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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Giacomo Puccini's Tosca Front Page
Produced by San Francisco Opera
By: - Aug 29th, 2021What is it about “Tosca” that endows it with near universal appeal? There have been naysayers who find the action and music of verismo to be too violent and vulgar, but they are now few. To begin with, this is a mature and confident Puccini in the follow up to his equally renowned “La Boheme.” The opera’s dissonant, ominous opening salvo of the Scarpia theme announces the tragedy to come, while the ensuing score resounds with rich melody, haunting leitmotifs, and several memorable “greatest hits” arias.
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Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Front Page
At the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute through Sept. 19
By: - Aug 28th, 2021The Clark took a chance in featuring an unknown artist as its major summer exhibition. By word of mouth momentum has built for "Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway." The work of the artist was as narrow and deep as the fjords of his native Norway. While beloved in his native land he is unknown to all but a few art historians and specialists of 20th century Scandinavian art.
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Having Our Say- the Delaney Sisters First 100 Years Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Aug 28th, 2021These two sisters, 103 and 101 at the time of the play, regale us with incidents and observations on their lives and opinions. And what experiences they are. They talk about their family’s history (and photos are projected) of slavery and freedom.
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Sandra Oh is The Chair on Netflix Front Page
Cancel Culture on Campus
By: - Aug 27th, 2021Sandra Oh stars as The Chair in a six episode comedy on Netflix. Set on small college Pembroke it is a broad and hilarious satire of cancel culture on campus. While played for laughs the hit comedy has evoked a dialogue about its uncanny, over the top, accuracy. It's the truth that makes this hilarious series sad and all too compelling.
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Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle Front Page
At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Aug 26th, 2021Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artist’s earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile in France at the end of his life.
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Comfort Food Food
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2021 Challenging for Vineyards Front Page
Les Alexandrins, Rhone Valley
By: - Aug 25th, 2021After a mild winter, a dry mid-spring and a July that seemed more like a November, our wine-growers have really been through the mill.
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Lorie Hamermesh at Gallery Naga Front Page
After a 15 Year Hiatus Now Desire/Shame
By: - Aug 24th, 2021After a nearly 15 year hiatus from art making and exhibiting, Lorie Hamermesh is back in a daring and spectacular fashion at Gallery NAGA for a solo exhibition accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog and essays by fellow Boston artists Carol Daynard and Cameron Barker.
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Knights Orchestra Returns to the Clark Front Page
Celebrates Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Exhibition
By: - Aug 24th, 2021On Saturday, September 4, at 4 pm, the renowned Knights Orchestra returns to the Clark as part of its programming to highlight Norwegian culture in celebration of its Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway exhibition.
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Rice and Beans Word
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Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin Front Page
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021“Eugene Onegin” not only represents the greatness of Russian opera but is one of the fine representatives of the whole operatic idiom. Director Alessandro Talevi marshals the creative team to give a look that blends traditional and modern elements.
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Andrea Brachfeld and Insight Front Page
Jazz in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021A remarkable program features Insight with Andrea Brachfeld. The quartet represents a who’s-who of today’s jazz scene. Headed by the acclaimed award-winning flutist Andrea Brachfeld, Insight includes Bill O’Connell, piano; Harvie S, bass; and Jason Tiemann, drums. The repertoire will feature “If Not Now, When,” Andrea’s original composition, made possible by a New Works grant from Chamber Music America.
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Chuck Close at 81 Front Page
An Appreciation
By: - Aug 21st, 2021Martin Mugar posted this in 2005 to the site Art Deal. Overcoming many physical and emotional handicaps Chuck Close prevailed leaving a daunting legacy of work.
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Hurricane Word
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Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Front Page
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 20th, 2021Shakespeare’s frequent conceits include mistaken identities, confused love matches, supernatural interventions, play-within-a-play, and multiple plot lines, but “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” embraces them all, and more. Several threads are interspersed and overlapping throughout the play and opera’s narrative that may cause confusion to the uninitiated.
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Berkshire International Film Festival Front Page
Goes Virtual This Time
By: - Aug 20th, 2021BIFF continues to celebrate independent film and this year we share stories of hope, of our future, of our past, of heroism, of inspiration and of laughter, loss and love. So, we invite you to check out the program and watch all the films you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. Specific instructions will follow on the BIFF website for passholders and all others interested in the virtual event.
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Glad Tidings Word
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The Lord of Cries by John Corigliano Front Page
Commissioned by Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2021“The Lord of Cries” is an unusual melange of two literary works written two millennia apart. The more recent is Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which has been used as the basis for operas before, but none have entered the repertoire. Adamo concludes that Stoker must have known the other contributing piece, Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”
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Pennie Brantley at Real Eyes Gallery Front Page
The Presence of the Past
By: - Aug 18th, 2021One of the most accomplished artists of the Berkshire region, Pennie Brantley is displaying her crisply rendered painting at Real Eyes Gallery in September. She states that, "Perhaps ironically, my attraction to painting unpeopled structures, especially from travels to other cultures, is inspired by a keen awareness of those who have lived in or made them -- or simply the march of humanity past them sometimes over centuries. The images that stir my need to paint them have made me more intensely aware of the connectedness people share..."
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In the Woods Word
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Suzette Marie Martin at Eclipse Mill Gallery Front Page
Viral Load, Bearing Witness to the Pandemic
By: - Aug 15th, 2021“Viral Load”, an exhibition of works by artist Suzette Marie Martin at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, is a meditative suite of ten mixed-media paintings on canvas, bearing witness to the cumulative, collective loss of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Painters Andrew Forge and David Row Front Page
Exhibitions in New York and Maine
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Here Martin Mugar considers two abstract painters. The gesture of Forge is one of the traditional hand-application of the brush to canvas. The notion of a painting existing in time took on some meaning when I saw the show of David Row at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. It is probably one of the more perfect installations I have ever seen.
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Walden by Amy Berryman Front Page
TheaterWorks in Conjunction with Riverfront Recapture
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Welcome to Walden the new play presented by TheaterWorks in conjunction with Riverfront Recapture running through Sunday, Aug. 29. It will also be available for streaming from Sunday, Aug. 15 to Sunday, Aug. 29.
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Shaker Village Appeal Front Page
Oldest Structure Needs a New Roof
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Our Laundry & Machine Shop desperately needs a new roof. What's involved? 24,320 cedar shakes. 48,640 nails. 4,500 square feet of roof.
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Mira Cantor: Woven Front Page
Boston’s Kingston Gallery
By: - Aug 13th, 2021We are all spokes on a wheel. We need to turn this wheel together and steer it towards our common humanity. The mask erased our face and revealed our eyes. Hopefully we can redress bias with new understanding when we take them off and see our faces again.
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