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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Brandeis 50th Reunion Opinion
Recalling the Radical Class of 1963
By: - Jun 11th, 2013When we arrived on campus in the fall of 1959 Brandeis University was just eleven years old. As a result of the Holocaust and the black listing of McCarthyism the young university recruited the most radical faculty in America. It graduated renowned activists and revolutionaries in many fields. Then on a par with the best and brightest just what is its academic rank today? I asked President Frederick Lawrence if Brandeis has abandoned its radical legacy devolving to the equivalent of a Jewish Tufts University?. He provided a less than satisfactory response.
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Labor of Love Opinion
A Primer on Orchestral Musician/ Management Relations
By: - Jun 10th, 2013It was quite an eye-opener when I saw my first organizational chart of the BSO. Scratching my head, I asked, “Hey, where are the musicians on this chart?†as for the life of me I couldn’t find us...Today, musicians are trying desperately to fend off 40 percent salary cuts, plus concomitant reductions in orchestra size, length of season, pension and health care.
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His Girl Friday at La Jolla Playhouse Theatre
John Guare's Spin on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
By: - Jun 10th, 2013John Guare has a new take on the classic screwball comedy The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The original story was a pointed study in the shenanigans committed by news reporters, predatory journalists, scoundrels, and scalawags, all in search of a “scoop†during the good old days when newspaper ink coursed through the veins of anyone with a by-line.
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2012 Film Mighty Fine Film
Written and Directed by Debbie Goodstein Rosenfeld
By: - Jun 10th, 2013The 2012 film “Mighty Fineâ€, written and directed by Debbie Goodstein Rosenfeld, stars Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri, Andie McDowell of “Groundhog Dayâ€; beautiful, new-comer Rainey Qualley, and Jodelle Ferland. The story revolves around the Jewish family, the Fine’s, who have just moved from Brooklyn to New Orleans in the 1970s.
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Garbage Time Opinion
Trash Talk in the Berkshires
By: - Jun 10th, 2013Each season Gerald Elias returns to the Berkshires from Utah to play violin with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He reports with dismay, however, the daunting task of cleaning up all the trash dumped on his property by passing cars. Can you believe it? This year four 33-gallon heavy-duty lawn and garden bags. It gives new dimension to the checkout question at the super market, paper or plastic?
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Tiny: A Story About Living Small Film
BIFF Screening by Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith
By: - Jun 04th, 2013In a era of staggering average student debt and few substantial job options for graduates is living small the best revenge? For just $28,000 Christopher and Marete built their dream house with spectacular views of the western landscape. With an amusingly miniscule 120 square feet of home sweet home.
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More Williamstown Theatre Festival Updates Theatre
Dominique Morisseau 2013 L. Arnold Weissberger Award
By: - Jun 04th, 2013Brooks Ashmanskas, De'Adre Aziza, Reed Birney, Joey Slotnick, and Omar Metwally are among the actors who will take part in this Williamstown Theatre Festival summer’s productions. Dominique Morisseau has been awarded WTF’s 2013 L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Playwriting for her play Paradise Blue. She will receive a $10,000 grant and receive a reading as part of WTF’s FRIDAYS@3 series, as well as publication by Samuel French, Inc.
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2013 BIFF and That Film
8th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival
By: - Jun 03rd, 2013During the four day festival with 75 screenings we managed three days with seven films and one short film. So we review only a slice of the 8th annual Berkshire International Film Festival. Even with limited exposure it was an intense and absorbing experience.
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Berkshire Museum Named Smithsonian Affiliate Fine Arts
Access to Smithsonian's 136 Million Objects
By: - Jun 01st, 2013The Berkshire Museum has been named a Smithsonian Affiliate, a prestigious designation that marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration between the two institutions. The relationship will facilitate the loan of Smithsonian artifacts and traveling exhibitions as well as the opportunity to develop innovative educational collaborations.
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Musical Comedy Whore With David Pevsner Theatre
Desert Rose Playhouse
By: - May 31st, 2013“Musical Comedy Whoreâ€, is not as prurient, sexy, or as self-serving a show as straight audiences might imagine. The audience, both gay and straight, is listening to the life story of a man who passionately bares his soul because he believes in honesty.
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Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival Film
13th Annual in Palm Springs California
By: - May 31st, 2013The 13th Annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California that just concluded its most successful festival to date. Producer and Festival Host Alan K. Rode, kept beaming to full houses for four days in the Camelot’s 500-seat theatre as he welcomed and thanked new and old noir aficionados for coming to year “lucky thirteenâ€. Some came from as far away as the East coast and Canada.
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Collision 19; 22 Artists from 8 Countries Fine Arts
Boston Cyberarts Gallery June 14 to July 28
By: - May 31st, 2013Boston Cyberarts Gallery presents COLLISION:19, organized by the COLLISIONcollective and guest juried by Boston Cyberarts assistant director, Stephanie Dvareckas. COLLISION:19 includes twenty two artists from eight countries around the world whose work lingers at the junction of art, technology and science. Chosen from an international open call, COLLISION:19 exemplifies the diverse range of work produced by artists working under the influence of technology.
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Miserable Memorial Day Weekend Opinion
Snow Capped Mt. Greylock
By: - May 27th, 2013The wind howled and it rained cats and dogs during a cold, blustery Memorial Day Weekend. The annual launch of the summer season was a total wipeout. We woke up to a record setting view of snow capping Mt. Greylock which closed the road to the summit. We hunkered down, turned on the heat, and sipped herbal tea. Resorts and high end hotels opening up for the season took a beating. It gave a new spin to the term staycation.
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Bashir Lazhar at Barrington Stage Theatre
Juri Henley-Cohn as an Algerian Refugee in Montreal
By: - May 27th, 2013The play Bashir Lazhar by Évelyne de la Chenelière preceded Monsieur Lazhar which was a 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film. The play, translated from French by Morwyn Breubner is being presented to enthusiastic audiences at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. It is a one man performance by an American actor, Juri Heney-Cohn with a convincing Algerian accent.
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A.R.T.'s Second Stage Oberon Theatre
Events for June
By: - May 23rd, 2013OBERON, the American Repertory Theater’s second stage and club theater venue, continues its mission to bring exciting and original programming. A destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square, OBERON is the home of the A.R.T.’s hit productions of Pirates of Penzance, The Lily’s Revenge, Futurity, The Donkey Show, Cabaret, and Prometheus Bound and Ryan Landry’s Rocky Horror Show. OBERON is also a thriving incubator for local and visiting talent.
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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in Atlanta Fine Arts
High Museum of Art June 23 to September 29
By: - May 23rd, 2013Scholars have identified thirty-four, perhaps thirty-five, paintings they now safely attribute to the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632 – December 1675). He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, Today his works are valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Gardner Museum's The Concert was stolen and remains missing. Largely through a successful movie Girl with a Pearl Earring is particularly beloved. It will be on view at Atlanta's High Museum of Art augmented with works from Holland's Mauritshuis. Book a flight between now and September 29.
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Tanglewood Highlights Open Season Music
Schedule from June 21 to July 18
By: - May 23rd, 2013Tanglewood is front ending the 2013 season with popular music programming. It starts with Melissa Etheridge on June 21 and a weekend that also included Warren Haynes and the Pops preforming a tribute to Jerry Garcia. Then Joan Baez paired with the Indigo Girls. Terence Blanchard returns to Lenox on June 28 in a weekend that includes the perennial Garrison Keillor and Jackson Browne. The serious music begins July 5.
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The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan Film
Second Film: Herders’ Calling
By: - May 21st, 2013Najeeb Mirza has filmed, directed and produced a series of documentaries set in Central Asian countries of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgystan. They tell stories of lives well lived in cultures and landscapes so different from our own, yet the human condition of yearnings for love and a meaning of life remain the same.
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Matuschka Maimed, Claimed and Famed Photography
A Life and Career Defined by an Iconic Image
By: - May 21st, 2013A blessing and curse the life and career of the artist Matuschka has been defined by a single iconic image. It has both opened and closed reports on work that came before and after the cover of the New York Times Magazine in 1993. The media entirely focuses on that image and her somewhat complex and freaky life. Attempts to evaluate her as an artist are few and far between.
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Matuschka, Artistic Activist, Activist Artist Photography
Another Vintage Interview
By: - May 21st, 2013The former model, photographer and breast cancer awareness activist Matuschka is the subject of a current 40 year retrospective of her work at Sohn Fine Art in Stockbridge. Much of the work was created in the Berkshires as the jazz entrepreneur and journalist Edward Bride explored in a 2006 interview. Because of the media coverage of the recent elective surgeries of Angelia Jolie this proves to be both timely and provocative coverage of a courageous and interesting artist.
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Arena Stage Mary T. & Lizzy K. Theatre
Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Domestics
By: - May 21st, 2013The most beautifully written and deeply felt of Lincoln retellings is Tazewell Thompson’s play Mary T. & Lizzy K at the Arena Stage in Washington DC. Here the playwright, who is also the director, awards the play’s starring roles to Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd, her seamstress and confident Elizabeth “Lizzy†Keckly, and Ivy, Lizzy’s young assistant, both freed slaves. This production closed on May 5.
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Berkshire International Film Festival Film
Documentary Highlights May 30 to June 2
By: - May 21st, 2013From May 30 to June 2 the Berkshire International Film Festival will be simultaneously be screened with many additional special events at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington and The Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, The festival combines feature fikms and documentaries. There will be some 15 documentaries in the categories of Celebrity and Politics.
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Brill Gallery and Eclipse Mill Gallery Fine Arts
Summer Schedule for 2013
By: - May 20th, 2013The Eclipse Mill at 243 Union Street in North Adams houses the Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Brill Gallery and River Hill Pottery and studio. The pottery is open daily and the two galleries on weekends through the fall. Both galleries have openings of new shows on June 15.
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Matuschka Reacts to Angelina Jolie Opinion
Renowned Breast Cancer Survivor Discusses Options
By: - May 19th, 2013Because her mother and grandmother succumbed to breast cancer the artist/ activist, Matuschka, got tested often. At precisely the age of Angelina Jolie she underwent a radical mastectomy to remove a tumor. Her self portrait on the cover of the New York Times Magazine proved to be iconic. Which is why this week Inside Edition woke her up to comment on the breaking news about Jolie. That prompted her to write this compelling article.
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At Home with Photographer Matuschka Photography
Parrot Fever
By: - May 19th, 2013A former model, Matuschka, created a riveting self portrait revealing a radical masectomy. It was on the cover of the New York Times Magazine and has been published in a Time Life book as one the 100 most influential photographs of the 20th century. With the recent coverage of Angelina Jolie ironically Matuschka is back in the news. Yesterday we attended her 40 year retrospective of self portraits at Sohn Fine Arts in Stockbridge.
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