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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Williamstown Upstages Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Same Day Season Announcements
By: - Jan 31st, 2014Yesterday there was a late afternoon media scramble when a Barrington Stage Company press conference announcing the 2014 season was followed within minutes by an unanticipated release by Williamstown Theatre Festival. It's taken some sorting but we now have an unusually early and clear picture of the summer season. We have a fairly complete clip and save rundown. Berkshire Theatre Group has yet to announce and WTF will soon post its program of the Nikos Stage.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Main Stage 2014 Theatre
Divas Renée Fleming and Chita Rivera to Star
By: - Jan 30th, 2014For her fourth and final program at Williamstown Theatre Festival outgoing artistic director Jenny Gersten has played her aces. Actually, make that Queens. Renowned opera soprano Renée Fleming will play, guess what, an opera diva in Living on Love. Broadway favorite Chita Rivera will appear in The Visit with book by Terrence McNally; music by John Kander; and lyrics by Fred Ebb. Jessica Stone who directed during Gersten's debut WTF season returns to helm a revival of June Moon by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman.
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Barrington Stage Announces Season Fine Arts
20 Strong Years for Pittsfield Based Company
By: - Jan 30th, 2014During a bone crunching cold snap the Berkshire theatre media gathered on stage for a lunch and press conference hosted by Julianne Boyd the artistic director of the now twenty-year-old Barrington Stage Company. In addition to discussing the program for the coming season Boyd confirmed that last summer's hit musical On the Town is headed for Broadway with either a summer or fall opening.
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Mass MoCA's Oh Canada Tours Fine Arts
Stops Planned for The Maritimes and Calgary
By: - Jan 30th, 2014MASS MoCA's 2012 exhibition of Oh Canada "Art from North North America," is hitting the road. The expansive exhibition, which includes more than 100 works by over 60 artists, will travel to multiple venues across Canada. The exhibition will show in a multi-venue format, on view in The Maritimes from June 27, 2014, through September 21, 2014, and in Calgary from January 31, 2015 through April 26, 2015.
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Death of a Salesman Theatre
Boston's Lyric Stage Feb. 14 to March 15
By: - Jan 30th, 2014A masterpiece of American Theatre, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman will be performed by Boston's The Lyric Stage from February 14 through March 15. The production with be directed by company founder Spiro Veloudos. Ken Baltin with appear in the lead role as Willy Loman accompanied by Paula Plum as his wife Linda.
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Kevin Burke's The Caveman in Indy Theatre
Broadway's Longest Running Solo Show
By: - Jan 28th, 2014The production opens on what looks like Fred Flintstone’s living room, complete with caveman drawings on the walls. What follows is a string of observational comedy that most couples can relate to. Kevin Burke pokes fun at both sexes but never makes it feel like an attack.
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And Then They Came for Me Theatre
Indiana Repertory Theatre
By: - Jan 27th, 2014In James Still’s play “And Then They Came for Me," he explores the lives of two children who survived he holocaust, despite all odds.
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A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally Theatre
Coachella Valley Repertory Theater in Rancho Mirage
By: - Jan 27th, 2014In the CV REP Theatre production of “A Perfect Ganeshâ€, written by Terrence McNally and deftly directed by theatre artistic director Ron Celona, the search by westerners for answers, is what peaked the curiosity of playwright McNally.
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Ireland’s Crime Series Love/ Hate Television
Four Award Winning Seasons
By: - Jan 27th, 2014The four award winning seasons of the Irish crime series Love/ Hate is powerful, insightful and compelling. The young hoods are well drawn and complex. The first three seasons are available on Netflix. They invite marathon viewing. Then the cliff hanger while we wait for season four that aired in the fall of 2013.
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10×10 New Play Festival Theatre
Barrington Stage Feb. 13 to March 2
By: - Jan 27th, 2014Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces casting and the creative team for its 10×10 New Play Festival, with performances February 13 through March 2, as part of the 2014 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival.
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Café of St. Martin-in-the-Field Food
Cheap Fun Atmospheric London Dining
By: - Jan 27th, 2014The top London destination for cheap hearty food with great atmosphere is found in Trafalgar Square. The Cafe in the Crypt below St. Martin-in-the-Fields is no secret. It is always noisy and crowded. Despite the inconvenience it's the best deal around in a very expensive city.
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Visiting Smith College Museum of Art Fine Arts
Thoughts on Grunewald, Bouts and Jaune Quick-To-See- Smith
By: - Jan 24th, 2014To celebrate the birthdays of Astrid Hiemer and Norma Leavy, just a week apart, we drove to the Smith College Museum of Art. Jack, an artist who knows the collection well, called ahead for an appointment to see the only drawing in North America by Mathias Grunewald the German Renaissance master of the Isenheim Altarpiece. I was excited to find a painting by my friend Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith in the permanent collection.
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Tanglewood Tickets on Sale January 26 Music
The Best Seats Go Fast
By: - Jan 24th, 2014Tickets to the 2014 Tanglewood season, priced from $10 to $121, go on sale, Sunday, January 26, at www.tanglewood.org, through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, and at the Symphony Hall Box Office (301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA). The 2014 Tanglewood season, June 27-August 30, features more than 100 performances, including concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center (the BSO’s prestigious summer music academy); chamber music, recital, and concert opera presentations in Ozawa Hall; and a series of Popular Artist concerts.
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The Brothers Chapman at London's Serpentine Fine Arts
Jurrasic in Hyde Park
By: - Jan 24th, 2014The ever controversial Jake and Dinos Chapman are at it again in London's Serpentine/ Sackler Gallery. "Come And See" is another of the artists’ exhibitions to be filled with insalubrious gore and crude hyper-reality. This is the classic art dialectic of vanitas; birth, death, sex, horror … and of course McDonald’s.
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Wilco Returns to Mass MoCA in 2015 Music
Will Skip This Summer
By: - Jan 24th, 2014The Solid Sound Festival of Wilco has been a shot in the arm for the Northern Berkshire County tourism and hospitality industry. They will return to North Adams in 2015 but not this summer. This will be fourth festival organized by the band for Mass MoCA.
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Shakespeare & Company 2014 Theatre
Programming Schedule for Summer Season
By: - Jan 23rd, 2014Shakespeare & Company has planned a celebratory season packed with Shakespeare, modern works, premieres and special events in honor of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. Tickets for the 2014 Performance Season go on sale in Mid-February. For specific date and info please check online at: www.shakespeare.org or by calling the Box Office at (413) 637-3353, or in person at 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA.
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Ian Grey's Portrait Series Photography
North Adams Parlor Cafe
By: - Jan 22nd, 2014Ian Grey of the Berkshires is best known for his hummingbird series of photographs. In his largest exhibition to date, some 50 images, he will be showing portraits at the Parlor Cafe in North Adams. The reception for the artist will occur on Saturday, January 25, from 6 to 9 PM. The show remains on view through March 8.
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Newport Jazz Festival 2014 Music
Schedule for August 1 through 3
By: - Jan 22nd, 2014The Newport Jazz Festival is the most renowned of its kind. This is the lineup for the festival at Forth Adams State Park in Newport Rhode Island. Be there or be square.
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In the Time of the Butterflies by Caridad Svich Theatre
Lyceum Space at San Diego Repertory Theatre
By: - Jan 22nd, 2014Playwright Caridad Svich received the Primus Award, for one of her plays at the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) conference. Her family drama and memory play “In the Time of the Butterflies†takes place in the Dominican Republic during the 1950s and 60’s under the brutal dictatorship of Generalissmo Rafael Trujillo.
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Israeli Izhar Patkin Debates Jewish Art Fine Arts
Secular Narratives When God Is Dead
By: - Jan 21st, 2014During a dialogue with the artist Izhar Patkin about his Mass MoCA exhibition David Ross hit a dead end when he asked whether there is a Jewish art? At this point in post modernism, with more than a century since Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Chaim Soutine or Amedeo Modigliani, it is not a question that one would ask a Jewish American artist. But is it relevant for an Israeli Sabra?
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New England Conservatory Free Jazz Concert Music
Jordan Hall January 27
By: - Jan 20th, 2014Join NEC's celebrated jazz and contemporary improvisation faculty in concert on Monday, January 27 at NEC's Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Performing are world renowned artists including Anthony Coleman, Jerry Leake, Jorrit Dijkstra, Ben Schwendener with Marc Friedman and Kenwood Dennard, Tim Ray, Ralph Alessi, Amir Milstein with Henrique Eisenmann and Jason Davis and more
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Izhar Patkin's Space Time Continuum Fine Arts
The Wandering Veil at Mass MoCA
By: - Jan 19th, 2014In the vast space of Building Five, for the coming year, Mass MoCA is hosting a retrospective for the Israeli born artist Izhar Patkin. A series of rooms features Veils inspired by the poems of a collaborator, the deceased Pakistani poet, Agha Shahid Ali. The artist is challenged by solving technical problems for a variety of approaches to painting in sculpture in a range of media. Central to his practice is a commitment to modernist inspired narratives devoid of the irony of post modernism.
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Tribes at The Phoenix Theatre Theatre
Indianapolis to February 9
By: - Jan 18th, 2014The power of the play lies in the exploration of communication. In a world where people can hear they seldom actually listen. It's about communication in every sense of the word. The way we interact with family, our partners, and the rest of the world.
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Cambodia's Animated The Missing Picture Film
2014 Oscar Nominee
By: - Jan 18th, 2014Cambodia’s 2014 Official Submission for the Academy Awards is “The Missing Pictureâ€, by native Cambodian director and narrator Rithy Panh. In this deeply personal film Panh laments the genocide of almost two million Cambodians carried out by the infamous Pol Pot regime under the Khmer Rouge during the 1970s.
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Oscar Race 2014 Film
Overall a Very Good Year
By: - Jan 17th, 2014The front runners with most nominations this year are for American Hustle, Wolf of Wall Street and Twelve Years a Slave. With a divided pack there is bound to be diversity when the awards are handed out on Oscar night. We have an overview of what proved to a year of numerous fine films and performances.
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