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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Mass MoCA Winter/ Spring 2013 Opinion
Exhibitions and Events
By: - Dec 19th, 2012With one show already nearly sold out (Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum on Saturday, February 16), MASS MoCA'sWinter/Spring season has started with a bang before it's even been announced. The first big event of the season is FREE Day on Saturday, February 9. This annual event attracts thousands to MASS MoCA for a full day of art-making, tours, contests, demonstrations, performances, and more.
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Black Angels Over Tuskegee Theatre
Layon Gray’s Play in Third Year Off Broadway
By: - Dec 18th, 2012For an entertaining, intimate, insightful evening of theatre it doesn’t get much better than Black Angels Over Tuskegee. Leon Gray wrote, directed, and acts in this award winning play now in its third year Off Broadway.
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Picasso Black and White Fine Arts
Chiaroscuro Theme at the Guggenheim to January 23
By: - Dec 17th, 2012For the holidays two blockbuster exhibition provide the chance to compare and contrast the greatest masters of the School of Paris. The Metropolitam Museum is showing Henri Matisse while the Guggenheim features Picasso Black and White. A spin through the Guggenheim proved to be disappointing with a glut of mediocre mid period and late works and just a couple of bona fide masterpieces.
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Gunther Uecker at Haunch of Venison Fine Arts
First NY Exhibition for Group Zero Artist Since 1966
By: - Dec 16th, 2012Now 82 the German artist and member of Zero, which disbanded in 1966, is having his first New York exhibition, at Haunch of Venison, since then. Now and then we encounter one of Gunther Uecker's signature nail pieces at MoMA or in rare Zero exhibitions such as those mounted by Sperone Westwater Gallery. While we enjoyed the opportunity to experience his work in depth it provoked many unanswered questions about his intentionality.
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What’s Wrong with the Whitney Museum Fine Arts
Enervating Mix of Holiday Shows
By: - Dec 16th, 2012With the Whitney Museum of American Art winding down its time on Madison Avenue and preparing for a move downtown near the popular High Line the curators appear to have concoted a yard sale of ho hum exhibitions. There is a deadly combination of the recycled- Richard Artschwager! and Sinister Pop- and a signifier of the alleged bright future Wade Guyton: Os which I just don’t buy into.
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Dezart Performs’ Play Reading Series Theatre
Three Winning One Act Plays
By: - Dec 16th, 2012Dezart Performs’ Play Reading Series is an annual event held every spring in Palm Springs and receives playwright entries from all over the country. This year the organization received 121 submissions. The three One-Acts in this year’s festival are: “Feeding Time at the Human Houseâ€, written by David Wiener and directed by Lenny Ripps. “The Blind Dateâ€, written by Tanis Galik and directed by Don Cilluffo, and “Mourning Glory†written by Rich Orloff and directed by Dezart’s artistic director, Michael Shaw.
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Other Desert Cities at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Jon Robin Baitz Play Fails to Impress
By: - Dec 15th, 2012As a Palm Springs-based theatre critic, I felt I had the inside track on Jon Robin Baitz’s insight concerning his latest play “Other Desert Citiesâ€, now on the stage of LA’s Mark Taper Forum. I was partially correct. Listlessly directed by Robert Egan, features a nice cast in a less than stellar vehicle.
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Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone and the Hirshorn Museum Fine Arts
Forge Evokes 5,200 Lost Schoolchildren
By: - Dec 15th, 2012Americans are shocked and devastated by the slaughter yesterday of schoolchildren and teachers in Connecticut. The conceptual art installation Forge on view at New York's Mary Boone Gallery by Chinese dissident Ai Weiwie evokes the memory of 5,200 schoolchildren. They were killed when the Beichuan Middle School collapsed during a 2008 earthquake through shoddy, cost cutting, "tofu" construction. The Communist regime tried to bury the incident along with the victims. With dire consequences the artist strives to keep their memory alive against all odds.
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Dead Accounts By Theresa Rebeck Theatre
Show Me the Money
By: - Dec 14th, 2012With her third Broadway production, Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck is running on vapors. Perhaps this half backed, ersatz sit-com is a part of the collateral damage of last season's struggles with the brilliant but embattled TV series Smash. She has departed from the show which she originated. Whatever the reason this new play entirely lacks focus. It is little more than a one liner and gag stretched out in two miserable acts. It does however have the star power of Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz and tabloid regular Katie Holmes to sell tickets.
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Zelda Fitzgerald in P.H. Lin Play Theatre
Lost Generation Icon Remains Missing
By: - Dec 13th, 2012Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was the wife and muse of author F. Scott Fitzgerald whose The Great Gatsby helped to define the Jazz Age of the 1920s. P. H. Lin's play Zelda at the Oasis portrays her as a deranged drunk washed up in a down and out New York bar during the Great Depression. In her New York debut Gardner Reed brings passion and energy to Zelda matched by Edwin Cahill in a variety of roles.
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Ravi Shankar at 92 Music
While My Sitar Gently Weeps
By: - Dec 12th, 2012Ravi Shankar, the master of Indian sitar, reached a vast audience during the psychedelic era of the 1960s. His ragas proved to be the ultimate trip or head music for those exploring inner space. In reality his music, rooted in tradition, had nothing to do with drugs. But he used his popularity to leverage the message of world music particularly through an alliance with the Beatle, George Harrison. Eventually, he became reconciled with an estranged daughter, Grammy winner, Nora Jones.
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Santa Fe Artist Joyce Melander Dayton Fine Arts
The Craft of Turning Nature into Art
By: - Dec 10th, 2012Edward Rubin discusses with the artist Joyce Melander Dayton how she stopped being a representational painter and now works primarily in 3-dimensions using textiles, fabrics, glass beads, wool, and wood veneers.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Theatre
Challenging Musical at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Dec 10th, 2012This is the 21st century, and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots†is designed for younger audiences who really dig the Internet, video games, and Blackberry phones along with the many and various “apps†as a way of connecting or communicating and/or learning. “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robotsâ€, is definitely not your father or grandfather’s musical.
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Portrait of Fast Eddie People
New York Critic Edward Rubin on the Fly
By: - Dec 10th, 2012New York critic Edward Rubin is on the short lost of my most amusing, eccentric and entertaining friends. In this thumbnail portrait of the artist we come to know just a teenie bit about him and how he came to be Fast Eddie. So famous that there is a Manhattan saloon named for him in neon.
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Donald Margulies at Geffen Playhouse Theatre
Holiday Show in LA
By: - Dec 10th, 2012Journeyman playwright and 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner in Drama, Donald Margulies, the author of such notable plays as “Time Stands Stillâ€, “Collected Storiesâ€, “Brooklyn Boyâ€, and “Sight Unseenâ€, among others – all dramas, by the way – now sails into less turbulent waters with “Coney Island Christmasâ€, a delightful Christmas season show.
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Barrington Stage Announces 2013 Season Theatre
On the Town and New Play by Mark St. Germain
By: - Dec 10th, 2012Barrington Stage Company will launch its season with the musical On the Town from June 12 to July 13. It will be followed by The Chosen, Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel has been adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok. A rare for Barrington Shakespeare play completes the main stage season with Much Ado About Nothing. The St. Germain Stage features The Chosen, Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel which has been adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok. Followed by the musical Southern Comfort and a premiere of Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah by Mark St. Germain.
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Mamet on Broadway Theatre
Hit and Miss
By: - Dec 10th, 2012As a testament of "America's greatest living playwright" there is a currently a double header of plays by David Mamet on Broadway. A proven chestnut "Glengarry Glen Ross" starring Al Pacino is just up the street from a new work "The Anarchist" with Patti LuPone and Debra Winger. With mixed reviews "Glengarry" is a hit while following dreadful reviews "The Anarchist" is a flop. But "The Anarchist" may have suffered a particularly vicious treatment by the NY media. Perhaps in another life in regional theatre productions it will come to be regarded as a great work in the late oeuvre of Mamet.
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On Being Taught Not to Fly Opinion
Up Up and Away
By: - Dec 01st, 2012At the Picasso retrospective at MoMA, once again I was startlingly reminded that art has a mind of its own. As I passed by Picasso’s cubist portrait of Diaghilev and paused to look at it, a flash went off in my head. Despite the fact that Diaghilev was embedded in the picture, while I was free to roam, we shared the immediate recognition that both of us were alive.
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Rita Coolidge at the Clark Music
Heart Warming Holiday Concert
By: - Dec 01st, 2012Last night at the Clark Art Institute in ever sense there were chestnuts roasting on the fire as Rita Coolidge, backed by the Williamstown Gospel Choir, delivered a heart warming program of Christmas music. Between songs she chatted intimately with the audience sharing insights to her Cherokee heritage, comments about her one and only ex husband, Kris Kristofferson, and life on the road. The set of carols was peppered with top forty hits gleaned from two Grammy awards and a life on the road that started on tour with Delaney and Bonnie in the early 1970s.
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Wilco Tickets on Sale Music
Solid Sound Festival Returns This Summer
By: - Nov 30th, 2012OMG, OMG. Hurry hurry hurry. Wilco Tickets are on sale to Mass MoCA members starting today. The "early bird" three day passes at a bargain $99 will go quick as a blink. But once they're gone there will be a discounted $124 for the passes which after this window of opportunity will cost $149. So be the first kind on your block to score passes to this sure to be awesome event.
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Daniel Day Lewis Riveting as Lincoln Film
Spielberg/ Kushner Film Among Year's Best
By: - Nov 30th, 2012Daniel Day Lewis is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. As such he chooses roles carefully. In Lincoln, directed by Stephen Spielberg with a script by Tony Kushner and input by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, he has taken on an American icon. It is a career challenge to portray a character carved into the face of Mt Rushmore and cast in bronze in Washington's Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. The gift of this superb film is the richness of nuance he brings to the man we thought we knew.
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Two Time Grammy Winner Rita Coolidge Music
Delta Lady on Surviving Mad Dogs and Englishmen
By: - Nov 28th, 2012Growing up the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Tennessee, as a kid, Rita Collidge listed to R&B broadcast by WLAC out of Gallatin.Hearing Little Richard for the first time she was shaking all over. After Florida State and a year in Memphis she drove to California with Leon Russell in his Thunderbird. She recorded with Delaney and Bonnie before heading out solo which she has been doing ever since. There was a stint as a duo with Kris Kristofferson the father of her daughter. Then the epic tour of Mad Dogs and Englishmen with Joe Cocker who remains a close friend. Through it all she remained level headed while true to her faith and values.
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Rita Coolidge Discusses Her Cherokee Heritage Music
Part One of a Dialogue with the Renowned Singer
By: - Nov 28th, 2012Prior to a Christmas gig at the Clark Art Institute on Friday, November 30 we spoke at length by phone from her home north of San Diego. Now a grandmother of three by a daughter with former husband, Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson, we delved deeply into her Cherokee heritage. That led to rewarding collaborations exploring Native music with Robbie Robertson. This is part one of a dialogue.
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Zelda at the Oasis by P.H. Lin Theatre
Play Focuses on Complex Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: - Nov 28th, 2012F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were the heart and soul of the Lost Generation of the Roaring Twenties. Wildly eccentric the brilliant and witty Zelda was the muse for Scott. It is often implied that he stole her ides for his best selling novels and short stories. Both of their lives devolved in tragedy as the era for which they were signifiers passed. This new play by P.H. Lin focuses on her alone and on the prowl at the Club Oasis in New York City during the Depression years of the 1930s.
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Tanglewood 2013 Music
Five Pops But No James Taylor
By: - Nov 27th, 2012Because three Pops concerts last summer drew audiences of 10,000 each the number is upped with two more this coming season. The kickoff on June 23 will feature comic and banjo player Steve Martin. On the all important and yet to be fully announced July 4th weekend Keith Lockahrt will conduct Pops with guest artist, the Country singer, Vince Gill. Michael Feinstein and Audra MacDonald are also penciled in for Pops as well as the perennial John Williams Film Night and the epic Tanglewood on Parade.
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