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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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Theatre
Legacy of Blues Women of the 1920s
By: - Mar 20th, 2012The formidable August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom isn't really about the legendary blues woman of the 1920s and her music. The erastz recording session is a trope for Wilson's views of social and cultural issues of the 1920s in a cycle of ten plays representing ten decades. All of which have been produced by the Huntington Theatre Company.
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Next to Normal at SpeakEasy Extended to April 22 Theatre
2010 Pulitizer Prize Drama in Boston Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2012In 2010, the deep and dark musical Next to Normal, with music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. While a stunning work of literature, it would seem to be a hard sell for audiences for whom the notion of musical implies a light and easy, tuneful evening of song and dance. The stunning and galvanic production at SpeakEasy Stage Company brilliantly and inventively directed by Paul Diagneault with prodigious music direction by Nicholas James Connell was anything but that.
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Letter from Southern California Fine Arts
Exhibitions: Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Mar 19th, 2012At Boston University Professor Particia Hills teaches American Art. She is the author of books on Alice Neel and Jacob Lawrence among others. She has curated exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art accompanied by catalogues. She arrived early for the annual meeting of the College Art Association to view a series of exhibitions assembled as “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980.†This is the first of her reports.
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Invisible Cities at Mass Moca Fine Arts
Exhibition opening April 15 Includes Four New Commissions
By: - Mar 16th, 2012Invisible Cities features works by Lee Bul, Carlos Garaicoa, Liz Glynn, Mary Lum, Emeka Ogboh, and Sopheap Pich, with new commissions by Diana Al-Hadid, Kim Faler, Francesco Simeti, and Miha Strukelj.
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100 Years (Version #4, Boston, 2012) Fine Arts
Boston University Art Gallery Through March 25
By: - Mar 16th, 2012The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents 100 Years (version #4, Boston, 2012), curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Curator of Performa. The exhibition traces the development of performance art over the past century with a wealth of assembled archival documents, film, photography, and audio previously unseen.
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ICA: The International Experimental Cinema Exposition Film
Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m.
By: - Mar 13th, 2012The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), with an introduction by curator and TIE founder Christopher May, on Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m. in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. Tickets for the screenings are $10 general admission or $8 for members, students, and seniors.
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Patssi Valdez of Asco Part Two People
How a Mural Walked Through East LA
By: - Mar 11th, 2012When Asco agreed to meet and create an event at a particular time and date Patssi Valdez states that she never knew what to expect. Gronk arrived at her home as a Christmas tree. Willie was a mural and Passi dressed as the Virgin Mary with glitter and platform shoes. They cavorted through East LA as A Walking Mural straight into the history books. Their friend Harry took the documentary photographs.
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Patssi Valdez of Asco Part One People
Bi-Coastal Exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art.
By: - Mar 11th, 2012During the opening weekend and seminar associated with the bi-coastal exhibition "Asco Elite of the Obscure a Retrospective 1972-1987 " at the Williams College Museum of Art we met and spoke briefly with one of the four artists, Patssi Valdez. Later we spoke at length by phone when she returned home to LA. She spoke of the drive early on to make it into the art history books. Due to this major exhibition, catalogue, seminar and this coverage, that dream has become a reality. This is the first segment of a dialogue with a charming art star,
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Berkshire Actor’s Theatre 2012 Season Theatre
Auditions for Doubt Slated for March 17
By: - Mar 10th, 2012The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley, both performed at Berkshire Museum. The season will open June 21 with Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play. Opening one week later will be a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone, which will be performed in repertory with Doubt: A Parable.
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David Henderson: A Brief History of Aviation Fine Arts
Berkshire Museum March 10 to May 13
By: - Mar 09th, 2012The artist David Henderson was inspired by the light and strong, elaborate patterning of the fan vaults of late Gothic British cathedrals. A secularized version of this cathedral design is on view in a large, gallery filling installation at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. We met with the Brooklyn based artist while he was working on final details prior to the opening.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2012 Theatre
Season Program
By: - Mar 08th, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group announces programming for Summer 2012. BTG’s Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mondays, Made in the Berkshires and more.
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Canadian Curator Claude Gosselin 3 People
Reviving the Canadian Biennial
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The Canadian Biennal was staged in 1989 at the National Gallery in Ottowa and shelved for lack of funding after that. Under Marc Mayer it has been revived. But rather than a true biennial the 2011 incarnation was an overview of recent acquisitions.
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Canadian Curator Claude Gosselin 2 People
Designing Biennials for Younger Audiences
By: - Mar 08th, 2012Claude Gosselin has been the artistic director for La Biennale de Montreal. His recent projects have focused on new and digital media attracting a younger audience. As an authority on contemporary Canadian art he is skeptical about the survey of 65 Canadian artists planned for Mass MoCA this summer. He also sees paradigm shifts for museums scrambling to attract declining audiences for the visual arts.
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Tony Award Winning Musical Avenue Q Theatre
1000th Perofrmance at New World Stages March 14
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The Tony Award winning musical AVENUE Q -- which played a triumphant 6-year run on Broadway before moving to New World Stages over two years ago -- will celebrate its 1000th performance at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.) on Wednesday, March 14. On that date, AVENUE Q will reach a combined total number of 3, 534 performances -- 2,534 on Broadway and 1000 at New World Stages -- placing the show in the company of such beloved, long-running musicals from the past as 42ND STREET (3,486), GREASE (3,388) and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (3,242).
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New York Art Fairs March 8 to 11 Fine Arts
Schedule of Panel Discussions
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The week the global art world descends on New York with its spectrum of annual art fairs from the Armory Show to Volta, Scope and others. There are numerous opportunities for visitors to participate in a lively and insightful program of panel discussions. We have an in depth schedule of these events.
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Barrington Stage Adds Four Associate Artists Theatre
Darren R. Cohen, Mark H. Dold, Debra Jo Rupp, and Renee Lutz.
By: - Mar 07th, 2012Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces four new Associate Artists. Formed in 2010, the Associate Artists Program’s inaugural honorees were composer/lyricist William Finn, actor/director Christopher Innvar and playwright Mark St. Germain. This year’s new Associate Artists are music director Darren R. Cohen, actors Mark H. Dold and Debra Jo Rupp, and production stage manager Renee Lutz.
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Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity Fine Arts
ICA Boston June 22 to October 14
By: - Mar 06th, 2012This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents the first museum survey of Josiah McElheny. McElheny uses the ancient and labor intensive medium of glass to create objects of exceptional beauty and formal sophistication. An artist of diverse interests, McElheny draws on art history, politics, and cosmology (a branch of astronomy that deals with the structure of the universe) to encode his glassworks with information, turning these exquisite objects into repositories of meaning. A mid-career survey of the artist’s work, Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity
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24Hour Project by WAM Theatre and MOPCO Theatre
April 14 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Mar 06th, 2012The second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project brings together playwrights, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians and actors from both the Berkshires and the Capital Region armed with the common task of mounting 5 new short works by female playwrights; all written, rehearsed and performed in 24 Hours.
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Obama 44 by Mario Fratti Off Broadway Theatre
La MaMa World-Premiere March 29
By: - Mar 06th, 2012La MaMa will present the world-premiere of Mario Fratti's newest play, OBAMA 44, with performances starting March 29, 2012 prior to an official press opening April 1 at La MaMa (74 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Directed by Wayne Maugans, the cast of OBAMA 44 includes Rob Sedgwick, Julia Motyka, Dennis Ostermaier, Thomas Poarch and Richard Ugino.
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Claude Gosselin Curator of La Biennale de Montréal People
Starting with Aurora Borealis in 1985
By: - Mar 05th, 2012This summer Mass MoCA will present a survey of 65 Canadian artists curated by Denise Markonish. Recently we spoke at length with the leading Canadian curator Claude Gosselin who has organized major thematic exhibitions combining Canadian and international artists since 1985. His 2011 La Biennale de Montréal may have been his last. He plans to continue Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC) with a refocused program.
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Jessica May of Portland Museum of Art People
Named Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art
By: - Mar 05th, 2012Jessica May has been named Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art at the Portland Museum of Art. May will be responsible for overseeing the interpretation and development of the Museum’s contemporary and modern art collection, including annual exhibitions, the Biennial, and the Circa series. May will join the staff in June 2012.
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Asco at Williams College Museum of Art Fine Arts
Where’s Gronk?
By: - Mar 04th, 2012After high school in East LA four Chicano friends- Harry Gamboa, Jr,, Gronk, Willie F. Herron III, and Patssi Valdez- hung out and made conceptual, graphic and performance art together. The initial reactions of their community were expressed by the Spanish work Asco- disgust, vomit, revulsion. They liked the word which stuck with them. It was used for the movement which was active, under the art world radar from 1972-1987. Now the ephemera and documents of that transient expression are the subject of a bi coastal project between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Mass MoCA's Joe Thompson 4 People
Impact of Wilco's Solid Sound Festival
By: - Mar 01st, 2012With the Wilco Solid Sound Festival taking a hiatus and the Clark Art Institute in the midst of construction and renovation it may prove to be a challenging summer for Mass MoCA. We discussed with Thompson how best to continue to grow cultural tourism through synergy among the arts organizations of the Berkshires. In the past two years the 6,000 visitors for the Wilco weekends brought much needed revenue to the region. We need more such initiatives. This is the final chapter of the dialogue with Thompson.
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Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg Theatre
NY's Barefoot Theatre Company April 20 to May 20
By: - Mar 01st, 2012Lynn Cohen and Jake Robards set to headline the cast of the world-premiere of Rivka Beekerman-Greenberg’s EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS, presented Off-Broadway by Barefoot Theatre Company with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of Friday, April 27 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Ronald Cohen will direct.
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Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Award Theatre
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) Finalists
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2011. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques, will be presented March 31.
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