By CHARLES GIULIANO Moments after leaving the Thomas Hirschhorn exhibition “Utopia, Utopia=One World, One War, One Army, One Dress,” which will be on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston through January 16, 2006, I encountered a woman passing…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Over the years, some of my Beer and Burger meetings with artist Martin Mugar have been epic. Early on, when we first met, there was a hilarious gonzo evening, with copious vino, at the elegant Algonquin Club,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Last night I caught up with Linda Norden, the first curator of contemporary art at the venerable Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. Yes, we did have beers but opted instead of burgers to…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In October, Gallery NAGA, on Boston’s Newbury Street, will present an exhibition of new work by Robert Ferrandini. Since his stroke in October, 2001 the gallery has shown and sold paintings and drawings from…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Looking through stacks of paintings leaning against the walls of the Brooklyn studio of John L. Moore there were several persistent forms drawn in black, painterly outline against solid red, blue or white grounds.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article “If you look at an image of a rock and the shadow that it casts, what happens when you remove the rock and focus on the shadow? Or remove the shadow and leave the…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Currently Rick Harlow, my next door neighbor in the Eclipse Mill artist/ loft building in North Adams, Massachusetts is spending a month among the indigenous people of Colombia. Recently, he worked for a couple…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article When Jane Farver left the position of chief curator at the Queens Museum to become director of the MIT-List Visual Arts Center in 1999, I wrote a Perspective piece for Art New England. She…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article It was with great relief that we pulled into the driveway behind a wall along a country road in rural New Mexico near Albuquerque. Finding the home of Jaune Quick to See Smith and…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In the studio are large, figurative, plywood cutouts, meant to be free-standing, that Ric Haynes is about to pack up and drive to the Bradley Academy of Visual Arts in York, Pennsylvania. An exhibition…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article This summer exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art brings to Boston, some for the very first time, a stunning array of A list American and international art stars. It was riveting to get…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Because of the daunting exchange of dollars for euros, for the first time in fifteen years, Charles Giuliano opted not to make the annual trip to Europe. Instead he and his wife, Astrid, opted…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Mary Ellen Strom: The Nudes Judi Rotenberg Gallery Through May 7 Corporate Commands Space 200 Through April 29 Denise Marika: Detritus Howard Yezerski Gallery Through May 24 Some time back we wrote a Beer…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article While walking through the National Gallery some years ago from some distance across a large space I spotted an unfamiliar synthetic cubist painting from Picasso’s studio series. From afar there was something off about…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Randall Deihl: An American Realist R. Michelson Galleries 132 Main Street, Northampton, MA Through May 20 When the 19th century artist Gustave Courbet was asked why he did not paint angels like others in…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article As the weather warms up, Charles Giuliano has made himself a busy man. In the past month he has put together several great interviews. Sculptor Peter Reginato talks about his latest show; Sophia Ainslie…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Charles Giuliano is willing to sacrifice his liver for a good interview. Recently, he began publishing his Beer and Burgers series, in which he sits down with those involved in Boston’s arts and takes…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Redefining Boston Expressionism Asked if he is a Boston Expressionist in a tradition that started most notably with Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine and Karl Zerbe back in the 1930s, the artist/ painter Gerry Bergstein…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Speed, Style and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Curated by Darcy Kuronen March 6 through July 3, 2005 Usually I enjoy tuning in to Emily Rooney who…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Beer and Burgers With: Camilo Alvarez, director of Samson Projects Currently showing: iDominicanzo- The New Dominican Wave in Art This piece launches a new series “Beer and Burgers With…” For several years I have…