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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MASS MoCA Fall Schedule Front Page
Program Through December
By: - Aug 03rd, 2016MASS MoCA heads into the fall with the 6th annual FreshGrass Festival on September 16-18, a rollicking weekend largely devoted to artists in roots and acoustic bluegrass music — and powers through until December when Dinosaur Jr. takes the stage in a night of power-grunge. In between, swoon for Benjamin Clementine in the Hunter and Eisa Davis up in the Club — and witness what might be one of the most powerful, poignant, and political works we have ever exhibited.
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King Kong Word
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Let the Good Times Roll Front Page
Summer Fun in Charleston
By: - Aug 02nd, 2016For fabulous summer fun Let the Good Times Roll at Charleston's Music Hall.
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Floral Oracle Word
Plucking Petals
By: - Aug 02nd, 2016The quandry of youthful romance and its floral oracle.
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Pratfalls Word
Mistakes as Art
By: - Aug 02nd, 2016Our cousin Edward was a strange kid. He would trust his fingers a if to poke our eyes. Then stop short and with a derange laugh exclaim "It slipped." When Pip and I phone or echange e mails we often use "It Slipped." The phrase evokes all the near misses of daily life off the rails.
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Up in Smoke Word
Dawn’s Early Light
By: - Aug 01st, 2016With compassion the major offered the condemned men a last cigarette.
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Chick Corea Trio at Tanglewood Front Page
Final Gig of 75th Birthday Tour
By: - Aug 01st, 2016Now in his 75th year pianist Chick Corea with a trio of jazz masters- bass player, Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade- visited Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. It was amoing the best of the many times we have heard him perform.
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After the Rain Word
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MASS MoCA Expansion Front Page
To Unveil Memorial Day 2017
By: - Jul 31st, 2016Led by museum director, Joe Thompson, we joined a 'hard hat tour" of the final phase of MASS MoCA renovation and construction. The $65 million project will be completed with a Memorial Day, 2017 weekend of opening celebrations.
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Or, by Liz Duffy Owens in Lenox Front Page
The First Woman Playwright Aphra Behn at S&Co;.
By: - Jul 30th, 2016In A Room of One's Own, a speech delivered to college women, by Virginia Woolf, I first learned of Aphra Behn (1640-1689). During the bawdy period of Restoration comedy she was the first British woman to earn a living writing plays. In addition to a play about her Or, and a play by her, The Emperor of the Moon, through the efforts of Shakespeare & Company we now know a lot more about this pioneer of women in theatre.
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Madam President Word
Broken Glass
By: - Jul 29th, 2016Growing up I was told that I could be anything I wanted to be. Including President of the United States of America. It didn't pan out.
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Wendy Whelan Duet at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Some of a Thousand Words with Brian Brooks
By: - Jul 29th, 2016After 30 years with Balanchine's New York City Ballet, and a repertoire of some 50 works, Wendy Whelan has extended her career as a solo artist in collaboration with several choreograher partners. She premiered this direction at Jacob's Pillow in 2013. She has now returned with Some of a Thousand Words partnering with Brian Brooks.
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Gloom and Doom Word
Hard Times
By: - Jul 28th, 2016Dark shadows forecast gloom and doom. But we can't have it both ways
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Putin Make Me Puke Word
Art of the Steal
By: - Jul 27th, 2016That big bad bear Vladimir Putin? Not to worry. The Donald will invite him to the Trump golf course in Scotland. Over a fine single malt they will decide the fate of the world. Just another deal. So a few people get hurt.
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Checkout Counter Word
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Surfing Tsunami Word
All Shook Up
By: - Jul 27th, 2016Lately it seems that a tsunami of bad luck has been crashing over our friends.
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Rafael Mahdavi Dancing with Luck Front Page
Sonnets by Rory Brennan
By: - Jul 26th, 2016Now 70 the artist Rafael Mahdavi, who lives and works on a farm in the Burgundy region of France, created a suite of nine narrative paintings. They have been handsomely reproduced in a book with 25 sonnets inspired by them from the Irish poet Rory Brennan. There are also critical essays by David Galloway and Jonathan Shimony. It has been interesting to follow the work which has changed in the decades during which I have had extensive critcal dialogues with artist.
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First Light Word
The Shadow Catcher
By: - Jul 26th, 2016Things that go bump in the night so different in the clear light of day.
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Peerless by Jiehae Park in Pittsfield Front Page
Affirmative Action Via Macbeth
By: - Jul 25th, 2016In a raucous, energetic, daunting production of Peerless by Jiehae Park Barrington Stage has boldly brought twentysomething, off off Broadway to the Berkshires. This assault to the senses may not be appealing to older audiences. It gives us a lively glimpse into the mind set of evil twns evoking Macbeth to murder their way to acceptance at the colleges of their choice. Does that make sense?
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Romance Novels for Dummies at WTF Front Page
No Southern Comfort from Boo Killebrew
By: - Jul 24th, 2016What happens when you conflate Old Miss and Brooklyn routed through Boston University? As a playwright Boo Killebrew draws on her childhood and the heritage of gracious Southern women with the here-and-now sexual politics of a single mother and her sister traying to get the shards of her life together. That illusion of a stay at home wife and mother came to a screeching end with the death of her husband. Now just 29 she is picking up the pieces in a misfired drama striving for comedy.
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Fast Eddy Word
Catch Him If You Can
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016My friend Fast Eddy a Jewish/Indian is always on the go. His friends, who he calls "kids," hear from him by e mail about twenty times a day. There are more updates than AP or UPI. But you sense that he truly loves each and every one of us.
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Perhaps Word
Then Again Perhaps Not
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016He was angry and demanded answers. To which there was a diffident response that infuriated him all the more.
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Sense and Sensibility at Old Globe Front Page
Jane Austen Sparkles in San Diego
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016San Diego’s venerable Old Globe Theatre is currently staging a vibrant, engaging and thoroughly delightful production of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility”.
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Bright Ideas Brewing at MoCA Front Page
Last Call at 7 PM in North Adams
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016It seems like a win win. Bright Ideas Brewing offers uniqely crafted beer, ale and root beer in a high concept industrial space on the Mass MoCA campus. On every level from eccnetric hours, to noise levels and a flub on food it's time to rethink the business plan.
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War Paint at Chicago's Goodman Theatre Front Page
Competing Costemtic Queens
By: - Jul 22nd, 2016War Paint is the story of two cosmetic industry pioneers, women who achieved corporate success in an era when it was even more difficult to do so than today. But once you get past the competition between the Polish Jewish immigrant Helena Rubinstein (Patti LuPone) and the sunny blonde Elizabeth Arden (Christine Ebersole) known for her pink color palette, there’s not much story left.
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