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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Off Their Backs: Front Page
150 T-Shirts from the David Bieber Archives
By: - Apr 08th, 2022The entertainment and marketing industry churned out promo items and wampum to influencers. Free t-shirts with hip graphic design comprised the day-to-day wardrobe of movers and shakers. These of the moment items became the ephemera of an era. The vast, 2 million item David Bieber Archive, holds some 5,000 shirts. Now 150 prime examples have been published as a snappy picture book. Own it for an enticing stroll down memory lane.
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1776 Revival at A.R.T in May Front Page
Then Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre in September
By: - Apr 08th, 2022American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces the full cast and creative team of its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Co-presented with Roundabout Theatre Company (RTC), the production begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA, on Tuesday, May 17; opens officially on Thursday, May 26; and plays through Sunday, July 24, 2022.
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Philip Guston Now Launched at MFA Front Page
Controversial Klan Paintings Start Tour in Boston
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Modern, London, Philip Guston Now is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections, including both well-known and rarely seen works. Among the highlights are paintings from the 1930s that are rarely on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972 as the artist developed his new vocabulary of hooded heads, books, bricks and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form Guston’s last major artistic statement.
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Cyrano de Bergerac Front Page
At Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Director Layne has cast 22 performers to tell the achingly poignant story of Cyrano and Roxane. There are a couple metaphors on the foibles and folly of the human condition that run throughout that could easily recall a memory or two bringing misty eyes to those in the audience who can still relate. Yes. It’s somewhat of a tragedy masquerading as a comedy in dead earnest Love is like that sometimes.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene Front Page
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Apr 07th, 2022The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), who has been based in New York for the last forty years.
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Sam Gilliam: Full Circle Front Page
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
By: - Apr 07th, 2022This spring, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present an exhibition by pioneering abstractionist artist Sam Gilliam. Between May 25 and Sept. 4, “Sam Gilliam: Full Circle” will pair a series of circular paintings (or tondos) created in 2021 with “Rail” (1977), a landmark painting in the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.
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August: Osage County Front Page
By Tracy Letts at San Jose Stage
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Playwright Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Award winning play concerns the family reunion from hell. The family doge, Beverly, was a prominent poet in his younger days, but settled into a long life as a disgruntled teacher and acknowledged but likeable alcoholic. Several days after his unexplained disappearance, Violet, his wife and family doyenne, musters the troops.
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Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes Front Page
At Long Wharf
By: - Apr 02nd, 2022I found much to like about this show which focuses on Latinx sisters who turn to one of these shows – called Flip It and List It — to sell their family home. The home was built by their great grandfather after he arrived from Mexico in the late 1800s and has been passed down through the generations.
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The Gift of Mud Season Word
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Jennifer Trainer Thompson Leaving Hancock Shaker Village Front Page
A Legacy of Major Accomplishments
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The Board of Trustees of Hancock Shaker Village announced today that director Jennifer Trainer Thompson will step down in July. Thompson has been widely credited for her transformational leadership of the museum and is recognized as an innovator in the museum community. Since her appointment in September 2016, Hancock Shaker Village has grown in size and stature and has been infused, as The Boston Globe noted last summer, “with great gusts of contemporary vitality”.
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints Front Page
Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The building of wall drawings at MASS MoCA has become a pilgrimage site for Sol LeWitt one of the foremost artists of his generation. They are on semi-permanent display with a contract for 25 years. For a more limited time, through June 11, there is the opportunity to experience the work on a more personal and intimate manner with Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker Front Page
Produced by Custom Made Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Annie Baker has established herself with a naturalistic stream of plays, including the trilogy taking place in the town of Shirley, Vermont, of which this play is a member. These are narratives about ordinary people doing ordinary things, often written and acted with such uninflected manner as to elevate boredom and long silences as virtues.
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Spring Lambs at Hancock Shaker Village Front Page
Season Opens Saturday, April 16
By: - Mar 29th, 2022“Spring at Hancock Shaker Village is a joyous time,” said Director Jennifer Trainer Thompson. “Our farm literally ‘springs’ to life and there may be nothing cuter than a baby animal. When you add to that 20 historic buildings, and a lot of creative programming --- from farm talks to concerts to the spiritual richness of brooms --- you find a union with content that creates an unparalleled experience. Welcome back, and welcome to our 2022 season!”
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Union Protests Against Whitney Museum Front Page
To Leaflet During Gala Opening
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art will be outside in front of the Museum for tomorrow evening’s VIP opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, handing out leaflets with information about union negotiations. The Union, consisting of almost two hundred professional, facilities and visitor services workers has been negotiating for several months for a first contract.
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Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage Front Page
Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Dishwasher Dreams looks through the lens of two generations of an immigrant family. Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah, it is filled with humor but also sharp observations. Ullah was a ground-breaker as one of the first East Asian standup comedians who gained wide appeal.
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Covering 126 Years of the Boston Marathon Front Page
Exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Since its 1897 founding, the Boston Marathon has regularly transformed in its appearance, its demographics, and its meaning. As its 126th running on April 18 nears, The Lotvin Family Gallery examines how the marathon’s changes have been reflected in the pages of another Boston institution, The Boston Globe, now celebrating its 150th year of publication.
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La Cage aux Folles Front Page
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Mar 27th, 2022The musical ran on Broadway for over four years, garnering six Tonys, including the most coveted – Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book. Accordingly, any production of “La Cage aux Folles” starts with great material.
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Peter This Is Pip Word
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Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes Front Page
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner
By: - Mar 25th, 2022In action that shifts back and forth between scenarios, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’ clever 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning “Water by the Spoonful” follows two seemingly independent threads through Act 1. One is a chat group for recovering cocaine addicts. The other concerns two young adult, Puerto Rican American cousins bereaving the passing of one’s mother. The threads will intertwine in Act 2.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Front Page
Moved to Jazz Month in April
By: - Mar 24th, 2022Pittsfield CityJazz Festival has moved from our traditional mid-October date to become part of the nationwide Jazz Appreciation Month activities, which take place every year in April. The music starts on April 23.
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Curator David S. Areford to Lecture at WCMA Front Page
Jewish Dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s Art
By: - Mar 24th, 2022In conjunction with "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints," exhibition curator David S. Areford gives a lecture exploring the Jewish dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s art through five projects—two structures, two wall drawings, a work of architecture, and a site-specific installation—which together represent the most socially and historically contingent of LeWitt’s career.
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Open Studios at MASS MoCA Front Page
March 25. 5 to 7 PM
By: - Mar 23rd, 2022We are very excited to invite you to our first Open Studios in 2 years! As the weather gets warmer, and things are feeling safer, we are looking forward to opening our doors to you to get to know this month’s artist cohort.
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Escape from the Asylum by Patricia Milton Front Page
Produced by Central Works
By: - Mar 23rd, 2022With her most recent world premiere, “Escape from the Asylum,” Patricia Milton provides a sequel that is starting to suggest a series of crime-procedural, period-pieces of the sort that would run on PBS. Like its predecessor, this comedic play charms with quirky characters, clever dialog, feminist issues, and a plot twist leading to a surprise ending.
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Otto Frank the Father of Anne Frank Front Page
Written by Roger Guenveur Smith
By: - Mar 23rd, 2022Otto Frank was the father of Anne Frank. He gave his daughter a blank autograph book on her 13th birthday in which Anne diligently recorded her thoughts and experiences from mundane activities to pathos to hope over the next two years. Otto retrieved the diary after World War II and had it translated and published. It would become the biggest selling non-fiction book in the world after the Bible. In English, its title is “The Diary of a Young Girl.”
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Peasant Stock Food
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