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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Zombie Formalism Front Page
In the Trenches of Art War
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Zombie Modernism is Modernism without the authoritative stance of self-consciousness. There is no one home.
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ICA Showcases East Boston Artists Front Page
Harboring Creativity
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of East Boston’s artistic community at “Harboring Creativity,” an exhilarating two-day art event happening for its second year at the iconic ICA Watershed on November 16 and 17, 2024, from 11 AM to 4 PM with a reception on Saturday from 4pm – 6pm with food donated by local restaurants.
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Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony Seminal Gloucester Artists Front Page
On View at Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Sep 11th, 2024Both Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony are among the contemporary women artists whose work is on view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 29. They are having solo shows at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery.
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Three Tall Persian Women By Awni Abdi-Bahri Front Page
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 09th, 2024Three Tall Persian Women by Awni Abdi-Bahri, an emerging playwright, is having its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Three generations of women gather to celebrate the anniversary of the passing of the husband of Nasrin. Her daughter Goinar, a recent MFA graduate, has flown in from New York. Things are not going well when Shayan, a most eligible bachelor, arrives with flowers. All hell breaks out when they drink magic mushroom tea.
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Carlos Caicedo at Eclipse Gallery in North Adams Front Page
Pencils Make a Point
By: - Sep 07th, 2024Colombian born, Carlos Caicedo, is an award winning graphic designer, artist/ photographer, and fashion creator. His remarkable range of skills is on vivid display in a dense installation at the Eclipse Gallery in North Adams.
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Paper Mummy Hearts Word
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Winter Season at '62 Center in Williamstown Front Page
Performance Programming at William College
By: - Sep 06th, 2024Kicking off our visiting artist series, the CenterSeries, is Vuyani Dance Theatre performing Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro on Thursday, September 26th. Physically charged and visually striking,?the work?is choreographed by South African native and internationally-known choreographer Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.?Cion?draws inspiration from author Zakes Mda’s novel, Cion?, and Ravel’s Boléro. It is, in?Maqoma’s?words, “a lament, a requiem required to awaken a part of us, the connection to the departed souls.”
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Jeffrey Gibson at MASS MoCA Front Page
Installation in Building 5 Opens Nov. 3
By: - Sep 04th, 2024Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation that will occupy MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery and follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition opens on November 3.
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Women Artists on Cape Ann: 1870-1970 Front Page
Cape Ann Museum
By: - Aug 30th, 2024For its final exhibition before shutting down for renovation, the Cape Ann Museum took on but squandered presenting an important subject. Women Artists on Cape Ann: 1870-1970 was curated but under served by curator Martha Oaks. There is no catalogue, critical essay, or check list. Other than wall labels we learn little or nothing about obscure women artists. The museum opted to put minimal resources into what potentially was an important chapter of art history.
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Pillow Lab Residency Program Front Page
Ten Residencies Through Next Summer
By: - Aug 29th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow announces the artists selected to participate in 10 onsite residencies this fall through next summer, as part of the Pillow Lab residency program. Artists participating in this series, in chronological order, are: Hélène Simoneau Danse; Emily Coates, Ain Gordon, and Derek Lucci; Music from the Sole; Andy Blankenbuehler and Kate Quinn; Brinae Ali; dani tirell; Peter Rockford Espiritu and Roberta Uno; Joanna Kotze; The Choreodaemonic Collective; and Rosy Simas. Programming and dates are subject to change.
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Dr. Nathaniel Halper Provincetown Arts Leader Front Page
Joyce Scholar and Gallerist
By: - Aug 29th, 2024Dr. Nathaniel Halper was the first Provincetown arts activist that I interviewed starting in 1982. He died just a year later leaving a distinguished legacy. For a time he was director of HCE then the most prominent of many galleries. In later years he formed a partnership with Mervin Jules to buy and resell from the estate of Karl Knaths. He offered many insights to the prominent arts community.
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Darrel Ellis and Miguel Ferrando at Candice Madey Gallery Front Page
Divergent Styles, Intertwined Lives: An Artistic Journey
By: - Aug 26th, 2024Darrel Ellis & Miguel Ferrando, delves into the intertwined lives and artistic journeys of two figures who were more than just friends—they were creative soulmates. Though their careers spanned only a handful of years (Ellis died of AIDS in 1992 at 34, and Ferrando in 1996, at 38 ), their work, showcased side-by-side, offers a rare glimpse into a unique artistic creative partnership from the 1980s.
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Jacob’s Pillow 2024 Season Ends Front Page
Dance Theatre of Harlem
By: - Aug 26th, 2024Yesterday we attended a performance of Dance Theatre of Harlem which concluded the nine week, 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Season. Yet again artistic director, Pamela Tatge, created a stunning festival of world renowned companies.
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Staged Reading of St, Germain Play Front Page
The Magdalene in Pittsfield
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Barrington Stage Company will present a staged reading of The Magdalene, a new play by Associate Artist Mark St. Germain, on Sunday September 1 at 3:00pm at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
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Parsons Dance at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
Ended Joyously with September by Earth Wind & Fire
By: - Aug 12th, 2024For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in 25 years the renowned Parsons Dance presented a diverse program of seven works. It included the legendary Caught as well as two new works. Parsons choreographed five works while the other two were by Jamar Roberts and Robert Battle. They brought all back home with music of Earth Wind & Fire.
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Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione Front Page
Soars at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 10th, 2024For a first attempt, however, Frangione is a promising playwright with a great gift for dialogue. On every level this was a delightful performance. The director, Braha, evoked the best from two superbly trained classical actors, Burrows and May, seen here in vernacular form.
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Vessels of Slavery: Forget Me Not Front Page
Cape Ann Museum Green
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The artists were brought together by the work of Doris Prouty, an African American quilter who made Gloucester her home for nearly 50 years, when her work was exhibited posthumously at the Cape Ann Museum in 2022.
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Pipe Dream at Unicorn Theatre Front Page
Rarely Produced Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical
By: - Aug 08th, 2024Pipe Dream is an obscure, rarely produced musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on novels by John Steinbeck. Berkshire Theatre Group is making a strong and risky case for why we should take another look at a musical with a flawed book but richly compelling music.
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The Prom Front Page
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The Prom is not a great musical, but it is an entertaining show that goes way above what is sometimes created.
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Camille A. Brown at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
World Premiere of I Am
By: - Aug 07th, 2024Superstar dancer, choreographer, and Tony nominated director, Camille A. Brown, has a long history with Jacob’s Pillow. Funded by the Hunter Foundation this past winter the company was in residence developing a major new work. It is based on themes from the “I Am” episode of the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Jacob's Pillow was honored to host the world premiere of a game changing work.
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Cape Ann Museum Makeover Front Page
Over $18 million in Campaign Commitments
By: - Aug 05th, 2024Building on the generous support of the Museum’s Board, donors, and supporters amid growing momentum for general Museum operations, Director Oliver Barker and Henrietta Gates, Board Chair, announced that the institution has generated over $18 million in campaign commitments. This significant support will fund renovations to its Downtown facility, provide upgrades to the CAM Green campus, enhance programming, and augment the Museum’s endowment.
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Mark St Germain Explores Forgiveness Front Page
World Premiere for Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2024Inspired by a newspaper article, Forgiveness is set in Minnesota where prisoners are allowed to plead their case in front of the Governor, in a bid to be returned to society. In this interactive production, audiences help determine who is worthy of forgiveness.
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Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award Front Page
In Memory of Ted Shawn
By: - Aug 02nd, 2024Jacob’s Pillow presents American dancer and choreographer Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award. George will accept the award at the outdoor performance by his New York City-based company, kNonAme Artist.
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The Islanders by Carey Crim Front Page
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 01st, 2024Carey Crim has written a slow, intricate two-hander that takes patience to absorb us into the incremental pace of the Island. Director Reggie Life and a superb cast (Michelle Mountain and "ranney") have meticulously involved us in their struggle for meaning and endurance.
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Norton Gallery in Palm Beach Front Page
One of America's Top Regional Museums
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Norton Gallery has been enlarged with a design by Lord Norman Foster. The collection has grown to 8,200 works with five curatorial departments. It took us two days to tour the collection and special exhibitions. The must see Norton is an elite regional museum. It's come a long way from when I visited annually during the 1980s.
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