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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Eric Rudd Announces for North Adams Mayor Opinion
Artist/ Developer Runs Against Incumbent Alcombright
By: - May 15th, 2015After establishing the former Contemporary Artists Center in the Beaver Mill the artist, Eric Rudd, developed the artists/ loft Eclipse Mill. He is now announcing his second campaign for mayor. The first some time ago was against John Barrett III and now he opposes Mayor Dick Alcombright. It is speculated that Barrett, who after being defeated sat on the city council, may join the race. The artists and potential voters who Rudd appeals to tipped the balance when Alcombright defeated Barrett. In fact he blamed them for running him out of a generation spanning dominance of North Adams politics. This could indeed be interesting.
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The Little Foxes in Chicago Theatre
Hellman's Play at Goodman Theatre
By: - May 15th, 2015Goodman's excellent new production of The Little Foxes, directed with style by Henry Wishcamper, stars a galaxy of Chicago's finest actors and surely resonates with some of the current discussions about racism, sexism, domestic abuse and income inequality. If you have a drink with friends after the show, those topics probably will be part of your post-play discussion.
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Keith Lockhart Celebrates 20 Years with Pops Music
With Bernadette Peters at Tanglewood July 5
By: - May 15th, 2015After one of the worst winters on record yet again Spring means six glorious weeks of the Boston Pops. We participated in the gala opening night launch of Keith Lockhart's 20th season. His guest was Broadway star Bernadette Peters. It provided a preview of their appearance together at Tanglewood on July 5.
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The Provincetown Theater Theatre
Announces the 2015 Season
By: - May 15th, 2015The Provincetown Theater announces its 2015 season. An eclectic blend of the old and new, this year's lineup reflects key moments in the history of theater on the Outer Cape and beyond. Eugene O'Neill to Ryan Landry, Lonely Planet to Oleanna will join Broadway veterans on the stage in Provincetown to help celebrate 100 years of exhilarating performances, inspired new American plays and powerful theatrical experiences in Provincetown..
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BB King Word
The Thrill is Gone
By: - May 15th, 2015More polished and assimilated into a range of styles than his peers Howlin Wolf or Muddy Waters like them up from the Delta BB King was a blues giant. Arguably, he was the greatest guitarist of his generation building on the original King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson. BB King was an inspiration to the British musicians of the 1960s, from John Mayall, to Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Jeff Beck who conflated Delta blues with rock 'n' roll. We celebrate his legacy at 89.
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Spotty Word
Curse of the Mutt
By: - May 15th, 2015After years of hard work the Sullivans moved to upscale Belmont. Up the street from Aunt Catherine of the Rockoport Nugent clan. At first all went well. Then
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Bloody Thursday Word
Papa Doc Duvalier Was Having a Bad Day
By: - May 14th, 2015Rebels who couldn't shoot straight failed to assassinate Haiti's dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Decades later recalling the terror that prevailed that day.
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Odors and Smells Word
A Pungent Tale of Woe & Joy
By: - May 14th, 2015Through time, space and daunting obstacles reaching back to recover the exotic perfume and flavors of a Caribbean heritage.
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Northern Berkshires Blockbuster Arts Summer Opinion
From Warhol and Wilco to van Gogh and Inge
By: - May 14th, 2015Now in his final weeks as director of the Clark Art Institute Michael Conforti hosted a media event promoting a blockbuster season for Northern Berkshire County. There were presentations by Joe Thompson for Mass MoCA, Tina Olsen for the Williams College Museum of Art, and Mandy Greenfield for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Notably absent from the media event were North Adams based arts presenters Downstreet, The Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Rudd Museum of Art and the fall annual Williamstown Film Festival.
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The Drowning Girls at Signal Ensemble Theatre Theatre
By Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson and Daniela Vlaskalic,
By: - May 13th, 2015Signal's production is the Chicago premiere of a script by playwrights Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson and Daniela Vlaskalic, Canadian theater artists, whose play was first performed in 2008 in Alberta. Their script is poetic prose and requires the actors to speak in lists, finish each others' sentences and read their own obituaries from the wet newspapers they bring out of their tubs.
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Sexual Healing Word
One of Final Performances of Marvin Gaye
By: - May 12th, 2015As past of a summer long series a stage was erected on Boston Common facing Boylston Street. In a stunning performance Marvin Gaye went almost Full Monty while crooning the anthem Sexual Healing/
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Conceptual Artist Chris Burden at 69 Fine Arts
Shock of the No Longer New
By: - May 11th, 2015Particularly in the early work starting with Five Day Locker Piece in 1971 when he remained confined to a cramped space as his thesis project Chris Burden tested the limits of his human endurance. His occasionally death defying art entailed getting shot, crucified to a Volkwagen, and laying down in traffic. Given these dark projects, reporting on his death at 69 from melanoma, lacks the intensity and dramatic impact of his work. We recall meeting with him during a 1989 exhibition at Boston's ICA. Speaking with him about outrageous work made perfect sense.
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Tony Winning Play Side Man Theatre
Chicago's American Blues Theater's Warren Leight Jazz Riff
By: - May 11th, 2015Warren Leight's Tony-award winning play, Side Man, tells the story of a few horn players who thrived in their own way in the 1940s and '50s jazz era. They worked their 20 weeks per year, then met at the unemployment office every Friday to collect their checks. Their motto was "keep your nut small" -- live as frugally as possible -- so you can live on a sideman's salary.
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The Project(s) by American Theatre Company Theatre
Dramatizes Chicago's Public Housing
By: - May 11th, 2015Paparelli and his co-writer, Joshua Jaeger, conducted about 100 interviews over five years with current and former residents of public housing, plus scholars and city officials. His docudrama isn't a dreary recitation of blame and political failure. The problems are not ignored, but the resulting production is a lively and thoroughly engrossing story in words, rhythm and music.
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Smoki Bacon Word
Legendary Boston Socialite
By: - May 11th, 2015Smoki grew up Italian in Brookline Village and married Boston Brahmin Ed Bacon. Hence that amazingly catchy handle Smoki Bacon. She has long been one of the brightest lights in the social scene. She knows everyone and delights in making introductions often to excess.
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Texting Word
So It Is Written So Shall It Be
By: - May 04th, 2015Looking for answers. Lifetime of reading. Ultimately going it alone without a net.
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Mac's Seafood Provincetown Food
Enjoying Happy Hour
By: - May 04th, 2015After groceries at Stop and Shop also on Shankpainter Road we found Mac's Seafood Provincetown. It was happy hour and we enjoyed magnificent freshly shucked Wellfleet oysters, the best in the world, for just a buck each. We also feasted on an array of half price appetizers.
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God Is Dead Word
We're On Our Own
By: - May 03rd, 2015Faced with the unfathomable and irrational, fragile and fallible mankind invented God. That explained everything. Then as Nietzsch stated God died. We killed Him. Nothing new. But now what? Without sin and fear of punishment why do we do the right thing? Heaven and hell are here and now.
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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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