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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Denmark's The Hunt Stars Mads Mikkelsen Film
2014 Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Film
By: - Jan 16th, 2014The child Klara confuses a glimpse of her older brother's porn film, and anger over seeming rejection by her teacher Lucas, twisted into a false accusation. In this Oscar nominated Danish film we see the life and career of Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) utterly destroyed by a witch hunt in a village. There are stunning parallels to the sensational Fells Acres daycare center case in Massachusetts that sent members of its Amirault family to jail.
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A Tango Diary at Berkshires Six Depot Gallery Photography
Documentary Photos by Sabine Vollmer von Falken
By: - Jan 13th, 2014Sabine Vollmer von Falken has created A Tango Diary photos of dancers and would-be dancers from South America to the Berkshires. It is on view at Six Depot Gallery in West Stockbridge
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The Great Beauty Wins Golden Globe Film
Best Foreign Film Also Oscar Nominated
By: - Jan 13th, 2014In the Italian film “The Great Beautyâ€, which screened at the just concluded Palm Springs International Film Festival, young Italian director Paolo Sorrentino set out to pay homage to his great predecessors and the country that inspired their work. Rome is one of the great cities of the world and its art, sculpture, architecture and splendor are nonpareil.
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Nantucket Sleigh Ride Architecture
Moby Dick's New England Legacy
By: - Jan 13th, 2014In the 19th century the whaling industry, as chronicled in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, thrived in Nantucket. The community declined after the 1850s, first through competiton from New Bedford and access to railroads, then through the introduction of cheaper keroscene lamps. Long languishing as a ghosttown it has been revived as a super expensive time capsule of historic architecture and culture. The island swells to some 50,000 inhabitants during the summer season.
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Maria Aitken To Direct Kate Burton Theatre
Nicholas Martin Withdraws from Seagull at the Huntington Theatre
By: - Jan 13th, 2014Huntington Theatre Company favorite and frequent director Maria Aitken (The Cocktail Hour, Betrayal, Private Lives, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps) will return to the Huntington this spring to direct Tony Award nominee and television star Kate Burton in Anton Chekhov’s passionate classic, The Seagull. Aitken replaces Nicholas Martin who was previously slated to direct the production but has withdrawn for personal reasons.
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Palestinian Film Omar Film
A Violent and Graphic Look at West Bank
By: - Jan 12th, 2014As in all spy thrillers, it’s a difficult world where one is trying to tell the good guys from the bad guys. It’s a story of counter-intelligence agents (the Israeli’s) trying to be a step ahead of the local Al-Aqsa Brigade, in the West Bank, and in this case, three radicalized young Palestinian men: Tarek (Iyad Hoorani) Amjad (Samer Bisharat) and Omar (Adam Bakri) who grew up together as boyhood friends.
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Documentary of Gypsies or The Travelers Film
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
By: - Jan 12th, 2014Documentary filmmaker Danis Tanovic spent just $50,000 to create the documentary on the itinerat Roma people commonly know as Gypsies. He has produced a compelling film mainly using non-actors to tell the story of one Bosnian Roma family.
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Two Lives a German Thriller Film
Directed by George Maas Starring Liv Ullman
By: - Jan 12th, 2014Germany’s 2014 Oscar submission “Two Lives†has the taste of an old wine in a new bottle. The performances are finely judged, along with the personal vision of director Maas, but the smooth, satisfying, after-taste of a fine vintage wine is illusive and found wanting.
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MIT's List Appoints Henriette Huldisch Fine Arts
Curator joins MIT List Visual Arts Center in June
By: - Jan 10th, 2014Paul C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center announces the appointment of Henriette Huldisch as the List Center’s Curator. Ms. Huldisch, currently curator at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, will relocate to Cambridge with her husband, artist Andy Graydon, and their 6 year old son in June 2014.
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Dieter and Bjorn Roth Fine Arts
At Fondazione Hangar Bicocca in Milan
By: - Jan 10th, 2014Entering Islands—the show dedicated to Dieter Roth (Hanover, 1930 – Basel, 1998) and his son Björn, currently on view at Hangar Bicocca in Milan, is one of the most significant experiences you might have to get a glimpse of someone else’s life—of an artist’s life, actually.
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Life and Death of Marina Abramovic Theatre
Robert Wilson Production D.O.A.
By: - Jan 10th, 2014Entering the 55,000-square-foot Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory, to view the production of “Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,†the audience first faced a massive construction that later revealed itself to be a specially installed stage. On each seat there was a newspaper announcing that “Artist Marina Abramovic dies at 67.†On stage there were three white angular coffins and three bodies each with masks all resembling Marina.
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Zombie Art Postscript Fine Arts
A Note to Nihilists You Know Who You Art
By: - Jan 10th, 2014When I wrote about Guyton and Kassay in my article on Zombie Art, who produce ice-cold replicas of High Modernist art, I detected that the only way to get a grasp on these artist’s success was to see the correspondence between the nihilist air we breathe and their total lack of anxiety about being a simulacrum of another person’s style. I threw in some gratuitous rhetorical flourishes that painted these artists as being a sort of cultural dead end.
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Artist Joan Snyder Fine Arts
The Writing on the Wall
By: - Jan 10th, 2014When Joan Snyder has a show, people come together. They drop whatever they are doing and join groups converging and answering some call. Like a pilgrimage. Converging. Like Flash mobs. Converging. They go to see what's new, of course, but more than that they go to get their fix.
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Good and Bad News for London’s Dog Production Theatre
Broadway Confirmed for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
By: - Jan 10th, 2014Following repairs to the Apollo Theatre, where the roof collapsed injuring 80 in December the production of the hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was scheduled to reopen on January 13. Now that's not going to happen. The show will reopen with a new cast next door at the Gielgud Theatre in June. The good new is that the National Theatre has confirmed that the sensational drama will open on Broadway in October.
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Photographer/ Art Historian Carl Chiarenza Fine Arts
Makers and Mentors at Rochester Contemporary Art Center
By: - Jan 09th, 2014Carl Chiarenza is distinguished both as a photographer and a scholar. Rochester Contemporary Arts Center is featuring him in Makers & Mentors new and recent collages, paintings and photographs by: Carl Chiarenza (Rochester), Lisa Bradley (New York), Bruno Chalifour (Rochester), David W. Haas (Rochester) February 6 – March 16, 2014.
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Fast Eddy's Current Top Six London Exhibitions Fine Arts
Another Life Changing Experience
By: - Jan 09th, 2014Our intrepid globe trotting correspondent Edward "Fast Eddy" Rubin slowed down long enough to update friends on his latest Life Changing Experiences in London. He lists with information six best current exhibitions in London as well as Wakefield and Leeds. As always his remarks are tongue in chic but the boy sure gets around.
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London’s Serpentine Galleries Fine Arts
Arte Povere’s Marisa Merz and Argentine Adrian Villar Rojas
By: - Jan 08th, 2014A bit of a hike from London's Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington is the entrance to Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park. In 1970 a tea pavilion in the park became the renowned Serpentine Gallery. This past year another small building within walking distance became Serpentine Sackler with an attached cafe designed by Zaha Hadid. In November we view exhibitons by the Arte Povere artist Marisa Merz and works in clay be the Argentinian sculptor Adrian Villar Rojas.
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Trey McIntyre Project Farewell Performances Dance
Jacob's Pillow June 25-29
By: - Jan 07th, 2014This June, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will host the final farewell performances of Trey McIntyre Project as a full-time dance company. Following its six-show engagement in the Ted Shawn Theatre, June 25-29, the company will broaden its focus to include other new artistic projects.
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Belgian Film The Broken Circle Breakdown Film
Oscar Contender for Best Foreign Landuage Film
By: - Jan 07th, 2014“Broken Circle Breakdownâ€, masterly and sensitively directed by Felix Van Groeningen, from a script written with Carl Joos, is a story that resonates with audiences in a bitter/sweet way. Potent forces and emotions are unleashed in this film concerning the healing power of the grieving process, the role of guilt in personal relationships, the part played by unconditional love, and the reality and finality of death.
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British Costume Movie Belle Film
Launched 25th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
By: - Jan 07th, 2014The selection of the opening night film for the 25th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival sets the tone and quality of the films that follow over the next ten days. “Belle†didn’t disappoint the audience. It’s nicely directed by British writer/director Amma Asante, who is on Variety’s “Top Ten Director’s to Watch†list. “Belle†is her second feature film.
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Jacob's Pillow 2014 Dance
Schedule for Summer Season
By: - Jan 06th, 2014The 82nd Festival season will feature more than 52 companies performing on three stages: the historic Ted Shawn Theatre; the intimate Doris Duke Theatre; and the open-air Henry J. Leir Stage, home to the Pillow’s free Inside/Out Performance Series, which served more than 21,000 community members last season. More than 350 free and ticketed dance performances, talks, tours, exhibits, films, classes, and community events will be offered June 14-August 24, 2014.
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A.R.T.’s Definitive Glass Menagerie Theatre
From Cambridge to Broadway
By: - Jan 05th, 2014Shows used to be developed in Boston, New Haven and other out of town venues prior to opening on Broadway. That's become too expensive and obsolete. Some shows open directly on Broadway following ever longer previews. That's risky. An alternative is to transfer regional hits like A.R.T''s superb Glass Menagerie to Broadway. It's also been a game changer for regional companies as a source for revenue and national recognition.
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Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers at 74 Music
Bye, Bye, Love
By: - Jan 04th, 2014The first appearance of the Everly Brothers on the Ed Sullivan Show was 30 June 1957 and their last 28 February 1971. In a career as pioneers of rock 'n' roll they charted 27 Top 40 singles and 35 Top 100 singles. As Mom put it, like Elvis, they were "Cheap and Common." Which is precisely why we loved them.
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The Berkshire Eagle: And Then There Was One Opinion
North Adams Transcript Merges and Advocate Folds
By: - Jan 03rd, 2014Given negative trends in media it comes as no surprise that The North Adams Transcript will merge with the Berkshire Eagle as of January 20. The weekly Adovcate, which has been in freefall for the past few years, will cease publication. As a part of the transition the Eagle will exand its weekly arts tabloid insert from summer to year round. Given the importance of the economy based on cultural tourism, and coverage of issues and politics in the still depressed Northern Berkshire County, despite attempts at positive spin this is really bad news.
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Streaming The Grand on Netflix Television
Vintage BBC Series for Downton Abbey Fans
By: - Jan 02nd, 2014Shot for a fraction of the budget of Downton Abbey, on a lot of levels the 1997 BBC series, The Grand, more than holds its own. There are mistakes and some curious casting changes but the plot twists and cliff hangers kept us hungry for the next of 18 fascinating episodes.
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