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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Girth and Mirth Word
Elevating the Holidays
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Colleague and critic Larry Murray has elevating lines on the challenges of Jonas's ban on writing about elevators.
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Cubism for the Holidays Fine Arts
School of Paris Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The School of Paris, particularly Picasso and Matisse, with sidebars on Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger are the heart and soul of museum and gallery exhibitions during the busy holiday season. These show provide invlauable insights to the issues of cubism and abstract art in the 20th century.
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Jacob's Pillow 2015 Season Dance
World Dance in the Berkshires
By: - Dec 17th, 2014“Festival 2015 delivers a remarkable range of dance from ballet to tap, music from classical to jazz, brand new works commissioned by the Pillow, and the most astonishing performers in the world,†comments Ella Baff, Executive and Artistic Director of Jacob’s Pillow. “We start the season with Ira Glass’s Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host and the re-opening of the Jacob’s Pillow Archives as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of public access and a major expansion of its home, Blake’s Barn. We end with a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company, a world premiere by Mats Ek, and the up and coming company MADboots Dance. Quite a range indeed.â€
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The Doors Parted Word
Biblical Elevation
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The artist illustrator Robert Rendo wades in with a Biblical spin on the elevator contest.
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Elevated Interaction Word
Hitting on Critics in Elevators
By: - Dec 17th, 2014My eccentric atrtist friend, Raeford Liles, now 91, God bless him, spotted the famous critic Harold Rosenberg. You guessed it. In an elevator.
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26th Floor Word
A Gibson
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Our New York correspondent, Susan Hall, recalls a celebrity encounter on, you guessed it, an elevator.
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Stairway to Heaven Word
High Above Manhattan
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Provoked by a prohibition from Jonas another poem inspired by elevators. In this case childhood memories of visiting the Empire State Building. Then the tallest building in the world. A true wonder. Never went back. Fear of flying.
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Elevator Poem Contest Word
The Artist Waxes Poetic
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The Berkshire based artist, and aficionado of Coffee Corner, Arhur Yanoff, has a different response to the Jonas constraints against writing poetry about elevators. He has his eyes on the prize.
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Interview in a Highrise Word
Another Elevator Poem
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The artist/ musician/ poet Jane Hudson of Williamstown has entered our Elevator Contest. Here the rise to the top is more fluid than the long way down.
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The Elevator Word
More on the Ups and Downs of Poetry
By: - Dec 16th, 2014In response to the prohibition of my friend Jonas regarding the folly of writing poems about elevators many are responding to the call to arms. There is now an "official " contest for poems about elevators. Our artist friend from Sheffield, Benno Friedman, wades in. The winner will be awarded a free subscription to Berkshire Fine Arts and lunch at a choice of Burger King, Wendy's or McDonald's.
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Life in the Lift Word
Another Poem About Elevators
By: - Dec 16th, 2014My friend Jonas warned/ challenged me that you just can't possibly write a poem about an elevator. With December I tried to prove him wrong. Now the poet laureate of Martha's Vinyard, Arnie Reisman, has sent along a poem inspired by an elevator. So take that Jonas. It seems that life for poets has its ups and downs. With a nod to Cole Porter's Miss Otis Regrets.
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Willy Holtzman's Smart Blonde Theatre
World Premiere at Pittsburgh's City Theatre
By: - Dec 16th, 2014Willy Holtzman moves the story along at a brisk pace, pausing just long enough to give us a glimpse of some of the major milestones in Judy Holliday’s career and personal life (the show runs eighty minutes without intermission). The flashbacks shift fluidly into each other, thanks to quick costume changes and skillful choreography on the part of actors Jonathan Brody and Adam Heller, who play the roles of all of the other figures in Holliday’s life.
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A Beef & Boards Christmas Theatre
Seasonal Celebration in Indianapolis
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The show mainly stumbles when it tries to do too much. There are times when Lucas, the quartet, co-hosts Wims and Shepard, Santa and six dancers are all vying for the audience’s attention on stage at the same time. The frantic nature of those numbers makes it hard to appreciate any single element, much less all of them at once.
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December Word
Bah Humbug
By: - Dec 16th, 2014After the pearls, perfumes, Irish sweaters finding presents in the twentieth year of being together gets tough. This time a Ninja Juicer. As Fast Eddie would say, "A life changing experience." All that good cheer and ubiquitous Christmas music is driving me nuts. My friend Jonas says "You can't write a poem about an elevator." Here I attempt to prove him wrong.
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Documentary Film Code Black Film
Dr. Ryan McGarry Reveals Real Life Drama of an ER
By: - Dec 16th, 2014Over the years countless TV series have focused on the life and death drama of hospital ER units. In the compelling documentary film, Code Black, Dr. Ryan McGarry focues on what actually happens day to day in LA County Hospital. In addition to saving lives for the severely injured the ER is also a defacto outpatient clinic for the urban poor. That equates to endless and unavoidable long waits in a national health care system struggling to cope and provide care for all.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs Fine Arts
At MoMA through February 4
By: - Dec 15th, 2014During the busy holiday season The Museum of Modern Art is featuring the blockbuster exhibition of the artist’s triumphant and inventive last works Henri Matisse: The Cutouts. The exhibition drew some 500,000 visitors last summer to London’s Tate Modern.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Theatre
2014 Tony for Best Musical
By: - Dec 14th, 2014Based on the 1949 treasure Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets this 2014 Tony winning musical version A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a smashing pure delight. Through two marvelous acts we just laughed ourselves silly.
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Perry T. Rathbone and The Boston Raphael Fine Arts
A Biography by His Daughter Belinda
By: - Dec 12th, 2014The Boston Raphael by Belinda Rathbone is the first book to focus on the Museum of Fine Arts since the two volume official centennial history by Walter Muir Whitehill in 1970. She writes about the scandal that brought disgrace to her father's brilliant career. This attempt to rehabilitate his reputation also provides a rich and compelling overview of the era in which he was the paradigm of a successful museum director.
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Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar Theatre
Among 2014 Top Ten Plays for NY Times
By: - Dec 12th, 2014In one act and 90 minutes Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar has compressed an explosive take on medieval Islam and its square peg in a round hole of the conundrum of contemporary American society. How does an ambitious individual of Muslim heritage assimilate and succeed in our corporate culture? Not really according to the compelling play Disgraced.
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Swedish Film Force Majeure (Turist) Film
Award Nominations for Best Foreign Film
By: - Dec 11th, 2014The upper middle class Swedish couple, Emma and Tomas, have taken their kids Vera and Harry on an expensive, five day ski vacation in the French Alps. The complacency of this seemingly perfect, bourgeois family shatters in a tragic moment when a "controlled" avalanche is anything but. They respond instinctively but differently to that life threatening event. The film by Reuben Ostlund profoundly records the seismic emotional aftershocks of the life threatening incident. The film has been monimated for a Golden Globe award and is a likely candidate for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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George Eastman's Happy Hour Theatre
Set for CV REP’s 2015/2016 season.
By: - Dec 11th, 2014Playwright George Eastman has written a play rich in memory and in the memories of his two characters: eighty-three year-old Harry Townsend, and his forty-year-old married son Alan. Harry still lives in the get-away chalet he and Alan’s mother built in Vermont many years ago. Now he is just another widower living alone with his memories. The play is still in development.
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The Theory of Everything Film
Biopic of the Amazing Stephen Hawking
By: - Dec 10th, 2014Screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director James Marsh, of the romantic drama “The Theory of Everythingâ€, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, as Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane Wlde Hawking, have fashioned, with great skill, a movie about Britain’s famous living physicist.
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New York New York It’s a Helluva Town Theatre
Berkshires on Broadway
By: - Dec 09th, 2014In 2013 Shakespeare & Company produced a star studded gala Broadway in the Berkshires. With On the Town from Barrngton Stage and Williamstown Theater Festival's Elephant Man both currently enjoying rave reviews it seems more like The Berkshires on Broadway. Now WTF's Fool For Love is headed for the Great White Way next year.
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No Encores Word
Meeting Midnight Deadlines
By: - Dec 09th, 2014Back in the day critics for daily papers met midnight deadlines. Sometimes there were a few of us in the office covering theatre and concerts. It was challening and exciting to get it right in one take. Too much time and thought just messes it up.
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Skills Word
Unique Qualities of Native New Yorkers
By: - Dec 09th, 2014Having returned from another week in New York we reflect on the assets and limitations of those who live there.
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