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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Former ICA Director Sydney Roberts Rockefeller Front Page
Recalling Events 1973-1974
By: - Apr 15th, 2020Then 27 the Institute of Contemporary Art was the first of many boards that Sydney Roberts Rockefeller joined. Director Andrew C. Hyde quit not long after the beginning of his second term. Left in the lurch was a planned conference on public art. When she stepped up to rescue the conference the board made her director. She was on site during the renovation of 955 Boylston Street. It was designed and largely funded by the architect Graham Gund.
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Shakespeare & Company Cancels Season Front Page
Schedule Shifted to 2021
By: - Apr 14th, 2020Shakespeare & Company is postponing its 2020 Summer Season to next summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus).
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Pond Word
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Yin and Yang Front Page
Facing Fear and Uncertainty
By: - Apr 09th, 2020There is a line from the movie “Tombstone,” spoken by Doc Holliday to Wyatt Earp: “There is no normal life, Wyatt. There is just life.”
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Words and Images Allan Rohan Crite 1910 – 2007 Front Page
A Virtual Visit to St. Botolph Club Exhibition
By: - Apr 08th, 2020Shortly after the exhibition Words & Images Allan Rohan Crite 1910 – 2007 opened the private St. Botolph Club was closed because of the pandemic. There is however a link to a video that provides a virtual tour of the exhibition. Crite is regarded as a leading Boston artist of his generation. He was a graduate of the Museum School. The Museum of Fine Arts is remiss in not planning a major exhibition of this remarkable and widely influential artist.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Goes Audible Front Page
Response to Pandemic Challenge for 2020
By: - Apr 07th, 2020“This virus might get to tell us what we cannot do but it does not get to dictate what we can do,” Mandy Greenfield said. “The voices of these artists will be heard. Through this alliance with Audible, we keep artists and the generative artistic process centered and steady through this unspeakably difficult moment when public gathering simply isn’t possible"
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Provincetown Arts Magazine Front Page
Needs Help for 35th Anniversary
By: - Apr 05th, 2020The 35th annual issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine is ready to go to press. The pandemic, however, has created uncertainty about the coming season. There may not be enough crucial advertising revenue to publish the issue. This is an appeal for support.
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MFA Cancels Programming Front Page
Suspended Through August 31
By: - Apr 04th, 2020Responding to the pandemic the MFA has issued this letter to its patrons.
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Berkshire Artist Ricky Darell Barton Front Page
Rethinking Real Eyes and Three Other 2020 Exhibitions
By: - Apr 04th, 2020This was to be the breakout season for Berkshire artist Ricky Darell Barton. This week was to be the launch of a solo exhibition at Real Eyes Gallery in Adams. Three other solo and group shows by Barton are scheduled to follow throuth the summer. Social distancing, which is likely to extend for the coming months, changes everything. For now a single painting by Barton is displayed in the window of the gallery with more work available for on line viewing on the Real Eyes website.
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Update from Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Letter from Allyn Burrows
By: - Apr 03rd, 2020Shakespeare saw the theatres closed two times in as many years due to the plague, and he subsequently must have viewed the world through the lens of what the epidemic wrought.
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Documentaries on Art and Design Front Page
What to Stream When Home Alone
By: - Apr 02nd, 2020Most of us are now hunkered down and isolated, inundated by 24/7 news coverage of depressing medical and economic conditions, compounded by failed White House leadership. To lighten our burden, just a bit, here is a list, with thumbnail reviews, of nine excellent documentary films about architecture and design.
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On the Fly Front Page
At La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Apr 02nd, 2020The latest La Jolla Playhouse production “Fly” is a new, visually stunning musical reimagining of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy”, the popular and enduring children’s fantasy story about adventures in a dream filled place called ‘Neverland’ where children never grow up into adulthood where each has the ability to fly (with caveats, however, that must be observed).
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Berkshire Theatre Group to Open in August Front Page
Revising plans for Summer 2020
By: - Apr 01st, 2020This week Jacob's Pillow cancelled its coming season. Can Tanglewood be far behind? Today Williamstown Theatre Festival pulled back from selling tickets with a note for further review of seasonal plans. Berkshire Theatre Group announces the launch of its season on August 1. We have yet to hear updates from Shakespeare & Company, Barrngton Stage Company or other regional theatres. As non essential business Berkshire museums are closed with no time line for resumed programming.
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Night and Day Word
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Jacob's Pillow Cancels 2020 Season Front Page
Response to Pandemic
By: - Mar 31st, 2020For the first time in its 88-year history, the Jacob’s Pillow Board of Trustees and Executive Leadership have made the decision to cancel the 2020 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, previously scheduled for June 24-August 30 along with its annual gala scheduled for June 20.
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Rafael Mahdavi: Corona Chronicles Front Page
Pandemic News from France
By: - Mar 30th, 2020During a time of confinement we reach out to family and friends by phone and e mail. From France my artist friend, Rafael Mahdavi, wrote a wonderful detailed note. He also sent a remarkable new work that inspired this piece. Art represents hope and salvation through the darkest moments of human condition.
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MFA Director Matthew Teitelbaum Front Page
A 1993 Interview with the Acting Director of the ICA
By: - Mar 29th, 2020A native of Toronto, Matthew Teitelbaum, departed Boston in 1993 to take a curatorial position at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In this interview he was acting director of the Institute of Contemporary Art. Then 37, it provides insights of his curatorial vision and process. He went on to be director of the AGO. In 2015 he returned to Boston as director of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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Corona Chronicles Front Page
Senior Shopping at Big Y
By: - Mar 27th, 2020In a time of pandemic the early bird scores the toilet paper. When the quality of life is measured in sheets.
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Boston Gallerist Arthur Dion Front Page
Gallery NAGA on Newbury Street Since 1977
By: - Mar 25th, 2020Gallery NAGA, with a lease from Church of the Covenant, was organized as a cooperative in 1977. In 1982 Arthur Dion was hired as director and soon became sole owner. With a commitment to painting and studio furniture it prevails on what was formerly Boston's gallery row. Now director emeritus Dion stepped away from daily management. As part of compiling an oral history of contemporary art in Boston, Dion shared insights of his remarkable career.
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Home Alone Front Page
Coping with Self Isolation
By: - Mar 21st, 2020I was joking with one of my daughters this morning about masks. She works in law enforcement, and was sharing a few stories about people who have called 911 about running low on toilet paper, and people who have come to her station to complain about a spouse who won't take this "virus thing" seriously. She wears a department-issued N95 mask, but she asked me if I knew where she could get a mask to protect her from stupid
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More Zombie Formalism Front Page
Do the Right Thing
By: - Mar 21st, 2020Artists without faces. Or what do you hang your hat on? Jean Gabin, Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz and John Currin.
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Country Singer Kenny Rogers Front Page
Performed at the Colonial in 2012
By: - Mar 21st, 2020The Gambler, country music star Kenny Rogers, has passed at 81. In September, 2012 he made a rare Berkshire appearance at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. This is how we covered him at the time.
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Sicilian Strategy Word
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Seventh Seal Front Page
Playing Chess with Death
By: - Mar 14th, 2020Recently, on Turner Classic Movies, I saw Ingmar Bergman’s iconic 1957 film Seventh Seal. That was before the death of the actor Max Von Sydow or the widening global pandemic. Yet again there is the contrast of art and artifice. Art is a means of navigating the collape of the American Empire in real time and vivid color. When this passes what will be left of our arts, culture and way of life? How will we pick up the pieces of a new order? Will the elections of 2020 be yet another cancellation? Is this Apocalypse Now?
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Mishima and Williams Celebrated in P'Town Front Page
The 14th Annual 2019 Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
By: - Mar 14th, 2020A day late and a dollar short, NY critic, Edward Rubin, is notorious for blowing off deadlines. By now the September, 2019 14th Annual Tennessee Williams Theater Festival is a faded memory. Arguably a rose pressed between the pages of a book. But here in loving detail Rubin posts a definitively detailed, documentary account of an historic event. It also serves as a preview of what to expect this September. By then, hopefully, the virus will have passed and we will enjoy the last gasp of summer with magnificent theatre and high jinks by the sea.
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