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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Wilco Performs at Mass MoCA Music
Singing in the Rain
By: - Jun 25th, 2011There was a light drizzle last night about a half hour before Wilco was scheduled to appear on stage in the vast Joe Thompson Field at the edge of the sprawling North Adams campus of Mass MoCA. By show time it was a downpour.
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Moca's Joe Thompson Discusses Wilco Opinion
Second Year of Museum's Solid Sound Festival
By: - Jun 25th, 2011There was risk taking and expensive infrastructure development, last year, when Joe Thompson, director of Mass MoCA, launched Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Much of the start up costs will be absorbed with a commitment for the the rock band to return over the next few years. We spoke with Thompson about the impact of the event on the museum and Northern Berkshire County.
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Niobe, Regina de Tebe by Agostino Steffani Music
At Great Barrington's Mahaiwe June 24 & 25
By: - Jun 24th, 2011The Boston Early Music Festival North American premiere piece de resistance is the long-forgotten 17th century opera “Niobe, Regina de Tebeâ€. It travels from Boston to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on June 24 and 25. The rarely produced early opera is not to be missed.
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Jessica Hecht’s Poignant Blanche DuBois Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 24th, 2011In the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Tennessee Williams's 1947 American classic, Jessica Hecht as Blanche, and Sam Rockwell, as Stanley, offer fresh and very different interpretations than the paradigms for the roles set by Elia Kazan's great 1951 film version starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. This reinterpretation of an American standard gives an unique twist to the experimental Nikos Stage under new artistic director Jenny Gersten.
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Big Opera and Ballet for Little Cinema Film
Berkshire Museum Expands Programming
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema today offers bi-weekly, high-definition digital broadcasts of world class opera and ballet performances from around the world. These broadcasts feature acclaimed performances by leading performance troupes, from some of the world’s finest theatres and concert halls.
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Pissarro Lecture at the Mahaiwe July 7 Fine Arts
Michael Cassin of the Clark in Free Speech
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Michael Cassin, Director, Center for Education in the Visual Arts at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present a free lecture on the Clark's major summer exhibition Pissarro's People on Thursday, July 7 at 7:00 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. In this special lecture, Cassin will introduce the people in Pissarro’s paintings.
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Connecting the Dots in Northern Berkshire County Opinion
From Pissarro at the Clark to Wilco at Mass MoCA
By: - Jun 22nd, 2011This weekend the Wilco Solid Sound Festival will bring upwards of 6,000 rock fans to Mass MoCA. In addition to music this young audience will enjoy a massive exposure to contemporary art. It is just the kind of demographic that promises synergy and future audiences for other North Adams/ Williamstown arts organizations including the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art and Williamstown Theatre Festival. It takes strategy, marketing and PR to promote visiting Northern Berkshire County as more than just a day trip.
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Summer Arts Previews Opinion
Hot Time Summer in the City
By: - Jun 21st, 2011Our Boston correspondent Barbara Brilliant has tips for what's going on in the city and region. With a preview of Porgy and Bess coming to American Repertory Theatre starring diva Audra McDonald.
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Guys and Dolls Sizzles at Barrington Stage Theatre
Red Hot Launch for Main Stage Pittsfield Season
By: - Jun 20th, 2011In 1950, as a little shaver, Mom took me to the original Broadway production of the then five time Tony winning musical Guys and Dolls. Now, decades later, be still dear heart, the production at Barrington Stage evokes a thrilling rush of childhood memories. I was enchanted then and just as ecstatic now. This is the smash hit and sure sell out that launches a fabulous new Berkshire season.
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Memory of Water at Shakespeare & Company Fine Arts
Cast Adrift
By: - Jun 19th, 2011The contemporary play The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson has been given a spirited and at times hilarious production at Shakespeare & Company. But a first rate, brilliant cast and totally committed performances are not enough to salvage a messy play that sinks to the bottom under the weight of trying to combine tragedy, a funeral, with comedy.
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Reflections on Melville: Arthur Yanoff and Kay Canavino Fine Arts
Arrowhead and the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2011This summer Arrowhead, the Pittsfield historic site and former home of Herman Melville is presenting its first ever special exhibition of contemporary art "Reflections on Melville." Inspired by the collaboration of Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne this is a project by the painter Arthur Yanoff and the photographer Kay Canavino. A second part of the project will be on view starting June 24 at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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Flush With the Walls 40 Years Later Fine Arts
Does the MFA Give a Crap About Boston Artists
By: - Jun 17th, 2011Forty years later to the day a group of Boston artists, organized by Boston Phoenix art critic, Greg Cook, recreated a preemptive strike on the uptight and stuffy MFA. In a roto rooter event artists hung their works in the male and female rest rooms of the venerable Fenway dowager. The exhibition and reception was busted, rather politely, after just twenty hilarious minutes. But 21 artists can now put the MFA on their resume. Three of the artists, Robert Guillemin (Sidewalk Sam), David Raymond, and Jo Sandman reprieved their original participation. The big question focused on whether or not the MFA has really changed over the past 40 years?
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It's Official Colonial and Berkshire Theatre Festival Merge Theatre
Randy Harrison Opens at the Colonial in Tommy
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Nearly seven months after two of Berkshire County’s preeminent producing and performing theaters said that they intended to join forces, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer Kate Maguire announced that both have merged into one organization: Colonial Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Festival Merger Corporation.
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Ralph Brill Discusses Eclipse Gallery Projects Fine Arts
Melville Also at Arrowhead and Mill Children
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Each year Eclipse Mill gallerist Ralph Brill initiates a North Adams based, national and international project. There will be a summer long exhibition focused on Herman Melville, featuring the painter, Arthur Yanoff, and photographer, Kay Canavino, at Melville's home, Arrowhead and at the Eclipse Mill (June 24 to July 24). That will be followed by another exhibition, Mill Children, which notes the 100th anniversary of when Lewis Hine photographed Child Labor in North Adams. The Melville project opens with a reception at Arrowhead on Friday, June 17, starting at 6 PM with a house tour at 6:30 PM.
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Relief Sculptures by El Anatsui at the Clark Fine Arts
Renowned African Artist Disusses His Work
By: - Jun 13th, 2011In 1999 the African artist, El Anatsui, found a bag of foil wrappers from the tops of liquor bottles. They came from a factory near his studio. In the studio he experimented and first showed the works he produced with the recycled material in 2002. Since then he has become an international art star and now employs up to thirty assistants. Three large works are on view at the Clark Art Institute through October. Having written about the work over the past few years it was insightful to meet with the artist and discuss his unique practice.
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Wiilliamstown Theatre Festival Opens June 22 Theatre
Streetcar Named Desire Stars Jessica Hecht
By: - Jun 11th, 2011Williamstown Theatre Festival has released the full cast and creative team for Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, which will open the Nikos Stage productions for the 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) and will run June 22, 2011 through July 3, 2011, opening June 23, 2011 at 7:30pm.
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Carl Belz Three Opinion
Legacy and Future of the Rose Art Museum
By: - Jun 08th, 2011Asked about the attempt of former Brandeis president, Jehuda Reinharz, to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its renowned collection, the museum's former director, Carl Belz, responds "blah, blah, blah." In this final installment of a dialogue he speaks in greater depth of the contributions of former curator, Susan Stoops, now with the Worcester Art Museum, and the artist/ preparator, Roger Kizik.
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Tanglewood Offers Special Deals Music
Affordable Ways to Hear Great Music
By: - Jun 07th, 2011During the 2011 season, June 25-September 4, Tanglewood is offering a number of ticket programs designed to give visitors and Berkshire residents a wide variety of options when planning their visit to the BSO’s summer home. Ticket deals and programs include free tickets to children and young adults 17 and under and discounted tickets for students 18 and over.
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Berkshire International Film Festival 2011 Wrapup Film
Awards Announced
By: - Jun 06th, 2011The Berkshire International Film Festival announced the winners of the annual BIFF Juried Prize Award and the BIFF Audience Award. In the Juried documentary category, the winner was CRIME AFTER CRIME directed by Yoav Potash, the powerful documentary film on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her.
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BIFF Two Film
Part Time Fabulous, On the Ice, !Woman Art Revolution
By: - Jun 06th, 2011Concluding our attendance at the sixth annual Berkshire International Film Festival yesterday we attended three films: Part Time Fabulous, On the Ice, !Woman Art Revolution. While problematic for different reasons the films were consistent with the remarkable quality of the festival organized by founder and artistic director Kelley Vickery.
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Berkshire International Film Festival: One Film
Being There
By: - Jun 05th, 2011Now in its sixth year under founder Kelley Vickery, screened at multiple venues the Berkshire International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday June 2 and ran in Great Barrington and Pittsfield closed on Sunday, June 5. Cinematic treats and surprises were in store for the enthusiastic crowds who attended. A film festival may be the second best thing to do in the dark. BIFF seems to get better each year.
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Carl Belz Two Opinion
Running the Rose Art Museum During Hard Times
By: - Jun 04th, 2011During the era of radical unrest and social change in the 1960s, the black listed professors of McCarthyism nurtured a generation of activists. Brandeis became notorious for the number of its graduates on the FBI Most Wanted lists. That greatly changed growth and philanthropy for the university. It had a significant impact on the Rose Art Museum and its limited resources. Then the Rose family gave $500,000 to start an acquisition fund and Belz initiated a series of annual exhibitions of a major artist,
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Tina Packer and Nigel Gore in Women of Will Theatre
At Shakespeare & Company Will is the Way
By: - Jun 03rd, 2011Having passed the reins as artistic director of Shakespeare & Company to Tony Simotes, founder Tina Packer is free to focus on her craft. Last season there was a workshop of her life work Women of Will: The Complete Journey. Now the cycle of five acts has been refined and tightened as a cycle of performances in marathon this weekend and then spread out individually over the season. It is an epic achievement that has attracted national and global critical attention.
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Katy Kline Interim Director at WCMA People
Joins Williams College Museum of Art in August
By: - Jun 01st, 2011Williams has announced the appointment of Katy Kline, former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1998-2008), as interim director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She will serve from early August until the permanent director is in place.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival's Unanticipated Challenge Theatre
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
By: - May 31st, 2011This week the Williamstown Theatre Festival will start to build the first of seven sets. There is the opening of Streetcar Named Desire on the Nikos Stage opening on June 22. That's just three weeks from now. With tech rehearsals on June 21 and 22 which means the set has to be installed on the 18th and 19th. That's the norm for WTF. But right now a crew of 15 is frantically building the set shops to build the sets. On February 11 the roof collapsed at the Delftree Mill which housed the former props and set workshops.
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