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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Tanglewood Update Front Page
BSO Departs Early to Launch European Tour
By: - Aug 18th, 2015By all accounts from the audience to musicians and critics the BSO has never sounded better than under its young artistic director Andris Nelsons. The BSO has departed Tanglewood earlier than usual to start a European tour on August 22 through September 5. The BSO opens its fall season in October.
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Vico Fabris Fantasy Botanicals Front Page
Imaginalis at Provincetown’s Rice Polk Gallery
By: - Aug 18th, 2015From August 20 to Septrember 10 the Italian born artist, Vico Fabbris, will exhibit Imaginalis at the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown. The artist invents exotic species of flowers in watercolor and more recently also with paint on canvas.
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Rob Moore Fine Arts
Second Effort
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Critics don't always get it right. Particularly young ones.
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My Bad Word
Professional Differences
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Comparing professions at a family gathering years ago.
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The Sarasota Ballet Debut at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Three Variations on Classical Dance
By: - Aug 17th, 2015For their Jacob's Pillow debut The Sarasota Ballet presented three of the 123 ballets they perform. The company is best know for its commitment to the work of the British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.
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Martin Sherman's Bent Revived in LA Front Page
At Mark Taper Forum Until August 23
By: - Aug 17th, 2015When playwright Martin Sherman came upon a reference to “pink triangles” in the 1976 play “As Time Goes By”, according to program notes written by American Theatre Magazine editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt, the eureka moment for Sherman was the key element in the creation of his play “Bent”, which went on to debut in London’s West End in 1979, and then on Broadway in 1980.
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Saints Word
Relics and Miracles.
By: - Aug 17th, 2015When a kid in chapel at Mt. Alvernia many a time we kissed the relics. Little slivers of saints under glass. Cures for whatever and forgiveness of sin.
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An Intervention by Mike Bartlett Front Page
Olivier Award Winner Anchors WTF's Nikos Stage Season
By: - Aug 17th, 2015Three time Oliver Award winner Mike Bartlett's An Intervention is having its American premiere anchoring the Nikos Stage programming of the Williamstown Theater Festival. The clever and verbose two hander is being staged with two rotating casts. We saw it with Josh Hamilton and Justin Long.
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John Douglas Thompson in Red Velvet at S&Co;. Front Page
Awesome First US Production of Powerful Lolita Chakrabarti Play
By: - Aug 15th, 2015John Douglas Thompson is astonishing in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet which continues until September 13 at Shakespeare & Company. It tells the true life story of Ira Aldridge the first artist of color to portray Othello on the London stage in 1833.
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Exploring Mexican Cuisine Food
Vallarta Food Tours
By: - Aug 14th, 2015In addition to the Pitallal neighborhood tour, Vallarta Food Tours offers a day tour that explores Puerto Vallarta’s centro and old town neighborhoods, with sampling of mole enchiladas, traditional ceviche tostadas, tacos from an authentic taco stand, traditional drinks, and regional candies.
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Crushed Fine Arts
Transforming Judds into Chamberlains
By: - Aug 14th, 2015How rejected galvanized metal cubes by the artist Donald Judd were transformed into vintage sculptures by John Chamberlain.
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Siesta to Semester Word
End to Lazy Days of Summer
By: - Aug 13th, 2015Few jobs offer more vacation time than teaching. But the approach of Labor Day and back to school filled me with dread starting on the Fourth of July. By then summah was ovah.
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John Guare's Adapted His Girl Friday Front Page
Screwball Comedy at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 13th, 2015For vintage screwball comedy the John Guare rewrite of His Girl Friday, directed for Barrington Stage by Julliane Boyd, is just awesomely hilarious. It stars Christpher Innvar as the veteran editor and master manipulator Walter Burns, and the wonderful Jane Pfitsch as his ex and star reporter Hildy Johnson. This is the side splitting hit of the Berkshire season,.
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Tom Krens Proposes a New North Adams Museum Front Page
The Global Contemporary Collection and Museum Planned for Route Two
By: - Aug 12th, 2015While director of the Williams College Museum of Art Tom Krens initiated plans for Mass MoCA. When he left for a 20 year career at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that project moved forward under Joe Thompson. Now Krens, a Williams graduate and Williamstown home owner, is proposing to create a for profit museum on leased land fronting the high traffic corridor between MoCA, Williams College and the newly expanded and renovated Clark Art Institute.
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New Musical The Boy from Oz Front Page
Based on Songs and Stories of Peter Allen
By: - Aug 11th, 2015We meet Peter Allen as a dance-obsessed kid (played by Garrett Hershey) growing up in rural Australia, then forming a duo and performing in clubs. A chance meeting with Judy Garland (Nancy Hays) results in Allen opening for Garland in London and the U.S. and marrying her daughter, Liza Minnelli (Michelle Lauto).
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Fog Word
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Pizza People
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Mondo Cane Word
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Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix Front Page
Saguaro Cactus Featured Among Exotic Species
By: - Aug 11th, 2015The Garden comprises 140 acres and has more than 50,000 plants in its collection, including 139 rare, threatened, or endangered species. It focuses on plants adapted to desert conditions, including an Australian collection, a Baja California collection and a South American collection.
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Bookends People
Waiting for the Show
By: - Aug 11th, 2015In the lobby waiting for the show stuck between ambient conversation, laments of age and disease, proved to be more memorable than the play itself.
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Mr. B. B. People
Ain't Nothin but a Hound Dog
By: - Aug 10th, 2015Sometimes animals have a way of adopting us. More than just a dog B.B. King was a worldly wise hipster and friend.
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Cuba's Malpaso Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
With Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble
By: - Aug 10th, 2015With the easing of decades long embargo we anticipate dramatic changes in the arts and culture of Cuba. With mixed results we got a glimpse of that with the Jacob's Pillow debut of Malpaso Dance Company with Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble.
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A Moon for the Misbegotten in Williamstown Front Page
Astonishing Production Stars Audra McDonald and Will Swenson
By: - Aug 09th, 2015This is the fourth time that Long Wharf artistic director, Gordon Edelstein, has worked with the Eugene O'Neill classic Moon for the Misbegotten. To keep it fresh he has changed the tenant farmer Hogan family from Irish immigrants to African Americans. That allowed for casting multiply Tony and Grammy winner Audra McDonald. She appears with her real life husband Will Swenson. The resultant charisma is scorching.
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Tina Packer in Mother of the Maid Front Page
S&Co;. World Premiere by Emmy Winner Joan Anderson
By: - Aug 08th, 2015Mother of the Maid, by Emmy winner Joan Anderson, features Shakespeare & Company founding artistic director Tina Packer. She and her partner, Nigel Gore, have returned to Lenox from a national tour of the critically acclaimed Women of Will. The play, directed by Matthew Penn, is having its world premiere through September 6.
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Karen Allen's Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune Front Page
Moonstruck in Stockbrdge
By: - Aug 07th, 2015In the two hander by Terrence McNally, Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, directed by Karen Allen, the legendary tragic lovers have been transformed into a short order cook (Darren Pettie) and waitress (Angel Desai). It's 3 AM and following what she sees as a one night stand he refuses to leave harboring delusions of love and marriage.
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