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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Idina Menzel Sizzles with Pops Music
Doc Severinsen and Beatles at Tanglewood
By: - Jul 03rd, 2010On Friday night of the Fourth of July weekend, with three sold out concerts by James Taylor and Carole King, Tanglewood got off to a slow start with Pops. There was a relatively sparse turnout. Too bad for those who missed the Tanglewood debut of the Tony Award winning singer Idina Menzel. She thrilled the audience with hits from Rent and Wicked. Doc Severinsen was typically attired in an outlandish outfit as he squeaked a few toots on trumpet. Keith Lockhart conducted a 125th anniversary salute to Pops.
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EnlightenNext Free Jazz Concert Music
At Foxhollow in Lenox July 30
By: - Jul 03rd, 2010A jazz concert headlined by Israeli guitarist Oz Noy and five-time Gibson Female Jazz Guitarist of the Year Leni Stern - Noy wrote the soundtrack for Tommy Chong's AKA Tommy Chong documentary, and Stern has a new album out Now called sa belle sa ba. Berkshire-based Unfulfilled Desires will also perform fresh off a Paris engagement at Sunset-Sunside.
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New York City Ballet Dance
Saratoga Performing Arts Center July 6 to 17
By: - Jul 01st, 2010The 2010 Season of New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center opens on Tuesday, July 6 and extends through July 17. The season will feature 16 stunning ballets including three opening week performances of Balanchine’s beloved story ballet A Midsummer's Night Dream.. The classic work, based on Shakespeare’s famous play, features elaborate sets and costumes and a cast of over 100 dancers including more than 20 children from the Capital Region.
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Second Annual Boston Book Festival Word
Copley Square October 16
By: - Jul 01st, 2010The second annual Boston Book Festival will take place on Oct. 16, 2010, in various locations around Copley Square. A complete rundown of scheduled events.
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Nicholas Martin Having the Time of His Life People
Final Season as Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 30th, 2010Meeting with Nicholas Martin the artistic director for the Williamstown Theatre Festival I assumed this was the last of our seasonal meetings. This is his third and final year of running WTF. But he surprised me by stating that he will be back next year. To direct a play. In an at times intense and emotional interview we discussed his legacy. As well as insights regarding Stephen Sondheim and his impact on musical theatre in America. Martin is directing Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" this summer. It will feature a cast of many of the WTF "Family."
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Garrison Keillor to Appear at Berkshire WordFest Word
Keynote Speaker for The Mount July 24
By: - Jun 30th, 2010Garrison Keillor will be a keynote speaker and honoree at the first annual literary festival of Edith Wharton's The Mount, Berkshire WordFest. The popular host and writer of NPR programs A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac, will speak at The Mount’s Festival Fundraiser, a dinner event held at Seven Hills Inn in Lenox, Mass., on Saturday, July 24. During the event, Keillor will be honored with The Mount’s 2010 Henry James Award.
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Rosanne Cash Packs the Colonial Music
Featuring the List and Black Cadillac
By: - Jun 30th, 2010Country music star, Rosanne Cash, the eldest daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash, utterly captivated the audience last night at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. In every sense, emotionally and artistically, Cash demonstrated how she has distanced herself from the dominance of the Country Music World in Nashville. Her easy, charming manner, memory gaps and screw ups, only further conveyed her charm, passion, humanity and vulnerability. It was a stunning evening.
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Metropolitan Musum of Art Celebrates Ringo People
70 Years Young on July 9
By: - Jun 29th, 2010On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will inaugurate a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will remain on view to the public through December 2010 in the Museum's second-floor Musical Instruments Galleries. On loan from Ringo Starr, it was originally presented to him by the Ludwig Drum Company during The Beatles' 1964 visit to Chicago when the legendary rock group, in which Mr. Starr was the drummer, was on its first tour of the United States.
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B. Amore's Street Calligraphies Portfolio
Recelty Shown at Boston Sculptors
By: - Jun 29th, 2010The work I am doing now has everything to do with those early interactions between my hands, my being, and the exterior world. My hands and thoughts have been the bridge between the worlds, even the fact that I still prefer to write on this white page with a soft lead pencil is evidence of the same basic tendency. Whenever I was sick, lying in bed with the Book of Knowledge encyclopedia spread about me, cutting paper into smaller pieces and stapling them together to make small books into which I would transcribe drawings of monkeys, etc. Hours spent happily reading or making art are still primary pleasures for me.
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 Fine Arts
Into the Woods at Home of Daniel Chester French
By: - Jun 28th, 2010The juror for Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 is Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The sculptors in the exhibition are: Gabriel Edward Adams, John Belardo, Rick Brown, Tim De Christopher, Philip Grausman, Peter De Camp Haines, Sarah Haviland, Phyllis Kulmatiski, Nina Levy, Tim Prentice, Mary Ellen Scherl, and Christopher Smith.
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Winter's Tale for Summer Fun Theatre
Opens July 15 at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 27th, 2010The Winter’s Tale illuminates Founders’ Theatre this summer as Director Kevin G. Coleman unleashes Shakespeare’s theatrical mastery and verbal powers at their greatest height. The production features the return of long-time Company actor Jonathan Epstein as Leontes, King of Sicilia, and Elizabeth Aspenlieder as Hermione, his Queen, and a cast of 17 other seasoned Company actors and newcomers.
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Beeline Ramblers Music
Berkshire Musicians Summer Schedule
By: - Jun 27th, 2010Fran Mandeville and Lisa Burnstine Mandeville live in North Adams but they make sweet music all over the Berkshires. Here is a schedule of the Beeline Ramblers for the summer season. If you catch them at the Dreamaway Lodge in Becket be sure to enjoy dinner. Tell em we sentyah.
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The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown Theatre
Relationship Drawn Out at Berkshire Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 27th, 2010The conceit of The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is that the couple Cathy (Julie Reiber) and Jamie (Paul Anthony Stewart) follow separate time lines through their relationship and marriage that terminates in a bitter divorce. He is an author with no life experience other than his own bathos and she is an aspiring actress with meager talent. We found little to care about this train wreck of a relationship. If that's your cup of tea walk don't run to Berkshire Theatre Festival.
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The Arts Redefine North Adams Opinion
Mass MoCA, Wilco, Down Street, and Tons More
By: - Jun 26th, 2010This summer through fall foliage the arts are flourishing in North Adams. Now in its eleventh year Mass MoCA is lending a helping hand to a vital, imaginative and ever more vital arts community. New Mayor Dick Alcombright is working shoulder to shoulder with Joe Thompson of Mass MoCA, MCLA, local galleries, artists and community leaders. Now in its third year there are 35 stops on the Down Street arts map. There's a free trolley to get you around town. Events include a huge Wilco Festival at Mass MoCA, the Eagle Street Beach Party, and River Lights III. A world record sidewalk drawing is in the planning stages. Lots of family fun from now till whenever.
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Thoughts on Provincetown Artist Edwin Dickinson Fine Arts
Publishing Off and Online
By: - Jun 25th, 2010Recently the art historian John L. Ward posted a comment on our coverage of the Edwin Dickinson exhibition at the Preovincetown Art Association and Museum. He is the author of Edwin Dickinson, A Critical History of His Paintings. Correspondence with him resulted in this meaty and provocative article. This is our fourth review of an important but neglected artist.
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It’s Jewdy’s Show: My Life as a Sitcom Theatre
Judy Gold Stands Up at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 25th, 2010So, what's a nice Jewish, six foot three inch, Lesbian, mother of two doing in the Berkshires? Standup at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Who would believe it? Trying to get enough money for an apartment with two bathrooms so her kids stop like pissing in the sink already. This Jewdy, yeah, she spells it Jewdy, is such a comic. Like the Borscht Belt, only gay. And in Williamstown where the rich goyim live. That's funny.
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Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd a Slice and Dice Theatre
Cadaver Pies Served Hot at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 24th, 2010Sweeney Todd, the masterpiece of the now 80-year-old genius, and Williams grad, Stephen Sondheim, is given a state of the art, Broadway level production at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. With no compromise on artistic integrity this is stunning musical theatre in an intimate setting. We enjoy signifiying, titubating performances and magnificent music up close and personal at a fraction of Broadway ticket prices. This is Berkshire theatre at its finest.
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Pilobolus Has a Ball Dance
Annual Event July 10
By: - Jun 22nd, 2010In Litchfield County,Connecticut on Saturday, July 10, at Quatre Vents in Washington, Pilobolus will have a ball.. Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter has donated two invitations to the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Pilobolus artistic collaborators Art Spiegelman and Dan Zanes will attend the gala. They will be sowing the seeds of the company’s 40th anniversary. The title for the anniversary season is Pilobolus at 40: Collaborating on the Future.
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Berkshire International Club People
Steamy Summer Picnic
By: - Jun 22nd, 2010It was a gorgeous summer day for the seasonal picnic of the Berkshire International Club. A group of some 70 members gathered around a cool and inviting pool. There was a fabulous spread of food to share including an array of sinful deserts. Many languages were spoken as friends exchanged tales of travel and adventure.
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Patrick Meyer’s K2 a Cliffhanger Theatre
At Berkshire Theatre Festival to July 3
By: - Jun 20th, 2010One in four climbers never make it off K2 the second tallest and most challenging mountain in the world. The 1983 play by Patrick Meyer K2 is given a riveting performance providing a spectacular and spell binding launch for the 82nd season of the venerable Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass. The play is sure to be a smash hit sellout during its all too brief run through July 2.
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Mount Stages Wharton's Summer Theatre
Her Hot Ethan Runs August 18-29
By: - Jun 19th, 2010Tickets go on sale Monday, June 21, for Edith Wharton’s bittersweet coming-of-age story, performed by the Wharton Salon August 18-29 at The Mount. Following last summer’s sold-out run of “Xingu,†The Mount is pleased to welcome the Wharton Salon back this season for Summer, adapted by Dennis Krausnick and directed by the Salon’s founder, Catherine Taylor-Williams. The play, based on the 1917 novella Wharton fondly called her “hot Ethan,†is the story of a young woman who loses herself in the passion of a summer love affair.
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July Art Highlights Opinion
Boston, Berkshire and New York
By: - Jun 19th, 2010Everything is coming up roses for the North Shore Music Theatre, because they are back in business. They reopen with Vicki Lewis in the smash musical GYPSY. Vicki is most remembered for her five seasons playing Beth on the NBC sitcom “NewsRadio.†She also appeared on “Seinfeld†and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.†GYPSY is a Broadway classic and a multi award-winning musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents.
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Simon and Garfunkel Cancel Tanglewood Music
Tour Postponed Because of Illness
By: - Jun 17th, 2010The scheduled appearance by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel at Tanglewood on July 27 has been cancelled. Art Garfunkel continues to recover from a vocal paresis. The tour was originally planned to start in April. It was then shifted to July. Now it is postponed indefinitely. Garfunkel is expected to recover but not in time for the summer concerts. With James Levine out for the season this is the second Tanglewood cancellation in less than a week. There is speculation about how these cancellations will impact tourism and the hospitality industry.
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The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City Fine Arts
Peabody Essex Museum Opening September 14
By: - Jun 17th, 201090 objects of ceremony and leisure â€" murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné â€" will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will reveal the contemplative life and refined vision of one of history’s most influential rulers with artworks from one of the most magnificent places in the world.
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Lester Johnson 1919 to 2010 Fine Arts
A Leading Figurative Expressionist
By: - Jun 17th, 2010Lester Johnson, who died recently at 91, was one of the leading artists of the Figurative Expressionist movement which developed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Much of this activity occurred at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown as well as in New York. The two other primary artists were Jan Muller who died in 1958 and Bob Thompson who was 29 when he died in 1966. Although there was no direct connection Figurative Expressionism saw related developments in San Francisco and Chicago. The movement was pushed aside with the emergence of Pop art then reformulated as Rhino Horn from 1967 to 1978.
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