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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Fugio Word
Thoughts While Driving
By: - Oct 08th, 2014There are two poems that Arnie Reisman read at Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven as the Martha's Vineyard Poets Society swore him in as the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate, 2014-2016. He is highly regarded as a journalist and thinker as well as a poet.
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Old Country Buffet in Pittsfield Food
Quality Comfort and Price
By: - Oct 07th, 2014For an ample, fresh, cheap meal Country Buffet in the Pittsfield Mall is an enticing option. The Pit Bulls differed in their responses. In general you get what you pay for.
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An Enemy of the People at Barrington Stage Word
Arthur Miller Adapted Henrik Ibsen
By: - Oct 06th, 2014Cleaning up toxic waste from the Housatonic River is a hot button issue for the Berkshires. Environmental pollution and efforts to repress that threat to the local economy is the focus of a powerful production of the Ibsen/ Miller play An Enemy of the People at Barrington Stage Company through October 19.
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Xanti Schawinsky Eclipse Fine Arts
Bauhaus Artist at Broadway 1602 to Nov. 22
By: - Oct 05th, 2014Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky (1904-79), of Polish-Jewish origin, immigrated in 1936 to the United States. After his years at the Bauhaus he continued an intense and ultra creative journey from his radical post-Bauhaus theater work at the Black Mountain College, the innovative designs for the New York World Fair in 1939, to his unparalleled surreal drawing and painting work throughout the 1940s influenced by war and immigration (on show at the Drawing Center in tandem with our exhibition). In the 1960s Schawinsky entered a new phase of creation with an intense and enigmatic body of work of abstract and optical paintings, the Eclipses and Spheras.
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Stones Word
With Hells Angels at the Garden
By: - Oct 05th, 2014Friday afternoon, 1969, proofing Show Guide Sunday page. Stones at the Garden coupon. Pulled extra proof. Great seats with a twist.
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Hendrix Word
Mustang Sally at the Cheetah
By: - Oct 04th, 2014Hanging out on Broadway at the Cheetah. Mega rock club in the 1960s. Curtis Knight and the Flames. Young guitar player then named Jimmy James.
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Cop Out Word
Newport Nights
By: - Oct 03rd, 2014There were great parties in mansions following concerts at the Newport Jazz Festival. Hooked up with Wild Strawberry and crashed in Nobby's room. Then things happened.
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Beggars Word
Democrats Down on their Knees
By: - Oct 03rd, 2014I get 20 e mails a day to Astrid's 100 plus. Democrats asking, pleading, begging, down on their knees. Races too close to call. The future of America on the line for coin.
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Barrington Stage Company 2015 Theatre
Lost in Yonkers and Man of La Mancha
By: - Oct 03rd, 2014Barrington Stage Company (BSC),announced today two of its 2015 Boyd-Quinson Mainstage productions – Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers and Man of La Mancha.
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Koch Word
All the Government That Money Can Buy
By: - Oct 01st, 2014E mail has been clogged with pleas, no begging. Democrats down on their knees for donations. With a few swoops of the pen Republicans trump with effortless $12 million to steal another election.
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October Word
Frost Is on the Pumpkin
By: - Oct 01st, 2014A time to plant. A time to uproot that which is planted.
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Mark Favermann Functional Abstraction Fine Arts
Newbury College Exhibition
By: - Oct 01st, 2014Mark Favermann is known to readers of Berkshire Fine Arts for reviews of Boston theatre and articles on fine arts, architecture and design. From October 15 through December 5 an exhibition of his work Functional Abstraction will be on view at Newbury College in Brookline, Mass.
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Benno Friedman on Painterly Photography Photography
Berkshire Artist Overcomes Adversity
By: - Oct 01st, 2014For Berkshire based photograher, Benno Friendman, taking an image with a camera is the initial step in creating an exhibition print. In this third and final installment of an extensive interview he discussed the alchemy of the darkroom. In more recent years that has morped into manipulations using Photoshop. Several years ago he suffered a severe injury from which he has made a remarkable but gradual recovery. It proved to have little impact on his feisty spirit.
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Scorton Marsh, Sandwich, Cape Cod Photography
A Poetic Photo Story
By: - Sep 30th, 2014We live in the Berkshire Hills and forests, near lakes. Growing up close to the Baltic and North Seas draws me to oceans still. So we recently spent a wonderful and sunny week on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A photography project follows: From a thousand new Cape photos, we photo-shopped 100, then selected approximately 40, further enhanced or painterly distorted them (or not) for this story and poem.
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The Metaphor Word
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Lascaux Word
Cave Drawing to Burger King
By: - Sep 29th, 2014From ancient bison and cave drawings to sacred cow. The craving for meat sustains through millenia. Defining us as carnivores.
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Aging Word
Refusing to Wear Pearls or Pink
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Mirror mirror on the wall. Reflecting on age and not giving in.
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Dancing Shoes Word
Well Heeled Uncle Bill
By: - Sep 29th, 2014My elegant Uncle Bill was a professor of Romance literature at Queens College. With Astrid we met each year for a holiday dinner. Estere talked about having his shoes resoled with rubber. But not these he told her.
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Two Gentleman of Verona Theatre
Indiana Repertory Theatre To October 19
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Indiana Repertory Theatre opens its 43rd season with a play in honor of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. The show includes a cast of IRT vets like Ryan Artzberger and Robert Neal (who both starred in HART “The Tempest†this summer), along with some excellent newcomers. Two standouts were Charles Pasternak as Valentine, who vacillates between ardent lover and frustrated exile and Ashley Wickett as both Julia’s maid Lucetta and the sought-after Silvia.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Music
Lineup for Events Oct. 10-19
By: - Sep 29th, 2014The festival kicks off on Thursday, Oct. 9, with Jazz About Town, with sponsored and affiliated events that span the long Columbus Day weekend and including a "jazz craw,†when venues present Berkshires’ established performers in casual settings.
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Moondog Word
New York Street Music
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Born Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999) Moondog was blinded playing with a dynamite cap as a child.. The musician/ poet hung out for spare change not far from my gallery. We collaborated on a sold out gig. It kickstarted his recording career.
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Joe Cocker Word
Getting High With Some Friends
By: - Sep 29th, 2014I grew up with Tim Crouse during summers in Annisquam. We shared an encounter in the men's room with British rocker Joe Cocker.
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Captain Beefheart Word
Back of the Limo
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Warner Brothers promo man, Roger Lifeset, invited me to dinner with far out rocker Captain Beefheart and his wife Jan. We watched him crack into a three pound lobster. By the end of the evening he had glommed onto me as his personal Boswell.
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Mississippi Fred McDowell Word
Afternoon Shots and Beers
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi. He was loaned to me for the afternoon. With a note pinned to his chest with directions to his next destination.
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Private Eyes By Steven Dietz Theatre
Fall Comedy at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 28th, 2014Private Eyes at Shakespeare & Company is a theatre about theatre comedy which evoked hearty, knowing laughter from the many actors in the audience during opening night. There are so many dizzy reversals and plot twists in this play by Steven Dietz that one requires a shrink or chiropractor to unwind from the experience.
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