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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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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Jazz Diva Sarah Vaughan Music
Sassy to the Maxy
By: - Mar 21st, 2016During the 1930s and 1940s, when sing was king, a remarkable number of now legendary women fronted big bands. There were so many great artists. Among jazz aficionados the dialogue often focuses on Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. When Bop and small combos broke up all but a few of the big bands there was a style shift, Artists like Vaughan were repackaged into the mainstream of top forty radio. In the late years Vaughan defaulted back to jazz.
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Ella Fitzgerald Word
First Lady of Song
By: - Mar 20th, 2016As a teenager Ella Fitzgerald broke out in Harlem during Talent Night at the Apollo Theater. That led to fronting the big band of drummer Chick Webb and her first hit. From then she conquered the world as the First Lady of Song.
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Susan Schwalb at Garvey|Simon Front Page
Abstract Metalpoint Works on View in New York Gallery
By: - Mar 19th, 2016An exhibition by Susan Schwalb features abstract, linear compositions of mixed metalpoint on colored surfaces, many of which investigate absence or the void as a constructive element The exhibition at Garvey/ Simon Gallery in New York will run from April 28 – June 4, 2016
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Lorca's Blood Wedding Front Page
Anemic Production at Chicago's Lookingglass
By: - Mar 18th, 2016Blood Wedding was part of Federico Garcia Lorca’s plan for a “trilogy of the Spanish earth”—unfinished when he was killed in 1936. Most critics include Yerma and The House of Bernada Alba in the “rural trilogy” but Lorca did not include the latter. The decision to set this production in the more-realistic Depression-era U.S. diminishes the mythic nature of Lorca’s story.
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Lazarus Word
Time After Time
By: - Mar 17th, 2016That dark land from which no traveler should return.
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Jimi Hendrix RIP and Read Word
Me and the Devil Traveling Side by Side
By: - Mar 16th, 2016The harrowing Amy Winehouse documentary made me think of Jimi Hendrix also cut down at just 27. I first heard him as Jimi James with Curtis Knight and the Flames at the Cheetah in the '60.
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Dak'Art African Contemporary Art Biennale Front Page
Dakar, Senegal from May 3 - June 2
By: - Mar 16th, 2016Dak’Art 2016 is inspired by the theme “The City in the Blue (La Cité dans le jour bleu)” and will be curated by Simon Njami who was also named as the fair’s new artistic director. As inspiration from the theme, Njami selected the extract of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s poem: “Your voice cries out for the Republic - let us raise up that city in a blue daylight: Of equality for brotherly peoples. So we sing in our hearts. “We are here, Guélowar!”
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