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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Esther Bell New Clark Director Front Page
Assumes Position in July
By: - Jan 29th, 2026The Board unanimously elected Esther Bell to the position following an extensive international search. Bell will be the first woman in the Clark’s seventy-year history to serve as its director. She succeeds Olivier Meslay, who announced last September that he would be leaving the Clark and returning to his native France in 2026.
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Barrington Stage Update Front Page
Four PLays Added
By: - Jan 28th, 2026Barrington Stage Company announces four titles for the theater’s 2026 season, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classics, one of the greatest theatrical farces ever written, and a world premiere play. More productions, concerts, and cabarets will be announced soon.
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Snow Angels Front Page
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The Effortless Path Front Page
Tree Is Not Trying To Be a Tree It Just Is
By: - Jan 27th, 2026The busybody spirit, constantly attempting to engineer a better outcome or a superior version of one’s being, traps the consciousness in a cycle of tension and insufficiency. This inherent judgment, this constant striving against the current reality, is what consumes our time and energy, diverting us from the deep, undisturbed reservoir of our original nature
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Fresh Grass and Williamstown Theatre Festival Front Page
Cancel 2026 Season
By: - Jan 26th, 2026First Williamstown Theatre Festival and now MASS MoCA's Fresh Grass have cancelled their 2026 seasons.
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Marjorie Prime Front Page
New York's Helen Hayes Theatre
By: - Jan 23rd, 2026What struck me after seeing the incredibly acted production of Marjorie Prime at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City was that these two plays (Your Name Means Dream was the other) use AI to provide companionship to elderly people.
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Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal Front Page
Museum of FIne Arts
By: - Jan 22nd, 2026Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal explores the origins of these popular prints— which have historically been overlooked by the art world—and their powerful impacts on Indian pop culture, religion, and society.
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Thomas Messer and the Early Years of the ICA Front Page
Aborted Plan to Merge with the MFA
By: - Jan 21st, 2026From 1957 to 1961, Thomas Messer was director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and, for part of that time, taught modern art at Harvard. From 1961 to 1988 he was director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. For a time there was a plan to merge the ICA as the modern/ contemporary department of the MFA. The ICA was briefly housed on the second floor of the Museum School. He advised on a couple of adventurous MFA acquisitions. A contemporary department was eventually established in 1971.
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Dishwasher Dialogues American Infantilism Front Page
Capitalist Art Run Amuck
By: - Jan 21st, 2026From the moment I arrived in Paris, I started writing poems. I was disciplined about that. I was under no illusion that I was going to make much selling poems or plays written in English to a French audience. But I was eager to do something with them. The incongruity of coming to Paris to write in English never seriously crossed my mind.
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Art in Bloom at the MFA Front Page
A Fifty Year Tradition
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Framing Nature coincides with the 50th anniversary of Art in Bloom (May 1 through May 3, 2026). This beloved tradition pairs art with floral interpretations created by New England area garden clubs, professional floral designers, and volunteers.
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Photorealism in Focus Front Page
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Emerging in the late 1960s during an era of rapid technological change and inspired by the visual language of commercial imagery, Photorealism took shape as artists such as Richard Estes, Charles S. Bell, Ralph Goings, and others created painstakingly detailed paintings based on photographs that pushed the limits of illusion. These artists challenged traditional hierarchies between photography and painting while capturing the nuanced textures of contemporary experience.
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Cynthia Erivo at Tanglewood Front Page
To Perform with Pops
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning and three-time Academy Award-nominated actress, singer, author, and producer Cynthia Erivo joins the Boston Pops in the 2026 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series schedule.
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10 by Satch Front Page
New Black Eagle Jazz Band
By: - Jan 16th, 2026The New Black Eagle Jazz Band brings faithful recreations of Armstrong’s music to the Berkshires, performing ten of his most notable numbers in this cabaret concert (dancing optional; to some, it will be inevitable), on Friday evening, Feb. 20, 2026, 7:30pm. Part of Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.
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Yinka Shonibare's Sanctuary Front Page
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jan 16th, 2026The installation consists of 18 scaled-down replicas of historical and contemporary buildings that have served—and, in many cases, continue to serve—as places of refuge for persecuted and vulnerable groups or individuals. These structures range from ancient temples and medieval cathedrals to modern safe houses and shelters.
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Theatre of Mischief Front Page
Looking For Samuel Beckett
By: - Jan 16th, 2026The Boulevard Saint Jacques wasn’t that long, it ended at Rue de la Santé. I forget where exactly, and after three or four attempts, we walked into a lobby, and read the names on the mailboxes. And there it was. Samuel Beckett.
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10 x 10 At Barrington Stage Front Page
Winter Theatre Quickies
By: - Jan 16th, 2026With a cast of Barrington Stage Company favorites, BSC presents 10 fast-paced plays full of drama, comedy, wit, and irreverence, in its annual 10x10 New Play Festival, the cornerstone of Pittsfield’s Upstreet Winter Arts Festival. Now in its fifteenth year, 10x10 will run for five weeks, from February 12 through March 15, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center in Downtown Pittsfield.
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Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 Front Page
ICA Boston
By: - Jan 15th, 2026Founded in 1977 by influential artist, educator, and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr., the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) at Northeastern University is one of the few longstanding residency programs for Black artists in the United States. For nearly five decades, AAMARP has stood at the intersection of art, activism, and community.
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The Mount and Straw Dog Writers Guild Front Page
Nine Writers Residences
By: - Jan 13th, 2026The Mount and Western Massachusetts’ Straw Dog Writers Guild announce the nine writers selected for the 2026 Residency for Emerging Writers.
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The True Purpose of Practice Front Page
Cultivating the Inner Silence
By: - Jan 13th, 2026We practice not to achieve, but to allow. We practice to become the perfectly still, clear vessel, prepared to receive and reflect the endless wonder of the effortless flow.
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Tina Packer's Epic Women of Will Front Page
Five Three Hour Performances
By: - Jan 10th, 2026During a remarkable career one of the greatest accomplishments of Tina Packer was her epic series the five part Women of Will. She started writing the extracted texts while a fellow at The Bunting Institute. After she retired as artistic director of Shakespeare & Company she was able to focus on the project. She performed with male partners from the Company at various stages of development. I saw the series performed with Nigel Gore.
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Tina Packer Co Founder of Shakespeare & Company Front Page
September 29, 1938- January 9, 2026
By: - Jan 10th, 2026Tina co-founded Shakespeare & Company in 1978 along with a cadre of theater artists, served as its Artistic Director until 2009, and continued to direct, teach, and advocate for the Company until her passing. Her indelible creativity will be carried forward by countless artists, students, colleagues, admirers, and friends, and her influence on the world of Shakespeare will be enduring.
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The Dishwasher Dialogue, In the Red Darkness I Fainted Front Page
The Almost Bearable Lightness of Being
By: - Jan 09th, 2026I exposed the photo-canvas to my image and then instead of developing it in the bath I laid out the canvas on the floor, dipped a fat brush in the developer and painted abstractly on the canvas, thick strokes, thin ones, drips here and there and so on. And as I expected here’s what happened. Only in the areas where I had applied the developer with my brush did the image or part of the image appear. On other canvases I applied the developer on the exposed canvas with my hands and in some cases with my body.
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Renowned Architect Frank Gehry at 96 Front Page
Comment on His Passing
By: - Jan 04th, 2026On December 5, 2025, world-acclaimed architect Frank Gehry died at the age of 96. Not since his even more celebrated predecessor, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, passed away in 1959 has so much praise, adulation, and press attention been given to a star American architect.
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The Universal Religion Front Page
Dismantling the Altar of I-ism
By: - Dec 30th, 2025I-ism is the religion of the self, the worship of the ego. It is a faith where the “I” is the central deity, the mind is the high priest, and our desires and fears are the liturgy we recite daily. Unlike other religions that require a conversion, we are initiated into I-ism the moment we first say the word “mine.”
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Dishwasher Dialogues: Drink Overture of Days Front Page
Driving Backwards in Paris
By: - Dec 27th, 2025My grandmother died and left me a thousand dollars; and I bought the second-hand VW. It was a change in my life. A big change. No more carte orange, remember? And parking was no problem in those days in Paris. Nobody ever paid their parking tickets.
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