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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Chelsea Ramble Fine Arts
The Bigger They Art
By: - Jan 01st, 2014In the art world too often bigger is assumed to be better. Or, when the work is small in scale, like a Paul Klee retrospective at Tate Modern, there is a daunting indigestible glut of images. Following a recent tour of Chelsea galleries we came away pondering how much size matters.
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Chasing Shackelton on PBS Television
Three Part Series Premieres January 8
By: - Dec 31st, 2013Chasing Shackelton, a new three-part series about a modern expedition that follows the path of history’s most extraordinary survival story, will premiere January 8, 2014. The series follows a crew of five intrepid explorers led by renowned adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis as they re-create Shackleton’s epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorers’ boat, using only the tools and supplies his team used.
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Auditioning for Artist Katarzyna Kozyra Fine Arts
Igniting a Force: Impromptu Self on Display
By: - Dec 31st, 2013With the selfie, we deliberately place our bodies and faces in relation to the person scrolling, clicking, and masturbating on the other side of the screen. We make “posts†of ourselves with the recognition of humor and vanity and yet with it, a lack of concern. We consciously build an image, our outstretched hand reaching to curl back around into ourselves.
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Corpus Americus in NYC at Driscoll Babcock Fine Arts
Reconfiguring American Art
By: - Dec 31st, 2013Founded in 1852 Driscoll Babcock is the oldest gallery in New York City, and the nation's oldest gallery, which from its inception, has focused on American art. Beneath the patchwork of skins stitched loosely into an ungainly whole, there is indeed something alive at the heart of "Corpus Americus."
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Marc Dennis at Hasted Kraeutler Fine Arts
A Curator And A Rabbi Walk Into A Bar...
By: - Dec 30th, 2013The representational paintings of Marc Dennis often entail young people encountering masterpieces of painting in museums. This is the ancient theme of art within art. On a snowy day in Chelsea it was a relief to find a bit of humor.
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Lend Me a Tenor Theatre
Beef and Boards Through February 2
By: - Dec 30th, 2013Ringing in a New Year of Indiana theatre. For the past few years Beef & Boards has opened every season with a slapstick farce. This year’s selection is "Lend Me A Tenor" a Ken Ludwig comedy.
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Palm Springs International Film Festival Film
25th Festival Launches January 3
By: - Dec 30th, 2013Palm Springs is not only a world-class tourist attraction, it becomes the center of world cinema for a ten-day period every January as it hosts more than 135,000 movie fans and film junkies from all over the globe as they try and spot the stars, directors, producers, writers, cinematographers, and distributors amid the glitz and glitter of its star-studded 1200 Gala attendees on Saturday, January 4th, at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
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Body & Soul at Museum of Arts and Design, NYC Fine Arts
New International Ceramics until March 2nd, 2014
By: - Dec 28th, 2013The current exhibition at MAD, "Body & Soul," presents an international survey of artists, who feel compelled to comment on aspects of our human condition through ceramic sculptures. It is an emotional roller-coaster! - Two other major exhibitions are on view: "Fashion Jewelry, The Collection of Barbara Berger" and most astonishing, "Out of Hand, Materializing the Post Digital."
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Rethinking Stones an Exhibition and Video Project Fine Arts
Inspired by a 2000 Visit to Neolitihic Avebury in the U.K.
By: - Dec 28th, 2013Inspired by recent visits to neolithic sites in Ireland, and memories of Stonehenge some years ago, we reconnected with the artist Jane Hudson about an exhibition we worked on together. The project Stones in the gallery of the New England School of Art & Design was stunning and deeply complex. This is a dialogue about that work and the ancient sites which inspired the exhibition.
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Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China Fine Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Through April 6
By: - Dec 28th, 2013Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through April 6 is the most compelling and insightful contemporary exhibition currently on view in New York museums. Unquestionably some of the most important work of the past few years has been created by Chinese artists. There are 70 works on view by 35 artists in this fascinating exhibition.
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Top Ten from Indianapolis Theatre
Picks by Theatre Critic Melissa Hall
By: - Dec 27th, 2013Our Indianapolis theatre correspondent Melissa Hall posts her list of the season's top ten productons. They come with links to the original reviews.
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Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen Brothers Film
A Small Dark Folkie Film Getting Huge Hype
By: - Dec 26th, 2013Inside Llewyn Davis is a dark, moody, misanthropic take on a failed folkie bumming around Greenwich Village in 1961. It is being hailed as another work of genius, arguably the best film, by the Academy Award winning Coen Brothers. It's a nice little film that has some charming moments but let's leave it at that.
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Management Dust Up for Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Tony Simotes Will Report to Executive Director Jerry Bilik
By: - Dec 24th, 2013Not long after he took over as Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company in 2009 Tony Simotes had to deal with near extinction caused by some $10 million in debt. With the board and managing director, Nicholas J. Puma, great strides were accomplished to reduce and restructure debt bringing stablity to the company which Tina Packer founded in 1979. In a major change the board has created the new position of Executive Director, Jerry Bilik, whom Simotes and Puma will report to. Those close to the company see this as a long term step foward.
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Pinter's Betrayal More Sizzle than Steak Theatre
OO7's Daniel Craig and Oscar Winning Wife Rachel Weisz
By: - Dec 23rd, 2013The revial of Harold Pinter's 1978 play "Betrayal" was all but sold out before opening night. The excitement was generated by a chance to see the gorgeous married couple, current 007, Daniel Craig, and Oscar winner, Rachel Weisz. Rounding out and even upstaging that glamorous duo in a taut love triangle is Rafe Spall. If you have really deep pockets for scalper tickets in the $400 range see this play before it closes on January 5.
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Judi Dench in Philomena Film
On the Road Again
By: - Dec 22nd, 2013The odyssey-saga of “Philomenaâ€, wonderfully portrayed by Academy Award winning actor Judi Dench, and her co-star, a wry, world-weary Steve Coogan (who also co-wrote the screenplay with writer Jeff Pope) sends these two unlikely “detectives†on a journey to track down Philomena’s son Mark Anthony, the baby she gave up for adoption fifty years ago.
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Brian Dennehy at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
The Steward of Christendom by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry
By: - Dec 22nd, 2013In The Mark Taper Forum production “The Steward of Christendomâ€, by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry, the play is set in the early 20th century before, during and after the volatile Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916 and the bloody 1919 – 1922 Irish Civil War. It is deftly and steadily directed by Steven Robman, and stars Brian Dennehy as Thomas Dunne, the former police superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
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Terry Teachout’s Definitive Book on Duke Ellington Music
We Loved Him Madly
By: - Dec 21st, 2013Wall Street Journal theatre critic, Terry Teachout, wrote a superb jazz biography "Pops: A Life of Duke Ellington." That became the one man play with John Douglas Thompson "Satchmo at the Waldorf" which opens soon Off Broadway. Now Teachout has written an even better biography "Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington." He is in the process of transforming that material into a play.
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Robert Indiana: Beyond Love at Whitney Museum Fine Arts
First New York Museum Retrospective for Pop Artist
By: - Dec 20th, 2013Robert Indiana created the "Love" logo that became an icon of American design. But its commerical success made him a pariah in the New York art world. After several years of being snubbed he fled to Vinalhaven, Maine in 1978 where he continues to live. The current Whitney Museum retrospective, his first in New York, is a critical success for the one trick pony of Pop art.
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Balthus at the Met and Magritte at MoMA Fine Arts
Surrealist Holiday in New York
By: - Dec 19th, 2013Dream surrealism has always been accessible to the general public. During the Holiday season in New York, through January 12, there is an intriguing double header. The relatively small but concise "Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations" is on view at the Metropolitan while "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" is featured at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Taking the Holidays in Strad Music
On Performing with the Legendary 1718 Firebird Violin
By: - Dec 19th, 2013Musician and author Gerald Elias reports on an offer he could not refuse. "I got to perform on the 1718 “Firebird†Stradivarius, one of the greatest violins in the world. Ever." Now based in Utah he travels to Tanglewood each summer to play with his former BSO colleagues. He also writes mystery novels with classical music themes.
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Mark Rylance’s Bard on Broadway Theatre
Twelfth Night and Richard III Both Masterful
By: - Dec 18th, 2013In the theatrical event of the season, if not decade at least, two time Tony winner Mark Rylance has brought a tandem of Shakespeare plays to Broadway. On stunning and thrilling back to back nights at New York's Belasco Theatre we saw first Twelfe Night and then Richard III. Both were produced as close as possible to Elizabethan standards including all male casts. Don't miss these magnificent plays which run through mid February.
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Welcome Home Sonny T in New York Premiere Theatre
By Seven Time Emmy Winner William Electric Black
By: - Dec 17th, 2013William Electric Black has won seven Enmmys writing for family and kids TV shows. With Welcome Home Sonny T he shows considerable chops taking on adult themes. This is the first of five intended plays focused on inner city violence. It is a high voltage theatrical experience.
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Stephan Kaplan's Exquisite Potential Theatre
West Coast Premiere in Palm Springs
By: - Dec 17th, 2013“Exquisite Potential†by playwright Stephan Kaplan, recently recently had its West Coast Premiere at Dezart Performs in the Pearl McManus Theatre in Palm Springs. The comedy drama is one of two plays that ended in a tie as “audience favorite†from Dezart Performs annual staged play reading festival in April of this year.
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The Subject-Object Model in Zombie Art Fine Arts
Bottom Feeding on the Undead
By: - Dec 16th, 2013Another take on the new abstraction and it ain't pretty. Simone Weil said that culture moves in grand arcs either ascending or descending. Assuming the movement is down, could it be we have reached the bottom?
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art Fine Arts
Dublin’s 17th Century Former Royal Hospital Kilmainham
By: - Dec 08th, 2013Relaunching after renovations the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented two special exhiitions- Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) the Irish born furniture designer, and architect and Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) a British-born–Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist. Her mother was Irish.
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