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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Girl with a Pearl Earring Word
What's in a Maiden
By: - Feb 12th, 2015The enigmatic Girl in a Pearl Earring by Vermeer reached through centuries to haunt and inspire the poet Robert Rendo.
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Rejuvena Word
Supercharging Seniors
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Back in the day it was Geritol. Now there's a new wonder drug for seniors. Try Rejuvena and drink from the fountain of youth.
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Valentine's Day Word
Ersatz School Holiday
By: - Feb 12th, 2015College kids take every occasion to party. Even celebrating holidays not on the official school calendar.
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Berkshire Pulse Expands Programming Dance
Bringing Dance to Four Schools
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Berkshire Pulse – the interdisciplinary dance and performing arts education center located in downtown Housatonic – has significantly expanded its efforts to bring vibrant, dynamic dance instruction directly to students enrolled in local schools. Pulse is offering programming at four Berkshire County schools: Muddy Brook Elementary School in Great Barrington, Nessacus Middle School in Dalton, New Marlborough Central Elementary School in New Marlborough, and Undermountain Regional Middle School in Sheffield.
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Veritasso Wine
Modern Miracle Water into Wine
By: - Feb 11th, 2015Through the miracle of modern science we have unearthed the Biblical trick of turning water into wine. Just add Veritasso to ordinary tap water, and presto, in a matter of a few weeks, enjoy your favorite ersatz wine. Delight your friends and fool the experts.
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The Elevator Poems Word
Contest Winners Announced
By: - Feb 10th, 2015Professor Mark Miller of the English Department of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts took on the daunting task of judging the Elevator Poems Contest. The idea initiated with a challenge from Jonas Dovydenas, eventually a participant, that it was simply not possible to write a poem about an elevator. From December 16 through January 26 some 32 poems were posted by 25 poets. From this broad spectrum of richly varied approaches Miller derived three finalists. An awards ceremony is being organized for the spring with prizes including original elevator themed photographs by Dovydenas.
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The Cripple of Inishmaan Theatre
Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis to March 1
By: - Feb 10th, 2015There’s a cruelty in small towns. Everyone knows everyone else’s business. They’ve all grown up together, so there’s a comfort level that tends to ignore privacy. No one flinches in calling someone a degrading nickname or referring to an embarrassing moment in their past, because it’s all common knowledge.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015 Theatre
Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald , Cynthia Nixon
By: - Feb 10th, 2015The stars return to Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer for the first season of artistic director Mandy Greenfield. These include newcomers Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald , Cynthia Nixon as well as the return of Jessica Hecht. The festival runs from June 30 – August 23, 2015.
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Euro English Opinion
Toward Universal Language
By: - Feb 09th, 2015The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
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Mezze in Williamstown Food
Winter Comfort Sundays
By: - Feb 09th, 2015During the winter season Mezze in Williamstown offers Comfort Sunday weekly specials. A three course meal at the upscale restaurant costs $29. Or $22 if you skip desert. On a snowy winter night we joined friends to share a super spicy Moroccan menu. It was perhaps too authentic as the owner Nancy Thomas, who created this special dinner, is Moroccan American. It evoked a gastronomical heat wave on a cold gloomy night.
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Noah Snowah Word
Endless Wintah
By: - Feb 09th, 2015A wintah of Biblical proportions. When it shows for forty days and forty nights.
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Woody Word
What Goes Up Must Come Down
By: - Feb 09th, 2015When romance calls be ready. What happens when there's too much of a good thing.
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Conceptual Artist Ulay Fine Arts
Breaking the Norms
By: - Feb 08th, 2015The publisher Valiz Amsterdam has published a book about the life and work of the performance artist Ulay. The book ‘Whispers: Ulay on Ulay’, 536 pages with many illustrations, includes participations of Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, Timea Andrea Lelik, Tevž Logar, Thomas McEvilley, Charlemagne Palestine and others.
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Nobirds Word
Reasons for Four Seasons
By: - Feb 08th, 2015Strawberries and fresh cut roses in the dead of winter. How different from the canned peas of my youth. For snowbirds fleeing the ice and snow there is no real winter. Most of us hunker down and stay put.
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Constellations: The Emperor’s New Clothes Theatre
On Broadway Through March 15
By: - Feb 07th, 2015Though there is no accounting for taste - as they say, that’s what makes horse races - one can conjecture as to why so many of the critics, major and minor, from the New York Times, to the Hollywood Reporter to Time Out, have filed rave reviews. We beg to differ.
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Biographer Belinda Rathbone Fine Arts
Dialogue About Book on Her Father Perry
By: - Feb 07th, 2015The Boston Raphael is the first major book on the Museum of Fine Arts since Walter Muir Whitehill's centennial history in 1970. This is part one of an in dept interview with biographer Belinda Rathbone about the New York Times best selling profile of her father, former MFA director, Perry T. Rathbone.
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From Port of Los Angeles, CA to Hamburg Harbor, Germany Photography
From Harbor to Hafen
By: - Feb 06th, 2015The Ports of Los Angeles and Hamburg are two of the busiest and most important harbors around the world. One in the USA, the other one in Europe where I lived nearby for the first 20 years of my life. The word and photo essay allows for a glimpse at both ports. One series of photographs were taken in a matter of minutes, the other one during a visit of Hamburg Harbor in 2011 along memory lane.
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2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize Fine Arts
ICA announces Artists
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Ricardo De Lima, Vela Phelan, Sandrine Schaefer and the collective kijidome were named the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize Artists, the museum announced today. Performance, public art projects, and artist-run galleries are enjoying a resurgence in Boston. The work will be on view at the ICA from April 21 through August 9, 2015.
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Machine Age Modernism at the Clark Fine Arts
Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection
By: - Feb 06th, 2015The Clark Art Institute will consider the history and politics that inspired many artists working during and between World Wars I and II in the exhibition Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection. Inspired by such prewar movements as Futurism and Cubism, and using innovative techniques developed by artists associated with London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art in the 1930s and 1940s, artists of the Machine Age defied aesthetic and technical conventions in order to convey the vitality of industrial society and changed printmaking in the process. Machine Age Modernism will be on view in the Clark Center February 28–May 17, 2015.
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Rubensesque Word
Why Bigger is Better
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Let's face it guys love full figured women. Act now and put some meat on your bones. Find out why great artists like Rubens didn't paint skinny nudes.
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Talismans at The Painting Center Fine Arts
Chelsea Group Exhibition Through February
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Some years ago the renowned critic and photographer, John Coplans, suggested to the artist John L. Moore that exploring the bulletin boards in artists studios would be an interesting theme for an exhibition. That has resulted in the group show Talismans at The Painting Center in Chelsea though February.
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Gillian Anderson in The Fall Season Two Television
Belfast Based Crime Drama on Netflix
By: - Feb 04th, 2015The glamorous, sexy, frigid brilliant detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) was brought in to solved a series of killings in Belfast. She matches wits with an equally brilliant and ruthless adversary, Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) who has a teflon cover as husband and devoted father as well as a profession grief councilor. We binged on Season Two and although the crime has been solved we hope that the series continues. Anderson's arrogant detective gets under our skin in a manner that we love to hate.
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Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart Collaborate Dance
A Rite at Williams '62 Center March 17
By: - Feb 03rd, 2015The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance’s CenterSeries presents Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Anne Bogart’s SITI Company as they join forces for A Rite. These two celebrated companies examine The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky’s groundbreaking masterpiece. There will be one performance only, on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 8:00 PM on the ’62 Center’s MainStage.
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Ric Haynes Vision Quest Fine Arts
Upcoming Show at Boston's HallSpace Gallery
By: - Feb 02nd, 2015Some years ago we bonded while touring Spain. On the bus Ric Haynes and I discussed the art and culture we experienced. There was another such adventure in Italy. This latest of many dialogues explores the soul and resources of his oeuvre. The new work will be shown at the alternative HallSpace in Boston. The exhibition Where Am I will be on view from March 21 to April 25.
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Beckett Busted Word
Brief Encounter
By: - Feb 01st, 2015The stoic face of silent film star Buster Keaton, then retired in Florida, remained unmoved when Samuel Beckett came calling.
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