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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A Wake for Woke Front Page
Trump's Assault on the Arts
By: - Dec 13th, 2025During the next five year cycle when conceiving and funding ambitious exhibitions, administrators, foundations and trustees will keep a watchful eye on potential offenses against the government’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues He Volunteered as a Kamikaze Front Page
Dwarfs Visited Chez Leroy
By: - Dec 13th, 2025As a young man, he had volunteered as a kamikaze pilot. It was a great honor for his family, he said. The day he was supposed to fly his suicide mission, the war ended, and he was grounded. It was terrible, Namio told us, so shameful for him and his family.
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All Is Calm Front Page
Must See at Playhouse on Park
By: - Dec 13th, 2025Must see theatre at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford.
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MFA Opens New Contemporary Galleries Front Page
Gift of Wyss Foundation
By: - Dec 13th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that a suite of new galleries dedicated to modern art will open to the public on December 13. Four new spaces will be unveiled on the first floor of the Museum’s Evans Wing, each showcasing works from the 20th century that include highlights from the MFA’s collection, new acquisitions, and rarely seen loans from private holdings.
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Decentering Whiteness Front Page
A Museum Makeover
By: - Dec 12th, 2025A recovering art critic once asked after reading the 1619 Project, “Why don’t you hate all white people?” I asked, “What is a white person anyway?” We realized our identities are far more complex than the containers imposed on us. Whiteness is a burden, built on supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, slavery, and global violence.
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Art Front Page
In the Eye of the Beholder
By: - Dec 11th, 2025In any long-term relationship, patterns of behavior, control, dominance, and power are fixed. But when one person begins to change the unwritten contract, it causes ripples. The other person often retaliates or fights back to reestablish the status quo.
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Clark Art Institute Front Page
Announces 2026 Season
By: - Dec 09th, 2025The Clark Art Institute announces its exhibition schedule through 2026. The lineup includes the first public presentation of the Aso O. Tavitian Collection with an exhibition featuring selected highlights from the 331 works of art that were given to the Clark in 2024.
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Patricia Hills: Art World Feminist Front Page
A Lively and Insightful Memoir
By: - Dec 06th, 2025Now in her late 80s. Patricia Hills overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the leading scholars and curators of American art. I knew her as a radical leftist feminist at Boston University. This intriguing and insightful memoir chronicles that daunting journey. The book conflates her life as wife and mother with struggles in academia which regarded the study of American art as "too easy." As a force majeure she trained a generation of Americanist scholars and curators.
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Chess Revived on Broadway Front Page
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Shakespeare & Company Holiday Show Front Page
Austen's Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill,
By: - Dec 04th, 2025Shakespeare & Company’s traditional winter show returns this year with Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, a fast-paced, staged reading wherein the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic tale come to life. This year, the Austen-inspired production coincides with her 250th birthday on December 16.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues Awkward Tangos in Paris Front Page
Celebrity and the WC
By: - Dec 03rd, 2025I learned quite a bit about famous people from the way they treated the bartender. The ones who were polite were relaxed, I could sometimes tell just by the way they moved or sat at the bar waiting for the staff to prepare their table––that they were at ease in their skin, as the French expression goes, bien dans leur peau.
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Jared Abner Hauntology Front Page
Boston's HallSpace
By: - Dec 03rd, 2025HallSpace presents Hauntology an exhibition of wood sculpture by Jared Abner. This is Abner’s first solo exhibition at HallSpace. In 2021, he was in a 2-person show.
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The Effortless Flow of Existence Front Page
Surrender and the Cosmic Drive
By: - Dec 02nd, 2025Is the large Norway maple in my garden trying to be alive? What specifically is it doing right this moment to be alive? The answer, if we are honest, is that the tree is doing nothing but allowing. It is not trying to push sap. It is not struggling to expand its canopy or striving to gather light. It is simply allowing the forces of the earth and sun to move through it. It exists in a state of perfect Wu Wei—actionless action.
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Berkshire Opera Festival Front Page
Announces 2026 Season
By: - Dec 02nd, 2025Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) announces its 2026 summer season under the vision of Co-founders Brian Garman (William E. Briggs Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production), and new President and CEO Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. In its 11th year, the company remains unique in the culturally rich Berkshires for producing opera at the highest level.
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Susan Cross of MASS MoCA Front Page
Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Susan Cross has been appointed to the new position of Director of Curatorial Affairs at MASS MoCA following a nationwide search.
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Oedipus Rex on Broadway Front Page
Outstanding British Production
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Mark Strong is magnificent as Oedipus – a mixture of arrogance and moral certainty and idealism. It is a powerful combination. Yet he can be ruthless and cruel, and always needs to be right; often angry at Creon, his campaign manager and Jocasta’s brother, played by a fine David Carroll Lynch.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Pig Alley and Street Theatre Front Page
They weren't Wearing Gestapo Uniforms
By: - Nov 27th, 2025One night, I remember hearing loud American voices on the street outside the restaurant. A table of three or four had just left the restaurant and now they were outside the front door, upset about something. Suddenly, one of them swept back in through the red curtains and saloon doors and looked up at me and demanded directions to Pigalle, which she pronounced in a sharp New York accent as ‘Pig Alley’. ‘Where is Pig Alley?’ she demanded. ‘I didn’t come all this way to miss Pig Alley.’
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Peabody Essex Museum Front Page
19th Century Sculptor Edmonia Lewis
By: - Nov 24th, 2025The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of acclaimed 19th-century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis. 30 sculptures by Lewis from public and private collections across the United States and abroad will be brought together with a number of additional objects in a range of media, giving visitors an opportunity to learn of Lewis’ mastery of marble and her remarkable, storied life.
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Chorus Line at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
To Be Directed by Alan Paul
By: - Nov 20th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announce that the company’s 2026 season will feature a 50th Anniversary production of A Chorus Line, the legendary Broadway musical that won nine 1976 Tony Awards and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. BSC’s production will be directed by Alan Paul. Additional creative team will be announced soon.
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Dishwasher Dialogues; Cobblestones and the Sorbonne Front Page
Des Lecons D'amour
By: - Nov 19th, 2025Remember that evening, when you were still making salads, and I asked you to slip a folded note under the lettuce? From the bar I had seen these two couples come in with an unaccompanied, elegantly dressed, young woman. The waitress placed them at table five. I asked the waitress serving them to remember the salad the single woman ordered. I went back to you in the kitchen, and said, ‘Greg, slip this in her salad, it’s a note I wrote to her’.
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Eternity in the Now Front Page
The Perfection of This Complete Moment
By: - Nov 18th, 2025There is a moment in the transition between sleep and wakefulness—a liminal space of deep Stillness—where the voice of the soul often cuts through the static of the day to come. When the mind is truly receptive, it delivers truths unburdened by egoic striving.
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Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 Front Page
At the Clark Art Institute
By: - Nov 17th, 2025The Clark Art Institute presents an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter. Their work encompasses the Gothic nostalgia of architectural photography, the social critique embedded in searing allegorical illustrations, and the literary connections with fantastical art. Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 i
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The New England Experimental Art Group Front Page
Gloucester"s Cosmos Gallery
By: - Nov 17th, 2025COSMOS Gallery’s Unexpected #25 – Unwrapped will feature numerous and diverse artwork by The New England Experimental Art Group. The group is renowned for their innovative pursuit of contemporary art, with no constraints on technique or materials.
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Cape Ann Museum Taken for Granite Front Page
Hammers on Stone: The Granite Industry & Cape Ann
By: - Nov 16th, 2025There is a judicious balance between tools and ephemera of the industry as well as a superb and insightful mix of works from the museum’s collection that further enhance and illustrate this history. Most intriguing was the manner in which granite and the quarries inspired artists.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea Front Page
Blockbuster Reopens Cape Ann Museum in June
By: - Nov 16th, 2025Building on the extraordinary momentum and record attendance generated by the 2023 exhibition Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape, the Cape Ann Museum is pleased to announce a new landmark exhibition, Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, on view from June 30 through September 27, 2026.
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