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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Music at Williams College Front Page
Schedule for 2003 to 2004
By: - Jul 17th, 2023Williams College presents many free concerts during the academic year. This is the schedule of upcoming events.
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Sound of Music Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jul 15th, 2023The production uses elements from the original script as well as elements from the movie and subsequent Broadway revivals. This means that the two songs Richard Rodgers wrote for the film – “I Have Confidence in Me” and “Something Good” are included and the original “An Ordinary Couple” is omitted.
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Indigenous People of Cape Ann Front Page
Separating Fact from Myth
By: - Jul 12th, 2023In response to an article The Disappeared of Cape Ann, posted to the Giuliano book site, Mary Ellen Lepionka, an authority on the subject sent a lengthy response. During the occasion of Gloucester 400th Plus much scholarly information is coming to light. Her research is presented here as a letter to the editor.
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Provincetown's White Line Prints Front Page
At the Museum of FIne Arts
By: - Jul 12th, 2023Drawing from the collection of the late Leslie and Johanna Garfield, this exhibition focuses on the work of six artists: Ada Gilmore Chaffee, Maud Hunt Squire, Ethel Mars, Mildred McMillen, Juliette Nichols, and B. J. O. Nordfeldt—the first pioneering group that came together in Provincetown to practice color woodblock printing.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
By: - Jul 12th, 2023For nearly three decades, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has thrilled audiences around the globe with its full-throttle, high-intensity performances on five continents and in over 20 countries, committed to its mission of “bringing unity to the world one dance at a time.” The diverse and inclusive company is made up of dancers “who blur lines and boundaries and exude an innate passion” (The Guardian). With their programs set to music from Kendrick Lamar, David Bowie, Metallica, and Lenny Kravitz, the company reinvents ballet with a mix of methods, styles, and cultures that engages and delights.
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Mark Morris at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Bacharach/ David The Look of Love
By: - Jul 11th, 2023Jacob's Pillow launched its season with the Mark Morris Dance Group performing an hour long work Bacharach/ David's The Look of Love. During this soggy summer how apt that Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.
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Connecticut Critics Circle Awards Front Page
Best of the Best
By: - Jul 08th, 2023A powerful production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at the Yale Repertory Theatre and an exuberant production of “42nd Street” at Goodspeed Musicals took top honors at the 31st annual Connecticut Critics Circle Awards (ctcritics.org).
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Humane Ecology: Eight Positions Front Page
Clark Art Institute
By: - Jul 07th, 2023Humane Ecology: Eight Positions, opening July 15, 2023 at the Clark Art Institute, features a group of eight contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of ecological relationships. The exhibition, which includes sculpture, sound installation, video, and plantings, is presented in indoor and outdoor spaces at the Clark
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Jan Lewis Nelson's Book on Deborah Sampson Front Page
Disguised as a Man She Fought in the American Revolution
By: - Jul 06th, 2023To make money Deborah Sampson told her story to Hermann Mann who published The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson: The Female Soldier in the War of Revolution. To boost sales he played loose with the facts. Jan Lewis Nelson expresses Sampson’s anguish over fabrications. She saw action but did not fight in the Battle of Yorktown as Mann falsely claimed.
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Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus Front Page
At New York's Japan Society
By: - Jul 06th, 2023Near the 60th anniversary of the movement’s founding, this exhibition highlights the contributions of four pioneering Japanese artists—Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015), Yoko Ono (b. 1933), Takako Saito (b. 1929), and Mieko Shiomi (b. 1938)—and contextualizes their role within Fluxus and the broader artistic movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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On Stage This Summer Front Page
From Connecticut to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 05th, 2023Straw hat is old hat. Summer once meant shows performed in actual barns by talented and young kids. Or tours led by well-known movie and TV stars whose popularity had diminished. Not anymore.
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Annisquam Word
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tiny father by Mike Lew Front Page
Chautauqua Theater Company and Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jul 01st, 2023In a co production with Chautauqua Theater Company, Barrington Stage Company is presenting a world premiere tiny father by Mike Lew and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. There is another production scheduled for Geffen Hall in Los Angeles.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Front Page
At Bushnell
By: - Jun 30th, 2023No matter whether you read it in school or more recently or even never read the novel, you owe it to yourself to see the absolutely fabulous new stage adaptation now at the Bushnell through Sunday, July 2.
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Million Dollar Quartet in Pittsfield Front Page
Blows Roof off of Colonial Theatre
By: - Jun 30th, 2023During raucous encores Million Dollar Quartet blasted the audience up out of their seats at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. By popular demand Berkshire Theater Group revises its prior production at the smaller Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
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Dance in Albany 2023-2024 Front Page
The Egg and the University at Albany
By: - Jun 29th, 2023For the eighth year, the performing arts centers at The Egg and the University at Albany have announced that they will present Dance in Albany, a joint dance series featuring eight offerings for the 2023-24 season. Six of the performances will take place at The Egg at the Empire State Plaza with the remaining two at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown University at Albany campus.
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Front Page
Adams Theatre Benefit's Razom for Ukraine
By: - Jun 26th, 2023Locally rooted musical collective Floating Tower, working with Berkshire artist Joe Wheaton, will fill The Adams Theater July 1-2 with a unique, poignant musical tribute to the people of Ukraine.
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Madama Butterfly for Boston Lyric Opera Front Page
Eradicating Yellowface Tradition
By: - Jun 26th, 2023Chinese American artist, advocate and director Phil Chan, whose book Final Bow for Yellowface altered the conversation about Asian representation on ballet stages around the country, turns his attention to opera this September, when he directs a new, Asian American take on "Madama Butterfly" for Boston Lyric Opera (BLO).
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The Contention (Henry VI, Part II) Front Page
Rarely Seen Play at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 25th, 2023In Tina Packer's The Contention (Henry VI, Part II) we have the best possible cast and production of the rarely seen early play. It's described as the best of a trilogy. The first act focuses on why Henry is not fit to be king. A notion with which he would likely agree. Through a lot of exposition it sets up the eventual War of the Roses between the rival Houses of York and Lancaster. As heads roll the second act lurches into hilarious farce.
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Fifth annual Berkshire Jazz Showcase Front Page
Free Event on Pittsfield’s First Street Common
By: - Jun 23rd, 2023We announce the lineup for our popular Berkshire Jazz Showcase, a free event on Pittsfield’s First Street Common Saturday, July 8, 1-5pm.
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Photo 51 by Anna Ziegler Front Page
Unwinding the Double Helix at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Jun 21st, 2023The taut, austere, information crammed, one act play “Photo 51” rights a wrong. It dramatizes the true life story of the unaccredited role played by Rosalind Franklin (Rebecca Brooksher) in the discovery of the double helix pattern in DNA.
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Simplicity and Stillness Front Page
By: - Jun 21st, 2023Cultivating stillness requires hard work and perseverance. Stillness is far more than merely thinking simple thoughts, and it is much more than a weekly yoga session, a massage to calm yourself, or alcohol to settle yourself. It is a state of being.
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Cabaret Soars at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
Awesome Debut for Artistic Director Alan Paul
By: - Jun 20th, 2023With his first production, Cabaret, Alan Paul, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, has set a new benchmark for musical theatre in the Berkshires. Given the unchecked rise of fascism in America the musical which focuses on the beginnings of Nazi Germany could not be more powerful and relevant. This is a scorching production which will blow you away. Barrington's version of the iconic musical clicks on all cylinders,
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Gabrielle Barzaghi at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery Front Page
Horse Opera Presents Large Pastel Drawings
By: - Jun 17th, 2023Gabrielle Barzaghi is one of the leading contemporary artists residing on Cape Ann. Horse Opera is Barzaghi's fourth solo exhibition at the Matthew Swift Gallery, and presents a significant new body of her work comprising more than a dozen drawings.
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Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress Front Page
Closing the Hartford Stage Season
By: - Jun 16th, 2023Trouble in Mind, at Hartford Stage, was written in the mid-50s. It was the first full-length play by Alice Childress whose career encompassed acting and writing both plays and novels. The play deals with topics that are major points of discussion today both in our society and the theatrical world: representation, authenticity, sexism, and workplace bullying
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