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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Michelangelo's David-Apollo at the National Gallery Fine Arts
Unfinished Sculpture on View Through March 3
By: - Feb 18th, 2013Occasions to see sculpture by the Italian Renaissance master, Michelangelo Buonarotti, are few and far between. From now through March 3 his unfnished Apollo-David is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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The Future of North Adams? Opinion
A Letter to Mayor Dick Alcombright
By: - Feb 17th, 2013Now in his second term as Mayor of North Adams Massachusetts there was hope and expectation of change when he defeated the long term Mayor John Barrett III. Other than a dramatic rise in property taxes there is scant evidence of progress. Many attribute that to catching up with decades of neglect, collapsed infractucture, decline in schools and social services. An architect, gallerist and pragmatic visionary Ralph Brill in an open letter to Alcombright offers a blue print for change and the creation of jobs for the depressed city.
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The Solid Sound 2013 Update Music
Wilco at Mass MoCA June 21 to 23
By: - Feb 16th, 2013Joining the three-day Wilco celebration at Mass MoCA will be the acclaimed singer and songwriter Neko Case, indie-rock heroes Yo La Tengo, jazz adventurists Medeski, Martin and Wood, Duluth's low-fi darlings Low and a reunited Dream Syndicate whose Solid Sound performance will mark the full band's first North American concert in 25 years.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2013 Season Theatre
From Oklahoma to Lion in Winter
By: - Feb 16th, 2013During the July Fourth weekend which launches the Berkshire season the Colonial Theatre will stage the perennial tribute to Ameriana the classic musical Oklahoma. The Stockbridge Main Stage will get a jump start on June 25 with Treat Williams starring in The Lion in Winter. Local legend Karen Allen, who made her directorial debut at the Unicorn Theatre with Moonchildren will return to that stage directing Extremities.
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Saratoga Chamber Music Festival Music
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) August 4 to 20
By: - Feb 11th, 2013The Escher String Quartet – hailed by the Washington Post “as one of the top young quartets†in the world today will open the 2013 Season of the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival on Sunday, August 4 in the Spa Little Theatre.
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Shakespeare & Company Stars for 2013 Theatre
Tina Packer, Olympia Dukakis, John Douglas Thompson Return
By: - Feb 11th, 2013Following a two year tour of Women of Will the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer, returns with The Beauty Queen of Leenane co starring Elizabeth Aspenlieder. Last summer Olympia Dukakis and John Douglas Thompson had hit shows with The Tempest and Satchmo at the Waldorf. This summer they will perform together in the 20th century classic Mother Courage.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Spring Theatre
Programming in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 11th, 2013Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington announces spring 2013. Highlights include a talk by author and illustrator Brian Selznick followed by a screening of Hugo, Masters of the Fiddle with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, humorist David Sedaris , singer/mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau , Cirque Shanghai: Bai Xi, Paul Taylor Dance Company , "Live in HD" broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera, London's National Theatre, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, as well as classic movies.
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Mean Streets: Blizzard of 2013 Opinion
The Big Dig Out
By: - Feb 09th, 2013In Boston's blue collar neighborhoods digging out parking spots evokes survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle. Shovel out a spot and you own it. Move and mark your space with a lawn chair. Leave and hope that its not occupied when you come back. If not all hell breaks loose.
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Berkshire Top Chefs at NY's James Beard House Food
The Berkshire Cure-All On March 1
By: - Feb 09th, 2013On Friday, March 1, seven chefs from the Berkshires organized by Brian Alberg, Executive Chef and Food & Beverage Director at The Red Lion Inn, will present “The Berkshire Cure-All†to New York's James Beard Foundation. The dinner will showcase the culinary talents and farm-to-table efforts of the region with foods prepared using time-honored preserving and curing methods.
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Rebecca Chamberlain at NY's Dodge Gallery Fine Arts
Homatorium I the Artist's Second Dodge Show
By: - Feb 08th, 2013For Homatorium I, Chamberlain creates an environment in the inner gallery resembling the feeling of Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House; marking a shift for Chamberlain, as she focuses for the first time on a singular site.
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Jackie By Elfriede Jelinek Theatre
Nobel Prize Winning Writer at NY's City Center Stage II
By: - Feb 08th, 2013Jackie is part of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek's cycle of "Princess Plays" that she describes as a satirical counterpoint to Shakespeare’s histories, which in German are called “Kings Plays.†She has female role models such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Di and Jackie Kennedy, who, for the 20th Century, is the essential princess. The production history surrounding Jackie is mysterious, and this production may well be the world premiere of the English language translation.
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Lighting From Heaven by Scott C. Sickles Theatre
Dramatizing Publishing Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago
By: - Feb 07th, 2013Workshop Theatre Company presents the New York premiere production of Lightning From Heaven by Workshop Theater Company Artistic Director and award-winning playwright Scott C. Sickles. It is directed by Thomas Coté and will play a limited engagement on the Main Stage at WorkShop Theater (312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor).
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The Human Variations by Blueprint Theatre Project Theatre
Staged In Abby Verbosky's Photography Exhibition
By: - Feb 07th, 2013The backdrop for “The Human Variations†is a photography exhibit featuring the work of Abby Verbosky. Two men. Six women. Drink. Dance. Desperate loneliness. What begins as innocent banter over cocktails at an art opening quickly transforms into fantasy, nightmare and possible redemption. In “The Human Variations" has four movements (Allegro, Largo, Scherzo and Rondo).
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Will Eno's The Flu Season at A.R.T. Theatre
Directed by Marcus Stern
By: - Feb 07th, 2013The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training continues its 2012-13 Season with Will Eno’s The Flu Season, directed by A.R.T. Institute director Marcus Stern. The production runs February 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1 and 2 at 7:30pm at the Zero Church Street Performance Space, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Admission in free.
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In/Visible: Women of Two Worlds Fine Arts
Clark's uCurate Program Features Ashley Smith
By: - Feb 06th, 2013The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents In/Visible: Women of Two Worlds, the second exhibition created through its interactive uCurate program. In/Visible, an intriguing look at the worlds of women, was created by clergywoman Ashley Smith of Stephentown, New York and is on view through March 10.
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Smash Reboots Television
Season Two Launch Sophomoric
By: - Feb 06th, 2013Despite creative mood swings the Theresa Rebeck created Smash was among our favorites TV shows last year. After a so so first season the drama focused on bringing a musical to Broadway was on the cusp of being cancelled. Rebeck was sacked and replaced by Joshua Safran of the former show Gossip Girl. A number of characters and subplots have been dumped and new story lines inserted. The relaunch, however, was a muddled mess. If ratings plummet, as well they should after the two hour bomb of a relaunch, this show may not be around much longer.
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The Steve Miller Band Tanglewood July 29 Music
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! August 29
By: - Feb 04th, 2013Steve Miller Band performs on July 29. The witty and fast-paced radio program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! appears in the Shed on Thursday, August 29. Let the good times roll.
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Sundance Award Winner Valley of Saints Film
Special Screening at Images Cinema on February 8
By: - Feb 04th, 2013Images Cinema is hosting an event organized by the Muslim Student Association of Williams College, a film screening of “Valley of Saints†with director Musa Syeed on Friday, 2/8 at 5pm. The film will be introduced by Syeed, and the film will be followed by a Q&A with the director..
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Super Bowl Was Just That Opinion
A Guy Thing
By: - Feb 04th, 2013A bunch of guys from the loft, all artists, hunkered down in front of Opie's huge, Hi Def, smart TV to scoff snacks and enjoy the super bowl. It was a guy thing; a night of raging testosterone for the annual ritual. Lots of fun and actually a heck of a game.
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2013 Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts Film
Screened at Images Cinema February 16
By: - Feb 02nd, 2013During the Academy Awards celebration there is mostly apathy for categories like best Animation Shorts. Most of the home viewing audience have not seen the nominated shorts. On February 16 Images Cinema in Williamstown will screen all five nominated shorts. The hour and a half program on Saturday morning provides terrific family entertainment.
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Music from the Big House Film
Canadian Blues Singer Rita Chiarelli at Angola Prison
By: - Feb 02nd, 2013As the inmates tell us in this stunning documentary by Erin Faith Young and Tony Burgess at Louisiana's legendary, Angola Prison "Life means life." In a search for the roots of the blues Canadian musician, Rita Chiarelli, worked with the inmates to perform "Music from the Big House."
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Old Globe's Pygmalion Heads to Williamstown Theatre
Opens at Williamstown Theatre Festival July 18
By: - Jan 31st, 2013The production which Jack Lyons reviewed is being restaged with some changes at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. “Pygmalionâ€, the sparkling comedy production on the Old Globe’s Shiley Stage, in San Diego stars Robert Sean Leonard of TV’s “House M.D.†as Henry Higgins. The production, steadfastly directed by Nicholas Martin, (former artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival) co-stars San Diego favorite, Paxton Whitehead as the redoubtable Colonel Pickering and Charlotte Parry as Eliza Doolittle. Parry’s Eliza is one of the best Eliza’s seen on any stage in a long time. At WTF she is played by Heather Lind.
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri Theatre
Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre Company
By: - Jan 31st, 2013CV Reps production of “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks†is a heart-warming play that is sure to please everyone who sees it. CV Rep now in its second season in its new theatre digs at The Atrium, in Rancho Mirage, California is building a reputation as a “go to†theatre for actors who like CV Rep’s two- hander format.
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John Hodgman Leads Solid Sound Comics Music
Wilco's Mass MoCA Festival June 21-23
By: - Jan 30th, 2013Comedian, author, television personality and historian John Hodgman returns to Solid Sound 2013 to present another hand-picked line-up of comedic talent on Saturday, June 22. The Solid Sound Festival, brainchild of the Chicago-based musical innovators Wilco, returns to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams on June 21-23.
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The Art of Scent, 1889 - 2012 Fine Arts
New York’s Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Jan 29th, 2013Perfumes, fragrances and scents are everywhere in our lives - natural and artificial ones! The Museum of Arts and Design in New York challenges the American public for the first time to recognize creators and creations: Fragrances - as artists and 'Olfactory Art.' The Art of Scent exhibition presents convincingly developments of the last 125 years in the perfume industry, and fragrances that had the most impact over time.
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