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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Christmas Shopping Word
Diamond as Big as the Ritz
By: - Dec 20th, 2014Mom and Dad had different approaches to Christmas Shopping. She started in August and took months to build up a secret stash. He was strictly last minute and never could find the time. Gifts of cash and booze pre wrapped.
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Kara Walker Afterword Fine Arts
Outtakes of Giant Sugar Sphinx at Sikkema Jenkins
By: - Dec 19th, 2014At the age of 28 Kara Walker won a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Now middle aged she has enjoyed success with work focusing on ante bellum slavery and more recently the triangle trade in slaves, molasses and rum. Our critique about her show at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery has more to do with marginal execution than its polemical subject matter.
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The Heart Is Not a Metaphor at MoMA Fine Arts
Made Readymades by Robert Gober
By: - Dec 19th, 2014The merry Dada prankster Marcel Duchamp changed the definitions of art with his Found Objects, Ready Mades and Assisted Readymades. The Robert Gober show at MoMA requires a new category, Made Readymades.
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Really? Word
Elevator Contestant Doubles Down
By: - Dec 19th, 2014A contestant in our Elevator Poem contest, the artist/ illustrator Robert Rendo, has his eyes on the prize. On these nights before Christmas he dreams of Burger King, Wendy's and McDonalds.
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10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival Returns to Pittsfield Theatre
Short New Plays at Barrington Stage
By: - Dec 18th, 2014The 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to downtown Pittsfield for the fourth year from February 12-22, 2014, and features music, theatre, dance, film, visual art, spoken word, comedy and more, including BSC’s 10X10 New Play Festival. Directors for the 10X10 New Play Festival are BSC Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development Stephanie Yankwitt.
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The Clark and Mass MoCA Stiff Locals Opinion
Negligible Off Season Free Admissions
By: - Dec 18th, 2014As of January One the Clark will no longer be free during the off season. It is offering token free days but adult admission is full freight at $20. Add another $10 to see special exhitions. Which is still more generous than Mass MoCA which has a single annual free day. It sends the wrong PR and marketing message to the local community. What price can you put on being a welcoming good neighbor?
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Elevators Elevate Enlightenment Word
Broad Benefits Uplifting
By: - Dec 18th, 2014Our friend Chris Busa is the publisher of Provinctown Arts Magazine which also promotes annd publishes books of piterature, criticism and poetry. This is his submission to our Elevator poem contest.
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ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow at Guggenheim Museum, NY Fine Arts
Otto Piene an Artist and Mensch
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The Guggenheim Museum in New York will close the ZERO exhibition on January 7, 2015. It is a comprehensive survey, highlighting more than 40 artists from 10 countries in Europe, South America and Japan. They were members of major artist groups and developments post WWII during the 1950s - 1960s.The second part of this article is dedicated to Otto Piene at CAVS/ MIT - and all who came to work or knew him and The Center.
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Girth and Mirth Word
Elevating the Holidays
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Colleague and critic Larry Murray has elevating lines on the challenges of Jonas's ban on writing about elevators.
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Cubism for the Holidays Fine Arts
School of Paris Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The School of Paris, particularly Picasso and Matisse, with sidebars on Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger are the heart and soul of museum and gallery exhibitions during the busy holiday season. These show provide invlauable insights to the issues of cubism and abstract art in the 20th century.
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Jacob's Pillow 2015 Season Dance
World Dance in the Berkshires
By: - Dec 17th, 2014“Festival 2015 delivers a remarkable range of dance from ballet to tap, music from classical to jazz, brand new works commissioned by the Pillow, and the most astonishing performers in the world,†comments Ella Baff, Executive and Artistic Director of Jacob’s Pillow. “We start the season with Ira Glass’s Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host and the re-opening of the Jacob’s Pillow Archives as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of public access and a major expansion of its home, Blake’s Barn. We end with a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company, a world premiere by Mats Ek, and the up and coming company MADboots Dance. Quite a range indeed.â€
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The Doors Parted Word
Biblical Elevation
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The artist illustrator Robert Rendo wades in with a Biblical spin on the elevator contest.
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Elevated Interaction Word
Hitting on Critics in Elevators
By: - Dec 17th, 2014My eccentric atrtist friend, Raeford Liles, now 91, God bless him, spotted the famous critic Harold Rosenberg. You guessed it. In an elevator.
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26th Floor Word
A Gibson
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Our New York correspondent, Susan Hall, recalls a celebrity encounter on, you guessed it, an elevator.
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Stairway to Heaven Word
High Above Manhattan
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Provoked by a prohibition from Jonas another poem inspired by elevators. In this case childhood memories of visiting the Empire State Building. Then the tallest building in the world. A true wonder. Never went back. Fear of flying.
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Elevator Poem Contest Word
The Artist Waxes Poetic
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The Berkshire based artist, and aficionado of Coffee Corner, Arhur Yanoff, has a different response to the Jonas constraints against writing poetry about elevators. He has his eyes on the prize.
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Interview in a Highrise Word
Another Elevator Poem
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The artist/ musician/ poet Jane Hudson of Williamstown has entered our Elevator Contest. Here the rise to the top is more fluid than the long way down.
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The Elevator Word
More on the Ups and Downs of Poetry
By: - Dec 16th, 2014In response to the prohibition of my friend Jonas regarding the folly of writing poems about elevators many are responding to the call to arms. There is now an "official " contest for poems about elevators. Our artist friend from Sheffield, Benno Friedman, wades in. The winner will be awarded a free subscription to Berkshire Fine Arts and lunch at a choice of Burger King, Wendy's or McDonald's.
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Life in the Lift Word
Another Poem About Elevators
By: - Dec 16th, 2014My friend Jonas warned/ challenged me that you just can't possibly write a poem about an elevator. With December I tried to prove him wrong. Now the poet laureate of Martha's Vinyard, Arnie Reisman, has sent along a poem inspired by an elevator. So take that Jonas. It seems that life for poets has its ups and downs. With a nod to Cole Porter's Miss Otis Regrets.
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Willy Holtzman's Smart Blonde Theatre
World Premiere at Pittsburgh's City Theatre
By: - Dec 16th, 2014Willy Holtzman moves the story along at a brisk pace, pausing just long enough to give us a glimpse of some of the major milestones in Judy Holliday’s career and personal life (the show runs eighty minutes without intermission). The flashbacks shift fluidly into each other, thanks to quick costume changes and skillful choreography on the part of actors Jonathan Brody and Adam Heller, who play the roles of all of the other figures in Holliday’s life.
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A Beef & Boards Christmas Theatre
Seasonal Celebration in Indianapolis
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The show mainly stumbles when it tries to do too much. There are times when Lucas, the quartet, co-hosts Wims and Shepard, Santa and six dancers are all vying for the audience’s attention on stage at the same time. The frantic nature of those numbers makes it hard to appreciate any single element, much less all of them at once.
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December Word
Bah Humbug
By: - Dec 16th, 2014After the pearls, perfumes, Irish sweaters finding presents in the twentieth year of being together gets tough. This time a Ninja Juicer. As Fast Eddie would say, "A life changing experience." All that good cheer and ubiquitous Christmas music is driving me nuts. My friend Jonas says "You can't write a poem about an elevator." Here I attempt to prove him wrong.
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Documentary Film Code Black Film
Dr. Ryan McGarry Reveals Real Life Drama of an ER
By: - Dec 16th, 2014Over the years countless TV series have focused on the life and death drama of hospital ER units. In the compelling documentary film, Code Black, Dr. Ryan McGarry focues on what actually happens day to day in LA County Hospital. In addition to saving lives for the severely injured the ER is also a defacto outpatient clinic for the urban poor. That equates to endless and unavoidable long waits in a national health care system struggling to cope and provide care for all.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs Fine Arts
At MoMA through February 4
By: - Dec 15th, 2014During the busy holiday season The Museum of Modern Art is featuring the blockbuster exhibition of the artist’s triumphant and inventive last works Henri Matisse: The Cutouts. The exhibition drew some 500,000 visitors last summer to London’s Tate Modern.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Theatre
2014 Tony for Best Musical
By: - Dec 14th, 2014Based on the 1949 treasure Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets this 2014 Tony winning musical version A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a smashing pure delight. Through two marvelous acts we just laughed ourselves silly.
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