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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Beef and Boards Annual Holiday Show Theatre
Chowing Down on Christmas Cheer in Indy
By: - Dec 07th, 2013The Beef & Boards Orchestra is excellent as always; highlighted center stage on the all-new set by Michael Layton. Dominic Sheahan-Stahl provides a fitting salute to the military with his rendition of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.â€
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Book Thief Steals Hearts and Minds Film
Forbidden Literacy in Nazi Germany
By: - Dec 06th, 2013“The Book Thief†based on the international best selling novel of the same name by Markus Zusak, is intelligently and sensitively directed by Brian Percival, from a wonderfully crafted screenplay by Michael Petroni. It’s a small, touching story with large emotional issues that is flawlessly and understatedly performed by a cast led by Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, and Oscar nominee Emily Watson, and stars young French-Canadian teen actress Sophie Nelisse in the title role as Liesel Meminger.
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Dallas Buyers Club a Film Scorcher Film
Matthew McConaghey As a Wasted Hustler Dying of AIDS
By: - Dec 06th, 2013Don’t miss the gritty, grungy, and f-bomb laden film “ Dallas Buyers Club†starring Matthew McConaghey. McConaghey, a Hollywood handsome, leading man, lost more than 40 pounds in order to play the role of Ron Woodroof, a Texas hustler and rodeo rider/electrician with Aids, who turned drug dealer in the recently released “Dallas Buyers Clubâ€.
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Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil Fine Arts
Vast Installation at Mass MoCA on View for a Year
By: - Dec 05th, 2013Building Five of Mass MoCA is one of the largest and most magnificent spaces for contemporary art in North America. It is always fascinating to see how artists respond to the daunting challenge. Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil is now on view for the coming year.
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Mandy Greenfield For Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Tenure Begins September 2014
By: - Dec 04th, 2013As she has for the past three seasons Jenny Gersten will plan the 2014 program for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In September Mandy Greenfield will take over as artistic director. Currently she is Artistic Producer at Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Trinity College and the Book of Kells Fine Arts
Viewing Ireland's National Treasures
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013During the 1979 traveling exhibition Treasures of Early Irish Art I first viewed the Book of Kells. Given the long line of visitors it proved to be a brief encounter. That also was the case during a recent visit to the Old Library of Trinty College in Dublin. It was an absorbing and enchanting experience of the essence of Irish heritage.
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London's Hot New Tryon St Gallery Fine Arts
Near the Saatchi Museum
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013The new Meridian exhibition at the recently launched Tryon St Gallery, (just a stone’s throw from London’s Saatchi gallery), explores the universal human fascination with finding our place in the world and recording it through maps and mapping.
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Malcolm Morley at Britain's Ashmolean Museum Fine Arts
Beyond Photo Realism
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Malcolm Morley is not a Photorealist. His painting can convey a Photo-realist quality when reproduced in a publication, but to the eye of the viewer there is a subtle yet conscious energy to the paint. There is covert mark-making in Morley’s Superrealist works. If an “ism†was to be found it was in the artist’s self-categorisation—before discarding the method and the category of Superrealism in order to follow an expressionistic route—a route already alluded to in his noticeably surreptitious energy.
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Boston Baroque Pops the Cork Music
Concerts to Celebrate the New Year
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Following its annual tradition, Boston Baroque will once again "pop the cork" in grand style on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! This year's celebratory concerts feature a rousing all-Bach program with Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 & No. 4 and Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee Cantata) BWV 211 along with champagne and chocolates at intermission.
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Mahlerpalooza Music
When a Musical OD Lands You in Intensive Care
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013I’m writing this in the MRU of a local hospital. MRU stands for Mahler Recovery Unit. I’m here for the long haul – six weeks of Rossini overtures, early Haydn symphonies and Scott Joplin piano rags. Mahler addiction respects no boundaries – rich, poor, the highly educated or just plain working-class folks – the MRU has them all.
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Laure Prouvost Wins Britain's Turner Prize Fine Arts
Based on Video Installation Wantee
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Laure Prouvost, winner of the fourth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has been awarded the prestigious Turner Prize for her video installation Wantee, tribute to a fictional grandfather inspired by Kurt Schwitters.
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2014 Boston Pops Season Music
Fun Fun Fun From May 7 to June 14
By: - Dec 02nd, 2013The 2014 Boston Pops spring season will introduce audiences to debut appearances by Warren Haynes (5/13 & 14), Tony award-winning Billy Porter (5/20 &21), and conductor Sarah Hicks (5/23 & 24), as well as first-time collaborations with the New York-based jazz band sensation The Hot Sardines (5/28-30) and Cirque de la Symphonie (5/16 & 17),the wildly unique circus act that brings its aerial flyers, acrobats, dancers, and jugglers to orchestral stages throughout the country. Opening night features comic Jason Alexander.
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Nils Frahm at Le Poisson Rouge Music
Music Between Minimalist and Electronic Conglomerate.
By: - Dec 02nd, 2013The concert featuring the music of Nils Frahm was sold out at New York's Le Poisson Rouge. His combination of ambient modern classical falls somewhere between minimalist and electronic conglomerate.
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When Silence is Golden Opinion
Restaurants Serve Rock Concerts with Food
By: - Nov 30th, 2013From restaurants to the mall there is no escaping America's terrible taste in music. In addition to serving food restaurants insist on providing a rock concert. Usually it's the kind of music you go out of your way to avoid. Tell them to turn it down or off.
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Kissing the Bleepin’ Blarney Stone Travel
Blessed With the Gift of Gab
By: - Nov 27th, 2013When visiting Ireland it's obligatory to Kiss the Blarney Stone. Which I managed in my own fashion. The Castle is a dump. Better to be a peasant in a cottage with a turf fire than a lord living in that damp pile of stone.
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Wicked in Indy Theatre
At Murat Theatre until December 1
By: - Nov 27th, 2013It is fun to rediscover why the prennial Wicked sustains as one of America's most popular musicals. Through December 1 it is playing at The Murat Theatre in Indianapolis.
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New York Bound, Islip Museum, Long Island Fine Arts
International Book Art Biennial, until December 29, 2013
By: - Nov 26th, 2013Artist and curator, Dorothea Fleiss of East-West Artists, Stuttgart/Germany, has brought exceptional and imaginative works by book artists from around the globe to East Islip, Long Island, New York. 100 pieces are on display by more than 70 artists. They will touch visitors in many different ways.
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Twelve Angry Men Theatre
Pasadena Playhouse to December 1
By: - Nov 26th, 2013Sheldon Epps is a director with a strong personal vision, and he’s been on the mark, more times than he’s missed it. In selecting “12 Angry Menâ€, a play with twelve white characters, he challenges the audience to accept six black actors playing roles written for white characters.
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A Worm in Paul Rudnick's Apple Theatre
Gay Eden Remake at Desert Rose Playhouse
By: - Nov 25th, 2013It may be somewhat funny at times and the actors are working hard to breathe life into a less than stellar plot line, but Paul Rudnick's “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told†directed by the usually reliable Jim Strait, fails to engage on a couple of levels.
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Venus in Fur in San Diego Theatre
Whipping Up David Ives Play
By: - Nov 24th, 2013Playwright David Ives’ play “Venus in Furâ€, is scheduled to become the most produced play in America during 2013-2014 according to American Theatre magazine that keeps track of such things. Caroline Kinsolving and Jeffrey Meek star in the San Diego Repertory Theatre production though December 8.
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Dublin Pubs Food
Irish Comfort Food
By: - Nov 24th, 2013They say that a seven course gourmet Irish meal consists of a six pack and baked potato. Imagine then our surprise to discover traditional Irish food in cozy Dublin pubs. Washed down, of course, with a fresh pint of Guinness.
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Hindemith and Me Music
Celebrating a Titan of Contemporary Music
By: - Nov 23rd, 2013If I had the means and the energy, I’d organize a festival of some sort. Instead I’m commissioning a Hindemith Bobblehead for my office. Barack Obama has one. So does Oprah, so why not Hindemith? I’m going to stick it on a small pedestal with a plaque that has my favorite Hindemith quote: “There are 12 tones. Treat them carefully.†You gotta love that guy. i
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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life Fine Arts
At Atlanta's High Museum Through January 12
By: - Nov 21st, 2013The first installation of the collaboration between the musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art explored the birth of American landscape painting through the works of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand. American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America premiered at the Louvre in January 2012.
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2014 Tanglewood Schedule Music
James Taylor Returns July 3 and 4
By: - Nov 21st, 2013The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces the schedule for its 2014 Tanglewood program. Aftar a hiatus last year, as has become traditional, James Taylor returns for the Fourth of July Weekend. On July 5 Renee Fleming will appear on the opening night of the classical program. Popular artists will be announced as they are booked.
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Mira Schendel at Tate Modern Fine Arts
Retrospective of Brazilian Modernist
By: - Nov 20th, 2013While described by critics as the Doyenne of Brazilian modernism the work of Mira Schendel (Zurich, Switzerland, 1919 - São Paulo, 1988) is not well know outside of her adopted country. The Swiss born artist is the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern in London through January 19.
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