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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Norman's Woe Word
On the Rocks Off Gloucester
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Mostly the mega rich fantasy architects Sleeper and Hammond lavishly entertained their male friends. From the Castle is seen Norman's Woe which inspired Longfellow's Wreck of the Hesparus.
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Contrarian Word
Heed No Advice
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015While advice is well intended don't listen. Take the other tack.
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Prodigal Word
Growing Up Absurd in Annisquam
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Returning to the roots of adolescence in the social and political cul de sac of Annisquam.
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Beth Henley's The Jacksonian Front Page
Chicago's Profiles Theatre Through October 11
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Beth Henley's 2012 play, The Jacksonian, is a bit of noir, a bit of Southern Gothic decay, and set in a nondescript motel of that name on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss., in 1964.
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Flick by Annie Baker at Gloucester Stage Front Page
Losing It at the Movies
By: - Sep 01st, 2015There is a distinctly Massachusetts flavor to Amherst based, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Annie Baker's Flick at Gloucester Stage Company. In two acts and just under three hours it takes a long and slow approach to making us care about minimum wage workers at a one screen movie theater on its last legs.
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Low Tide Word
Rooms with a View
By: - Aug 31st, 2015During our visit to childhood haunts they knocked down a building blocking the view. Improved at least for now.
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Econo Class Travel
Europe on the Cheap
By: - Aug 31st, 2015The thrill is gone traveling to Europe cattle car class. Replicating the steerage passages of our immigrant ancestors. Quality of life dim on el cheapo airlines.
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Comedy of Errors at Old Globe Front Page
Crafty Selection Ends Summer Season
By: - Aug 27th, 2015“The Comedy of Errors” is a crafty selection, by Barry Edelstein, to close out the ‘summer season’ at The Old Globe. Under Director Ellis’ creative staging, the masterful production, has been moved up in time from an Elizabethan setting to the jazz-age, sexy, wide-open, ‘laissez les bon temps rouler’ lifestyle of 1920’s New Orleans (NOLA).
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Early Fall Word
Just a Correction
By: - Aug 27th, 2015Lazy last days of summer laced with agita. On the beach with an anxious eye on eroding nest egg out with the tide.
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Antiquites Word
ISIS on Rampage
By: - Aug 25th, 2015The atrocities of ISIS continue. The innocent beheaded for preceived insults to Islam. Even antiquities offend in the name of the Prophet.
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Root Beer Word
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Troy Word
Hubris Undone
By: - Aug 24th, 2015Mighty Achilles was invulnerable. Guided by the gods the arrow of Paris, the seducer beloved by Aphrodite, crippled the warrior
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Turtles Word
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Judge and Jury Word
It Pays to Be Different
By: - Aug 24th, 2015The world is not flat he told a court of skeptics. Then sailed off to a new world.
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Cirque de la Symphonie at Tanglewood Front Page
Three Rings for Pops
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015The circus came to town joining the Pops for perhaps the most fun and entertaining evening of summer at Tanglewood.
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John Douglas Thompson on Ira Aldridge and Audra MacDonald Front Page
Twenty Years in the Berkshires with Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015With the opening of Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company behind him John Douglas Thompson had time for a leisurely breakfast in Lenox. It was the latest in a series of interviews about his classical and contemporary roles that started with Othello in 2006. This is the first of two parts of that recent dialogue
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Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight Front Page
Comedy at Chicago's Windy City Playhouse,
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, the new sexy comedy at the Windy City Playhouse, is a comic farce with a coarse edge. Noel Coward it isn't.
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Sculptor Charles Ray at Art Institute Front Page
Works by Chicago Born Artist Until October 4
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015Nineteen sculptures by Chicago-born sculptor Charles Ray fill three large galleries on the second floor of the Chicago Art Institute's Modern Wing through October 4.
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To the Brave Artist Richard Harrington, Fine Arts
Author of Harrington’s Geometries, Finite Infinities
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015The North Adams based poet Stephen Rifkin responds to an exhibition of the abstract geometric sculptures of Berkshire artist Richard Harrington.
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John Guare Reading Planned for P'Town Festival Front Page
More Stars Than There Are in Heaven Based on Tennessee Williams
By: - Aug 21st, 2015During the tenth annual Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, September 24 to 27, there will be a staged reading of a work by John Guare "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" adapted from a short story by Williams.
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Engagements By Lucy Teitler at Barrington Stage Front Page
Millenials Hooking Up in World Premiere
By: - Aug 20th, 2015What happens when a woman can't stand her best friend's finance but shags him anyway? It's only sex she reasons and I was drunk. That's about as deep as it gets in a millenial comedy Engagements by Lucy Teitler having a world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Lenox.
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Soft Sticky Morning Word
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Kafkapalooza at First Floor Theatre Front Page
Third Annual Chicago Litfest
By: - Aug 19th, 2015Eight different playwrights dramatize or "are inspired by" one of the stories of Franz Kafka, the late great Czech storyteller, who tried to keep his unpublished works from being published after his death.
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Artist and Activist Lloyd Oxendine (1942-2015) Front Page
Worked to Promote Native American Art
By: - Aug 18th, 2015The Lumbee Indian, Lloyd Oxendine, who died on August 5, held a BA in art history from Columbia where he also earned an MFA. From 1970-78 he ran a New York gallery dedicated to Native American Art. In 1972 he wrote what proved to be most of an issue of Art in American surveying 23 artists. For many years he was a brilliant and outspoken activist.
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First Communion People
Five and Five No Matter What
By: - Aug 18th, 2015No matter what I confessed the penance was always the same; five Our Fathers and five Hail Marys. Everything came with the usual five and five.
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