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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The 64th Berlinale Set New Records Film
Film Festival reigned February 6-16
By: - Feb 19th, 2014The 64th Berlinale just closed after eleven days, while 400 films from around the world were viewed by 330.000 Berliners and international visitors. The talk of the city while it lasted!
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Eagle Columnist John Seven Boycotts Artistic Creeps Opinion
Separating Individuals from their Accomplishments
By: - Feb 19th, 2014Dishing the dirt on celebrities has become a billion dollar industry for muckraking supermarket tabloids, talk radio, and TV entertainment and gossip shows. But we were shocked and distressed when Berkshire Eagle columnist John Seven unloaded a mud slinging screed against Woody Allen and other "artistic creeps." Seven seems surprised and offended to realize that great artists are not always great people. Duh.
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Ai Weiwei a Smash in Miami Fine Arts
Florida Protest Artist Destroys Priceless Vase
By: - Feb 18th, 2014As an act of protest the renowned dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, famously was photographed deliberately dropping and destroying a priceless Han Dynasty vase. Now it appears that in protest an artist has dropped an ancient vessel, painted over by Weiwei, that was included in his traveling exhibition. We explore the many layers of irony that tracks vandalism mimicking the creative destruction of Weiwei. Yet again imitation, however criminal, is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Music
With Guest Conductor Bernard Haitink in a Ravel Program
By: - Feb 17th, 2014In celebration of his 85th birthday Bernard Haitink has arranged several New York concerts as a guest conductor. We covered his Carnegie Hall appearance in an all Ravel program leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its Tanglewood Chorus.
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Barrrington’s Theatrical Speed Dates Theatre
Third Annual 10 x 10 Upstreet Festival of New Plays
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Through March 2 Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is presenting its now annual, much anticipated 10 x 10 Upstreet a lively festival of new plays. The pace is fast and furious as one theatrical thumbnail morphs into another and another. After two quick and crammed acts we departed with a head swirling marathon of impressions. There were many joyous nuggets in a mash up of intensive theatre.
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Gonzo Chronicles Two Opinion
Arthur Yanoff Hipster and Jewish Artist of the Year
By: - Feb 16th, 2014Looking Berkshire hipster and artist Arthur Yanoff in the eye the rabbi told him "Once a Lubavitcher always a Lubavitcher." In part two we move from Coffee Corner to crits with Clement Greenberg and raising dogs in the country. Along the way Yanoff was celebrated as Jewish Artist of the Year. For which he had to rent a tux in Great Borington. Or something like that in no particular order.
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Darren Waterston at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Deconstructing Whistler's Peacock Room
By: - Feb 14th, 2014For the past 18 months, while resident in the artist loft Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Darren Waterston has been working on an exacting installation based on Whistler's iconic Peacock Room. We viewed the work in progress with the artist during the intensive final phase of the exhausting project. The work is now completed and on view.
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The Gonzo Chronicles Opinion
Arthur Yanoff Recalls Coffee Corner
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Arthur Yanoff has had a one man show at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and was named Jewish Artist of the Year. A couple of years ago he and photographer Kay Canavino collaborated on a Melville project for the Ralph Brill Gallery and the author's former home Arrowhead in Pittsfield. We met recently to discuss Boston's Coffee Corner and its rarely documented hipster legacy which was a spawning ground for gonzo.
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Hail Sid Caesar Television
The King of Comedy during its Golden Age
By: - Feb 13th, 2014During the Golden Age of Comedy in the pioneering era of television in the 1950s the undisputed King of Comedy was Sid Caesar. After decades of self abuse he embraced sobriety and clean living. This week he passes away at the hilarious age of 91. We recall his genius and the genre he presided over.
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Reading of St. Germain Play at MCLA Theatre
Dancing Lessons and Q&A on March 8
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Mark St. Germain is developing a two person play Dancing Lessons to premiere this summer at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. It entails a brilliant professor with Aspberger's a form of Autism. He seeks dancing lessons from a resident in his New York apartment building leading to a poignant and humorous relationship. There will be a Q&A following a reading at MCLA on March 8.
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Hannah Höch at London's Whitechapel Gallery Fine Arts
Pioneer Dadaist of 1920s Berlin
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Using the technique of collage Hannah Hoch was one of the most inventive artists of the absurdist Dada movement in Germany during the 1920s. Her work is being surveyed at London's Whitechapel Gallery. She was condemned by the Nazis and included in Entartete Kunst an exhibition of Degenerate Art.
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Indy Theatre
Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre to Feb. 22
By: - Feb 13th, 2014There are no secrets in a beauty parlor where women and their beauticians dish the dirt. Steel Magnolias is best know for the Academy Award winning 1989 film. It was a stage play before that. In a lively and absorbing production it is being staged in Indianapolis at the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre through February 22. If your favorite emotion is, in Truvy’s words, “laughter through tears,†you’ll be right at home.
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2014 Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival Music
Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29
By: - Feb 09th, 2014The 37th annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the most celebrated and longest running jazz events in the world, will be held on Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. This year's festival headliners include Earth, Wind & Fire, Trombone Shorty, Terence Blanchard, Dave Holland Prism, Patti Austin, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Quinn Sullivan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Newport Jazz Festival®: Now 60, among others.
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Beautiful—The Carole King Musical Theatre
From Brooklyn to Broadway
By: - Feb 08th, 2014Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, currently at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway, is another prime example where song and dance, beautifully delivered by a talented cast and crew, trumps the storyline. Carole King attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, the same one that I attended. Carole Klein as she was known in those years belonged to Gamma Phi the same sorority as my sister Annette.
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Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Three Romantic Vignettes
By: - Feb 07th, 2014The author Kurt Vonnegut is remembered as a home town artist in Indianapolis. He is being celebrated with three plays based on romantic short stories at Indiana Repertory Theatre. Rollicking songs and tender ballads add a great tone to the production. “Who Am I This Time" runs until Sunday, February 23.
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Invasion of Privacy at Dezart Performs Theatre
Larry Parr's Comedy/ Drama in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 06th, 2014“Invasion of Privacy†director Judith Chapman asks the audience in her program remarks to take a step back in time to the 1940’s. That was a time when a woman lawyer was a novelty in the South, and man’s moonshine was nobody’s business, and that an “invasion of privacy†lawsuit was something of a brand new issue, which eventually, became a popular reason for going to court.
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Bethany at Old Globe in San Diego Theatre
Laura Marks Play Through February 23
By: - Feb 06th, 2014“Bethanyâ€, written by playwright Laura Marks and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, is a dark, tragic-comedy that chronicles the efforts of a young single mother who has been caught up in the economic roller coaster of the housing and financial market bubbles of 2009.
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Contrarian Osso Bucco Food
Improvising on a Peasant Recipe
By: - Feb 06th, 2014In upscale Italian restaurants when possible I always order Osso Bucco. Having read and absorbed some classic recipes on line, to the horror of my gourmet friends, I winged it and improvised. The resultant sauce was just awesome. But even at the suggested two hours the meat could have been more tender with longer cooking.
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Barrington Stage's On the Town Broadway Bound Theatre
Julianne Boyd Discusses the Impact for Her Company and the Berkshires
By: - Feb 05th, 2014During a recent press conference artistic director Julianne Boyd announced the 20th season for Pittsfield's Barrington Stage. She confirmed that last summer's hit musical On the Town is transferring to Broadway. This is a part of a trend for regional theaters to develop shows for New York. We asked Boyd about the impact and implications for the Berkshires and her company.
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Satchmo at the Waldorf Opens Off -Broadway Feb 15 Theatre
John Douglas Thompson Stars in Terry Teachout Play
By: - Feb 05th, 2014For the first time Shakespeare & Company in partnership with Long Wharf is sending a production to New York. Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, a member of the S&Co theatrical family, appears as Louis Armstrong in the first play written by Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
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In Andrews Brothers The Andrews Sisters a No Show Theatre
Switchup at Coyote StageWorks in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 04th, 2014Coyote StageWorks, of Palm Springs is taking everyone to a small island in the Pacific where three “4F†USO stagehands prepare for the arrival of the Andrews sisters, who are scheduled to perform their USO show for the troops that night. In “The Andrews Brothersâ€, created and written by Roger Bean, it seems the famous Andrews Sisters are a no-show for the troops tonight.
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NEC Presents A Hard Rain's Gonnah Fall Music
February 18 at Boston's Jordan Hall
By: - Feb 04th, 2014Join New England Conservatory's Eden MacAdam-Somer and Contemporary Improvisation department students and faculty in a concert featuring original works and recompositions that offer a kaleidoscopic perspective on protest music and social change throughout history. The concert takes place on Tuesday, February 18 at 8 p.m. in NEC's Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. It is free and open to the public.
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February is a Ten in Pittsfield Opinion
Mid Winter Festival
By: - Feb 04th, 2014No it ain't Mardi Gras in New Orleans but Pittsfield is giving it a shot. Shake off the funk with the annual city wide Ten by Ten Festival. There's lots to do so bundle up and break out of the cabin.
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Julianne Boyd Discusses Barrington’s Season Theatre
From High Drama to Three Musicals
By: - Feb 03rd, 2014Now in its 20th year Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass has earned a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional theatre companies. During a recent press conference artistic director, Julianne Boyd, discussed the upcoming season.
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Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at 46 Opinion
Smacked on Super Sunday
By: - Feb 02nd, 2014Today, as millions of Americans bet the farm on the Super Bowl, in New York, Lady Luck came up snake eyes for renowned actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. He rolled the bones and with the spike still in his arm croaked from a hot shot of smack. After 23 years of staying clean he started using again last May with today's tragic result. We remember and celebrate him as one of the finest actors of his generation.
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