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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Lobster Thermidor Word
Annual Kentucky Derby Party
By: - May 03rd, 2015It's over in a couple of minutes after a log buildup. For the past six years Lisa Bklackmer and Michelle Jensen have hosted an annual Derby party as a benefit for breast cancer. This time the big screen and lawyer's office was not available. Lisa was in the dumps about it. I suggested the Eclipse Mill Gallery. She wavered. Then I offered to bring Lobster Thermidor. That clinched it. The party was awesome but everyone ragged on me when I copped out.
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The Pledge Word
A Poetic Pact
By: - May 03rd, 2015A declaration of commitment to a voyage upstream to explore the cave of dream and memory.
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Museum Director Michael Rush at 65 Fine Arts
Battled Brandeis University over Rose Art Museum
By: - May 03rd, 2015In 2009 Michael Rush, then the director of the Rose Art Museum, took the fall when Brandeis University schemed to close the museum and sell its $350 million collection. In 2010 he became the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. He died recently at 65.
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Tony Simotes Part Three Theatre
Act Two with Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - May 02nd, 2015In the third and final installment of an interview with Tony Simotes he describes the epiphany and divine intervention that resulted with leaving Shakespeare & Company and beginning what he calls act two with Berkshire Theatre Group. Having overcome personal and family adversity he views each day as a gift and the opportunity to have a positive impact in theatre and the cultural community of the Berkshires.
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Kiss Me Kate Word
Daughter Fourth in Line
By: - May 02nd, 2015It's good to have a backup plan. Prince Williams and Kate, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, have done it again. Doomed to a redundant and irrelevant career their infant girl is Fourth in line for the British Monarchy. She will spend a life tended to hand and footman showing up for Royal occasions looking as bored as we are.
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Jane Farver Death in Venice Fine Arts
Former MIT List Director at 68
By: - May 01st, 2015The Venice Biennale is about to open. The renowned curator and museum director, Jane Farver, was working with the artist Joan Jonas on an installation in the American Pavilion. It was announced that she died suddenly apparently of a heart attack. Jane was a friend and beloved mentor during her tenure as director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center from 1999 to 2011.
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Lights Out Word
End Game of Creation
By: - Apr 30th, 2015The end is not near but inevitable. Eons from now the dark sky. Stars racing away too far to see. Or exhausted of radiant energy. Perceived infinity in fact finite. Not Armageddon rather a universe of dust and debris. No more big bang for the buck. The paradox of our egocentric speck of insignificance.
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Napi's in Provincetown Food
Traditional Affordable Dining
By: - Apr 29th, 2015For a cozy dinner our friend Chris Busa recommended the traditional Napi's. We found it to be both enjoyable and affordable.
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Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha Fine Arts
Journey of a Prince and an Artist
By: - Apr 29th, 2015From 1833 to 1834, the explorer and naturalist Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Germany, traveled on a 2,500-mile journey into the American Interior, generally following the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-6). Maximilian was accompanied by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whom the prince had hired to record the cities, rivers, and people they saw along the way. Maximilian and the 23-year-old Bodmer left St. Louis in April 1833 and
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Up the River Word
Deep into Our Hearts of Darkness
By: - Apr 29th, 2015Pushing each other up river deep into the cave of horrific memories. Fangs ripping at the flesh of self.
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Helen Mirren in Queen Elizabeth II Theatre
Tony Nomination for The Audience
By: - Apr 29th, 2015Helen Merrin is as close as it gets to British theatrical royalty. She easily elides into the role of Queen Elizabeth II in a Tony nominated performance for "The Audience." While she is regal as always the play presents generic watered down history.
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Three Sisters at The Hypocrites Theatre
Chekhov in Chicago
By: - Apr 29th, 2015Director Geoff Button adapted Chekhov's script to use more modern language without trivializing it or breaking the mood of the story. Both his adaptation and direction are very strong. The eponymous Prosorov sisters lead the excellent 14-person cast in a story that progresses over several years in a provincial Russian town at the turn of the 20th century.
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Provincetown Artist/ Activist Jay Crichtley Fine Arts
Retrospective at Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Apr 28th, 2015The Provincetown based based conceptual artist a master of gonzo agit-prop, Jay Critchley, is having his first museum level solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. We visited his cluttered home, studio and back yard where he was preparing works for installation in the museum. We viewed the artifacts from numerous projects and conceptual works.
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Berkshires Represented in Tony Awards Theatre
WTF and Barrington Stage Among Nominees
By: - Apr 28th, 2015Three productions developed in the Berkshires are among the nominees for the 2015 Tony Awards. Williamstown Theatre Festival is represented by two production Elephant Man and The Visit which were presented on the watch of former artistic director Jenny Gersten. Barrington Stage Company is recognized for its musical On the Town,
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Oceans Word
Primal Tides Surging Within Us
By: - Apr 27th, 2015On stubby fins, eventual limbs, sea creatures crawled onto dry land. The ocean still pulses within us as warm saline blood. It defines a primal urge to return to the deep revealed in the joy on her face.
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Sandbar Inn Word
AWeek on the Beach
By: - Apr 27th, 2015A vow of a week on the beach each spring and fall. Time to read and write.
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Smarts Word
Older Not Always Wiser
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Reflecting on mistakes of youth. Laments of kids nowah days. Truth is we were not better.. Takes time to know that.
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Murder Building Word
University Road Harvard Square
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Rents were cheap in The Murder Building a sprawling complex for artists and musicians on University Road in Harvard Square.
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Off Season Word
Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Apr 27th, 2015A now annual early spring visit to Provincetown. Walking the narrow streets of the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape.
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Time and Tide Word
Erosion of More than Beaches
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Shocking erosion of the beaches. Brutal winter storms getting ever worse. Dance of the damned oblivious to decline and fall of life as we know it.
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Bragan Thomas Provincetown's Theatrical Polymath Theatre
From Odets to Caligula
By: - Apr 27th, 2015The legendary Provincetown Players was founded in 1915 and after a couple of seasons transferred to New York. We asked Bragan Thomas, the Co Chair of Programming, what is being planned for the centennial celebrations at Provincetown Theater. We also discussed a world premiere reading of his play "Caligula and the Three Daggers."
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Man of La Mancha Is Bulletproof Theatre
At The Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Apr 27th, 2015“Man of La Mancha†written by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion had ‘Blockbuster†written all over it when it debuted on Broadway in 1965 (running for over 2300 performances). The show nabbed five Tony Awards winning The Tony for Best Musical, and Best Actor, making a star out of Richard Kiley for his Don Quixote portrayal.
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Hold These Truths at CV Rep Theatre
Last of Series Focused on Immigration
By: - Apr 27th, 2015“Hold These Truthsâ€, is the last production in CV REP’s series of plays centered around the theme “America’s Melting Pot†– the plays and the stories of the American immigrant experience.This is one of CV REP’s most technically ambitious productions to date.
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Uncanny Valley at San Diego Repertory Theatre Theatre
New Play by Thomas Gibbons
By: - Apr 27th, 2015San Diego Repertory Theatre has mounted a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of “Uncanny Valley,†written by award-wining playwright Thomas Gibbons; performed in their Lyceum Space theatre. The intellectual think-piece, seamlessly directed by Jessica Bird, stars Rosina Reynolds and Nick Cagle in a riveting pas de deux involving avatars and their human creators.
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Mad Max Word
Oh My Canada
By: - Apr 26th, 2015The visiting curator for Canada was not quite up to a night on the town.
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