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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:

  • Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernis Front Page

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum

    By: PAAM - Jul 22nd, 2025

    Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.

  • The Quiet Feast Front Page

    Finding the Dao in Solitude

    By: Cheng Tong - Jul 22nd, 2025

    Laozi reminds us in the Tao Te Ching of the utility of emptiness: “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” A life cluttered with noise and perpetual engagement leaves no room for the spirit to reside

  • Sarasota Ballet Company at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page

    Works by Sir Frederick Ashton

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 21st, 2025

    For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in a decade the Sarasota Ballet Company presented two works by Sir Frederick Ashton and a world premiere by Jessica Lang, Sir Frederick Ashton (born 1904, Guayaquil, Ecuador—died 1988, Sussex, England) was the principal choreographer and director of England’s Royal Ballet, the repertoire of which includes about 30 of his ballets.

  • The Dishwasher Dialogues: Rags Front Page

    But Not Riches

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jul 21st, 2025

    For an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of a play by Greg the set of painted rags was conceived by Rafael. It was cheap and easy to transport. Looking out over a mountain of rags, however, the audience consisted of a single individual. They attributed lack of success to their unflinching artistic integrity.

  • Stephen Petronio Company at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    Signs Off After 40 Years

    By: Pillow - Jul 15th, 2025

    As a highlight of the 93rd Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the world-renowned Stephen Petronio Company—one of the biggest names in the postmodern dance scene—will conclude their 40-year run with a highly anticipated program in the Ted Shawn Theatre, July 23-27. These capstone performances will feature a collection of Petronio’s favorite works, including MiddleSexGorge (1990) and American Landscapes (2019).

  • The Dao of Push Hands Front Page

    Cultivating Suppleness and Wisdom

    By: Cheng Tong - Jul 15th, 2025

    At its core, push hands is a two-person training drill designed to develop sensitivity, balance, and the ability to neutralize and issue force. Partners maintain continuous contact, typically at the wrists or forearms, and engage in a gentle yet focused exchange.

  • Trinity Irish Dance Company Front Page

    Featured for the First Time at Jacob's Pillow

    By: Pillow - Jul 14th, 2025

    Although American based, the world touring company Trinity Irish Dance Company is rooted in traditions of step dancing and music. The unique vision has been to expand the program from folk forms to creating works with progressive vision that puts it on level ground with leading contemporary companies. The dances are exquisite, unique, intricate, and challenging.

  • The Dishwasher Dialogues: Les Droits de l'homme Front Page

    Patriotism and Passports

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jul 13th, 2025

    I always felt the simple visitor’s stamp on my passport gave me just enough right to live in Paris until the next visitor’s stamp. I never contemplated the idea of citizenship or even having a carte de travail.

  • fuzzy at Barrington Stage Company Front Page

    A World Premiere Musical

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 13th, 2025

    The musical fuzzy is a puppet show for adults. This inventive production breaks all the rules. The one act play has been written, it seems, by the main character. The charm of this production is that the audience comes to believe that.

  • Fred Wilson Reflections Front Page

    Rose Art Museum

    By: Rose - Jul 09th, 2025

    Fred Wilson has gained widespread recognition for his groundbreaking artistic practice, which challenges dominant assumptions about history and culture. Working across a range of media—including sculpture, installation, painting, and glass—Wilson is best known for his conceptual interventions that expose the ways museums, archives, and institutions shape our understanding of the past. By reframing cultural narratives and recontextualizing objects, often drawn from historical collections or everyday life.

  • Gabielle Munter at the Guggenheim Front Page

    First NY Museum Exhibition in Thirty Years

    By: Guggenheim - Jul 08th, 2025

    Gabrielle Münter was a critical figure in the advancement of modernism in early twentieth-century Europe. Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments.

  • LA Company Bodytraffic at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    Fourth Visit Since 2013

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 07th, 2025

    Bodytraffic was founded in 2007 in Los Angeles by Tina Finkelman Berkett and Lilian Barbeito. They made their Jacob’s Pillow debut on the outdoor stage in 2013. They returned two more times including appearing in the Doris Duke Theater. For this season they were invited to perform in the Ted Shawn Theatre.  

  • The Dishwasher Dialogues: Philosophy Front Page

    Derrida, Wittgenstein and Love in Paris  

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jul 07th, 2025

    Stephen loved philosophy. I remember he and I arguing over Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations during the rehearsals for One Day in May. Well, it wasn’t so much an argument as me shouting ‘Wittgenstein, what do you know about Wittgenstein?’

  • Vincent Valdez at MASS MoCA Front Page

    Contemporary Social Realism

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 06th, 2025

    A second generation Mexican American, Victor Valdez, was a prodigy who with a mentor was painting public murals at the age of 10. Now at mid career the remarkable artists is the subject of a riveting retrospective at MASS MoCA. It features a 30' panorama of hooded Ku Klux Klan members.

  • About Time by Maltby and Shire Front Page

    At Goodspeed

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jul 05th, 2025

    About Time, the new Maltby and Shire revue that recently completed a run at About Time, the new Maltby and Shire seems inevitable, given that the pair previously composed the revues Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) and Closer Than Ever (1989).While Starting Here’s songs dealt with starting out in a big city and finding romance, Closer Than Ever’s songs dealt with subjects related to mid-life.

  • Camelot at Barrington Stage Company Front Page

    Utopian Message for Hard Times

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 04th, 2025

    Camelot, a lesser work by Lerner & Loewe with its utopian vision of a medieval kingdom, came to signify the youthful and energetic presidency of John F. Kennedy. It has been revised by Alan Paul and Barrington Stage Company as contrast to the current evil empire and faint hope that a better America has been and will be again.

  • Jacob's Pillow Week Four Front Page

    Doris Duke Theatre Repoens

    By: Pillow - Jul 03rd, 2025

    Jacob’s Pillow welcomes Andrew Schneider and collaborators to present the world premiere of HERE in the Doris Duke Theatre from July 16-20, marking the first week-long performance run in the newly-opened venue, and the first time since 2019 that the summer dance festival has presented works in all three venues on its iconic site in the Berkshires.

  • Shakespeare & Company Gala 2025 Front Page

    Honoring Annette Miller and John Douglas Thompson

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 30th, 2025

    Gala 25 of Shakespeare & Company honored alumni of its Center for Acting Training, Annette Miller and John Douglas Thompson. Both are distinguished “lifers” who have been with the company for more than 20 years.

  • Americans in Paris 1970s Front Page

    Dishwasher Dialogues

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jun 29th, 2025

    Chez Haynes had a counterpoint, of sorts, in the American Center in Paris. Not only by virtue of it hosting jazz concerts in its heyday a decade earlier, but also because of its focus on experimental theatre, dance, and poetry and its welcoming of young writers and performers. The Center was down on my side of Paris, 261 Boulevard Raspail, not far from the Tour Montparnasse; back then a brand-new monolithic beast (which ended up saving Paris from further skyscraper assault).

  • The Center Will Not Hold: A Dorrance Dance Production Front Page

    Launches 2025 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Season

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 28th, 2025

    The 2025 Jacob’s Pillow season was launched in the Ted Shawn Theatre by a Festival favorite the Dorrance Dance company. Although the signature tap dance of Michelle Dorrance was an element, the evening long performance “The Center Will Not Hold” was unlike anything previously presented by the company.

  • Doris Duke Theatre Reopens Front Page

    Jacob's Pillow Celebrates

    By: Pillow - Jun 26th, 2025

    Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival announces the start of an exciting new era with the much anticipated opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre, a transformational space to support the future of dance. Occupying the site of the former studio theater, which was destroyed by fire in November 2020, the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre is set to become one of the most technologically advanced theaters in the world dedicated to dance.  

  • World Premiere of Long Days Front Page

    Legacy Theatre in Branford

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 25th, 2025

    The closing night of a show can be fraught with emotions. Cast and crew members have worked hard for weeks through rehearsals and performances. Friendships and feuds have developed. Add in an emotionally demanding play such as Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, and everything is intensified.

  • Provincetown Artists: An Oral History Front Page

    Spectacular Nature Inspired Generations of Leading Artists

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 25th, 2025

    Artists came to study with the renowned teachers Charles Hawthorne, E. Ambrose Webster then later Henry Hensche and Hans Hofmann. The Provincetown Art Association was founded in 1914 and thrives under current director Christine McCarthy. The book includes essays and interviews from the 1980s through the present. Major artists, galleries and movements are vividly profiled. The summer long Forum '49 workshopped the emergence of abstract expressionism. In the 1950s the small but seminal Sun Gallery showcased 100 emerging artists. It was followed by the influential Long Point Gallery. Meet the whimsical conceptual artist Jay Critchley who has raised millions for charity. Much has changed but this book focuses on a golden age on Cape Cod.

  • An Uncarved Block Front Page

    Awareness of Being

    By: Cheng Tong - Jun 24th, 2025

    The pure awareness of being. You leave yourself behind, and become part of the whole of creation; leaving your ego behind, you simply are. Nothing to strive for, nothing to become, there is only presence. You simply are. No longer trapped in your mind, you can observe your thoughts, emotions and reactions without being swept away by them. You are not your thoughts, you are the observer of them.

  • Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery Front Page

    Assemble 1 Features Four Artists

    By: Cosmos - Jun 23rd, 2025

    Assemble I also celebrates the limitless nature of collage across two- and three-dimensional forms, with diverse textures, materials, and execution styles. Each of our artists offers a distinct, inventive vision. Brad Greenwood, Los Angeles, merges his superb drawing skills with collage, placing the erotic fox often into the mix. Hans Pundt is our local, prolific collage artist of all mediums. His COSMOS Gallery window display welcomes all into this special world.