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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LA Museums Fine Arts
A Week on the Run
By: - Oct 31st, 2014Enduring fits of road rage during a week in LA we made daily visits to great museums. This is an initial report which will continue.
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Shadows Fine Arts
Warhol at LA Moca through February 2
By: - Oct 30th, 2014Edge to edge LA MoCA is showing the 102 silk screen paintings comprising Andy Warhol's 1978-79 series Shadows. Viewing this dense installation, on view through February 2, entailed no heavy lifting. Andy called the series "Disco Decor."
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Movie Stars Word
From Here to There
By: - Oct 30th, 2014The rich and famous live in LaLa Land. Expressways are the equalizer. They drive like Kamikazes on the freeways.
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Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison Fine Arts
Heard Museum Phoenix to January 12
By: - Oct 28th, 2014The Modern Spirit: The Arts of George Morrison is a five venue traveling exhibition which is on view at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona through January 12. Morrison (1919-2000) left the Chippewa people of Lake Superior to study at the Arts Student League in 1943. He enjoyed success in New York with numerous gallery and national museum exhibitions. In 1970 he returned to teach in Minnesota where he primarily lived and worked for the remainder of his life. As an abstract artist Morrison defies narrow definitions of American Indian Art. His life and work did much to expand that.
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Martha Chokely Word
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Hollywood Word
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Double Rhythm Writings about Painting Fine Arts
Jean Helion Collected with an Introduction by Deborah Rosenthal
By: - Oct 27th, 2014The notion of the hermeneutical way of thinking is evident throughout Helion’s writings. One intriguing essay tries to untangle the origins of Abstraction’s roots in Seurat and Cezanne. Who was more important in influencing Abstraction? Helion comes down on the side of Seurat. Cezanne, he feels, is still attached to the real space of objects and is more Janus-like looking backward as well as forward. Seurat’s work lends itself to further reduction, which is crucial to abstraction.
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St. Germain's Freud's Last Session Theatre
At North Coast Rep Theatre in California
By: - Oct 25th, 2014Since its premiere at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain has been produced all over the world. He was recently in Oslo for a production of his enormously popular play. Jack Lyons reviews a California production at North Coast Rep Theatre through November 9.
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Biblical Themed Play by Scott Carter Theatre
Geffen Playhouse Through November 23
By: - Oct 25th, 2014In the Geffen Playhouse’s current production “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discordâ€, written by Scott Carter and directed by Matt August, three of history’s great thinker/writers come together in a blisteringly funny battle of wits to explain their divergently held opinions.
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Stranger Than Word
I Like to Watch
By: - Oct 24th, 2014I love TV. Friends brag about not owning one. They read.
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Smashing Word
Rejecting a Gift
By: - Oct 24th, 2014We never quite turn out as planned. A turning point came in a shocking encounter with the conceptual, collage and film artist Bruce Conner.
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1940 Word
Cause for Ambivalent Celebration
By: - Oct 22nd, 2014Turning 74 in a couple of days is kindah a non celebration. Just short of 75 which is a biggie. Astrid bought me a bell and candle. Missing the book. Maybe next year.
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Arcosanti Rings a Bell Architecture
Desert Laboratory of Architect Paolo Soleri
By: - Oct 22nd, 2014In 1946, with a degree in architecture, Paolo Soleri started a year and a half fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright. Returning to Italy in 1950 by 1956 he and his wife Colly established a home, foundation and bell making studio Acosanti near Scottsdale Arizona. In 1970 he founded Arcosanti some 70 miles from Phoenix as a laboratory for his radical urban designs. The plan was for a community of 5,000. Only a fraction was built before his death in 2013.
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Hartley Word
Lost at Sea
By: - Oct 19th, 2014Marsden Hartley was among the most original and tragic of America's modernists. Today he is regarded as one of the finest artists of his generation. His life was one of constant struggle and adversity.
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Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns Fine Arts
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to January 15
By: - Oct 18th, 2014The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art received a grant from the Tremaine Foundation in support of the ambitious and insightful special exhibition Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns. It has been installed for several months in the three galleries of a former movie theater. The provocative project plays well in a staunchly red state dealing with unchecked undocumented immigration.
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Wright Stuff Word
Truman Blocked the View
By: - Oct 17th, 2014With several thousand dollars earned from designing Fallingwater between 1937 and 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright designed Taliesin West which was constructed by students and fellows. It was sited toward a magnificent view of Arizona mountains. Returning from Wisconsin for the winter season he was pissed to find power lines marring the horizon. He called the President.
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Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Bright Star Theatre
World Premiere at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - Oct 17th, 2014The immensely multi-talented Steve Martin – actor, playwright, director, musician, producer author – has joined creative forces with Southern songwriter-singer Edie Brickell becoming of one America’s newest and successful musical writing teams in the process. Their Bright Star runs at the Old Globe through November 2.
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Glass Menagerie at Pittsburgh Public Theatre Theatre
Superb Production of Tennessee Williams Drama
By: - Oct 17th, 2014The trick to a good production of this play – and the one at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre falls squarely into that category – lies in finding a style for representing memory, one that keeps in view not only the events as remembered by Tom, infused and informed by his guilty conscience over having left his overbearing mother and fragile sister to their own devices, but also the reality of the characters themselves, distinct from his memory somehow, so that we in the audience don’t fall into the trap of only seeing the other characters as Tom remembers them.
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Hitmakers on PBS Television
Airs on Friday. November 14
By: - Oct 16th, 2014HITMAKERS is an up-close look at the music industry’s resilience in the digital age, featuring interviews and performances from notable artists, including Grammy® Award-winning rocker Melissa Etheridge, multi-media star Questlove, Electronic Dance Music DJ/producer Steve Aoki, multiplatinum Grammy Award-winning singer Lorde, powerhouse soul/funk singer Sharon Jones and Grammy-winning blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band, along with legendary music executives.
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Tony Simotes Leaves Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Rick Dildine Takes Charge
By: - Oct 11th, 2014When Tony Simotes took over Shakespeare & Company from founder Tina Packer five years ago it soon was revealed that the company was on the brink of ruin. With negotiations and austerity the company was put on a more secure footing. It is now more stable as leadership passes to Rick Dildine..
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Volcano Word
To Hell and Back
By: - Oct 09th, 2014What's vivid to some is vague for others. Shared experiences iterated later as confused memories. Different responses to the fog of war.
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Cottage Industry Word
Anniversary Week on the Cape
By: - Oct 09th, 2014Celebrating twenty years with a week on the Cape. Exploring marshes steps from our Sandwich cottage. Barnstable for whale watch. Glass museum. Reading and writing. Glorious September weather.
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Rahsaan Word
Mouth Full of Horns
By: - Oct 08th, 2014Roland Rahsaan Kirk could blow chords with three horns jammed into his mouth. I got blasted during dinner with Kirk and the band.
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Critic Word
The Eyes Have It
By: - Oct 08th, 2014Back in the day the artist was present when briefly I viewed his show then thoroughly trashed it. Based on the brevity of observation he stated that I didn't adequately view the work. Challenged I described the works in detail. Still can decades later.
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The Only Miracles Back Up Smokey Robinson Word
On Smoke and Mirrors
By: - Oct 08th, 2014Here is another poem read recently by Arnie Reisman the Poet Laureate of Martha's Vineyard. He explores the consequences of faith in miracles.
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