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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2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Fine Arts
On View October 3, 2013 through January 5, 2014.
By: - Mar 15th, 2013After receiving nearly 900 entries for the 2013 Portland Museum of Biennial: Piece Work exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) announces the names of the 28 artists selected to participate. The exhibition is the PMA’s eighth consecutive biennial.
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Boston Phoenix Incinerates Opinion
Venerable Alternative Weekly to Cease Publication
By: - Mar 15th, 2013It started in 1966 as Boston After Dark a weekly entertainment guide launched by Jim Lewis then a student at the Harvard Business School. Stephen Mindich was its theatre critic and later bought in as partner. After Mindich bought out Lewis he later acquired the Cambridge Phoenix. The renamed Boston Phoenix was the flagship of an alternative media empire that has now crashed and burned. It leaves a remarkable legacy of journalism and criticism.
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Gaetano Pesce's L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) Fine Arts
NY's Fred Torres Collaborations March 21 to May 25
By: - Mar 15th, 2013L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) the name of the exhibition, refers to a cabinet designed by Gaetano Pesce in 2009 of two people locked in an embrace. In addition to its “namesake†cabinet, the exhibition will feature some of Pesce’s rarely seen drawings, maquettes, lighting and furniture from the 1970s. On view at Fred Torres Collaborations from March 21-May 25, 2013.
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Longterm Impact of Monsanto's Roundup Seeds Opinion
Supreme Court Screws American Farmers
By: - Mar 14th, 2013Our science correspondent and organic farmer Jimmy Midnight explores in detail why our food ain't what it used to be. He states that. As a farmer myself, I would not use glyphosate, or plant any (Monsanto) Roundup Ready seeds, because I presume they’re not safe to use, eat, or feed. If it’s perfectly safe to eat or feed, why does it suddenly become dangerous in the hands of the world’s small-time agricultural operators? On May 13 The Supreme Court upheld the copyright of Monsanto against a farmer planting cheap, second generation seed purchased from a grain elevator.
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Against the Grain at Museum of Art and Design Fine Arts
Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design
By: - Mar 14th, 2013Featuring nearly 90 installations, sculptures, furniture, and objects, Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design explores the most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking today. It is on view March 19 through September 15, 2013 at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
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Over, Under, Next At Hirshhorn Museum Fine Arts
Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present
By: - Mar 13th, 2013The first in a series of permanent collection-related exhibitions leading up to the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2014, “Over, Under, Next†surveys an era in which the definition and scope of art were continually expanded through the avant-garde’s embrace of “non-art†materials.
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April Is Jazz Appreciation Month Music
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Announces Special Events
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Berkshires Jazz, Inc. announces several new events that celebrate April as Jazz Appreciation Month, a long-standing initiative of the Smithsonian Institution. The spring programming spans the timeframe from late March to early May, and includes CD release concerts featuring the Claire Daly Quartet and the Jeff Holmes Quartet.
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Arts and Culture Demonized Opinion
Government Support for Arts Declining
By: - Mar 12th, 2013This is the second in a series of articles on the crisis in the arts by Larry Murray. They are reposted with permission of Berkshire On Stage. He reports that appropriations to state arts agencies grew by 110 percent between 1992 and 2001, reaching an all-time high of $450.6 million in 2001 before decreasing to $354 million in 2008. Since 2008, state appropriations have decreased by 27 percent, close to 1996 spending levels.
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Nudel in Lenox Nominated for Food & Wine Award Food
Bjorn Somlo, Chef-owner Featues Unique Cuisine
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Bjorn Somlo, chef-owner of Nudel Restaurant in Lenox, has been nominated one of the top 100 chefs for The People’s Best New Chef award for FOOD & WINE® magazine. This is Somlo’s second nomination for an award honoring up-and-coming innovators who have run their own kitchens for five years or fewer.
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Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's King Executioner Theatre
Theater for the New City March 21 to April 7
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre presents "King Executioner," written and directed by Vit Horejš with musical score by Frank London (The Klezmatics). This enigmatic tale of early World War II is based on a novel by Polish magical realist Tadeusz Nowak. New York's Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., presents the work March 21 to April 7.
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Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival Music
Program for June 29 and 30
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Following the successful celebration of the festival’s 35th anniversary in 2012, this year’s festival headliners include Tony Bennett, Buddy Guy, David Sanborn & Bob James, McCoy Tyner Quartet featuring special guest John Scofield, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kevin Eubanks, Gregory Porter, and Rudresh Mahanthappa among others.
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Ai Weiwei: According to What? Fine Arts
Traveling Exhibition Tours Five Museums
By: - Mar 11th, 2013We visited Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn in DC mid February. The five museum tour or work by the dissident, iconoclast Chinese artist will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art from April 5 through July 28. Ai who remains under house arrest in China is one of the world's most influential and controversial artists.
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The Arts and The Economy, Interconnected Gears Opinion
A Series Exploring Arts and Fiscal Challenges
By: - Mar 10th, 2013With this richly detailed and insightful series on the crisis of the arts we welcome back to Berkshire Fine Arts, Larry Murray, a valued colleague and founding contributor of Berkshire Fine Arts. For the past few years he has been publisher/ editor of Berkshire on Stage and more recently joined Broadway World as its Berkshire Correspondent. He has spent decades involved in and thinking about arts management as marketing and PR manager, administrator, and, for the past several years, critic and reporter.
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Mana Contemporary Honors Marina Abramovic Fine Arts
Performance Artist Developing Hudson Based Museum
By: - Mar 09th, 2013The performance artist Marina Abramovic is known for extreme, punishing rituals. They entail endurance over long intervals that recall the actions of the post war German artist Joseph Beuys or those of Chris Burden. Her work, with recreations of a number of her classic pieces with living performers were presented in a retrospective at MoMA with additional performances staged at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Wilco By Request June 22 Music
Will Perform Songs That Stump the Band
By: - Mar 08th, 2013On Friday, June 21 at the Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, Wilco will perform a unique concert comprised exclusively of fan-requested songs, including covers. The band will take song submissions in advance and promises to learn fifty of those songs for the festival.
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British Rocker Alvin Lee Dead at 68 Music
Inspired Birth of Gonzo Journalism
By: - Mar 07th, 2013A 1970 concert at Harvard Stadium by Ten Years After inspired the first published use of the word gonzo. We recall the birth of Gonzo Journalism on the occasion of the passing of British rock star Alvin Lee at 68.
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Il Pane Degliangeli, Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries of the Uffizi Gallery Fine Arts
On View at Savannah’s Telfair Museums Through March 31
By: - Mar 07th, 2013The venerable Ufizzi Museum in Florence has tarnished its reputation by packaging works from storage and sending them to four out of the mainstream American museums. We viewed the final destination of the revenue generating tour at the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, Georgia.
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The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Fine Arts
The High Museum March 17-May 19
By: - Mar 06th, 2013The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders exhibition is a portrait survey of 30 important Hispanic Americans by photographer and documentary filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The exhibition debuted in 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. It is on view in Atlanta's High Museum of Art from March 17 through May 19.
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Treat Williams a the Clark March 11 Theatre
Shorts in Winter with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Mar 06th, 2013On Monday, March 11 at 7 pm, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute welcomes friends from the Williamstown Theatre Festival as they present “Shorts in Winter,†a cozy winter evening of short stories read by Festival actors.
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Unfamiliar Behavior: Works by Hye Yeon Nam Fine Arts
Jepson Center Savannah Through April 28
By: - Mar 06th, 2013This is the first museum solo exhibition for Hye Yeon Nam but based on our delighted encounter with the kinetic sculptures and videos it won't be her last. The installation is on view at Savannah's Jepson Center for the Arts through April 28.
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A Quick Note From Fast Eddy Opinion
Exhibitionism in Paris
By: - Mar 06th, 2013Our correspondent Edward Rubin, known to his friends as Fast Eddy, is currently eating and drinking his way through Paris. He often enjoys outrageously expensive meals at Michelin star restaurants. While on the run he dashed off notes to friends including impressions of less trafficked museums. And the Pompidou.
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Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting Fine Arts
Atlanta's High Museum of Art Through May 12
By: - Mar 05th, 2013The High Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto have collaborated to present Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting. This is the most in depth effort yet to present the work of the famous couple of Mexican artists on a level playing field. On view through May 12 in Atlanta this is the only stop in the United States for a special exhibition with enormous popular appeal. While she resided in the shadow of his celebrity today the opposite is true.
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Kate Burton and Nicholas Martin Theatre
Return to Huntingon for the 2013-2014 Season
By: - Mar 05th, 2013The complete 2013-2014 Season will include four plays at the Boston University Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts, three plays at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, and one play in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
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Noel Coward's Fallen Angels Theatre
At the Pasadena Playhouse
By: - Mar 03rd, 2013The Pasadena Playhouse has a long and pleasant association with the plays of Noel Coward. Twelve of his plays beginning with “Hay Fever†in 1926, “Star Quality†in 2003, and now with “Fallen Angelsâ€, have been seen on its stage.
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12th Annual Native American Film Festival Film
The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
By: - Mar 03rd, 2013All of the films have a direct connection to Native American or Indigenous people and their culture. All films screened at the festival have either been made by Native American or Indigenous filmmakers, actors, writers, producers, and/or technical experts from around the world.
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