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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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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February Word
Dead of Winter
By: - Feb 01st, 2015Dark by dinner time. Short days with long nights. Hunkered down getting projects done. Slipping and sliding about.
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Super Bowl Inspired Fast Eddy Opinion
Arts Critic Reveals Passion for Sports
By: - Jan 31st, 2015As a critic and journalist New York based Edward Rubin, known to friends and colleagues as Fast Eddy, has a finger in many pies. On the eve of the Super Bowl he reveals a deep and abiding love of sports. Much of this passion was inherited from his sporting father. Hey, who knew?
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The Interview BFD Film
Cutting Kim Jong-un a New One
By: - Jan 31st, 2015As a teenager I read the books and watched the movies banned by the Catholic Church. It served as a kind of entertainment guide. That was pretty much the motive in seeing The Interview. It pissed off North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. That led to hacking Sony Pictures which chickened out on and then fudged its release. Curious about the threats and hype we watched it on Netflix. Yawn.
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David Alan Anderson as The Giver Theatre
The Indiana Repertory Theatre to February 21
By: - Jan 30th, 2015“The Giver†tells the story of a perfect world, where no one needs to make decisions because you know exactly what you are supposed to do every day. What seems innocent and friendly at first takes on a sinister atmosphere as we learn more about the rules of their world. Each chime heightens the tension as Jonas begins to question the world around him.
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CV Rep Production Focuses on Age and Wisdom Theatre
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First Hundred Years,
By: - Jan 30th, 2015The play by Emily Mann presents a tender oral history life story of the real-life Delaney sisters of Raleigh, North Carolina, who share their observations, experiences, anecdotes and memories of two lives fully lived in the time of Jim Crow law in the South; who then moved to the North, settling in New York City first in a vibrant Harlem and then into the white suburb of Mount Vernon. It’s a remarkable journey and story of sisters who never married and reached 100 plus.
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American Sniper Word
Etymology of Killing from Afar
By: - Jan 30th, 2015What's in a word? Sniper such a loaded term. Depending which side you are on. Kill or be killed. But from a distance. Not a fair fight. As if there are rules for war. Uncanny definition for such controversy. Naming is knowing.
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Museums Bet on Super Bowl XLIX Word
Seattle Art Museum vs. Clark Art Institute
By: - Jan 29th, 2015Against all odds two major museums are placing high stakes bets on the outcome of the pending Super Bowl XLIX. Reflecting the Seahawks vs. The Patriots it seems that the Seattle Art Museum and Clark Art Institute are wagering on the outcome. The winner of the West Coast or New England team will win an all expenses included, three month loan of a major work of art. If the Patriots win "Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast" from 1870 by Albert Bierstadt will be shipped to the Clark. Should Seattle win Winslow Homer’s masterpiece, "West Point, Prout's Neck" will be headed West. It's a win win for both football fans and art lovers.
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Sidewalk Sam at 75 Fine Arts
North Adams Remembers Street Artist
By: - Jan 28th, 2015In August of 2010 Sidewalk Sam was on hand, at the invitation of Gail and Phil Sellers of Art About Town, to create one of his renowned public art projects on Holden Street.During a Boston blizzard yesterday he died in his sleep. We first met the artist as an activist and prankster in the 1970s.
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Snow Day Word
Alleged Historic Blizzard a Bust
By: - Jan 27th, 2015New York, Boston and other cities were shut down with snow emergencies declared by high alert governors and mayors. Anticipations of a record breaking blizzard were downgraded to a moderate to light dusting. It was a good day to hunker down and catch up on projects and home work. No big deal.
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The Complete Elevator Poems Word
First Annual Berkshire Fine Arts Poetry Contest
By: - Jan 27th, 2015My feisty pal Jonas Dovydenas in an exchange of emails declared a fatwa against writing poems about elevators. That launched a tsunami of literary invention,. Even Jonas relented and joined in the fun. From December 16 through January 26 some 32 poems were posted by 25 poets. Now we ask you the readers to vote for the winners of this lively contest. This will result in a Readers Prize. The contest will also be juried for an Official Prize by Professor Mark Miller and his students at MCLA. Let the games begin.
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Elevators and the Old Elbtunnel at Hamburg Harbor Word
Poems in English and German
By: - Jan 26th, 2015European paternosters are one thing. The elevators of the Old Elbtunnel in Hamburg are quite another! They are still the principal contraptions that transport cars, bicycles and pedestrians after 100 years in action up and down on the St. Pauli side. Then, through the tunnels below the Elbe River all passengers reappear on one or the other side at the Port of Hamburg.
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East Boston Blizzards Word
Old Chairs Mark the Spots
By: - Jan 26th, 2015Parking in Boston neighborhoods is always tough. During winter blizzards it escalates from brutal to deadly. Think twice before you move someone's chair. Even in summer with no snow in site.
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Elevator Word
The Wire Cage
By: - Jan 26th, 2015The artist Sarah Sutro evokes the ancient and venerable ambiance of a Parisian studio.
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