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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Jidl Mitn Fidl (Yiddle With His Fiddle) at Mahaiwe Film
Berkshie International Film Festival Event June 6
By: - May 26th, 2010Based on the classic 1936 Yiddish film musical comedy Yidl Mitn Fidl starring the irrepressible Molly Picon, this new English-language adaptation was written by screenwriter and author Stephen Glantz and will be directed by Susan Merson.
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Little Cinema at Pittsfield Museum Film
Hosts Berkshire International Film Festival June 5 & 6
By: - May 26th, 2010Pittsfield Museum’s Little Cinema celebrates 60 years of cinematic excellence . One of the longest-running film festivals in New England, Little Cinema presents first-run foreign and independent films. Little Cinema presents films nightly at 8 p.m. plus a weekly Monday matinee at 2 p.m. Kicking off this historic season is an appropriately historic film, Vincere, (128 minutes, rated R), running from Sunday, May 30 to Thursday, June 3.
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Whitney Museum to Break Ground Downtown Architecture
Renzo Piano Design for Meatacking District in 2011
By: - May 25th, 2010In an historic decision for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to break ground on a new museum building in downtown Manhattan in May 2011. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line, the six-floor, 195,000-square-foot building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, will provide the Whitney with essential new space for its collection, exhibitions, and education and performing arts programs in one of New York’s most vibrant neighborhoods.
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Rusted Roof at the Colonial June 9 Music
Band Has Sold 3 Million Albums
By: - May 25th, 2010Rusted Root will be at the Colonial on June 9 for one performance at 7:30PM. Rusted Root has sold more than 3 million albums worldwide since forming in Pittsburgh in the early ’90s. The band’s worldly style quickly charmed fans of roots music and world rock. Their 1994 album When I Woke went platinum and featured the hit songs “Send Me On My Way,†“Ecstasy†and “Martyr.â€
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Shakespeare & Company Restructures Debt Theatre
Tony Simotes Stabalizes Finances
By: - May 25th, 2010Some months ago we asked former artistic director, Tina Packer, if Shakespeare & Company is out of the woods? She was guarderdly sanguine. Now the new artistic director, Tony Simotes, has managed to pay down a high interest short term loan, settle a construction law suit and restructure the debt. The prospects look far better comining into a full season.
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Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations Fine Arts
Town and Gown in Marfa, Texas
By: - May 23rd, 2010The conceptual/ minimalist artist, critic, philosopher and theorist, Donald Judd (1928-1994) had radical ideas founding a contemporary art museum on a 340 acre former military base in Marfa, Texas. Today Marfa's Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations are major destinations for cultural tourism. As with Dia Beacon, in New York, and Mass MoCA in North Adams there has been a dramatic impact on the local economy and lifetstyle. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of who you talk to. In Marfa we got an earfull.
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Maurizio Cattelan at the Menil Collection Fine Arts
Shock and Awe in Houston to August 15
By: - May 20th, 2010Was our first visit to the sublime Menil Collection in Houston enhanced or diminished by an intervention/ exhibition by the radical Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan? The artist plays on irony but many arts leaders are not amused. They comment that the project by Cattelan is an insult, travesty and sacrilege. Or stroke of genius from a major contemporary artist.
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Broadway Bound Lombardi for the Mahaiwe Theatre
Great Barrington Previews July 22-28
By: - May 20th, 2010Producers Tony Ponturo and Fran Kirmser announced that LOMBARDI, a new American play from Academy Award-winning playwright Eric Simonson, directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail, will preview at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass. July 22-28, before moving to the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway this fall (previews begin September 23, opening night is October 21). Starring Dan Lauria and Judith Light, LOMBARDI is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss.
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Shakespeare & Company Opens May 21 Theatre
Road Production of Julius Caesar Comes Home
By: - May 20th, 2010Shakespeare & Company kicks off its 2010-2011 season May 21 with Shakespeare’s most well known Roman play Julius Caesar , a production fresh off the road after performing to over 50 schools and theatres throughout New England , New York and New Jersey .
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June Highlights Opinion
From Boston to Lenox
By: - May 18th, 2010The Longwood Symphony Orchestra which is made up of medical professionals will perform at Ozawa Hall in Lenox for the first time. The Boston Jewish Film Festival ENCORES AND MORE will be staged at the Museum of Fine Arts through June 27. Don't miss The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Speakeasy Stage.
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Remember the Alamo Architecture
Signifying the Lone Star State
By: - May 18th, 2010Following a thirteen day siege by a Mexican army the small mission turned fort, The Alamo, fell with loss of its some 200 defenders. The battle cry "Remember the Alamo" inspired the troops of General Sam Houston. A short time after the Alamo tragedy Texans won independence from Mexico in 1836. By 1845 Texas ceded to the United States with Houston as its first of two senators. After a tour of the Alamo we chilled out with lunch along the lovely and scenic San Antonio River Walk.
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Clinton Library in Little Rock Architecture
Building a Bridge to the 21st Century
By: - May 17th, 2010The Williams J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park sits on 7 acres just a short walk from the dining and entertainment area of Little Rock, Arkansas. The box like design by Polshek Partnership. LLP canitlevers toward the Arkansas River and an old railroad bridge. Locals call it the Clinton Double Wide for its unremarkable prefab look.
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Picasso and Degas at the Clark Art Institute Fine Arts
Opens June 13 in Williamstown, Mass.
By: - May 17th, 2010June 13 through September 12, 2010: Focusing on two of the great artists of the modern period, Picasso Looks at Degas examines Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is the exclusive North American venue for this ground-breaking exhibition exploring the depth of the Spanish artist’s fixation through dramatic pairings and groupings of art that have never been brought together in this ambitious way.
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Jack Tworkov Retrospective in Provincetown Fine Arts
Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting Opens July 9
By: - May 14th, 2010Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting is curated by Jason Andrew and presented in association with the Estate of Jack Tworkov. This major retrospective offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience many of the artist's most celebrated canvases. The exhibition includes important loans from private and public collections including The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). The show also features rarely exhibited works from the artist's estate, as well as works from Provincetown Art Association and Museum's own permanent collection.
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WAM at Barrington Stage Theatre
$1000 to Women for Women International
By: - May 14th, 2010WAM Theatre recently presented its inaugural event, ‘A WAM Welcome’ at the Barrington Stage Company Second Space. The evening of three diverse theatrical selections celebrated live theatre pieces created by women. WAM Theatre was able to donate $1000 to Women for Women International, whom WAM Theatre chose as their first beneficiary.
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Cincinnati Art Museum Fine Arts
Eclectic Collection in a Warren of Galleries
By: - May 13th, 2010The Cincinnati Art Museum is definitely on the Bucket List of major American, must see museums. But with a caveat. Visitors need to negotiate a maze of galleries and thousands of mostly mediocre regional works to find the true gems. The museum which was founded just a decade after Boston's MFA and NY's Met is in need of an extreme makeover.
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Bascom Lodge Reopens Travel
Second Season on Mt. Greylock
By: - May 12th, 2010On Saturday, May 15th and May 16th Bascom Lodge on the Summit of Mount Greylock will celebrate the Opening of its 2010 Season with Free Family Programming of Native American performances. There will be activities for the whole family starting at 11AM each day.
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Richie duPont Award Benefit People
Berkshire Theatre Festival Hosts Event May 22
By: - May 12th, 2010The Fifth Annual Richie duPont Award Benefit will take place at 8 pm Saturday, May 22, at Firefly on Church Street in Lenox. What began in 2006 as a memorial to Richie duPont, a promising young actor lost in his prime, will be a celebration of his life at a party to raise funds for awards for budding local thespians to attend Berkshire Theatre Festival’s summer and school vacation acting camps.
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Mass MoCA Adds to Wilco Festival Music
Mega Event Planned August 13-15
By: - May 12th, 2010A diverse array of musical guests have been added to the line up of Wilco's first SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL, a three-day festival of music, art, comedy, film and interactivity which takes place at MASS MoCA on August 13 - 15. Joining the Chicago band are Sub Pop's Avi Buffalo and Vetiver; guitarist Sir Richard Bishop; Bennington, VT trio Mountain Man; Portland, ME indie-rockers Brenda; North Adams, MA duo The Books; and Chicago's jazz combo the Deep Blue Organ Trio.
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Huntington Theatre's 2010 Season Theatre
Features 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner
By: - May 11th, 2010The Huntington Theatre Company’s 29th Season will include two world premieres directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois, an American classic, two Shakespeare plays in repertory, a three-play festival from a breakout writer, and the 2009 winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Jason Samuels Smith at SPAC Dance
Offers Master's Tap Class on May 27
By: - May 11th, 2010Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced that Jason Samuels Smith, one of the best tap artists in the world, will teach a Master Class at The National Museum of Dance on May 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tap dancers of intermediate ability who are at least ten years old are eligible to participate in the class which will be team-taught by Samuels Smith and his troupe of professional dancers.
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Cleveland Rocks Music
Birth Place of Rock ‘n’ Roll
By: - May 11th, 2010Cleveland claims to be the birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll. It is the site for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. It is a global destination for every true rock fan. But yet again I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
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The Cleveland Museum Under Renovation Fine Arts
A Virtual Tour
By: - May 10th, 2010The Cleveland Museum was founded in 1916. It is currently undergoing an enormous renovation designed by Rafael Vinoly that started in 2005 and will be completed in 2014. Even with much of the museum closed it took a day to discover its many masterpieces.
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What a Mezze Food
Williamstown Bistro Reopens June 7
By: - May 08th, 2010The popular Mezze in Williamstown is known for locally grown on its varied menu. The restaurant is relocating to a stunning location on Route 7 on the way out of town. Previously that site at 777 Cold Spring Road was home to Jae's an Asian fusion restaurant. Before that it was an upscale French restaurant. Let's hope this is a good move for a culinary landmark.
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Freihofer Saratoga Jazz Festival Music
Mario Abney New Talent to Perform
By: - May 08th, 2010Freihofer Saratoga Jazz Festival Artistic Director and Co-Producer Danny Melnick loves discovering great new jazz talent. Last spring when he was working backstage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, he heard a young trumpeter named Mario Abney and was “knocked out†by Mario’s playing, music and band.
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