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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Searching Yet Again for Aviator Amelia Earhart Fine Arts
America’s Most Famous Missing Person
By: - Jun 04th, 2014This review was written for the Amelia Earhart Image and Icon exhibition at International Center for Photography from May 11 – September 9, 2007. Published here for the first time Rubin considers it as one of his best articles.
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Dr. Gonzo, William J. Cardoso Opinion
The Maltese Sangweech and Other Heroes
By: - Jun 04th, 2014If you do a Google search the late Bill Cardoso comes up as having coined the term gonzo and dubbing Hunter Thompson's style of writing as Gonzo Journalism. Other than that he is largely forgotten as one of the outrageous characters and original thinkers of his era. Recently I read his out of print book The Maltese Sangweech a collection of magazine pieces. It includes two masterpieces of gonzo journalism "The San Francisco Red Sox" and "Zaire"an account of the Ali vs. Forman rumble in the jungle./
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Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 Front Page
German Master Surveyed at MoMA
By: - Jun 03rd, 2014Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important Post War German artists. He is the subject of a dense, sprawling and and messy retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art through August 3. It would be a folly and conceit to attempt to review such diverse and eclectic, mind boggling work. For that we refer you to mainstream critics all of whom fail, to varying degrees, to nail down the work of one of the most fascinating and daunting artists of our time.
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Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe Fine Arts
Art Under Fascism Explored at Guggenheim Museum
By: - Jun 02nd, 2014The Italian artists circa World War I advocated destroying the past while embracing the future. Hence Futurism the subject of an enormous and fascinating survey Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 1. In their enthusiasm and nationalism they embraced the Fascism of Mussolini.
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Shakespeare’s Will Stars Kristin Wold Theatre
Launches 37th Season of Shakespeare and Company
By: - Jun 01st, 2014On the occasion of the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare the 37th season of Shakespeare & Company is chock full of the Bard. Even the contemporary play by Vern Thiessen "Shakespeare's Will" is about him. Well, his wife and mother of their three children, Anne Hathaway, actually. In a brilliant one woman performance the redoubtable Kristin Wold plays several characters with compelling skill and heart warming charisma.
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From Primitivism to Propaganda: Russia’s Modern Masters Fine Arts
Works from Marina and Nikolay Shchukin Collection at National Arts Club
By: - May 31st, 2014From the late 1890s through the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Moscow based business man Sergei Ivanovich Schukin (1854-1936) assembled one of the great collections of early modern art. When the Soviets confiscated the collection he emigrated to Paris. The National Arts Club in New York is currently showing 35 Russian avant-garde works from the collection of family member Marina and Nikolay Shchukin. Through June 14 the exhibition is sponsored by Russian American Foundation as a part of the Annual Russian Heritage Month.
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Taken Hosta Food
Planting a Berkshire Garden
By: - May 31st, 2014When I was a lad the annual flower show inspired me. Each winter since I have dreamed of summer gardens. Here in the Berkshires with crazy weather and global warming that can be tricky. Last year we had a great but late crop of tomatoes. There is also the ongoing hosta project with eventual tours of our thousand exotic varieties.
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War of the Roses at EclecticPond Theatre
Shakespeare in Indianapolis
By: - May 29th, 2014In a city that rarely sees a production of Shakespeare without an easily recognizable name, the EclecticPond Theatre Company (ETC) has become a welcome respite. The group, which was founded in 2010, has embraced some of the Bard’s lesser-known works, with productions like “The Comedy of Errors†and “Shakespeare Wrote What? and “10x10.†Now, about to close its third season, ETC decided to tackle something big.
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Old Globe Play by Christopher Durang Theatre
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in San Diego
By: - May 29th, 2014Chistopher Durang has been poking his playwright fingers into society’s eyes for years with the result being he now has a loyal and growing fan base. And with good reason too. He’s a brilliant, highly educated, critical -thinking writer and playwright who loves his chosen profession. And he’s not afraid to write over-the-top material for actors.
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Correction Opinion
Re: Randolph Fuller and Opera Boston
By: - May 27th, 2014In a preview of the Boston 2014/15 opera season, published in Berkshire Fine Arts on April 26, 2014, I made an error in characterizing Randolph Fuller’s financial relation to Opera Boston.
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BenDeLaCreme in Terminally Delightful Theatre
Camp Following Off Broadway
By: - May 27th, 2014With much fanfare, whistles, hollers, shouts from the audience, and a rousing musical introduction, the larger than life, black-haired and fully made up LaCreme, wearing a glistening blue sequined gown with a sash that read Miss Congeniality, took to the stage.
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If/Then Stars the Amazing Idina Menzel Theatre
Lightweight Musical by Team that Created Next to Normal
By: - May 27th, 2014Were it not for the star power of Idina Menzel "If/Then" an underwhelming Broadway musical would never have made it past previews. It is actually selling well by the team that created "The Normal Heart" which is currently a special for HBO. In addition to the bankable Menzel keep an eye on the fabulous LaChanze in a galvanic supporting role.
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The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno Theatre
Beckett in Suburbia
By: - May 26th, 2014Set in suburbia near the mountains The Realistic Jones revolves around the Jones couple John and Pony barging in on their new neighbors the Jones couple Bob and Jennifer. What starts as nonsensical small talk soon devolves into nasty barbs and sparing males with distraught, perplexed, suffering wives. There is dark humor in this critically acclaimed existential play which soon after its high energy opening scenes stops making sense.
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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Theatre
Audra McDonald Evokes Jazz Legend Billie Holiday
By: - May 26th, 2014There is an uncomfortable duality about Audra McDonald's performance of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. The script presents an over the top, improbable take on the sordid life of jazz legend Billie Holiday. But when she sings the result is so real and authentic that it feels like a documentary. While the play is a cliche ridden jumble of a truly sad life the music is simply magnificent.
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'Die letzten Zeugen' - Berliner Festspiele 2014 Theatre
Thoughts about Theatertreffen, May 2-18
By: - May 18th, 2014The 2014 Theatertreffen included pure theatre productions, as well as performances, installations, podium discussions and the docu-drama 'Die letzten Zeugen' (The Last Witnesses) of six Jewish concentration camp survivors. The venerable Burgtheater, Vienna, presented the drama to standing room audiences.
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Dreaming With Alice in Becket Food
Legendary Former Cat House Deep in the Woods
By: - May 18th, 2014When chef Amy Loveless invited Alice Brock to design a special event and menu for Dream Away Lodge in Becket, Mass. they got slammed. Over two days they sold out three sittings on each evening. It turned out to be the hottest event of a busy Berkshire weekend. Alice personally greeted each and every old and new friend during an amazing occasion and triumphant return which she described to me as "overwhelming."
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Stamps In the Age of Colonialism Opinion
Your Land is My Land
By: - May 17th, 2014As a child stamp collecting offered global vignettes. This album of stamps with accompanying text from the 1930s offers horrific insights to the colonialism and racism that fueled WWII. Words and ideas which were seemingly benign now burn into our hearts and minds. This is a grim and riveting glimpse into the past if you take the time to read and reflect on the thoughts of another era. The Third World was a pie to be sliced and consumed by dominant super powers.
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Julianne Boyd on 20 Years of Barrington Stage Theatre
A Commitment to Serious Theatre in the Berkshires
By: - May 17th, 2014Exhausted from an allnighter of becoming a grandmother for the fourth time Julianne Boyd was as high octane as usual. She has an all consuming, combustive approach for building and sustaining Barrington Stage Company though its first twenty years. That growth and success has come from a commitment to a balanced program pf popular musicals and risk taking productions of dramas that address serious social and political themes.
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Celebrating Twenty Years in the Berkshires
By: - May 15th, 2014Arriving at Dottie's in Pittsfield for breakfast with Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, several individuals notified me that she was running late. She had been up all night texting with family and friends about the birth of her fourth granddaughter. Eventually she arrived both exhausted and energized to discuss the upcoming 20th season of the company.
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Barrington Stage's New Associate Artists Theatre
Pat McCorkle, Scott Pinkney, Brian Prather, Charlie Siedenburg
By: - May 14th, 2014Barrington Stage Company announces four new Associate Artists, all of whom are working at Barrington Stage in 2014 – casting director Pat McCorkle, lighting designer Scott Pinkney, scenic designer Brian Prather, and press director Charlie Siedenburg.
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Candida and Blithe Spirit in Pittsburgh Theatre
Exploring Similarities of Classics
By: - May 14th, 2014The productions of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida (at the Pittsburgh Public Theater) and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit (at PICT Classic Theatre) have a good deal in common: both plays are twentieth-century British comedies that dig humor out of marital relations and shine some light (more brightly in the Shaw, less so in the Coward) on male chauvinism, and both productions faithfully reproduce the period and style of the playwright and his era.
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Hope and Gravity at City Theatre Theatre
A Freefalling Drama in Pittsburgh.
By: - May 14th, 2014Hope and Gravity (currently at City Theater, in an excellent production directed by Tracy Brigden), interweaves the stories of nine characters whose lives intersect with an inexplicable and tragic elevator accident.
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PBS Secrets of Underground London Television
Precedes Masterpiece Mystery June 22
By: - May 13th, 2014Following the success of the previous behind-the-scenes looks at England’s most notable landmarks, SECRETS OF UNDERGROUND LONDON premieres Sunday, June 22, 2014, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET. The special precedes MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! “The Escape Artist†starring David Tennant.
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Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation Fine Arts
Tennessee State Museum Through August 31
By: - May 12th, 2014In the past two years the films "Twelve Years a Slave" and "Django Revisited" through graphic dramas have made Americans more vividly aware of the horrific legacy of slavery. Through the well researched and documented exhibition "Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation" the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville tracks the history of one of the nation's largest tobacco producers through generations from ante bellum to the present. It is based on the book of a Wessyngton slave descendant John F. Baker, Jr.
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Emmy Winner Marg Helgenberger at Barrington Stage Theatre
Dialogue with Director Christopher Innvar
By: - May 10th, 2014In 2011 Marg Helgenberger left the hit TV show CSI after twelve seasons. The show continues with top ratings but she departed to pursue other options including live theater. She has taken a dramatic pay cut to star in Sharr White's The Other Place which opens soon at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. She and director Christopher Innvar met with the media to discuss the most challenging role of her career.
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