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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The Rise and Fall of WBCN Music
Carter Alan’s Book on Radio Free Boston
By: - Jun 17th, 2014Between 1968 and its demise in 2009 Boston's rock station WBCN was the epicenter of an alternative lifestyle. Its DJ's interviewed and broadcast live concerts and studio sessions with virtually every major band of the era. It was a strong advocate of local band breaking many including J Geils, The Cars, Aerosmith, Boston and British stars from Bowie and The Who to Ireland's U2. Carter Alan's superbly researched book covers it all from A to Z.
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Kiss Me Kate at Barrington Stage Theatre
A Musical Birthday Cake for 20th Season
By: - Jun 16th, 2014Kiss Me Kate was Cole Porter's biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway. In 1949, it won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical. It is being given a stunning revival at Barrington Stage Company in a lavish production celebrating its 20th anniversary. With all of that iconic music and stunning choreography this is a fabulous way to launch the season in the Berkshires.
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Noises Off is a Silly Play Theatre
At The Public in Pittsburgh
By: - Jun 15th, 2014Noises Off (by playwright Michael Frayn, now playing at the Public) is a silly play about a silly play. Or, more accurately: it’s a silly play about the silly things that occur when a group of people tries to put on a silly play.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Dance
Returns to Jacob's Pillow July 2-6
By: - Jun 15th, 2014Popular contemporary company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for the first time since 2010, bringing a sensational mixed-bill program. Directed by Glenn Edgerton, the 18-member company performs the dramatic Mediterranean-inspired Gnawa, choreographed by Nacho Duato, and Jiřà Kylián’s vivid Falling Angels, a stark all-female work danced to “Drumming†by contemporary composer Steve Reich.
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Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Fine Arts
Bringing Iconic American Art to Arkansas
By: - Jun 11th, 2014During our visit to Crystal Springs Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas we met with museum spokesperson Diane Carol. Fending off questions of media controversy regarding aggressive acquisitions she emphasized that the museum is free and serves a region that lacks resources of its quality. As she pointed out since opening in 11/11/11 some 1.3 million visitors have viewed "Kindred Spirits" by Asher B. Durand which formerly hung in the New York Public Library.
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Crystal Bridges in Bentonville Arkansas Fine Arts
All the Museum that Walmart Money Can Buy
By: - Jun 10th, 2014After extensive renovation and expansion the Clark Art Institute reopens this summer. Much is being made of how its Tadeo Ando designed low lying horizontal line and large reflecting pool embrace nature and the background rolling mountain range. The paradigm for architecture set into natural surroundings, however, is the Moshe Safdie design for Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is nestled into a ravine with a series of pontoon "bridges." The museum which opened on 11/11/11 has some 500,000 annual visitors for its controversial collection of American art.
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Don’t Keep on Truckin Opinion
Tracy Morgan’s Crash Highlights Highway Crisis
By: - Jun 09th, 2014A highway crash that killed a fellow passenger and resulted in comedian Tracy Morgan fighting for his life gained national media attention for a far too common highway hazard. Returning from a gig Morgan's limo was rear ended by a Walmart truck driven by one Kevin Roper who faces criminal charges. He allegedly dozed off and lost control after 24 hours without sleep. During a recent road trip we narrowly escaped a similar accident.
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Rene Fleming at Tanglewood Music
Opens BSO Bershire Season on July 5
By: - Jun 09th, 2014The Boston Symphony Orchestra begins its 2014 Tanglewood season on Saturday, July 5, at 8:30 p.m. in the Shed, with an all-American Opening Night at Tanglewood program featuring superstar soprano Renée Fleming.
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Betty Vera Hiding in Plain Sight Fine Arts
Jacquard Weavings at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Jun 09th, 2014Cotton was the material that drove the economy of numerous mills in the Northern Berkshires. That left a terrible legacy of involvement with slavery and child labor during the era of King Cotton. As a part of a healing process the fabric artist Betty Vere is bringing cotton back to the gallery of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. In the exhibition Hiding in Plain Sight she is displaying a series of Jacquard weaving.
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Wild Bill Cardoso Opinion
Total Gonzo Tales
By: - Jun 07th, 2014This is part two of Dr. Gonzo, William J. Cardoso. He is best remembered as allegedly coining the word Gonzo which in fact he stole from me. Other than that theft of literary property little is known of him today other than the legacy of the out of print collection of essays Maltese Sangweech. There was much more to Bill than that. He was indeed the heart and soul of Boston's hipster literary culture during its best years.
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Trey McIntyre Project at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Related Events for June 25-29
By: - Jun 07th, 2014A bold company with a strong Jacob’s Pillow history including five engagements since 2005, Trey McIntyre Project will make its final appearance as a fulltime dance ensemble June 25-29 in the Ted Shawn Theatre. In addition there are a number of free events as the season commences in Becket
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The Arvo Part Project at Carnegie Hall Music
Presented by St. Vladimir's Seminary
By: - Jun 06th, 2014A recent Carnegie Hall concert presented works by the composer Arvo Part for the first time since 1984. The rare event resulted in a sold out performance featuring his tintinnabuli works. The exotic and evocative museum was preformed by Tallin chamber orchestra and the Estonian philharmonic chamber choir led by Tonu Kaljuste.
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Emmy Winner Marg Helgenberger Riveting Theatre
Stars in The Other Place by Sharr White at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 06th, 2014At mid career Emmy winner Marg Helgenberger is making the transition from TV to stage in the Berkshires. She is galvanic in Sharr White's complex and riveting The Other Place at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. She would like to take this hit production back home to LA.
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Death of the Author at LA's Geffen Playhouse Theatre
World Premiere by Steven Drukman
By: - Jun 06th, 2014Steven Drukman’s multi-layered text of ambition, heartbreak, and cutthroat competition that is now center stage in American culture is not only cleverly written it is also funny. The opening night audience, heavily weighted with young people in their twenties, and students from UCLA, caught and punctuated with laughter, every nuance and irony of the situations the characters found themselves in.
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Searching Yet Again for Aviator Amelia Earhart Fine Arts
America’s Most Famous Missing Person
By: - Jun 04th, 2014This review was written for the Amelia Earhart Image and Icon exhibition at International Center for Photography from May 11 – September 9, 2007. Published here for the first time Rubin considers it as one of his best articles.
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Dr. Gonzo, William J. Cardoso Opinion
The Maltese Sangweech and Other Heroes
By: - Jun 04th, 2014If you do a Google search the late Bill Cardoso comes up as having coined the term gonzo and dubbing Hunter Thompson's style of writing as Gonzo Journalism. Other than that he is largely forgotten as one of the outrageous characters and original thinkers of his era. Recently I read his out of print book The Maltese Sangweech a collection of magazine pieces. It includes two masterpieces of gonzo journalism "The San Francisco Red Sox" and "Zaire"an account of the Ali vs. Forman rumble in the jungle./
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Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 Front Page
German Master Surveyed at MoMA
By: - Jun 03rd, 2014Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important Post War German artists. He is the subject of a dense, sprawling and and messy retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art through August 3. It would be a folly and conceit to attempt to review such diverse and eclectic, mind boggling work. For that we refer you to mainstream critics all of whom fail, to varying degrees, to nail down the work of one of the most fascinating and daunting artists of our time.
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Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe Fine Arts
Art Under Fascism Explored at Guggenheim Museum
By: - Jun 02nd, 2014The Italian artists circa World War I advocated destroying the past while embracing the future. Hence Futurism the subject of an enormous and fascinating survey Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 1. In their enthusiasm and nationalism they embraced the Fascism of Mussolini.
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Shakespeare’s Will Stars Kristin Wold Theatre
Launches 37th Season of Shakespeare and Company
By: - Jun 01st, 2014On the occasion of the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare the 37th season of Shakespeare & Company is chock full of the Bard. Even the contemporary play by Vern Thiessen "Shakespeare's Will" is about him. Well, his wife and mother of their three children, Anne Hathaway, actually. In a brilliant one woman performance the redoubtable Kristin Wold plays several characters with compelling skill and heart warming charisma.
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From Primitivism to Propaganda: Russia’s Modern Masters Fine Arts
Works from Marina and Nikolay Shchukin Collection at National Arts Club
By: - May 31st, 2014From the late 1890s through the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Moscow based business man Sergei Ivanovich Schukin (1854-1936) assembled one of the great collections of early modern art. When the Soviets confiscated the collection he emigrated to Paris. The National Arts Club in New York is currently showing 35 Russian avant-garde works from the collection of family member Marina and Nikolay Shchukin. Through June 14 the exhibition is sponsored by Russian American Foundation as a part of the Annual Russian Heritage Month.
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Taken Hosta Food
Planting a Berkshire Garden
By: - May 31st, 2014When I was a lad the annual flower show inspired me. Each winter since I have dreamed of summer gardens. Here in the Berkshires with crazy weather and global warming that can be tricky. Last year we had a great but late crop of tomatoes. There is also the ongoing hosta project with eventual tours of our thousand exotic varieties.
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War of the Roses at EclecticPond Theatre
Shakespeare in Indianapolis
By: - May 29th, 2014In a city that rarely sees a production of Shakespeare without an easily recognizable name, the EclecticPond Theatre Company (ETC) has become a welcome respite. The group, which was founded in 2010, has embraced some of the Bard’s lesser-known works, with productions like “The Comedy of Errors†and “Shakespeare Wrote What? and “10x10.†Now, about to close its third season, ETC decided to tackle something big.
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Old Globe Play by Christopher Durang Theatre
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in San Diego
By: - May 29th, 2014Chistopher Durang has been poking his playwright fingers into society’s eyes for years with the result being he now has a loyal and growing fan base. And with good reason too. He’s a brilliant, highly educated, critical -thinking writer and playwright who loves his chosen profession. And he’s not afraid to write over-the-top material for actors.
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Correction Opinion
Re: Randolph Fuller and Opera Boston
By: - May 27th, 2014In a preview of the Boston 2014/15 opera season, published in Berkshire Fine Arts on April 26, 2014, I made an error in characterizing Randolph Fuller’s financial relation to Opera Boston.
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BenDeLaCreme in Terminally Delightful Theatre
Camp Following Off Broadway
By: - May 27th, 2014With much fanfare, whistles, hollers, shouts from the audience, and a rousing musical introduction, the larger than life, black-haired and fully made up LaCreme, wearing a glistening blue sequined gown with a sash that read Miss Congeniality, took to the stage.
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