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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Buyer and Cellar at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Stars Michel Urie In Barbra Streisand Homage
By: - Jul 31st, 2014The wacky 90 minute satire, is pure fiction when it comes to the narrative, however, celebrity super-stars like Barbra Streisand often become the subjects of faux stories, books and plays. Playwright Jonathan Tolins’ pays his homage to Streisand throughout in a tender way but doesn’t let her off the hook completely.
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Composer Profile: Spotlight on Johannes Brahms Music
Tanglewood Concert on August 8
By: - Jul 31st, 2014On Wednesday, August 6, at 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the visiting orchestra Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (German Chamber Symphony of Bremen), conducted by Paavo Järvi, will present an all-Brahms concert, consisting of the “Academic Festival Overtureâ€, the Piano Concerto No. 1, with Lars Vogt the soloist and the Second Symphony.
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Ann Hamilton's Corpus at Mass Moca Fine Arts
2003 Installation in Building Five
By: - Jul 30th, 2014In 2003-2004 Ann Hamilton installed a paper based work Corpus in the vast building five of Mass MoCA. It was a relatvely early project in the space. This article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Ann Hamilton Bangs on a Can Fine Arts
Paper Sounding Premieres at Mass MoCA
By: - Jul 30th, 2014With just four rehearsal sessions in less than a week installatin artist, Ann Hamilton, returned to Mass MoCA to create a piece for some thirty individuals "Paper Sounding" as a part of the annual Bang on a Can festival. The spontaneous and lively work was co directed by Mark Stewart and David Cossin. The performance was our introducton to an area of the vast Building Six which the museum hopes soon to develop. We spoke with Hamilton about the significance of paper in her practice.
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Native American Repatriation Fine Arts
National Museum of the American Indian
By: - Jul 29th, 2014When the NMAI was established in 1989 with the passage of the National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAI Act), it included the first U.S. repatriation legislation that provided for the return of Native American human remains and certain cultural items in the collections. Since the museum's inception, one of the highest priorities has been the return of Native American human remains and their associated funerary items back to their communities of origin.
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18th Jazz Festival of Garana, Romania – July 10-13, 2014 Music
Part Two: Interview with Kimmo Pohjonen, Finland
By: - Jul 29th, 201418 years and going strong! The outdoor Jazz Festival in Romania attracted again a large crowd of jazz enthusiasts and many bands from several countries in Europe and the USA. The small village of Garana puts on every summer a Music and Jazz Celebration. More than 5000 came to participate! Here now the second interview of a highly anticipated musician....
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Into the Woods at Old Globe Theatre
Inventive Co Production with Fiasco Theatre
By: - Jul 29th, 2014The musical has seen many script versions and hundreds of stagings by theatres all over the world in the last twenty-eight years. It’s considered to be one of the greatest musicals of all time. “Into the Woods†2014 version, is once again a reimagined, inventive and energetic co-production this time Old Globe partnered with the critically acclaimed Fiasco Theatre that originated at the McCarter Theatre Center.
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Ether Dome by Elizabeth Egloff a Snore Theatre
West Coast Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Jul 29th, 2014“Ether Dome†written by Elizabeth Egloff, and directed by Michael Wilson, is a fascinating subject for exploration regarding the subject of pain and the quest of medicine to conquer a condition that has afflicted human beings since the dawn of time. Compelling as the subject matter may be, the action of the piece comes off as sluggish; periodically engaging the audience, only later to “anesthetize†them (pun intended) by having the story wander to Paris, France, New York City, and then back to Boston.
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The Orphan of Zhao at La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre
BD Wong in Ancient Chinese Tale
By: - Jul 29th, 2014“The Orphan of Zhaoâ€, at La Jolla Playhouse, is receiving an intelligent and intense revival of the classic Chinese legend that has roots in the fourth century BC. Starring Tony winner BD Wong (M Butterfly) it runs through August 2.
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18th Jazz Festival of Garana, Romania – July 10-13, 2014 Music
Part One: Interview with Joey DeFrancesco
By: - Jul 28th, 2014Europe's largest, perhaps only outdoor Jazz Festival in Garana, Romania, drew again a large crowd and major Jazz Players from around the world. The Jazz Fest in the Carpathian Mountains began in 1997 and has been on the scene yearly; a great effort by all participants. Here the first of three interviews documenting 2014 .
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Pipaluk Lake's Planned Accidents Fine Arts
Multi Media Works at Maria Lund Galerie in Paris
By: - Jul 28th, 2014Pipaluk Lake takes a long time to conceive her glass and metal “bundlesâ€; she cuts, hammers, attaches, knits, sews… Putting into practice a know-how acquired during a quadruple training in fields as diverse as textile, glass, metal and wood. Once her complex preparation work finished, she abandons her “bundle†to the alchemy of heat and gravity inside the kiln.
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Marjorie Minkin’s Lexan Painted Reliefs Fine Arts
Collaborations with Her Son Mike Gordon of Phish
By: - Jul 28th, 2014During the final days of her exhibition at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass. we spoke with Marjorie Minkin about her painted Lexan reliefs. We discussed the current exhibition and background of her relationship with renowned critic, Clement Greenberg, and curator/ critic, Kenworth Moffett. As well as a 2005/06 project in collaboration with her son Mike Gordon of the rock band Phish and engineer Jamie Robertson.
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Love Made Visible by Jean Gibran Fine Arts
A Complex Book on Her Husband Kahlil Gibran
By: - Jul 27th, 2014Decades ago the sculptor Kahlin Gibran and his wife Jean purchased a shell in Boston's ethnically mixed South End. A meticulous craftsman the home evolved as a museum of his work and collection. Together they wrote a definitive 1974 biography "Kahlil Gibran, His Life and World." Now Jean has published "Love Made Visible: Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage" about a complex relationship with her late husband.
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A Roman Holiday Food
Mange Bene
By: - Jul 26th, 2014This is a lively guide to a four day Roman Holiday. Our overview provides links to accomodations and tours as well as lists of favorite restaurants and recipes. This will serve as a guide to a delicious taste of the food and wine of Italy.
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Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love Theatre
Cowboy Chic in Williamstown
By: - Jul 25th, 2014Now 70 Sam Shepard has created a riveting existential American theatre through a cowboy chic deconstuction of the mythology of the American West. In the manner of Beckett's theatre of the absurd the tense and tight drama of Fool for Love is confined to a motel room. There is a death struggle between Tony winner, the formidable Nina Arainda, and the desperate cowboy played by Sam Rockwell. Since 1970 it is the sixth Shepard production for Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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The Golem of Havana Theatre
Oi Vey Olé
By: - Jul 24th, 2014Set in Cuba during the last gasp of the Batista regime a new musical for Barrington Stage company is a complicated balancing act between Jewish history and mythology and Cuba's Santaria tradition during the Revolution. The Golem of Havana mixes musical mataphors between Eurpoean Klezmer and Cuban Salsa
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Berliner Festspiele, Foreign Affairs - 2014 Theatre
An Attempt to Understand
By: - Jul 23rd, 2014The 2014 Berliner Festspiele continued with a July program titled 'Foreign Affairs.' Artistic Director, Matthias von Hartz, presented a third summer festival of theatre, dance, music and visual arts that lasted nearly three weeks and ended July 13. It was a quest for collaborations and finding new forms of cultural expressions.
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Jim Hodges at the ICA Fine Arts
Summer in the City
By: - Jul 23rd, 2014The artist Jim Hodges came to New York in the 1980s at a time when AIDS was decimating the arts community. Like others of his generation his work responded to a sense of devastation and loss. A retrospecitve of his eclectic conceptual work is on view at Boston's ICA until September 1.
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Jamie Wyeth at the MFA Fine Arts
Good Genes
By: - Jul 22nd, 2014Outgoing populist and vulgarian, MFA director Malcolm Rogers, has orchestrated yet another celebrity based, crowd pleasing exhibition. The traveling restrospective of paintings by Jamie, a third generation manifestation of the famous Wyeth dynasty, is actually kind of fun. Where the work fits in the canon of the art of our time, however, is another matter.
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Breaking the Code at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Enigma of Alan Turing Brilliantly Portrayed by Mark. H. Dold
By: - Jul 21st, 2014As a member of the top secret team of 10,000 at Bletchley Park Alan Turning was key to the effort to Breaking the Code of the German enigma apparatus. With endless daily permutations it was used to send orders to the maurading U Boat fleets decimating allied shipping. In the role of a lifetime Mark H. Dold has totally inhabited the persona of the complex and tormented individual whom Churchill credited with shortening and ending the war. Time Magazine named Turing among the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century. At Barrington Stage until August 2.
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Living on Love in Williamstown Theatre
Theatre Debut for Diva Renée Fleming
By: - Jul 20th, 2014The theatrical debut of Renée Fleming in the comedy Living On Love is a delight and triumph. The renowned opera diva plays, what else, a renowned opera diva. That would seem to be easy and obvious but Fleming underplays the role with a naturalism that parallels her real life persona. She is just charming and enchanting. Especially when intereacting with a superb cast directed by Tony winner Kathleen Marshall. Based on marquee bankability and an enthusiastic reception this Williamstown production has a shot of making it to Broadway.
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Composer Profile: Spotlight on Gustav Mahler Music
Performed at Tanglewood on July 26
By: - Jul 19th, 2014This is not a program note, but my “take†on Mahler’s music in toto and what I feel it represents extramusically – the backstory behind the composer’s aesthetic, if you will. The Symphony No. 2 is, to my way of thinking, the most iconic of all Mahler’s works, since everything he subsequently composed stems from this landmark hybrid of symphony, solo song and choral work.
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Group ZERO Co Founder Otto Piene at 85 Fine Arts
Guggenheim ZERO Exhibition to Open in October
By: - Jul 19th, 2014From 1974 to 1994 the German/ American artist Otto Piene was the director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. With a farm in Groton he continued to commute to his studio in Dusseldorf. He died this week, at 85, while working on a major museum exhibition and sky art event in Berlin. While celebrated internationally, there will be an exhibition of Group ZERO this seaon at the Guggenheim, he was snubbed by the Boston art world and media.
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Johnny Winter at 70 Music
White Hot Blues
By: - Jul 17th, 2014Signed to a record breaking advance of $600,000 Columbia released the debut album" Johnny Winter" in 1969. Born an albino he was hyped as the whitest blues player. He produced several Grammy winners for Muddy Waters and a few for his own blues albums but his career faltered when he refused to record guitar rock albums. He ended out of the running 63rd on Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest guitarists.
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Preserving Mother Cabrini Fine Arts
The Religious Art of Mummification
By: - Jul 14th, 2014Once inside the Mother Cabrini sanctuary I found myself transfixed by her mummified corpse. I wondered: How does anyone worship God in this space? What is it like to take communion with a mummified corpse in the same room? Then I noticed the late afternoon light pouring through the stain glass representation of her on the back wall of the sanctuary. The light poured across the room with the full spectrum of color, it flooded the pews, and led my eye back to her remains.
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