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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • Barrington Stage Company 2025 Front Page

    Seven Productions on Two Stages

    By: BSC - Feb 07th, 2025

    Barrington Stage Company  is pleased to announce the theatre’s 2025 season which includes seven productions, including two regional premieres and two world premieres.  “Our 2025 season is inspired by the once-and-future leaders of American theatre” commented Alan Paul.

  • Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty Front Page

    Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum

    By: CAM - Feb 06th, 2025

    Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty features photographs inside the Gloucester studio of renowned sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998) and select sculptures by Hancock. He was commissioned to complete the Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, which depicts Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Georgia law states that “the memorial to the heroes of the Confederate States of America graven upon the face of Stone Mountain shall never be altered, removed, concealed, or obscured in any fashion and shall be preserved and protected for all time as a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the citizens of this state who suffered and died in their cause.”

  • Seong-Jin Cho Records Ravel Front Page

    Released by Deutsche Grammophon

    By: BSO - Feb 04th, 2025

    Ravel: The Piano Concertos, in which the pianist is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Andris Nelsons, comes out digitally and on CD on February 21. A deluxe edition presenting the complete recordings will be issued digitally and as a 3-CD box set on May 2. Vinyl versions of the two individual albums will be released later this year. The Piano Concerto in G’s central Adagio assai is available to stream/download beginning  February 7, while the Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn will be released in advance of the deluxe edition, on March 7, the exact anniversary of Ravel’s birth. 

  • Steven Carter’s Eden at Yale Rep Front Page

    Long-forgotten Play

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 04th, 2025

    The play was first produced in 1976, receiving positive off-Broadway reviews and award nominations. It was part of Carter’s The Caribbean Trilogy; the other plays were Nevis Mountain Dew and Dame Lorraine. Carter died in 2020, and his plays have been seldom produced.

  • Diet and Health Front Page

    The Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Medicine

    By: Cheng Tong - Feb 04th, 2025

    The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine (Huangdi Neijing), compiled over 2,400 years ago, remains the leading foundational treatise on Traditional Chinese Medicine.  The Huangdi Neijing addresses all aspects of inner medicine and health, and is required reading for anyone interested in understanding TCM and ancient Chinese culture.

  • Tanglewood 2025 Front Page

    Best of the Berkshires

    By: BSO - Jan 30th, 2025

    In July, BSO Music Director and Head of Conducting at Tanglewood Andris Nelsons leads ten programs and two TLI/TMC Art of Conducting master classes in a schedule that shines a spotlight on a wide spectrum of musical guests and the festival’s rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts at their best since 1937.   

  • Jaune Quick to See Smith at 85 Front Page

    A Mentor and Friend

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 29th, 2025

    In 2005 Astrid and I met with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in her Corrales, New Mexico studio. Several months later she had an exhibition of new works on paper that I curated for New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk University. She remained a mentor and friend with our last e mail exchange, about Katherine Porter, just a month or so ago. She has now died at 85. Jaune was a life long activist, artist and mentor to many. In 2023 she was the first Native American Artist to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Late in life she received long overdue respect and recognition.

  • Best of Theatre 2024 Front Page

    Broadway and Connecticut

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jan 27th, 2025

    Here’s my top shows/performances in New York City in 2024.

  • Kind of Blue: Benny Andrews. Emilio Cruz, Earle M. Pilgrim and Bob Thompson Front Page

    Transcript of Panel at Northeastern University

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 23rd, 2025

    In 1986 I organized an exhibition of four African American artists who lived and worked in Provincetown. That fall Kind of Blue traveled to the gallery of Northeastern University. In Boston there was a panel discussion chaired by Edmund Barry Gaither, then the director of the National Center for African American Artists and an adjunct curator for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to myself, there were two other panelists. Patricia Hills was then a professor of art history at Boston University. She has long championed issues of social justice and wrote a monograph and curated an exhibition of the work of Jacob Lawrence. Dana Chandler is an artist and activist.

  • Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc. Front Page

    Montserrat Gallery in Beverly

    By: Montserrat - Jan 23rd, 2025

    Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy confronts our torrid and complicated history of what it means to be an American and how control of and access to the Land defines our personal and cultural identities. The project moves beyond “farm to table” to “Land to Land” - challenging the corporate supply chain to return to the Land, uncontaminated, from what’s taken. The artist’s project critiques poet Robert Frost’s unabashedly Colonialist poem The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.”

  • WCMA and MOCA Collaborate on Exhibition Front Page

    Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier

    By: WCMA - Jan 22nd, 2025

    Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist, raised in a Swiss village and living between Brooklyn, N.Y., and Williamstown, MA. They work with photography, photographic and filmic archives, and video in a collaborative practice that reinterprets historical events, putting the past into a meaningful transformative relation with the present. They employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care to amplify the systemic failures and violence of the Anthropocene. 

  • Audra McDonald on Broadway in Gypsy Front Page

    Not Her Best Role

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jan 21st, 2025

    I never thought I would have qualms about McDonald’s singing, but her classically trained voice doesn’t really work  in this production. It appears she hasn’t decided whether her Mama Rose is a belter or a more classical soprano. Technically, many of the songs find her trying to combine operatic voice with belting, or as a voice teacher would say, the transition from her chest voice to her head voice isn’t as smooth or as appropriate as it should be.

  • John Wilson at MFA and Met Front Page

    Boston Based African American Artist

    By: MFA - Jan 21st, 2025

    Co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson is the largest-ever exhibition of the artist’s work. Featuring approximately 110 works in a wide range of media—drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and illustrated books—the retrospective explores how Wilson’s work speaks to shared experiences, while also displaying his personal search for identity as an artist, Black man, parent, and American.

  • MCLA Announces The Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts Front Page

    By: MCLA - Jan 17th, 2025

    The Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts is made possible through the generosity of artist and author Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. This transformational gift will support the construction of the Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts on the corner of Porter and Church Streets

  • Ground/work 2025 Front Page

    Outdoor Sculpture at Clark Art Intitute

    By: Clark - Jan 16th, 2025

    Curated by independent art historian Glenn Adamson, Ground/work 2025 features a dynamic range of outdoor presentations by international artists, Akiyama, Laura Ellen Bacon, Aboubakar Fofana, Hugh Hayden, Milena Naef, and Javier Senosiain that respond to the Clark’s unique setting while expressing ideas core to each artist’s individual practice.

  • North Adams Artist Kelsey Shultis Showing in London Front Page

    Young Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 14th, 2025

    North Adams based artist Kelsey Shultis has been selected to exhibit in London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

  • The Vibration of Creation Front Page

    Our Bodies and Spiritual Practices

    By: Cheng Tong - Jan 13th, 2025

    At the most fundamental level, everything in the universe is made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies. From the smallest subatomic particles to the largest celestial bodies, everything is in a constant state of motion, creating a unique vibrational signature. This includes our physical bodies, thoughts, emotions, and even the seemingly empty space around us.

  • Marjorie Kaye's Indivisible Bursts Front Page

    Boston's Galatea Gallery

    By: Galatea - Jan 11th, 2025

    In Marjorie Kaye’s recent body of work, she has been isolating shapes to examine and delve further into their nature.  She is finding limitless potential in particular intuitive algorithms, with an infinite number of patterns that can be determined from the visual arrangement of mathematical suggestions.

  • Clark Art Institute Summer 2025 Front Page

    Exhibitions and Programming

    By: Clark - Jan 09th, 2025

    “Summer 2025 promises to be a dynamic season with an exciting line-up of exhibitions that will bring our galleries and our grounds to life,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “Outdoors, we are looking forward to bringing the second presentation of our Ground/work exhibition to our campus and to introducing our visitors to six remarkable contemporary artists. Indoors, we are offering a rich program that will offer a wide array of exhibitions featuring many artists whose works will be shown here for the first time.”

  • 10X10 New Play Festival Front Page

    Returns to Barrington Stage Company

    By: BSC - Jan 09th, 2025

    The 10X10 New Play Festival has become a cornerstone of Pittsfield’s Winter cultural scene, attracting both seasoned theatre lovers and first-time attendees. Tickets are expected to sell quickly, so early booking is encouraged.

  • Letter from Kathy Porter Front Page

    On the Move

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 06th, 2025

    One of the elements of understanding the artist Katherine Porter was tracking her many moves and motivations. It’s the kind of personal detail that is left out of the writing of critics and most art historians.

  • Artist Activist Benny Andrews Front Page

    From Georgia Sharecropper's Son To NEA Administrator

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 05th, 2025

    Benny Andrews was one of ten children of Georgia sharecroppers. After serving in the Air Force he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill. He showed regularly in Provincetown where we met. He formed a group to protest the racist Harlem on My Mind at the Met. The group helped initiate but subsequently boycotted an exhibition of black artists at the Whitney Museum. Collage was an element in his figurative expressionist works.

  • Vatermal at Maxim Gorki Theater Front Page

    Berlin Premiere Production

    By: Angelika Jansen - Dec 26th, 2024

    It turned out to be an interesting opening on December 21, 2024 at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany. The new play Vatermal, (permanent skin discoloration attributed to his father) transformed from the first novel by Necati Öziris into a play by Hakan Savas Mican, is a sad saga of a young man not getting a chance to live a life of his own.

  • She Loves Me at Long Wharf Front Page

    Gets a Lot Right and Wrong

    By: Karen Isaacs - Dec 22nd, 2024

    Long Wharf’s production of She Loves Me (running through Monday, December 30) gets a lot right; unfortunately, its missteps are a significant detraction from the overall success of the show.

  • Katherine Porter Drawing Front Page

    Lost and Found

    By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 20th, 2024

    In 2023, the last year of her life, and 100th anniversary of surrealism, Katherine Porter sent me a small automatic drawing and a letter. It got lost in the studio's detritus. Recently recovered it offers poignant glimpses into the endgame of her life and work.

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