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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At the Movies Front Page
The Martian, Bridge of Spies, Everest
By: - Oct 19th, 2015Last week we binged at the movies. This included The Martian, Bridge of Spies, and Everest. They are all likely to be award winners in various categories but overall we found Everest to be most compelling and entertaining.
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Unequivocal Word
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Subway Sirens Word
Queens of the T
By: - Oct 17th, 2015All over the T in every station that same girl in the ubiquitous Ann Taylor ads selling attitude and generic career girl fashions.
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Michael Yates Crowley Outrageous at Oberon Front Page
Cabaret Theatre Conflates Migraines and Ayn Rand
By: - Oct 16th, 2015The title of the Michael Yates Crowley cabaret play directed and co starring Michael Rau "Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (In the Lydian Mode)" is long winded and overly ambitious. But brace yourself for a gender bending evening of gonzo cabaret at Oberon in Camridge
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Appropriate at Mark Taper Forum Front Page
Dark Comedy by Obie Winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
By: - Oct 16th, 2015The Mark Taper Forum is currently presenting “Appropriate”, a dark comedic drama written by Obie Winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Eric Ting. For some audiences watching the play it must feel a little like driving past a roadside traffic fatality. We know we shouldn’t stare at the tragedy, but it’s so damn fascinating and riveting that it’s difficult to take one’s eyes away from the mayhem.
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No Beast So Fierce Adapts Richard III Front Page
Chicago's Oracle Productions
By: - Oct 14th, 2015The number of characters played by the cast of eight has by necessity been reduced to 14 from the 35 to 40 in Shakespeare's version. Cramming all of Richard III into 90 minutes means eliminating some nuances and character motivations.
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An Iliad at Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Michael F. Toomey Delivers Epic Performance
By: - Oct 11th, 2015The Trojan War was likely to have occurred circa 1,200 B.C. It spawned the epic poem The Iliad which was passed along by troubadours and finally transcribed with the development of Ancient Greek around 800 B.C. In a riveting 90 minute, one man show for Shakespeare & Company, Michael F. Toomey provides excerpts and contemporary commentary on one of the founding works of Western literature.
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Letter to Chris Busa Word
For No Good Reason
By: - Oct 10th, 2015For no good reason. Remembering recent encounters in Provincetown I wrote to my friend Chris Busa. We don't do this often enough. Every thought and impulse evokes the best and worst of us. How Pinteresque.
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Bicycle Thief Word
Like Gatsby
By: - Oct 10th, 2015My French friend Alain Didot was a dead ringer for film star Alain Delon. But in spirit was more like Genet or Belmondo in Breathless. Today in an e mail from Thailand Phil Bleeth mentioned our existential friend which inspired these lines.
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Harvard Mug Word
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Mingus Ah Um Word
Pithecanthropus Erectus
By: - Oct 09th, 2015Mingus and Monk were stone cold gone. Another way of saying total out there genius.
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Boston Theatre: More Bad News Front Page
Emerson College Converting Colonial Theatre into Student Center
By: - Oct 09th, 2015If bad luck comes in threes what's next for the Boston theatre community. Today we have reported on the break up of a 33-year-old relationship between the Huntington Theatre Company and Boston University. Now we report news the Emerson College, the owner of the 115-year-old Colonial Theatre has plans to convert it into a student center. These developments were predicted several years ago by then NEA chair Rocco Landesman. As he suggests, here in the Berkshires, there are too many arts organizations pursuing the same limited potential donors.
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Crisis for Boston Theatre Front Page
Huntington Theatre Company and BU to End Relationship
By: - Oct 09th, 2015For the past 33 years the partnership between The Huntington Theatre Company and Boston University has provided superb theatre to audiences of up to 200,000. In addition to the Huntington Avenue venue it created the Calderwood Pavilion in 2004 in Boston’s South End.
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Dizzy Music
Grroving High with a Bahai
By: - Oct 08th, 2015I named by parakeet Dizzy Gillespie. Hanging with iconic hipster in a cruise of Boston Harbor with arts elder Elma Lewis.
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Century Word
Benchmark of Time and Space
By: - Oct 08th, 2015It takes guts to grow old. Such courage to live into one's ninety's like my mom. Or the remarkable, adventuresome Rikki Rudd, beloved by the Berkshire arts community, who has just passed at the daunting age of 102.
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Rikki Rudd at 102 Front Page
Beloved by Berkshire Arts Community
By: - Oct 07th, 2015A small but growing increment live to be 100. Rikki Rudd, who was known and loved by many in the Berkshires arts community, passed away on October 6 at the age of 102. She emigrated from Denmark to the U.S. when in her 20s. She pursued journalism after study at Columbia University. That led to world travel and mastery of several languages. To celebrate her 90th birthday she took up sky diving. On every level she lived life to the full.
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Watson Intelligence by Madeleine George. Front Page
At Chicago's Theatre Wit
By: - Oct 07th, 2015"The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence" by Madeleine George is 140 minutes (one intermission) of fast-moving, time-switching scenes with quick costume and set changes. One of the Watsons is Mr. Watson, who occasionally is paged by Alexander Graham Bell, "Come here, Watson. I want to see you."
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Love and Information by Caryl Churchill Front Page
Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre
By: - Oct 07th, 2015The 85-minute play "Love and Information" by Caryl Churchill is at times funny, sad, poignant or puzzling. The actors make use of current technology in many scenes. In "Wedding Video," for instance, three couples comment on the video while watching the event on a smartphone, a tablet or a television set.
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Gravy Food
Dinner in Naples with Paulie Walnuts
By: - Oct 06th, 2015Pasta made with the ink of octopus or squid served with tiny clams is a great Italian delicacy. But not to Paulie Walnuts in Naples during an episode of the Sopranos.
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Every Other Sunday Word
Dad in the Kitchen
By: - Oct 06th, 2015On maid's day off, every other Sunday and Thursdays my Sicilian father rustled up the grub.
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Whipped Cream Word
Sweetens the Agita
By: - Oct 06th, 2015When coping with the slings and arrows of life a dollop of whipped cream soothes the soul.
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Death in Boston Word
Where Cabots Speak Only to Lowells
By: - Oct 06th, 2015While lecturing at the Copley Society the architect Frank Lloyd Wright told the audience " What Boston needs is one hundred first class funerals."
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Veils by Tom Coash Front Page
Didactic Award Winning Play at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 05th, 2015In the post 9/11 climate President Obama has been referred to as a closeted Muslim. The African American Republican candidate Ben Carson has stated that, despite the concept of freedom of religion, a Muslim should not be President. Before JFK there was a similar injunction against Catholics. For its fall collaboration with regional schools Barrington Stage Company is presenting the awarding winning play Veils by Tom Coash.
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Shooting into the Ranks Word
The Mighty Are Falling
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Every more common reports of friends diseased and dead. Given our age my friend said "They're shooting into the ranks."
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The Homecoming by Harold Pinter Front Page
Brutalist Realism at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Kudos to Berkshire Theatre Group for the tough love of presenting a smash to the head in a stunning production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. Eric Hill has brilliantly directed a superb cast in an always challenging Pinter play.
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