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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Rethinking Mr. Conservative Barry Goldwater Opinion
Notes on a Play in Progress
By: - May 09th, 2014When Senator Barry Goldwater ran for President of the United States that prospect evoked thoughts of Armageddon in the hearts and souls of liberal Americans. As our friend and colleague Larry Murry explains that consummate politician Lyndon Baines Johnson successfully demonized Goldwater. In a very odd way Murray, a man of astute political wisdom and common sense, not only voted for Goldwater but even campaigned for him. Which makes an enticing idea for a play that recent events of the wacko Republicans have caused him to rethink and upgrade. It's a great then and now saga.
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PBS Fall Programming Television
Season Launches with The Roosevelts September 14
By: - May 08th, 2014The Roosevelts kicks off PBS’ fall season Sunday, September 14, with an epic seven-night premiere. The 14-hour documentary airs nightly at 8 p.m. through Saturday, September 20 with a repeat at 10 p.m., and for the first time on television weaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of one of the most prominent and influential families in American politics.
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts Fine Arts
Nashville's Art Deco Kunsthalle
By: - May 08th, 2014Nashville is rightly known as The Music City. Since 2001, with the opening of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in a former art deco post office the city is also a regional destination for world class art exhibitions. Meeting with museum staff we discussed how a non collecting institution, a kunsthalle, manages to leverage major loans and traveling exhibitions. Primarily this is done by original scholarly work and publications as well as building relationships with partnering museums.
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Henry V at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Theatre
Harry Judge Stars Through June 15
By: - May 07th, 2014William Shakespeare’s epic Henry V is directed by celebrated British director Christopher Luscombe in his Chicago debut. In a rousing finale to the 2014 season, the play that inaugurated Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 1986 on the rooftop of Lincoln Park’s Red Lion Pub comes to the Courtyard Theater for the first time. Henry V will be performed in CST’s Courtyard Theater through June 15, 2014.
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Vlad the Impaler Opinion
The Puta Putin Skewers Dissent in Russia
By: - May 07th, 2014Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476/77), was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known by his patronymic name. He inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula based on crushing dissent by impaling opposition. This barbaric autocrat evokes that other Vladamir in this case the puta Putin who silences and censors the citizens of Russia. This makes us treasure all the more free speech in America.
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7th Annual Berkshire Salon Fine Arts
Launches North Adams Gallery Season
By: - May 06th, 2014Visitors passing along Route 2 and the Mohawk Trail on their way to Mass MoCA and nearby Clark Art Institute and Williams College Museum of Art can pause and refresh with a taste of locally created work in the 7th Annual Berkshire Salon. (May 9 to June 1)
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Goya and Steve Mumford Depict War Horrors Fine Arts
Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts Through June 8
By: - May 04th, 2014The Frist Center for the Visual Arts has conflated visceral and gut wrenching exhibitions: Goya: The Disasters of War and Steve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003–2013. The tandem of shows updates from the iconic series of prints by Goya to the combat images of Mumford that track from the war zone, to veterans undergoing rehab, and the restricted access to terrorists incarcerated without due process of law in the Army operated prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Adds Acts Theatre
Busy Summer at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - May 04th, 2014Berkshire Theatre Group announces Peter Schickele, Irish Rovers, and Classic Albums Live Performs Abbey Road for the summer season line up at the Colonial Theatre.
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Daniel Beaty in The Tallest Tree in the Forest Theatre
Mark Taper Forum Evokes Paul Robeson
By: - May 03rd, 2014At Rutgers University Paul Robeson was a star football player. He perused a career as a singer "Old Man River" in Show Boat and actor O'Neill's The Emperor Jones. His leftist activism led him to visit and embrace the Soviet Union. In The Tallest Tree in the Forest the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is paying tribute to him with a riveting one man show starring Daniel Beaty through May 25.
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Nicholas Martin at 75 Theatre
Former Artistic Director of Williamstown and Huntington
By: - May 01st, 2014In 2013 Nicholas Martin was nominated for a Tony as best director. While known on Broadway he is remembered for serving as artistic director of Huntington Theatre Company in Boston followed by three years in that capacity with Williamstown Theatre Festival. His term was shortened by a stroke as he continued to work following a full schedule on both coasts. For the extended theatre family that loved him Nicky was a warm and supportive father figure.
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A Game's Afoot at Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Matthew Brumlow Stars Through May 18
By: - May 01st, 2014Part farce and part whodunit, The Game’s Afoot is a playful mystery that pokes fun at actors and theatre critics alike. Matthew Brumlow plays the real life actor William Gillette who made Sherlock Holmes famous on the stage.
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PBS Summer Schedule Television
Returing Favorites and New Features
By: - May 01st, 2014PBS announces a summer schedule of programming spanning generations and genres. From examinations of our nation’s history to our connections to the animal kingdom, and escapes to Britain’s courtrooms and countryside, PBS offers diverse series and specials for all viewers.
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Natchez, Mississippi's Mansions Architecture
Iconic Antebellum Architecture
By: - Apr 30th, 2014Natchez, Mississippi, per capita, was one of America's wealthiest communities prior to the Civil War. Plantation owners competed in erecting magnificent mansions in the neo classical, Greek Revival style. In commissioning Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan's grand octagonal design Dr. Haller Nutt's Longwood strove to be unique. When war broke out in 1861 construction was abruptly halted. For generations the family occupied the first floor of the unfinished home. It is the astonishing highlight of a tour of mansions and encounter with their grim legacy of slavery.
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2014 Tony Award Nominees Theatre
Hugh Jackman Hosts on June 8
By: - Apr 29th, 2014Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu announced the nominations for the 68th annual Tony Awards at the Paramount Hotel’s Diamond Horseshoe April 29, with Tony host Hugh Jackman also popping up to remind theater fans to watch the telecast live on CBS on June 8.
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NY's Signature Theatre Wins Tony Theatre
2014 Regional Theatre Award
By: - Apr 29th, 2014The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that it will present the 2014 Regional Theatre Award to New York’s Signature Theatre. Each year, the Tony Awards Administration Committee presents a Tony Award to a regional theatre on the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Association. This is the first time that a New York company has won the regional award which normally recognizes nation theatre.
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Water by the Spoonful at Old Globe Theatre
Pulitzer Prize Winner by Quiara Alegria Hudes
By: - Apr 29th, 2014As back-story for “Water by the Spoonfulâ€, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Quiara Alegria Hudes, the character of Ortiz is a bright, but haunted, young Puerto Rican returning Iraq war veteran who has been attempting to put his fractured Philadelphia home life back together. It runs on the Old Globe's White Stage in San Diego, California through May 11.
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The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards Theatre
2014 List of Nominations
By: - Apr 27th, 2014The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Laura Benanti, will take place on Sunday, June 1, 2014, at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan. TheaterMania.com will present the awards ceremony. Gretchen Shugart is Managing Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards. Joey Parnes Productions will produce and manage the show. The President of Drama Desk is Isa Goldberg and Randie Levine Miller is Director of Special Events.
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British Pop Artist Richard Hamilton Fine Arts
Co Curated by Tate Modern and London's ICA
By: - Apr 27th, 2014Richard Hamilton is a truly influential figure in the history of British art and is considered to be the founder of the Pop Art movement. This retrospective is a collaboration between Tate Modern and the ICA, and covers the eclectic career of a very important British artist who wanted to get “all of living†into his art.
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Spun at Indy's Phoenix Theatre Theatre
By: - Apr 27th, 2014Molly and Jesse, are siblings brought together for the first time in eight years by their father’s death in the musical Spun, onstage now at the Phoenix Theatre. The original show, created by Bloomington native Emily Goodson and Jeremy Schonfeld, pairs a relatable story with rock music in a distinctive, raw style. Unlike some musicals, the show has a sense of humor about itself.
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Super Realist Painter Richard Estes Architecture
Summer Retrospective at Portland Museum of Art
By: - Apr 27th, 2014Richard Estes’ Realism is the most comprehensive exhibition of Estes’ paintings ever organized. A master of contemporary realism, Estes is primarily known as a painter of the urban landscape. This exhibition features 50 paintings ranging from Estes’ first New York City façades in the late 1960s to panoramic views of Mount Desert Island in the 2000s.
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The Mount Announces Season Architecture
Events May 3 through October 31
By: - Apr 27th, 2014This summer, The Mount is pleased to announce a full schedule of lectures, readings, performances, music and more. The Mount will be open daily starting May 3rd through October 31st.
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9th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival Film
May 29 – June 1 in Great Barrington and Pittsfield
By: - Apr 27th, 2014The Berkshire International Film Festival will showcase 75 of the latest in independent feature, documentary, short and family films from some 18 countries. The festival, which takes place from May 29 – June 1, 2014 in Great Barrington and May 31 – June 1st in Pittsfield, MA, will bring films, filmmakers, industry professionals and film fans together for a four-day festival celebrating independent film featuring 29 documentaries, 28 narrative features and 16 short films. Some of the countries represented this year are Jordan, Afghanistan, Philippines, India, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Morocco, Iceland, Israel and France, and a record 41 filmmakers will be in attendance with their films.
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Ruth Draper’s Monologues at LA’s Geffen Playhouse Theatre
Annette Bening Stars in Rarely Produced Vignettes
By: - Apr 27th, 2014The Geffen Theatre of Los Angles is currently staging “Ruth Draper’s Monologues" with Annette Bening as Star and director. It’s a brilliant and mesmerizing tour de force performance. Bening’s keen actor/director eye selected four of Draper’s most famous pieces: “A Class in Greek Poiseâ€; “A Debutante at a Danceâ€; “Doctors and Dietsâ€; and the famous, â€The Italian Lessonâ€.
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Humana Festival Another Opinion Theatre
Report by California Correspondent
By: - Apr 24th, 2014The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) attended the recent Humana Theatre Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. We have posted coverage by Charles Giuliano. Now our California correspondent and ATCA member, Jack Lyons, contributes his take on the renowned festival.
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Grande Old Opry in Nashville Music
Yee Hah Y’All
By: - Apr 22nd, 2014While in Nashville we attended a broadcast of the legendary Grande Old Opry. Much has changed since the first radio show on November 28, 1925. While as big and glitzy as a Vegas casino the venerable Opry adheres to tradition and carefully guards its legacy and hallowed ground.
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