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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Launching 125th Season of Boston Pops Music
Keith Lockhart Acknowledges a Great Tradition
By: - May 07th, 2010For 125 years the Boston Pops has been bringing musical enjoyment to everyone. For 125 years people from all walks of life have reveled in top musicians playing a variety of the music that we all love. As someone who has frequented the Pops through conductors Fiedler, Williams and now Lockhart. The gala opening night concert is always a greatly anticipated event.
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Clarke Peters Stars in The Whipping Man Theatre
Opens at Pittsfield's Barrington Stage May 26
By: - May 07th, 2010Barrington Stage Company presents the New England premiere of Matthew Lopez’s drama, The Whipping Man. The post-Civil War-set play about a Jewish Confederate soldier and his former slaves, who share his faith, will feature Clarke Peters (HBO’s Treme and The Wire), LeRoy McClain and Nick Westrate. Christopher Innvar directs the Barrington Stage production at Stage 2. Performances dates are May 26â€"June 13.
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2010 Tony Awards June 13 Theatre
Broadcast Sunday at 8 PM on CBS
By: - May 07th, 2010The 2010 Tony Awards will be held June 13 at 8 on CBS. While Fela tops the list of Tony Award nominations we found the musical to be problematic. Our critics covered a number of the nominated shows including Fela, Red, Sondheim on Sondheim, Lend Me a Tenor, Million Dollar Quarter, and Race. You may check out our reviews through BFA search. We have a list of all of the nominations.
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Emily Fisher Landau and the Whitney Museum Fine Arts
Collector Donates 367 Works
By: - May 07th, 2010Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, and one of themost generous Whintny trustees, has made an important gift of 367 works of art, including works from the Fisher Landau Center for Art, that have been pledged to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift comprises works by nearly one hundred key figures in American art, including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Carroll Dunham, William Eggleston, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol.
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George Slade Joins Photographic Resource Center Photography
Program Manager/ Curator for Boston's PRC
By: - May 06th, 2010The Photographic Resource Center is proud to announce that George Slade will join the PRC on May 17 as the new Program Manager/Curator. He will be replacing Jason Landry, who is leaving the PRC to take ownership of the Panopticon Gallery in Boston.
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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors at FIT Fine Arts
FIT Art Market Graduate Students
By: - May 05th, 2010The graduate students of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City has curated a provcative exhibition Stand Clear of the Closing Doors. Wham bam thank you Ma'am. The show opens on May 14 and runs through May 30. What fun.
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Jenny Gersten to Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Takes Over as Artistic Director
By: - May 05th, 2010After three years Nicholas Martin will step down as the artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival. An alumna of WTF, Jenny Gersten will take over next season. With Martin's program in place this timely appointment will allow for an orderly transition.
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Miles Smiles in Montreal Through August Fine Arts
Multimedia Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
By: - May 05th, 2010When Bitches Brew was released, changing and updating jazz, I was a music critic for the daily Boston Herald Traveler. As such I got to hang with Miles starting with a memorable late night interview after a set at Lennie's on the Turnpike. Jay Leno was a frequent warmup act at Lennies. There is an exhibition devoted to Miles at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the end of August.
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Stephen Hannock at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Here Today Gone Tomorrow
By: - May 05th, 2010Exhibitions at Mass MoCA in North Adams are usually on view for a long time. The Sol LeWitt installation, for example, is scheduled for 25 years. But internationally acclaimed landscape painter, Stephen Hannock, who has a studio in the Berkshires, has set a new record for the briefest exhibition at the museum. Last night was the opening and closing for works that were completed the night before the event. This was an opportunity to view two major paintings before they leave town.
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Amhert Biennial Call to Artists Fine Arts
Event Scheduled for Oct-Nov. 2010
By: - May 05th, 2010The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) announces the inaugural Amherst Biennial to take place in October and November 2010 at the Nacul Center, Amherst Town Hall, and additional satellite sites in town. The jurors for the Biennial include the artist/ cuator, Terry Rooney, the artist Susan Loring-Wells and Tony Maroulis the former co founder and director of the gallery Wunderarts.
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Petah Coyne at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Exhibition Opens May 29
By: - May 04th, 2010Petah Coyne's baroque works, delicately combining tinted, waxed flowers and taxidermy, will rise up from the floor, and hanging sculptures will descend from the ceiling, taking full advantage of the multiple vantage points of MASS MoCA's vast gallery spaces. The exhibition titled Everything That Rises Must Converge (after a short story by Flannery O'Connor) will open at Mass MoCA on Saturday, May 29, with an opening reception from 5-7 PM.
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Fourth of July in the Berkshires Opinion
An Abundance of Riches
By: - May 04th, 2010The launch of the Fourth of July arts season in the Berkshires will be like an explosion in a fireworks factory. There has never been a greater offering of superb and diverse performances. While three days of James Taylor and Carole King at Tanglewood sold out ages ago there are many other top options. Mass MoCA is going head to head with Tanglewood on Friday night. It has Richie Havens vs. The Pops. Barrington Stage and Williamstown Theatre Festival will duke it out with dueling Sondheim musicals. There is a ton of stuff at Shakespeare & Company including the opening of John Douglas Thompson in Richard III. Jacobs Pillow and Berkshire Theatre Festival are in the mix. We offer a complete rundown.
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Christian Marclay at the Whitney Museum Fine Arts
Christian Marclay: Festival July 1 to September 26
By: - May 03rd, 2010Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955), known for the distinctive fusion of sound and image in his art, is the subject of a major exhibition this summer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Activated by daily musical performances, the show explores Marclay's approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his graphic scores. Approximately fifty renowned instrumentalists and vocalists, some of whom have collaborated regularly with the artist over the course of the past three decades, are scheduled to interpret the scores exhibited, enabling museum audiences to experience Marclay's work brought to life. The exhibition curated by David Kiehl opens on July 1 and remains on view until September 26.
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Drawn to Architecture at Galerie Grita Insam Fine Arts
Project Curated by Vienna 2010
By: - May 03rd, 2010The exhibition Drawn to Architecture links five artistic positions that engage in different ways with architectural forms and structures. All of the works have a decidedly non-mimetic moment in common: it is not the depiction or reflection of architecture that is interesting but the exploration of the recursive connection between the image of the space and the space of the image on the basis of architectural constellations. Amy Yoes, Karina Nimmerfall, Manuel Knapp, Ingo Giezendanner and Catherine Borg
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Kate Moira Ryan's Bass for Picasso Theatre
NY's Theater Breaking Through Barriers to May 23
By: - May 01st, 2010Theater Breaking Through Barriers, the Off-Broadway company known for its productions that integrate able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities, presents the world premiere of Kate Moira Ryan's Bass for Picasso -- a new play about five New Yorkers, including a physically disabled food writer, whose secrets are exposed during a memorable dinner party at Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre 410 West 42nd Street though May 23. Ike Schambelan directs.
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The Mount Announces Season Program Architecture
Something Old Something New in Lenox
By: - Apr 30th, 2010The Mount, the stately home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Mass.. reopens for a season of new programs and audience favorites. Highlights include the launch of The Mount's first annual writers festival, Berkshire WordFest (July 23-25); the return of theatre for the second year running in partnership with Wharton Salon (August 18-29); the seventeenth season of The Mount's popular Biography Series (July 12-August 30); and a new exhibit on adaptations of Wharton's works for stage and screen (opens June 5).
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Berkshire Beat: Porches, Alcombright, Galleries People
Out and About in North Adams
By: - Apr 30th, 2010In just an eye blink we morphed from the last gasp of winter, two inches of snow on April 27, to a blast of Spring. The social season is heating up. On Wednesday night we attended Nancy Jane Fitzpatrick's Facebook party at Porches. Including a rare glimpse of Porches owner John S. Wadsworth, Jr. Thursday was ultra busy. We started with Mayor Dick Alcombright's spaghetti supper at the V.F.W. We moved on to several openings on Main Street. Ending with Martha Flood's new studio and shop on Eagle Street.
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Wilco, Richie Havens Headline at Mass MoCA Opinion
Lively Summer Program Slated for North Adams
By: - Apr 29th, 2010There will be just tons of live music blasting from Mass MoCA this summer from a rock festival with Wilco, to the perennial Woodstocker, Richie Havens, to Carolina Chocolate Drops and a reggae dance party. Oh yes, there will also be some exhibitions. A show by Petah Coyne will open on May 29 and remain on view forever. But not quite for 25 years like Sol Lewitt.
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The World of Lucian Freud Fine Arts
At The Centre Pompidou in Paris to May 24
By: - Apr 29th, 2010The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on the exhibition of some 50 paintings by the 88-year-old British master Lucian Freud. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is "the place to be" according to D'Hondt between now and May 24. The critic, who writes for Flash Art and other European publications, takes a tough look at an icon of contemporary art.
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Fabio Luisi Principal Guest Conductor at the Met Music
An Insurance Policy for Ailing James Levine?
By: - Apr 27th, 2010Is it more than just a coincidence that the Metropolitan Opera has named Fabio Luisi as Principal Guest Conductor? The continuing health issues of artistic director James Levine have raised uncertainties for whether he will return next season. And if so just how much of a role will he assume. There are similar questions being asked at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And for the coming season at Tanglewood.
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Freihofer Saratoga Jazz Festival Music
Al Jarreau and Gladys Knight Headline June 26 & 27
By: - Apr 27th, 2010Freihofer Saratoga Jazz Festival announces the schedule for June 26 and 27. The "Empress of Soul" Gladys Knight, jazz singer Al Jarreau & the George Duke Trio, legendary blues icon Taj Mahal, guitarist extraordinaire Al Di Meola and two piano legends â€" Ramsey Lewis and Ahmad Jamal are some of the great artists appearing at this year’s two-day jazz extravaganza.
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Maramotti Collection Shows Malick Sidibe Fine Arts
Essays by Mario Diacono Published
By: - Apr 26th, 2010During his years in Boston the exhibitions of the Mario Diacono gallery were legendary. The Italian born poet, curator and critic generally displayed a single work. The projects which entailed renowned international artists were accompanied by detailed and complex critical essays. Some 30 of these essays have now been published by his Italian patron.
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Cantilena Chamber Choir & Berkshire Lyric Theater Music
Russian Choral Music May 15 & 16
By: - Apr 26th, 2010The Cantilena Chamber Choir and Berkshire Lyric Theater will present a Russian Choral Music Weekend of concerts and lectures on May 15 and 16. Special guest performers will be New York City Opera tenor Konstantin Stepanov and, from St. Petersburg, Russia, The Konevets Quartet with Igor Dmitriev, Director.
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De Niro, Freeman and Harris at the Pops Music
Film Stars Narrate Kennedy Tribute May 18
By: - Apr 26th, 2010Acclaimed actors Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman give life to the words of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, respectively, when they join conductor Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for the world premiere performance of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothersâ€"the centerpiece of the Boston Pops 125th anniversary season celebrationâ€"on May 18, at 8 p.m. (repeated on May 19), at Symphony Hall in Boston, MA
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Greylock Arts Natural Selection Fine Arts
Lively Turnout for Adams Opening
By: - Apr 24th, 2010The ambitious and insightful projects of Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit of Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass. are second only to those of Mass MoCA in the Berkshires. The artists, who spend their week in New York, organize projects that draw on local, regional and national resources. It was a thrill to be included in the exhibition Natural Selection along with Christian Cerrito, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Matt Pass, Henry Klein, Alex Kauffman, David Lachman, Martha Denmead Rose, Jeremy Rotsztain and Gregory Scheckler.
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