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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • Tanglewood Update Front Page

    BSO Departs Early to Launch European Tour

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    By 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.

  • Vico Fabris Fantasy Botanicals Front Page

    Imaginalis at Provincetown’s Rice Polk Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    From 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.

  • Rob Moore Fine Arts

    Second Effort

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    Critics don't always get it right. Particularly young ones.

  • My Bad Word

    Professional Differences

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 18th, 2015

    Comparing professions at a family gathering years ago.

  • The Sarasota Ballet Debut at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    Three Variations on Classical Dance

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2015

    For 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.

  • Martin Sherman's Bent Revived in LA Front Page

    At Mark Taper Forum Until August 23

    By: Jack Lyons - Aug 17th, 2015

    When 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.

  • Saints Word

    Relics and Miracles.

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2015

    When 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.

  • An Intervention by Mike Bartlett Front Page

    Olivier Award Winner Anchors WTF's Nikos Stage Season

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2015

    Three 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.

  • John Douglas Thompson in Red Velvet at S&Co;. Front Page

    Awesome First US Production of Powerful Lolita Chakrabarti Play

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 15th, 2015

    John 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.

  • Exploring Mexican Cuisine Food

    Vallarta Food Tours

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 14th, 2015

    In 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.

  • Crushed Fine Arts

    Transforming Judds into Chamberlains

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 14th, 2015

    How rejected galvanized metal cubes by the artist Donald Judd were transformed into vintage sculptures by John Chamberlain.

  • Siesta to Semester Word

    End to Lazy Days of Summer

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2015

    Few 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.

  • John Guare's Adapted His Girl Friday Front Page

    Screwball Comedy at Barrington Stage Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2015

    For 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,.

  • Tom Krens Proposes a New North Adams Museum Front Page

    The Global Contemporary Collection and Museum Planned for Route Two

    By: Charles giuliano - Aug 12th, 2015

    While 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.

  • New Musical The Boy from Oz Front Page

    Based on Songs and Stories of Peter Allen

    By: Nancy Bishop - Aug 11th, 2015

    We 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).

  • Fog Word

    Cat Crawls In

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Aug 11th, 2015

    By a quarry and poison ivy.

  • Pizza People

    Slice of Life

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Aug 11th, 2015

    Pennies for pizza.

  • Mondo Cane Word

    Good, Bad, and Ugly

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 11th, 2015

    From Mr. B.B. to Billis going to the dogs.

  • Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix Front Page

    Saguaro Cactus Featured Among Exotic Species

    By: Susan Cohn - Aug 11th, 2015

    The 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.

  • Bookends People

    Waiting for the Show

    By: Bookends - Aug 11th, 2015

    In the lobby waiting for the show stuck between ambient conversation, laments of age and disease, proved to be more memorable than the play itself.

  • Mr. B. B. People

    Ain't Nothin but a Hound Dog

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 10th, 2015

    Sometimes animals have a way of adopting us. More than just a dog B.B. King was a worldly wise hipster and friend.

  • Cuba's Malpaso Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    With Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 10th, 2015

    With 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.

  • A Moon for the Misbegotten in Williamstown Front Page

    Astonishing Production Stars Audra McDonald and Will Swenson

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 09th, 2015

    This 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.

  • Tina Packer in Mother of the Maid Front Page

    S&Co;. World Premiere by Emmy Winner Joan Anderson

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 08th, 2015

    Mother 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.

  • Karen Allen's Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune Front Page

    Moonstruck in Stockbrdge

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 07th, 2015

    In 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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