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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NY Times Zings Mass MoCA Opinion
Mixed Report on $25.4 Million from Commonwealth
By: - Aug 22nd, 2014Twelve days after breaking news the New York Times has reported on $25.4 million in Commonwealth funding for the $50 million renovation of the final phase of build out for Mass MoCA. While damning the museum with faint praise the Times drags up an eight year old controversy of a botched installation by Christoph Buchel. The reporter probed far and wide for on and off the record smears of the museum and its critical reputation.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Theatre
Long and Short of the Bard
By: - Aug 20th, 2014With The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) there is a lot of farce crammed into an evening at the Tina Packer Playhouse of Shakespeare & Company. Based on a raucuous response of a near to packed house on a week night this is the run away comedy hit of the Berkshire season.
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A Hatful of Rain at Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
Once Provocative Play Is Rarely Revived
By: - Aug 20th, 2014While the play has relevance to today’s veterans dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and sometimes resulting addictions, the material is dated. Too much information has been spread about war, its effects on families and society, to make these characters’ shock seem real.
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Contemporary American Theater Festival Theatre
Production of Uncanny Valley Transferring to New York
By: - Aug 19th, 2014CATF has been invited to transfer its world premiere production of Uncanny Valley by Thomas Gibbons to New York City’s Off-Broadway venue 59E59 Theaters. Hailed as the Festival’s “most satisfying offering†by The Washington Post, Uncanny Valley will be presented by CATF for a four-week run beginning on October 2.
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Boston Modern by Judith Bookbinder Fine Arts
Definitive Study of Boston Expressionism
By: - Aug 18th, 2014Judith Bookbinder's 2005 publication Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism is the definitive study of this important but neglected movement. Her study is meticulously researched and documented. This is the catalogue for the exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts has failed to deliver. Significantly most of the Boston Expressionists were Jews struggling with Biblical constraints against the graven image.
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Companhia Urbana de Dança at Jacob’s Pillow Architecture
From Favelas to World Stages
By: - Aug 17th, 2014Companhia Urbana de Dança thrilled the audience last year and this week was equally well received in a return to Jacob's Pillow. The company of eight men and one woman combines the street smarts of break dancing and hip hop moves with the choreography of the classically trained Sonia Destri Lie. The two part program of hour long works contrasted joy and tragedy in a world permiere of "You. We…ALL BLACK" and the uppeat celebration of "Na Pista."
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Theatre
Durang Off the Hook at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 16th, 2014Directed by our friend the late Nicholas Martin of Williamstown Theatre Festival Christopher Durang's serious comedy Vanya and Sonia and Macha and Spike won a Tony for Best Play. Since then it has been widely produced and now through September 14 by Shakespeare & Company. Matthew Penn has directed an awesome cast in this side splitting gonzo riff on Anton Chekhov. It's a fresh, fun, zinger that rounds off a top heavy summer of the Bard in Lenox.
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Cape Ann Museum Reopens Fine Arts
Tour with Director Ronda Faloon
By: - Aug 15th, 2014The Cape Ann Museum has raised $5 million with $3.5 for a renovation of its eclectic warren of buildings and galleries. Just prior to the recent reopening we were given a tour of the collection by the museum's director Ronda Faloon. The collection displays all aspects of life on historic Cape Ann. Its heart and soul comprises 40 paintings and 100 drawings by America's most renowned 19th century painter of seascapes Fitz Henry Lane. There are also many works by leading artists who were a part of the art colony.
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Walldogs at Hatch Art Collective Theatre
An Economy of Means by New Pittsburgh Company
By: - Aug 15th, 2014Hatch Arts Collective is a relatively new enterprise (they are in their second year of existence), and in this production of Walldogs director Adil Mansoor has made the smart choice to embrace and make a virtue of the company’s poverty of resources. The scene design is simple and spare, foregrounding the play’s “third character,†the wall, and the costume and lighting design are equally pared down.
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Reasons to Be Pretty at Geffen Playhouse Theatre
Neil LaBute Play Through August 31
By: - Aug 15th, 2014In his latest play “Reasons to be Prettyâ€, directed by artistic director Randall Arney, now playing on the Gil Cates stage of the Geffen Playhouse, Neil LaBute introduces us to four characters in their mid-twenties, who are what some might label as border-line losers. The younger generation come off as spoiled, self-indulgent, and suffering from a lack of parental oversight when they were growing up. And, they’re still not grownups when we catch up with them.
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Dancing Lessons by Mark St. Germain Theatre
Swept Off Our Feet at Barrington Stage
By: - Aug 14th, 2014Dancing Lessons is the ninth play and eighth world permiere by Mark St. Germain at Barrington Stage Company. As a signifier of their long standing relationship the new play is directed by Julianne Boyd the founder of the company. In recent years his plays have gone on to successful tours of regional companies. Starring the astonishing John Cariani with a stunning dancing partner in Paige Davis this play has the potential to be on the road for years.
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Bottoms Up at Tanglewood Food
Beer Tasting and Concert on August 15
By: - Aug 13th, 2014On August 15 conductor Stephane Deneve will lead a Beethoven and Prokofiev program featuring pianist and soloist Emanual Ax, followed by mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina. Starting at 5:30, prior to the concert, there will be a tasting of regional microbreweries and snacks.
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WAM Theatre Fresh Takes Theatre
reading of Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England by Madeleine George
By: - Aug 11th, 2014WAM Theatre will present the reading on Sunday, August 17 at 3:00 p.m. at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café, 6 Depot Street in West Stockbridge, MA. Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England is the fourth presentation in the new Fresh Takes play reading series, which offers new and reimagined works that tell women’s stories. The series has proven popular with audiences and the first three readings sold out.
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18th Jazz Festival 2014, Garana, Romania Music
Part Three: Director Marius Giura
By: - Aug 11th, 2014Jazz lover and writer Ioana Taut has attended the Garana Jazz Festival for many years. This year she interviewed musicians Joey DeFrancesco, USA, and Kimmo Pohjonen, Finland - an indication, how international the festival has become. Founder and director of Garana Jazz, Marius Giura speaks about the festival's development over many years and the gargantuan task to make it happen in Romania!
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Breakfast with Playwright Mark St. Germain Theatre
Discussing Dancing Lessons for Barrington Stage
By: - Aug 11th, 2014Honoring his many contributions The Mark St. Germain Stage was named for him by Pittsfield's Barrington Stage Company. A number of his best known works- Freud's Last Sessions, Best of Enemies, Dr. Ruth- have premiered for the company of artistic director, Julianne Boyd. This week the latest Dancing Lessons will open. In what has become an annual ritual we met at Dottie's in Pittsfield for breakfast to discuss this new work as well as the challenges of a life in theatre.
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August Word
Last Days of Summer
By: - Aug 11th, 2014In the Roman calendar August was named for Augustus, the Roman emperor Gaius Octavian eleveated to the status of a god. The peak and tipping point of summer. Start of the long slide into January and the two faced god Janus.
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Penny Arcade Returns to Joe's Pub Theatre
Longing Lasts Longer at NY's Public Theatre
By: - Aug 09th, 2014Though Longing Lasts Longer had a limited run in June, it is being brought back, to Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre this coming October and November. For the past number decades, Penny Arcade, who worked with Warhol at the tender age of 15, has been taking her act around the world. And wherever she performs people line up to hear what she has to say.
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Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Shorter and Sweeter in Jonathan Epstein's Adatation
By: - Aug 09th, 2014Sitting through Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 can be a long slog on Elizabethan inspired cruel on the bottom benches at Shakespeare & Company. In a brisk, rich and often hilarious reduction and conflation by Jonathan Epstein to two long acts with intermission, clocking at three hours, through this delicious production mind prevails over matter. One's sore bottom in this case. During his 450th year S&Co. has been presenting Shakespeare up the wazoo.
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State Approves MoCA's Phase Three Expansion Architecture
$25,420,000 for Ambitious Development
By: - Aug 08th, 2014With Governor Deval Patrick's signing of H.3933, an omnibus capital infrastructure bill which included $25,420,000 for MASS MoCA's Phase III development, the museum announces that it has begun work on the third phase of its multi-decade effort to renovate its 26-building, 600,000 square foot, 16-acre factory campus, an internationally recognized, mixed-use destination arts institution in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. A representative from the Governor's press office confirmed the news, saying, "Governor Patrick is very, very supportive of the project and is excited to work with MASS MoCA to finance the expansion."
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The Old Man and the Old Moon Theatre
PigPen Theatre Co. Anchors WTF Season
By: - Aug 08th, 2014The original production of The Old Man and the Old Moon by PigPen Theatre Company ran for 100 performances Off Broadway. The company which was formed in 2008 twice won first prize for a new play during the annual NYC Fringe Festival. It arrives to end the Williamstown Theatre Festival's season on its Nikos Stage. This fairy tale for kids of all ages will primarily appeal to those under thirty.
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Kander Ebb's The Visit at Williamstown Theatre
Chita Rivera in Something Old with Something New
By: - Aug 07th, 2014When it opened at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago the Kander and Ebb Broadway bound musical The Visit got nipped in the bud by 9/11. After mixed reviews for a 2008 production, also starring Chita Rivera, it gathered dust. With a revised book by Terrence McNally and judicious cuts to one act by director John Doyle it is enjoying a strong run and mostly favorable reviews at the Williamstown Theatre Festival through August 17.
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Edinburgh International Festival Music
August 8 to 31 with 50 Concerts
By: - Aug 07th, 2014Scotland is boldly centre stage with The James Plays, an epic trilogy of history plays for Scotland from writer Rona Munro, which marks the first co-production between the National Theatre of Great Britain, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Edinburgh International Festival. This rich and turbulent period of history is played by a superb cast which includes Blythe Duff, Sofie Gråbøl, Gordon Kennedy, Mark Rowley and the three kings James McArdle, Andrew Rothney and Jamie Sives.
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Rudd Art Museum in North Adams Fine Arts
Presenting Berkshire Artists
By: - Aug 06th, 2014As artists approach their senior years familiar issues arise. Unless they reach a level of broad recognition and market value for the work there is the challenge of legacy and handling of estates. North Adams based artist/ author and developer, Eric Rudd, has written a book on these concerns and by creating his own museum in North Adams is taking action to address them. Art historian and former Berkshire Eagle critic, Keith Shaw, is assisting Rudd by curating exhibitions based on artists living and working in the region. Here he discusses what that entails.
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Ronald Harwood’s Quartet at Old Globe Theatre
Charming Comedy In San Diego to August 24
By: - Aug 06th, 2014Ronald Harwood’s deliciously sly comedy features four meaty roles for actors of a “certain ageâ€, and those roles are filled by four actors who perform as though they were born for their parts: Old Globe favorite Robert Foxworth plays shy and introverted Reginald Paget, a fussy, classically trained singer, of the old school who bristles at the suggestive shenanigans and randy language of Wilfred Bond, portrayed by Roger Forbes who fancies himself as the retirement home lothario.
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Animating the Everyday by Robin Rhode Fine Arts
Winner of the Biannual Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize
By: - Aug 02nd, 2014Animating The Everyday - running through August 10 – is a ten-year survey of the work of South African born, Berlin based artist Robin Rhode. Curated by Helaine Posner, the museum’s Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, along with co-curator Louise Yelin. High definition projectors, and advanced musical composed sound tracks by Arenor Anuku, feature the artist’s digital animations, as well as a selection of his still photographs, the latter elegantly hung on charcoal gray walls.
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