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 Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuiness Theatre
World Premiere at the Abbey Theatre Dublin
By: - Nov 10th, 2013For our first visit to the 110 -year-old Abbey Theatre in Dublin we enjoyed an intense and poignant family drama The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuiness. Having enjoyed its world premiere in Ireland it is an engaging drama that would play well as a staple of American regional theatre.
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Mouse Trap Mystifies Theatre
At Arthur Newman Theatre, in Palm Desert, California.
By: - Nov 09th, 2013The play written by Agatha Christie, which opened in November of 1952, is billed as the longest, continuously running play in theatre history. If I do the math correctly that’s sixty-one years. That’s a lot of performances.
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12 Years a Slave Film
Film a Sure Oscar Contender
By: - Nov 09th, 2013The film is not the tale of the Old South that your grandparents remember when viewing “Gone With the Windâ€. This is an unflinchingly brutal, cruel story told from the point of view of the thousands of black slaves who have endured two hundred and fifty years of living lives devoid of basic humanity and denied the dignity that all humans deserve.
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The Iliad at Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Henry Woronicz in a Tour-de-force Performance
By: - Oct 22nd, 2013The Indiana Repertory Theatre's production of The Iliad, a one man show with with Henry Woronicz, is mesmerizing in its complexity, maintaining a comedic edge despite the serious material. Using Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s original work playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare create a completely new play. It runs through November 16.
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Will Any Gentlemen to October 27 Theatre
College of the Desert’s Theatre
By: - Oct 21st, 2013Tres Dean, the director of “Will Any Gentlemen?â€, currently on the boards at College of the Desert’s Theatre Too stage, and the creative engine that runs the Theatre Department, is racking up credits and points as the desert’s go to guy for British farce.
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The Fifth Estate Flops Film
Julian Assange Drama Under House Arrest
By: - Oct 21st, 2013On the upside: The acting is splendid. The performances are first rate, with a possible Oscar nomination in 2014 for Benedict Cumberbatch for his eerily accurate portrayal of mysterious, conflicted, and idiosyncratic computer genius-with-an-obsession, Julian Assange.
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TransCultural Exchange Boston 2013 Fine Arts
Thinking Globally Acting Locally
By: - Oct 21st, 2013Attending the Boston TransCultural Exchange for the fourth time meant catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. This is a portrait gallery of many of the artists, panels and participants during the four day event attended by more that 400 delegates and speakers.
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Sargent as Court Painter to the Gilded Age Fine Arts
Reflections on MFA's 1999 Exhibition
By: - Oct 20th, 2013The current exhibition of Sargent's Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts prompts artist/ critic Martin Mugar to repost his review of the 1999 MFA exhibition. He compares Sargent in style and manner to Velasquez as a court painter. It is well know that Sargent's masterpiece "Daughters of Edward D. Boit" borrowed its composition from "Las Meninas" by the Spanish master.
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Sargent’s Watercolors at the MFA Fine Arts
Glorious Glitz Awash Until January 20
By: - Oct 19th, 2013The traveling exhibition "John Singer Sargent Watercolors" encourages us to view the artist as more than a glib and succesful society portrait painterr of the Gilded Age. This is an intimate study of the private Sargent painting in nature entirely for his own pleasure. It is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this aspect of his work in stunning depth and range,.
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Sullivan Station in Lee Food
Lunch in Historic Landmark
By: - Oct 19th, 2013For an atmospheric lunch or dinner consider Sullivan Station in Lee the gateway to the Berkshires. Enjoy the intact interior of the 1893 building with lots of vibtage memorabelia.
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The Last Goodbye at Old Globe Theatre
Originated at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Oct 17th, 2013The Last Goodbye,†now at the Old Globe, had its world premiere at the 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival, and since then has been a work in progress undergoing one “musical autopsy†after another in an effort to ensure that the work will find a friendly regional theatre stage to call home for awhile. It is set to the music of the late Tim Buckley. The production runs to November 3.
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Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde Fine Arts
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to February 2
By: - Oct 17th, 2013The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents “Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Gardeâ€, the largest survey in twenty years devoted to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) through February 2, 2014.
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Guns & Poses by Natalie Giungi Fine Arts
When a Rose Is Not Just a Rose
By: - Oct 16th, 2013The artist Natalie Giungi is exploring thorny issues in creating a uniquely provocative rose garden. Leaning over to smell or examine a blossom there is a shock of discovering its unusual materials. She is in the process of creating an installation of this garden of unearthly delights.
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Theatre
Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis to October 20
By: - Oct 16th, 2013The 2013 Tony winning Best Play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" is running at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis through October 20. The title is a mouthful, but the play itself is a delight.
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Jenny Gersten Leaving Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
To Run Friends of The High Line in New York
By: - Oct 15th, 2013Meeting to recap the third and final year of her contract as Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival Jenny Gersten was coy when I asked what comes next.? Now we know. Gersten is leaving Williamtown for NY's High Line. But she is planning and will help execute next summer's WTF program assuring an orderly transition during the search for a new Artistic Director. There have been three in the past nine years. Who will be the next three and out?
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Les Mis at Beef and Boards Theatre
Serving a Meaty Jean Valjean
By: - Oct 15th, 2013The ambitious Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre in Indianapolis is serving a piping hot version of the spectacular musical Les Miserables. Our correspondent Melissa Hall files a tasty report.
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Lorenzo Pisoni at LA's Mark Taper Forum Theatre
One Man Show Humor Abuse
By: - Oct 15th, 2013The current production on the boards of LA’s Mark Taper Forum is a clever and highly imaginative little gem of a show dealing with the world of clowns entitled “Humor Abuseâ€. It is brilliantly performed by professional clown and actor Lorenzo Pisoni and is winningly directed by co-creator Erica Schmidt.
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Jungle Book in Final Week Theatre
Just Eight More Performances at Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Oct 15th, 2013On October 8 we attended the 100th performance of the boffo, smash hit Jungle Book a stunning fantasy driven musical created and directed by Mary Zimmerman based on the book by Rudyard Kipling. This is the last chance to see a show destined to run forever on Broadway.
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Kiss and Cry at ArtsEmerson Dance
Hands On Dance
By: - Oct 11th, 2013The Belgian company Charleroi Danses presents Kiss and Cry a dance for animation and hands at the Majestic Theatre of ArtsEmerson. Performances continue through October 12. This is one of the most astonishing and original "dance" perrormances we have ever experienced.
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Boston Art, Marathon Bombings, Robert Lowell Opinion
Things That Got Me Thinking
By: - Oct 07th, 2013In this think piece the artist Martin Mugar connects some disparate dots. He reflects on "one of my favorite novels , "Voyage au But de la Nuit" by Celine." The tragedy of the Marathon Bombings. The Red Sox. And "I recall a visit years ago to a Boston gallery.The work on display was some overly tense and fastidiously wrought sculpture by Christopher Wilmarth." He concludes with the Robert Lowell poem "For the Union Dead" from 1960.
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Dialogue With Clarence Fanto One Opinion
Former Managing Editor of the Berkshire Eagle
By: - Oct 05th, 2013In 1987 Clarence Fanto moved full time to the Berkshires joining the Berkshire Eagle as editor of its then new Sunday edition. He left the paper as its managing editor and several years ago rejoined as a reporter and has now slowed down as a freelancer and columnist. For the past several years he has compiled an annual summary of budgets, attendance and box office revenues of the major Berkshire arts organizations. We got together for lunch to connect the dots. There is no dispute over the accuracy of the data he compiles but we differ on its interpretation. Our occasional meetings and e mails are always lively and this is a chance to listen in.
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Akikazu Iwamoto at NY's Stux Gallery Fine Arts
Eye Candy
By: - Oct 05th, 2013Hiroshima-born Akikazu Iwamoto, now forty, fills his compact solo show at Stux Gallery with wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that involve amusing and sometimes frightening bodily transformations. The result was a surprisingly confronting, and often wicked, commentary on our inflated inner desires.
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Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone Fine Arts
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to January 19
By: - Oct 05th, 2013It is hard to balance these two artists’ works. Bacon’s feverish sacks of meat are positively fervent set against Moore’s stolid immovable incapacity; Moore is like a muted child being out-screamed by a naughty sibling. Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone contrasts their work in an exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
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Clybourne Park at Barrington Stage to Oct. 13 Theatre
Coming Too Soon to a Theatre Near You
By: - Oct 05th, 2013The Pulitzer and Tony winning Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris is currently on the short list of most produced plays in America. In a co production with Dorset Theatre Festival where it was staged his summer it runs through October 13 at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. This is its fifth review for Berkshire Fine Arts.
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Now Dig This at Williams College Fine Arts
Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
By: - Oct 02nd, 2013In 2011-2012 The Getty Foundation sponsored Pacific Standard Time which involved 60 cultural institutions in Southern California. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presented "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." The exhibition, which was awarded Best Thematic Exhibit Nationally for 2012 by the International Asssociation of Art Critics (AICA), is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art through December 1.
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