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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Hat Dance: Cook and Giuliano Three Opinion
The Critic as Artist and Curator
By: - Feb 07th, 2011Can one be a servant of two masters? What happens when art critics Greg Cook of the Boston Phoenix and Charles Giuliano of Berkshire Fine Arts wear more than one hat as artists and curators. This installment of their extended dialogue focuses on Giuliano's epxeriences working with artists as director of exhibitions for New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University.
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Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Music
Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Feb 05th, 2011The singing, the sine qua non of bel canto opera, was terrific – full-blooded and deeply committed. The international cast of soloists sang their hearts out for an unfortunately small audience. There were more than a few moments of thrilling vocalism.
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Critic Larry Murray Three Opinion
From PR and Marketing to Berkshire on Stage
By: - Feb 05th, 2011After a career in marketing and PR for the BSO and Boston Ballet, and years running Arts Boston, in the past few seasons Larry Murray has made the transition to theatre critic. In this installment the publisher/ editor of Berkshire On Stage discusses how a life in the arts has entailed both side of the footlights.
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Robin Williams To Make Broadway Debut Theatre
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
By: - Feb 04th, 2011A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo begins previews on March 11 prior to its official opening night March 31. The play is directed by two-time Tony nominee Moisés Kaufman. The Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor Robin Williams will make his Broadway acting debut in play.
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Secrecy and Scandal in New French Film Film
Images Cinema Feb. 7 to March 7
By: - Feb 04th, 2011Images Cinema in Williamstown will host the Secrecy and Scandal in New French Film series on Mondays, February 7 – March 7 at 7pm. Admission is free; all films will be in French with English subtitles.
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Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis or Death Quits Music
Boston Lyric Opera Mordant, Bitterly Humorous
By: - Feb 02nd, 2011Viktor Ullmann’s “The Emperor of Atlantis or Death Quits†at Boston Lyric Opera is a wry, mordant, bitterly humorous contribution to the theater of the absurd. (Indeed, what could be more absurd than writing an opera in a concentration camp?) And, against all odds, it is deeply humane and absurdly hopeful. We who are about to die, serenade you.
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Sundance: It's a Wrap Film
Regrets He Has a Few
By: - Feb 02nd, 2011By the time Jon Goldman and his friends staggered to Salt Lake City the Sundance Film Festival was a blur of intoxicating impressions and exhilarating ideas. Some of the initial plans and ambitions were unfulfilled. There were logistics and schedules to juggle. Much of what occurs at festivals proves to be serendipitous. Filmmakers like Goldman, who is three years into Oil in the Family, hope to connect and advance their projects. Those fortunate enough to be exhibited seek to find distribution deals. Ten days at Sundance can be like a week of shooting craps in Vegas.
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Sundance Three Film
Watch Till You Drop
By: - Feb 01st, 2011By this third installment Goldman and his companions are a bit fried having taken in so many films. This comes with the territory of covering Sundance and other major film festivals. Among the films discussed are Lost Kisses, Terri, Buck, and The Last Mountain. There is also valuable networking for Goldman's film in progress Oil in the Family.
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Richard Skipper is “Carol Channing†In Concert Theatre
Hello Dolly It's So Nice to Have You Back
By: - Feb 01st, 2011Richard Skipper, the multi-award winning, triple threat actor, singer, and dancer – the guy does everything - has been channeling the “real†Carol Channing in plays and concerts all over the world for some 25 years. If he wasn’t such good friends with the 90 year old Channing who occasionally flies around the country with her husband to attend ‘Skipper playing Channing’ soirees – well, one would think he was a stalker
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WAM Theatre Spring Berkshire Events Theatre
How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less
By: - Jan 31st, 2011WAM Theatre announces Spring 2011 events including a 24 hour theatre project across state lines, an ensemble presentation exploring feminism in the lives of young women today and a festival of solo works written and performed by women to benefit the training of at least one community midwife at Edna’s Hospital in Somaliland.
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Larry Murray of Berkshire On Stage Opinion
Recalling Sarah Caldwell and E. Virginia Williams
By: - Jan 31st, 2011Larry Murray moved from promoting the Pocket Mime to the BSO and Boston Ballet. He also worked with the legendary opera promoter Sarah Caldwell. He was on duty and fielded the press calls when his friend Arthur Fiedler passed away. In this second installment Murray describes his early years in theatrical marketing and PR.
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Hermann Nitsch at Mike Weiss Gallery Fine Arts
Vienna Actionist Plans New York Event
By: - Jan 31st, 2011The rituals of the Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, often entailed slaughtered animals, their blood and entrails, nude bodies and music which he composed. He is planning a major event in New York with the Mike Weiss Gallery.
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Sundance Film Festival Two Film
Recruiting Isabella Rossellini
By: - Jan 31st, 2011In his second year at Sundance director/ producer, Jon Goldman, was networking for a work in progress Oil in the Family. He was also there to select films for the 20th annual Woods Hole Film Festival. He is excited that Isabella Rossellini may attend and screen her new film. By this report Goldman and his companions had seen eleven films of which he provides highlights.
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Phoenix Critic Greg Cook; Two Opinion
Museums and Local Artists
By: - Jan 31st, 2011In this installment, rural critic, Charles Giuliano, and metropolitan critic, Greg Book of the weekly, Boston Phoenix, compare and contrast issues of covering their arts communities. A primary difference is how the arts in the Berkshires are integral to driving the cultural economy. Cook comments on an uneasy relationship between museums and the community of local artists.
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Boston Arts Tips: Feb. March Opinion
Ajax at ART and Lots More
By: - Jan 31st, 2011So far Boston is on track for a record winter of snow. But take heart, dear Valentines, Barbara Brilliant had lots of suggestions for how to artfully hunker down until spring. The uplifing Marry Poppins will surely cheer your spirits. There are also performances to enjoy for free.
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Sundance Film Festival: One Film
Being There
By: - Jan 30th, 2011For the second year documentary film producer/ director, Jon Goldman, visited the Sundance Film Festival. In this first installment of his journal he describes getting there, travel companions, and the challenges of securing tickets to screenings and events. He reports on Sing Your Song featuring Harry Belafonte. And Pariah a film relating the family conflict of a lesbian coming of age.
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Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights Music
A Jazz Memoir
By: - Jan 29th, 2011The book by Herb Snitzer Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir includes a stunning portfolio of 84, vintage, black and white portraits and performance shots of mostly deceased jazz musicians. There is also a compelling and richly anecdotal narrative of a life, he was born in Philadelphia in 1932, chronicling America's greatest original art form. Along the way he was an editor of the seminal publication Metronome.
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Lisa Corrin to Leave as Director of WCMA People
Will Join the Williams Fine Arts Faculty
By: - Jan 26th, 2011Today Lisa Corrin called to let me know that as of June 30 she will be leaving as director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She is currently rehanging the permanent collection of the museum. It will reopen during the spring with eight major exhibitions and related programming. She will join the Willams fine arts faculty. Also she will be a fellow at the neighboring Clark Art Institute next year and serve as a visiting scholar in the Museum Studies program at New York University.
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Newport Jazz and Folk Festival Now Non Profit Music
Founder George Wein Remains in Charge
By: - Jan 26th, 2011The famed Newport Jazz Festival® and Newport Folk Festival®, held in Newport, RI, since 1954 and 1959 respectively, have returned to their original roots as non-profit events. The Festivals will now be produced under the umbrella of Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., a newly-formed 501(c)(3) organization. They will still be produced by George Wein and his veteran staff.
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M.C. Escher at the Berkshire Museum Fine Arts
A Maze Ing
By: - Jan 26th, 2011During the opening weekend of M.C. Escher: Seeing the Unseen the Berkshire Museum was packed. With school vacations and ski season it is likely that the museum will be mobbed with families from now until May 22. As this large selection of work demonstrates Escher was a master and genius but in a class by himself. In the populist museum there is a crowd pleasing companion exhibition Henry Klimowicz: Constructs.
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Hot Tuna at the Colonial Feb 9 Music
Charlie Musselwhite Also on Bill in Pittsfield
By: - Jan 25th, 2011Hot Tuna Blues is coming to the Colonial for a one-night only concert on Wednesday, February 9 at 7:30pm. The performance joins Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady) with Chicago blues icon Charlie Musselwhite and singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale.
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Eight Exhibitions at Williams Fine Arts
Yale Collaborates with WCMA
By: - Jan 25th, 2011The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) announces the themes of each of the eight exhibitions that are opening this spring as part of the museum’s massive reinstallation project entitled Reflections on a Museum. This project is an opportunity to re-discover WCMA and what makes it unique: its commitment to raising questions about the function and meaning of art across time and cultures and the role of museums in shaping understandings of art.
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Berkshire Theatre Critic Larry Murray Opinion
On and Off Broadway Part One
By: - Jan 25th, 2011Initially, Larry Murray and Charles Giuliano divided coverage of the four major Berkshire theatre companies as well as the Colonial and Mahaiwe. Murray retired to the Berkshires after a long career as a publicist and marketing specialist for a range of organizations including the BSO, Boston Ballet, and Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company. He started his own blogs Arts America and Gay in the Berkshires. Last season he left BFA to focus on a new site Berkshire on Stage. This is the first of several dialogues about his career in the arts and an overview of the critical condition.
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AICA-USA Announces Awards Fine Arts
Cooper Union Event March 14
By: - Jan 24th, 2011The AICA-USA awards ceremony, which has been held annually for more than 25 years, will take place at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14 2011 at 6 PM. Awards will be presented by a group of distinguished artists and curators. Elizabeth C. Baker will be honored with a special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism. Museum curators, artists and critics from around the country are expected to attend.
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Boston Art Critic Greg Cook Opinion
Part One of a Dialogue
By: - Jan 22nd, 2011During the 1960s Charles Giuliano was the art critic for Boston After Dark which evolved as The Boston Phoenix. Later distinguished Phoenix art critics included Kenneth Baker, David Bonetti and Christopher Millis. Currently Greg Cook is the art critic for the Phoenix. Spanning generations this is part one of a dialogue on covering the Boston art world and the state of criticism.
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