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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New Human Species Identified Front Page
Not Fossil Remains, but Living Today
By: - Mar 16th, 2026Conventional wisdom says that after millions of years of evolution, Homo sapiens is the sole surviving species of human. But in his book Fire in a Wire, Berkshires-based author Steven Reed Nelson disagrees.
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Asolo Luminary Award Front Page
Tony-winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
By: - Mar 13th, 2026Since they first met at a musical theater workshop in 1982, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have become two of the most important contributors to musical theater. They won Tony Awards in 1998 for their score to “Ragtime,” were nominated for Academy Awards and Golden Globes Awards for the animated film “Anastasia” and have enjoyed success with such shows as “Seussical,” “Once On This Island” and the Broadway version of “Anastasia.”
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Art and Love in Paris Front Page
A Fabulous Bubble
By: - Mar 11th, 2026I think I returned to Europe because I felt less of an exile here. It has nothing to do with passports. I think, at times, that exiles don’t exist. They’re a useful concept for people who exist in places between places. They don’t have any coordinates, no national longitudes, and latitudes.
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The Mount and NY's Grace Church Collaborate Front Page
Wharton's Roman Fever a New Opera
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Mount and Grace Church Celebrate Edith Wharton with a One-Night-Only Event on April 9th in NYC – Adapting Wharton: The Operatic Reimagining of Roman Fever
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Sarasota's Asolo Repertory Theatre Front Page
Promises Greatest Season on Earth
By: - Mar 10th, 2026Boasting in the promotional style of P.T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers, Asolo Repertory Theatre promises “The Greatest Season on Earth” for 2026-27 with two world premieres, including one about Sarasota’s rich circus history.
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Jason Berger at Childs Gallery Front Page
A Founder of Boston's Direct Vision
By: - Mar 10th, 2026Jason Berger created a gestural style of landscape painting that he promoted as Direct Vision. It relates to French art, where Berger worked with a Traveling Fellowship upon graduation from the Museum School. He and his wife, Marilyn Powers, were active in Newbury Street galleries. The best works were brushy and expressive with saturated color. The white of canvas gave the sense of sketches and watercolors.
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Tanglewood Adds Popular Artists Front Page
Snap Crackle and Pop
By: - Mar 09th, 2026The Tanglewood Popular Artist Series adds three blockbuster shows to this summer’s lineup: Hugh Jackman with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops (August 11, 7 p.m.), Brandi Carlile (August 18, 7 p.m.), and John Fogerty and Steve Winwood (September 6, 7 p.m.).
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Universal Knowledge Word
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Death and Taxes Front Page
Art and Immortality at the Customs Depot
By: - Mar 05th, 2026From the very beginning, I wanted to leave my stamp on the cultural matrix of my time. A word to the wise guy: if, as a painter, immortality isn’t high on your list, then you should do something else.
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The Counter by Meghan Kennedy Front Page
TheatreWorks Hartford
By: - Mar 03rd, 2026Kennedy has written some almost poetic lines. She displays a deep understanding of how bruised people persuade themselves of their own reality. The issues she brings up about love, death, caring and more are done subtlety and in character. No preaching or hitting the audience over the head with a “moral.”
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March Word
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A New Sound for Sarasota Opera Front Page
Under New General Director Richard Russell
By: - Mar 02nd, 2026Audiences should not expect drastic changes, but subtle shifts, like introducing Gilbert and Sullivan for the first time. “I have many guilty pleasures in my life. One of them is ice cream and one of them is Gilbert and Sullivan,” Russell said in the announcement.
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Centenary of Martha Graham Company Front Page
The Sarasota Ballet
By: - Mar 01st, 2026Graham’s death in 1991 led to a protracted legal battle over her work that bankrupted the company and shuttered it for several years; Janet Eilber is credited with turning things around by showcasing masterpieces by Graham alongside newly commissioned works and providing an historical perspective to make them all more accessible.
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Andy Moerlein at Boston Sculptors Front Page
Storyteller's Doubt
By: - Feb 27th, 2026Boston Sculptors Gallery presents A Storyteller’s Doubt, a selection of Andy Moerlein’s newest work on view April 2 – May 3, 2026. Offering larger than life woodcarvings as well as paintings, photographic collage and an immersive installation, the show also features collaborations with two esteemed colleagues.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, I Have Seen Four People Die Front Page
Running with the Bulls
By: - Feb 26th, 2026I have seen four people die in my life so far, that’s it. I want to recount this. The first man I saw die drowned off a beach in Mallorca. When they hauled him out, he was still alive and foaming at the mouth, as if he’d swallowed soap and not seawater. He died a few minutes later. I was eight years old.
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Sarasota Performing Arts Center Front Page
Updated Plans
By: - Feb 19th, 2026It has been just under a year since members of the Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation brought their plan for a new performing arts center within The Bay Park to the Sarasota City Commission, hoping to move the public/private partnership forward toward implementation and a final design. What they got instead was an earful of critiques and a charge to return to the drawing board prior to any vote on a controversial project that’s been part of Sarasota’s bayfront revision plan since its start in 2018.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Groping for Light Front Page
Secrets of the Cave
By: - Feb 18th, 2026The men tried to impress the ladies. We on the staff just raised our eyes and said ‘oh, oh, another major bullshitter’. Few simply said, ‘ahh, c’est un excellent vin’. Oh no, most of them had to embellish with comments about le bouquet, la robe, les larmes, la belle attaque, la couleur, and tra-la-la.
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Frozen Enchants Little Girls Front Page
Adults Not So Much
By: - Feb 18th, 2026Problems begin with the work itself. Frozen does not feature the best music or lyrics. Many of the songs are ho-hum. The story makes the plot of The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast Pulitzer Prize eligible. The music and lyrics don’t elevate the story.
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Masiko Kamiya's Vessels Front Page
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Feb 18th, 2026In this recent series of paintings, Kamiya offers a profound visual translation of the physical self, deeply rooted in her personal experience with bilateral hip dysplasia. As this ailment has grown more acute, her focus has shifted toward a search for dependable balance within the asymmetrical relationship.
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Alexander Calder: The Nature of Movement Front Page
Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota., Florida
By: - Feb 16th, 2026After lunch, my father and I followed Calder down a short path that led to the high-ceilinged studio. which sat on a plateau where the “vultures” I’d noticed from afar, came into view as a flock of stabiles. They were mostly black, a few red, enormous and, despite their stationary nature, seemed as if they were poised to take off at any minute.
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10 x 10 at Barrington Stage Front Page
Brightening Winter Gloom
By: - Feb 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. Get tickets now as this usually sells out.
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ICA Director Sue Thurman Front Page
Thriving on Newbury Street
By: - Feb 13th, 2026From its inception in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art has endured a daunting existential struggle. As late as 1971 the Museum of Fine Arts appointed a part time curator of contemporary art. Lack of interest for modern and contemporary art resulted in a community which did not significantly support institutions, collectors, galleries and artists. The story of the ICA represents the struggle to overcome that indifference. Relocated to Newbury Street, it thrived from 1963-1968 under director Sue Thurman.
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Programming Joy Front Page
Cultural Strategy in an Age of Exhaustion
By: - Feb 12th, 2026I keep returning to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance. Few global artists have been as scrutinized and politicized as he has. His communities remain persistently endangered, and his homeland exists within the long, uneasy tensions of American territorial power. By every expectation of protest performance, that stage could have been a site of fury, a reckoning, an indictment, a civic interrogation broadcast to the largest audience on earth.
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My Funny Valentine Word
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Dracula and the Iron Curtain Front Page
Operation Jungle Book
By: - Feb 11th, 2026If I had been arrested, I would have given up your name in a heartbeat. Even if they didn’t ask me.
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