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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Chekhov's Seagull Roasted in Chicago Front Page
Aaron Posner's Sideshow Theatre Sendup
By: - Aug 05th, 2015This play based on Chekhov is a delightful two hours of smart theater that you'll enjoy even if you haven't seen The Seagull more times than you can count. The playbill provides a brief summary of the original, "in case you forgot." Director Jonathan L. Green, who also directed Sideshow's 2014 version, creates a minimalist production that uses original and contemporary pop music and breaks the fourth wall at will to talk with the audience.
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Laurel and Hardy People
Lend Me Your Ears
By: - Aug 05th, 2015Creating is a team effort shaped by a critical process. Reaching an impasse. Hitting the wall. Tapped out. When you come to the fork in the road take it.
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Thoughts Opinion
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Peacemaker People
Ballad for a Gunslinger
By: - Aug 04th, 2015He didn't like the killing particularly in the beginning.
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Hic Transit Dracones People
Up the River for Kurtz
By: - Aug 04th, 2015As we explore and use our lives as art when do we reach the boundary? Having mapped the known where do we cross over to terra incognita? Or as inscribed on medieval maps the unknown ocean where hic transit dracones.
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Day by Day Fine Arts
Swinging for the Fences
By: - Aug 04th, 2015Over the span of a decade Vincent van Gogh created an oeuvre of some 2,000 works including 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. The fifty works on view in Van Gogh and Nature at the Clark allows us to realize what results when an artist works almost every day. That made me think about the 250 or so poems and two books that I created in this past year. What is produced today inspires what happens tomorrow.
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Twosomes People
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Van Gogh and Nature at Clark Art Institute Front Page
Summer Blockbuster in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 04th, 2015The blockbuster summer exhibition, through September 13, is testing the limits of the recently renovated and expanded Clark Art Institute to handle maximum visitation even mid week. Only a few of the 50 works in the exhibition Van Gogh and Nature will be readily familiar to visitors. Many of the works on view, gathered from major collections, rarely travel to special exhibitions such as this. The curators have provided an intimate view of his daily practice and meticulous study of nature.
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New Histories People
How Past Become Future
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015Catching up with old friends we share stories, laughs and memories. Without a present, creating new stories, there is little hope or reason for future meetings.
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Edward Hopper Tour in Gloucester Aug. 7 Front Page
Houses painted by the Artist
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015American realist painter Edward Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. His earliest visit in 1912 was made in the company of fellow artist Leon Kroll. The Cape Ann Museum will present a guided walking tour of select Gloucester houses made famous by American realist painter Edward Hopper on Friday, August 7 at 10:00 a.m.
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That ‘70s Show Food
Mass Birthday Celebration in Sheffield
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015My buddy Jim Jacobs, known as Shango back in the day, and Kathleen hosted a last hurrah for the Berkshire hipster clan. It was held in a barn and tent in Sheffield. Just up the road a piece from where Benno and Stephanie held all those holiday celebrations. We gathered from near and far for an evening of Indian food and a groovy rock band. On the dance floor Astrid had all the right moves.
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Unknown Soldier at Williamstown Theatre Festival Front Page
World Premiere Musical by Michael Freidman and Daniel Goldstein
By: - Aug 02nd, 2015This is the 10th WTF season for Michael Friedman, and 6th for Daniel Goldstein. They have created the world premiere of a musical Unknown Soldier which is one of the bright and promising productions this summer in Williamstown. The project was initiated through a commission from former artistic director Nicholas Martin. It has been brought to fruition by Mandy Greenfield .
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Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art Front Page
Tiffany Treasures in Winter Park, Florida
By: - Aug 01st, 2015Catherine Hinman, the Museum’s Director of Public Affairs and Publications, said “A highlight of a visit [to the Morse Museum] is always the Byzantine-Romanesque chapel interior Tiffany designed for exhibition at the 1893 world’s fair in Chicago, which literally brought fair-goers to their knees in 1893 and continues to mesmerize our visitors today.”
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Playwright John Guare at Barrington Stage Front Page
Updating His Adaptation of His Girl Friday
By: - Aug 01st, 2015The renowned playwright John Guare was in Pittsfield recently for the first days of rehearsal of his play His Girl Friday. It is being directed by Julianne Boyd for Barrington Stage Company. He and others in the production met with the media for a lively give and take.
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Dig This a Super Sized Sandbox Near Vegas Front Page
Biggest Toys Imaginable
By: - Jul 31st, 2015Ed Mumm the owner of Dig This said, “Originally I thought only men would be into this. As soon as we opened our doors for business, it became very obvious that I was wrong. Half of our clients are woman who apparently have also craved the opportunity to play in bulldozers and excavators. I think it is very empowering for them and is fantastic therapy to take control of a 20 ton piece of machinery and tear up some earth and what ever else is in their way.”
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Greensboro: A Requiem at American Theater Company. Front Page
Chicago Production by ATC Youth Ensemble
By: - Jul 31st, 2015The play tells the story of the demonstration by mostly black textile mill workers in Greensboro to protest the Ku Klux Klan. The march was publicized as taking place on November 3, 1979, and the marchers had obtained a police permit. It resulted in five deaths.
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Feast a Celebration of Ethnic Diversity in Chicago Front Page
Albany Park Theater Project and Goodman Theatre
By: - Jul 31st, 2015No food is consumed by audience members in Feast, although by the end of the production, I was thinking fondly of a plate of lamb biryani with pappadums or perhaps some chicken mole.
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Art Critic Francine Koslow Miller (1951 to 2015) People
Mass College of Art Professor and Art Forum Correspondent
By: - Jul 29th, 2015Since the 1980s Francine Koslow Miller had been a formidable presence in the Boston art world as a critic for Art Forum, professor at Mass College of art and organizer of exhibitions and projects. As an alumna of Brandeis she was defender of the Rose Art Museum when there was a plan to sell the collection and close the museum. She died this week at the age of 64.
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Paul Natkin Superstars Front Page
Exhibition at Ed Paschke Art Center in Jefferson Park.
By: - Jul 28th, 2015Paul Natkin told an attentive audience about shooting Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis on his Born in the USA tour for a Newsweek cover. That shoot was described in a story about Natkin in the Chicago Sun-Times. "That's when my family believed I was a real photographer," he said. That publicity also led to five years as the staff photographer for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Side by Side by Sondheim Front Page
North Coast Repertory Theatre through August 16
By: - Jul 28th, 2015The North Coast Repertory Theatre production of “Side By Side By Sondheim”, does Mr. Sondheim proud! That enormous canon is selectively and lovingly brought to life by four gifted and talented singer/actors in a 90 minute free flowing tribute to his genius under the inspired direction of North Coast artistic director David Ellenstein.
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Girlfriend at the Kirk Douglas Theatre Front Page
World Premiere Musical by Todd Almond & Matthew Sweet
By: - Jul 28th, 2015Todd Almond’s new rock musical “Girlfriend” with music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet is a vanguard production that addresses the issues of understanding, acceptance, as well as the hopes and dreams of two gay teenage boys who discover one another in rural Nebraska in the summer of 1993.
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Tommy Music
Having a Silver Ball
By: - Jul 27th, 2015To get up for the gig, The Who, we dropped acid. From the front row Ronnie and I were blown away by Tommy.
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Arnie Reisman Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate Front Page
Clara Bow Died for Our Sins
By: - Jul 27th, 2015As I inscribed in my book for him Arnie Reisman was my first and best editor starting with the Brandeis Justice and then Boston After Dark. I have enjoyed reading his first book of verse Clara Bow Died for Our Sins.
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Remington People
The Write Stuff
By: - Jul 27th, 2015A fine arts major I expected to spend my life as an artist. That has proved to be more or less true with as many facets and tangents as a cubist composition. A rejected gift of an old Remington upright typewriter changed everything.
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Freddy's Music Unlimited People
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Brilliant and eccentric he was an actor in the WPA. After a breakdown moved to Boston and the care of my father. Opened a record shop where I worked for him on Saturdays now and then.
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