swings that his pal, Zoot Sims, fellow tenor player from Woody Herman's Four Brothers ,called Stan Getz a great bunch of guys. He peaked in the 1960s with gold records and Grammy awards for his Boss Nova sound with the foremost Brazilian artists.
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia Front Page
Launches New Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois
By: - Mar 29th, 2016Writers Theatre opened its spectacular new theater in Glencoe this week with an appropriately spectacular production of a play by Tom Stoppard one of today’s greatest playwrights, smartly directed by Michael Halberstam. It was almost a four-star evening.
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Berkshire's Gonzo Poet Charles Giuliano Front Page
Berkshire Fine Arts, LLC Launches Total Gonzo Poems
By: - Mar 29th, 2016April is National Poetry Month. Berkshire Fine Arts, LLC announces the publication of two books Shards of a Life and Total Gonzo Poems by Berkshire poet and arts critic Charles Giuliano. In July, 1970 he coined the word gonzo while telling an outrageous story. He was the first to publish gonzo in a rock review that summer for the former daily Boston Herald Traveler. With these two books and a third nearing completion Giuliano has morphed gonzo journalism into a vibrant, hip, compelling form of cutting edge poetry.
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Niagara Falls Word
Spray and Pray
By: - Mar 28th, 2016Niagara Falls became a destination for Hudson River Artists seeking to paint the American Sublime. It was our first destination for many travel adventures.
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Nugent Women Word
Rockport's Irish Ladies
By: - Mar 27th, 2016The youngest of a landed Irish family, raised with bad habits, Patrick Nugent was given a one way ticket to America. He settled on Beaver Dam Farm in Rockport, Mass. His hard working peasant lass, Mary, bore a clan of twelve. The better to work the land. He made it an odd 13 by her sister.
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Chateau Frontenac Word
Overlooking St. Lawrence River
By: - Mar 27th, 2016Although defeated by the British in 1759 Quebec City has retained its uniquely French culture. The skyline is dominated by the grand Chateau Frontenac which soars massively above the cliff overlooking the broad St. Lawrence River.
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Zoot Sims Word
Hipster's Schmatta Stigmata
By: - Mar 26th, 2016We got to know Zoot Sims through club dates at Lulu White's in the South End. He was pals with Music America host Ron Della Chiesa on WGBH. Zoot was part of the legendary Four Brothers, three tenors and baritone, with Woody Herman's 1940s bop band The Third Herd.
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Blossom Dearie Word
Pixie Voiced Cabaret Singer
By: - Mar 26th, 2016No jazz singer was more influential yet mysterious than the legendary master of scat, King Pleasure. In 1952 the enigmatic cabaret artist, Blossom Dearie, recorded with him the iconic "Moody's Mood for Love." When I asked her about him there wasn't much to say. She had been hired for the session and beyond that day knew nothing about him.
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London Calling Word
March Madness
By: - Mar 25th, 2016March madness, that spring break in London first with Astrid. She had visited as a kid but it was new to her. Nothing like a week of art and theatre in my favorite city.
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Dolly Parton Added to Tanglewood Schedule Front Page
Country Music Artist to Perform on June 17
By: - Mar 25th, 2016Country music icon Dolly Parton makes her Tanglewood debut with a season-opening performance Friday, June 17, at 7 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, joining the Tanglewood 2016 Popular Artist line-up. Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Swing Orchestra will also perform in the Shed on Saturday, September 3, at 8 p.m.
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Carmen McRae Music
Life Is a Cabaret
By: - Mar 24th, 2016During intimate club gigs you got to hang out with legendary artists like jazz singer Carmen McRae. She was open about sharing the insights and secrets of her unique craft as a compelling cabaret artist. Even in concert halls she conveyed a feeling of reaching out to every individual in the audience.
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Endangered Species by Tony Padilla Front Page
Pearl McManus Theatre in Palm Springs
By: - Mar 24th, 2016“Endangered Species” written and directed by Tony Padilla stars Bonnie Gilgallon as Tina, a suburban Chicago housewife married to David a successful businessman played by Alan Berry. The couple married over twenty years are in New York on a holiday where they plan to relax and recharge their romantic batteries.
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Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Theatre 29 Front Page
Theatre Still Delivers on Its Mission Statement
By: - Mar 24th, 2016“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” is one of the most ambitious productions Theatre 29 has tackled. And they have succeeded admirably. The California production continues through April 9.
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Sex with Strangers at LA's Geffen Playhouse Front Page
Talky Two-hander by Laura Eason
By: - Mar 24th, 2016In “Sex with Strangers, the plot revolves around Olivia (Rebecca Pidgeon), an intelligent, mid-career, one-book novelist who is having second thoughts about her ability is a writer, and Ethan (Stephen Louis Grush), a wildly successful, young, hyper-energetic stud/blogger with an ego to match, who meet in a mutual friend’s borrowed cabin on a snowy winter night in Michigan.
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Jazz Singer Betty Carter Word
Digging on Scatology
By: - Mar 22nd, 2016Scat, a jazz version of vocalise, was first recorded by Louis Armstrong with the Hot Five in the 1920s. Of course Jelly Roll Morton claimed that he had invented it along with jazz itself. Scat took off in the post war bop era. Its greatest exponent, Betty Carter, was know as Betty Bop. Twisting and turning she cold blow the roof off a tune.
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Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder Word
Blind Faith at Yankee Stadium
By: - Mar 21st, 2016During Soundblast '66 at Yankee stadium they pulled one blind brother, Stevie Wonder, off stage for another, top billed Ray Charles.
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