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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Mom Cracked the Whip Word
Not Loosing a Step
By: - Nov 02nd, 2015Mom loved winters in Florida; West Palm Beach condo next to the ocean, with friends and neighbors. Until she got to old for the commute. Alone in Annisquam was hard. Pip came every day fixing supper and getting her ready for night on the porch then bed. She craved company but never spared the zingers. It was always an adventure to visit.
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Boston Theatre Update Front Page
Huntington Theatre Company Sanguine
By: - Nov 02nd, 2015Regarding Boston Theatre it is broke and time to fix it. This fall as one shoe after another dropped the Boston Theatre Community seemed to collapse like a house of cards. In 2004 through a partnership between Druker Development, Boston Center for the Arts and the Huntington Theatre Company the multi-stage Calderwood Pavilion was created in the South End. Is it possible that Huntington can swing a similar development to save, renovate and expand its antiquated facility? That's just a part of dramatic changes for the city.
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A Confederacy of Dunces Slated for World Premiere Front Page
Creative Team Dicusses Production for Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Nov 01st, 2015A Confederacy of Dunces was published in 1980 eleven years after John Kennedy Toole's suicide. Recently the creative team- adapter Jeffrey Hatcher, director David Esbjornson, and actor Nick Offerman- met with the media to discuss the production for Boston's Huntington Theatre Company. The comedy will run from November 11 through December 13.
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Lou Reed Word
Times Trash Talk
By: - Oct 31st, 2015Hung out to dry, nailed to the cross of rock 'n' roll, Lou Reed dies to save us from ourselves.
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This Cigar’s a Good Smoke Word
Burn Baby Burn
By: - Oct 29th, 2015J.M. Robert Henriquez, consigliore to Charles Giuliano in all matters creative and poetic, expands on the metaphor of a good cigar.
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Transition (75 Years) Word
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High Bush Word
Amigo Have a Cigar
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Anyone can write the easy ones. We all have a tale to tell. Then it gets harder. After harvesting the low hanging fruit you reach higher where the air is thin and clear.
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Old Miss Word
Lowering the Confederate Flag
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Through the consensus of students and faculty the state flag of Mississippi, with its confederate stars and bars, no longer is raised on the campus of Old Miss. The heritage of slavery dies hard in the land where cotton was king.
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Muddy Waters Music
Got His Mojo Working
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Young British rockers Stones, Yardbirds, Clapton, Beck lapped up Muddy's licks on those iconic Chess Records. Copped his tunes some morphed from Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues. Always a thrill when he came to town and held court.
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Vines Word
Fences and Neighbors
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Good fences make good neighbors. Particularly when swathed in vines.
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Sammo Word
Body Count
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Poetics of the grim reaper. Account of whom the gods love.
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1984 at Steppenwolf in Chicago Front Page
Theatre for a Young Audience
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Andrew White's careful adaptation of 1984, directed by Hallie Gordon, brings the story to life in the person of Winston (Adam Poss), who secretly hates Big Brother and the IngSoc party, misses chocolate and fears rats.
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Theseus Word
In and Out
By: - Oct 26th, 2015Going deep into confronting works of art and performances. Bombarded by every more fragmented nuggets and facets of information. Formed into some cohesion then finding the thread back out. Always leaving something behind. Ritual sacrifice to the muse binding the wounds of critical thinking.
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Miller's All My Sons Front Page
California's A Noise Within Theatre
By: - Oct 25th, 2015America went to war in 1941, but not all of America. There were those who had to stay at home and man the war industries of building airplanes, ships and the weapons of war. “All My Sons”, nicely directed by ANW co-founder Geoff Elliott centers around the Keller family of a fictional Ohio city set in 1946.
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Milestones Word
Turning the Corner
By: - Oct 25th, 2015Places to go and things to be done. Hacking and coughing waking up to first day of 75th year.
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Kicks Word
From Beatle Boots to Docksiders
By: - Oct 24th, 2015After a year or more shoes are like old friends. Well worn and beat up they glide easy where you want to go. Now 75 it's not about fashion. Back in the day it was strictly Beatle Boots and pimp kicks from Crystal's in the Zone.
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Stagestruck City Front Page
Chicago's Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman
By: - Oct 24th, 2015Special exhibition explores the origins of the historic Goodman Theatre in Chicago. It's on view at the Newberry Library through December 31.
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Class Distinctions at the MFA Front Page
Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
By: - Oct 22nd, 2015There are 75 works in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston exhibition Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer curated by Ronni Baer. Of the marquee artists there are two paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and four by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
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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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