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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Black Power in Print: Dana Chandler in Boston Front Page
MFA Celebrates 55th anniversary of Black Panther Party's Founding
By: - Oct 25th, 2021On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Black Panther Party's founding, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has launched "Black Power in Print," an online project in tandem with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Comprising recently digitized materials and new interviews between artists and scholars, the archive highlights the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today.
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Day by Day Word
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Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision Front Page
Staged in Historic Pittsfield Women's Club Mansion
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The virtual screening of Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision- a walk-through installation performance celebrating the lives of Women of Color will premier on November 5th at 8pm. Set inside a historic Women’s Club mansion in Pittsfield MA, each of the 21 rooms represented a stage or theme of initiation in the lives of Black, Indigenous and Immigrant Women of Color.
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Remembering Together Collaborative Exhibition Front Page
Marking Lives COVID-19 at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
By: - Oct 25th, 2021Marking Lives COVID-19 is a community art project conceived by Concord-based artist Elizabeth Awalt to commemorate the American lives lost to COVID. This exhibition is a realization of the collaborative social media project. It includes North Adams artist Sarah Sutro.
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Cuban Pianist and Composer Harold López-Nussa Front Page
New England and NY Tour Dates
By: - Oct 25th, 2021On his vibrant and spirited third recording for Mack Avenue Records, Havana-based pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa sets out to capture that stirring sensation with an exhilarating marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music. On a global tour there are dates for Florence (near Northampton), Boston and NY.
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It’s a Grand Night for Singing Front Page
Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021You might consider a review of the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein to be “old hat;” why bother seeing a show with songs that are so familiar to all of us. See it because Ruggiero and the cast take these songs and bring a newness to them with sometimes subtle twists that carry them in the 21st century.
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Broken Nose Theatre’s Audio Play, Kingdom Front Page
Tells a Black LGBTQ Story With Heart
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Kingdom is an entirely LGBTQ African American story, sensitively told, and illustrates through the characters’ varied life experiences how Black gay culture is different from White gay culture. The lyrical script keeps the symbolism of the Magic Kingdom as a meaningful background theme, until the very end.
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The Great Khan by Michael Gene Sullivan Front Page
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Playwright Michael Gene Sullivan fills the house with laughter in addition to thoughtfulness and social reflection. In his affecting premiere “The Great Khan,” an otherwise unassuming, middle-class, black teenage boy, Jayden, has saved a black teenage girl, Ant (full name - Antoinette), from a gang of boys.
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Lewis Hine and North Adams Eclipse Mill Front Page
Children Once Labored in Artists/ Loft Complex
By: - Oct 22nd, 2021During the era of KIng Cotton North Adams thrived by processing bales shipped north from plantations. The Eclipse Mill produced thread which was woven across the street in the Delftree Mill. Until 1938 the mills employed child labor. During a single visit Lewis Hine created nine photographs outside the mill. These images as well as vintage views of the Eclipse Mill comprise a special exhibition. They flank the entrance ramp to the vast artist/ loft complex. The community based project is an aesthetic, historic and humanistic accomplishment.
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Todd Haynes Documentary Evokes The Velvet Underground Front Page
Is There More to the Story of Lou Reed and His Band
By: - Oct 21st, 2021Steve Nelson was the foremost producer/promoter of concerts by The Velvet Underground in the period 1967-1970. He managed the legendary rock club The Boston Tea Party and produced shows in western Mass. at his club The Woodrose Ballroom and at the Paramount Theater in Springfield. He also designed several of the posters promoting those shows. He was an Archival Consultant to the Haynes film and provided visual materials for it.
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Jazz at the Gateways Inn Front Page
Music in Lenox Starts October 21
By: - Oct 20th, 2021A special concert will cap this weekend on Sunday, Oct. 24, when pianist Ted Rosenthal performs his unique interpretations of George Gershwin compositions. Highlighted by his innovative treatment of the legendary Rhapsody in Blue, Ted’s repertoire for this first “tea time jazz special,” is collectively known as Rhapsody in Gershwin.
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Blue Black Ink on My Fingers Word
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Shakespeare & Company Benefit Screenings Front Page
Speak What We Feel, a Documentary by Patrick J. Toole
By: - Oct 19th, 2021Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2021 Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) and the first feature-length film project in the Company’s 44-year history, Speak What We Feel follows hundreds of students from 10 high schools across Berkshire, Hampden, and Columbia counties as they prepare to stage a full production of a Shakespeare play under the guidance of Shakespeare & Company education artists.
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Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven Front Page
Presented by San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 19th, 2021San Francisco Opera’s current production maximizes the values of the piece through excellent casting, fine musical direction by Eun Sun Kim, and the addition of what amounts to another character, the stunning scenic design by Alexander V. Nichols, under the purview of Director Matthew Ozawa.
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The Claim by Tim Cowbury Front Page
Produced by Shotgun Players
By: - Oct 18th, 2021In “The Claim,” Serge hails from Congo. Now in the U.K., he seeks asylum. In this farcical three-hander, the immigrant is interrogated by two British bureaucrats – a male who we’ll call A, and a female, who we’ll call B.
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Leiber & Stoller's Smokey Joe’s Café Front Page
At ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - Oct 18th, 2021Smokey Joe’s is a pure jukebox musical; there is no plot and no dialogue, just the songs from this team – Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller whose fame was mainly in the 1950s and ‘60s. Their music connected to both rock ‘n roll and rhythm and blues genres and was made popular by Elvis Presley among others
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Lunch Meet Word
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Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds Front Page
Rose Art Museum's Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Oct 14th, 2021The Rose Art Museum named Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954, Cheyenne/Arapaho) its 2021-2022 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence. Since 2002, the Perlmutter Residency has been part of the Rose Art Museum’s longstanding tradition of promoting artists of extraordinary talent whose works address contemporary issues of vital urgency.
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Facing Columbus Front Page
Four Italian American Artists at NY's Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Oct 13th, 2021Italian American Artists Grapple with Christopher Columbus's Legacy at MAD Museum. The Museum of Arts and Design will host 4 NYC artists of Italian heritage for a discussion about the colonial legacy of Christopher Columbus and his importance to the Italian American community.
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Letter to the Editor Front Page
Re: "Miroirs" by Wataru Iwata
By: - Oct 13th, 2021This is Wataru Iwata emailing from Japan. I’ve been working as a pianist, music composer, visual artist and recently putting more time into digital art.
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Lizard Boy Front Page
Produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Oct 13th, 2021With “Lizard Boy,” youth is served and age is respected. This is a big tent musical that will please anyone with an open mind and a caring heart. The auteur, Justin Huertas who wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and who plays the lead role, has fashioned an absolutely riveting theater piece that pulsates with emotion and extracts enormous empathy.
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Every Brilliant Thing Front Page
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Oct 13th, 2021Duncan MacMillan’s award-winning, 60-minute, one-person play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” centers on a list reflective of obsessive compulsion. The narrator/protagonist itemizes everything worth living for. Remarkably, he starts the list at age seven.
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Goodbye Columbus Word
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The Porch at Windy Hill Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 11th, 2021Blue grass and Appalachian music usually isn’t my thing, but my toes were tapping while enjoying the play-with- music, The Porch at Windy Hill now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, Oct. 17.
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Panem et Circences Word
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