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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Mark St Germain Explores Forgiveness Front Page
World Premiere for Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2024Inspired by a newspaper article, Forgiveness is set in Minnesota where prisoners are allowed to plead their case in front of the Governor, in a bid to be returned to society. In this interactive production, audiences help determine who is worthy of forgiveness.
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Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award Front Page
In Memory of Ted Shawn
By: - Aug 02nd, 2024Jacob’s Pillow presents American dancer and choreographer Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award. George will accept the award at the outdoor performance by his New York City-based company, kNonAme Artist.
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The Islanders by Carey Crim Front Page
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 01st, 2024Carey Crim has written a slow, intricate two-hander that takes patience to absorb us into the incremental pace of the Island. Director Reggie Life and a superb cast (Michelle Mountain and "ranney") have meticulously involved us in their struggle for meaning and endurance.
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Norton Gallery in Palm Beach Front Page
One of America's Top Regional Museums
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Norton Gallery has been enlarged with a design by Lord Norman Foster. The collection has grown to 8,200 works with five curatorial departments. It took us two days to tour the collection and special exhibitions. The must see Norton is an elite regional museum. It's come a long way from when I visited annually during the 1980s.
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The Prom Front Page
At Playhouse on Park
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Prom is worthwhile seeing because of the fine performances and choreography.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Front Page
To Return to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 29th, 2024In their first appearance at Jacob’s Pillow since 2019, Dance Theatre of Harlem is celebrating their 55th Anniversary, as well as the 90th birthday of their legendary founder Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018).
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Pamela Palmer by David Ives Front Page
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 27th, 2024The highlight of a scaled back Williamstowm Theatre Festival season was the world premiere Pamela Palmer by the renowned playwright David Ives. With a noir approach he would have us accept the improbable. His tale of class struggle is set in the mansion of the unhappy housewife who has hired a detective.
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Boeing Boeing at Barrington Stage Front Page
Comedy Takes Flight
By: - Jul 25th, 2024Now retired Julianne Boyd returns to Barrington Stage Company to direct the comedy/ farce Boeing Boeing. She has selected a dream team of BSC frequent flyers, Christopher Innvar as the scheming bachelor, Bernard, the nubile Mark H. Dold a visiting long lost friend Robert, and Debra Jo Rupp, a comedic national treasure as Bernard’s maid, Berthe.
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Flamenco at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Week Eight August 14 Through 18
By: - Jul 19th, 2024Week 8 of this summer’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will feature beloved New York-based flamenco artists Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, who will perform at the Festival for the first time since 2002. Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca will appear for five days in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, from Wednesday, August 14 through Sunday, August 18. The program is a showcase for the work of Martín Santangelo and Bessie-award winning dancer and choreographer Soledad Barrio, and will feature their newest work, Searching for Goya (2023).
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An Adventure Story About My Temple Life Front Page
Memoir of a North Adams Based Daoist Monk
By: - Jul 16th, 2024At the age of 65,MIchael McGrath ascended a mountain China with a request to study Daoism at an ancient temple. The Abbott accepted him with skepticism predicting that he wold wash out in a month. He stuck it out for a year and after holidays with his family on Cape Cod, returned to the mountain several times. He has published 'An Adventure Story About My Temple Life What I learned, and What I Now Live.' It's a life affirming page turner.
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Bert Stern Family Collection “Marilyn Uncovered" Front Page
Exhibition at Sohn Fine Art in Lenox
By: - Jul 16th, 2024Bert Stern’s children, Trista and Bret, comment on the exhibition, “We are thrilled to bring our father’s iconic 1962 shoot with Marilyn Monroe back to vivid life at the beautiful Sohn Fine Art Gallery. Marilyn was our dad’s dream girl, a unique mix of actress, model and ‘American goddess’ (as he called her) that he never encountered before or after. He told us, ‘Stars die, but light goes on forever.’ Through the magic of photography, Marilyn Monroe is still reaching us with her light today.”
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Grand Théâtre de Genève at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Improvising Plan B
By: - Jul 15th, 2024Grand Théâtre de Genève arrived for the scheduled third week of the Jacob’s Pillow season. Sets for Noetic, which was to have its North American premiere, however, did not. With just two days to adjust the company pursued Plan B,
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Video Master Bill Viola at 73 Front Page
Early Work in Boston
By: - Jul 14th, 2024Bill Viola is remembered by Bostonians for his early installation "Room for Saint John of the Cross" at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He also created a video triptych for the Fulller Museum of Art. A champion was David Ross who hired him as an assistant at the Everson Museum in 1971. Ross later showed him at the ICA and Whitney Museum.
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Parsons Dance at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Returns 25 Years Later
By: - Jul 12th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival welcomes the internationally- touring modern dance company Parsons Dance back to the Ted Shawn Theatre, 25 years after their last engagement with the festival in 1999.
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Death, Let Me Do My Show Front Page
Rachel Bloom at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 12th, 2024Standup comedian, Rachel Bloom, is a really big deal. Her rom-com “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ran for four seasons on The CW with poor ratings but a solid fan base. She brought a standup piece “Death, Let Me Do My Show” to Williamstown Theatre Festival. The routine was filmed for future release on Netflix.
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South Pacific at Goodspeed Musicals Front Page
An Audience Favorite
By: - Jul 11th, 2024South Pacific is a show for romantics. It is one of my favorite shows and the audience’s cheers on opening night showed that they, too, loved it.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith on Katherine Porter Front Page
An Appreciation from a Renowned Artist to Another
By: - Jul 11th, 2024Jaune Quick to See Smith responded to my posthumous interview with Katherine Porter. It was too long and detailed to post as a comment. It's a remarkable tribute from a renowned woman artist to another. Recently Jaune was given a retrospective by the Whitney Museum. I have had a long involvement with both of these artists.
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Artist Katherine Porter Broke Out in Boston Front Page
A Posthumous Interview
By: - Jul 11th, 2024In the late 1960s a new generation of artists revitalized the Boston art world. They created Studio Coalition the nation's first open studios event. Katherine Porter emerged with immediate recognition and success. She was shown twice in Whitney Biennials and exhibited in major galleries. Social concerns informed her work. She moved a number of times seeking a like minded community. We reconnected when for several years she lived in Vermont. In her final recent move she settled in Santa Fe.
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Mystic Pizza Front Page
Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jul 10th, 2024You will recognize the tunes that are well integrated into the plot – “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Addicted to Love,” “I’m the Only One,” “Into the Mystic,” “Lost in Your Eyes,” “Smalltown” and “Never Gonna Give You Up,” among others.
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Dragon Mama at Williamstown Theatre Festival Front Page
Sara Porkalob in Solo Performance
By: - Jul 10th, 2024“Dragon Mama,” a one-woman show by Sara Porkalob, is but one of three staged productions in this season of the venerable Williamstown Theatre Festival. With a brief run it is presented on the black box Center Stage. It has been used only once preciously.
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Royal Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
First Visit to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 08th, 2024Both the Royal Ballet and Jacob’s Pillow were formed in 1931. There have been many interactions but in the current season the renowned company has visited the Berkshires for the first time. It is their only North American stop. Some five years of planning, fund raising, and logistics were entailed for this historic event.
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Ted Rosenthal Trio returns to the Berkshires Front Page
Jazz at Tangldewood Institute
By: - Jul 02nd, 2024Our friends at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox are coming out of the holiday weekend with continued fireworks: Ted Rosenthal Trio returns to the Berkshires to perform on July 9, at 7pm.
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Camille A. Brown at Jacob's PIllow Front Page
Received the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2016,
By: - Jul 02nd, 2024“It is a thrill to welcome Camille A. Brown back to the Pillow, this time for the world premiere of I AM,” said Jacob’s Pillow Executive and Artistic Director Pamela Tatge. “Since she received the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2016, she has seen a meteoric rise as a choreographer and director of opera and Broadway productions, from her stunning work on Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, to her Tony nominated work this year on the Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen.
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Centennial of Surrealism Front Page
An Enduring Presence
By: - Jul 02nd, 2024The vibrant anti art movement Dada fizzled in Paris in 1922. A number of its exponents, artists and writers, regrouped with the launch of Surrealism just two years later. It broke out in Paris with competing manifestos published by Andre Breton and Yvan Goll. They each led rival factions but the more aggressive Breton prevailed. It proved to be the ,most popular and sustained movement of modernism. There are numerous current exhibitions celebrating its legacy.
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Guillaume Guillon-Lethière at Clark Art Instiute Front Page
Long Forgotten Academic Artist in Project with the Louvre
By: - Jul 02nd, 2024Though long forgotten, gigantic works by the academic painter Guillaume Guillon-Lethière have been hiding in plain sight at the Louvre. Installed in the 1830s they flank the walls of the museum's gift shop. That will be removed when the first ever major retrospective of the artist moves from Williamstown to Paris. He was born to a plantation owner and slave woman in Guadeloupe. In his day he was respected but less so with time until now. The Clark exhibition makes a less than compelling case for his reevaluation. With more large signature works the Louvre show may better state his case.
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