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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Provincetown Art Association and Museum Front Page
Announces Annual Artists Grants
By: - Jun 19th, 2026The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant is awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need. The mission of this grant is to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art, and to encourage interest in painters who lack adequate recognition.
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Heavy/Light Front Page
Annual Kingston Associates Show
By: - Jun 18th, 2026Making art in a sharply polarized, hyper-political moment, HEAVY / LIGHT is less about choosing a side and more about choosing a stance toward the noise itself. Artists, as culture bearers, face a persistent tension – to ignore the churn of daily politics and risk irrelevance, to engage it directly and risk becoming didactic, or to translate the deeper emotional and social currents beneath it into something more enduring.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air Front Page
Calculating the Days
By: - Jun 18th, 2026To Joey, barely eleven years old in 1962, flipping a penny one million times did not seem an unreasonable task. He wasn't sure how big it was—he knew it was big—but it was a number he'd heard people use in connection with lots of things, so it had to have an end. Some people, like Diane's father, even made a million dollars in one year.
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Consistency in the Ordinary Front Page
By: - Jun 16th, 2026This is the second writing in the trilogy, a supporting essay to The Alchemical Ash. The third will come in two weeks.
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Clark Shows Works on Paper Front Page
CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings
By: - Jun 15th, 2026CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings draws almost entirely from the Clark’s collection, bringing together a vast range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of life along the shore
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Barrington Stage Company Receives Grant Front Page
From Shubert Foundation
By: - Jun 15th, 2026Barrington Stage Company, is the recipient of a $125,000 grant from The Shubert Foundation. Granted in the category of Theatre, the award will support key programming in BSC’s 2026 season. The award represents a $5,000 increase over last year’s grant.
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Berkshire Artist Morgan Bulkeley at 81 Front Page
Had 2018 Retrospective at Berkshire Museum
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Berkshire artist, Morgan Bulkeley, died on May 11 after a long illness. He was 81. Bulkeley was known for whimsical narrative work in a variety of media from painting to carved relief and free-standing sculpture. He graduated from Yale where he majored in literature. That led to an auto-didactic approach. Approachable and understated he was admired and appreciated by a circle of friends in Boston and the Berkshires. What follows is a review of his 2018 retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. There is going to be a memorial service for him on July 18th.
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Henry Ferrini of Gloucester Writers Center Front Page
Founding Director to Retire
By: - Jun 14th, 2026In a newsletter Henry Ferrini wrote "As many of you know, I am retiring on June 30th as Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. As one of its founders, I wanted to share a little origin story of how Vincent's home became the community's house."
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood Front Page
48th Annual Outdoor Exhibition
By: - Jun 11th, 2026On June 15, Chesterwood will open its 48th annual outdoor Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood exhibition on the grounds of the summer home of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931). This year’s exhibition, In the Open: New England Sculptors Reclaim the Land, features works by twenty-two artists from across New England and New York, amplifying some of the region’s most compelling voices in contemporary sculpture. The exhibit runs through October 31.
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Nike: Form Follows Motion, Front Page
Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Jun 11th, 2026This fall, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents Nike: Form Follows Motion, marking the U.S. premiere of the first ever comprehensive museum exhibition on the world’s most influential sports brand.
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Outside In Front Page
Berkshires Gallery + Creative Studio
By: - Jun 10th, 2026Outside In is a group exhibition inspired by the landscapes, gardens, changing light, and quiet moments that shape life in the Berkshires as the artists see it. Through painting, photography, and other media, regional artists explore not only the beauty of the natural world around us, but the ways those experiences become part of who we are. The exhibition features the work of Elizabeth Buttler, Diane Firtell, Monica Miller Link, Diane Pearl, and the late photographer Hal Schwartz.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air Front Page
Typhoon George
By: - Jun 10th, 2026The thought caught Joey, broadside. Yeah, he mused, slumping back into the plush leather sofa George's company thoughtfully provided out in reception, maybe that's it? He's being fired.
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World Premiere of The Zionists: A Family Storm Front Page
Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jun 10th, 2026Barrington Stage Company (Alan Paul, Artistic Director; Greg Reiner, Executive Director) will present the world premiere of The Zionists: A Family Storm, a gripping new play by acclaimed playwright S. Asher Gelman (Afterglow), directed by Chloe Treat and produced in association with Miami New Drama. Performances run June 16 through July 3 at the Boyd-Quinson Stage, with opening night set for June 20.
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Breathing Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo Front Page
Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams
By: - Jun 04th, 2026As you enter the Eclipse Mill Gallery the impact of Breathing and Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo, packs an immediate visual wallop.
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Death of a Salesman on Broadway Front Page
Underwhelming
By: - Jun 04th, 2026Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in Death of a Salesman sounds like ideal casting; and Lane is giving a fine performance. But this production under the direction of Joe Mantello Arthur left me unmoved.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air Front Page
The Blemish
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026Sarah's 1936 penny had not aged a day during the intervening quarter-century since she had purchased it. She had not let it. The meaning it held for her was still as clear as it had been on August the twenty-sixth, the day she bought it, brand spanking new, a souvenir of her eleventh wedding anniversary which fell on that day
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Yo Yo Ma at Tanglwood Front Page
We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026Yo-Yo Ma joins Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and special guests in We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future, a weeklong residency curated by Ma. This series of concerts, conversations, and gatherings (Aug. 1–9) offers a window into Ma’s perspective on the American experiment, inviting us to celebrate community and common purpose, consider our relationship to one another and to the land we share, and imagine a hopeful future.
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Chesterwood Summer Program Front Page
Historic Home and Estate in Stockbrdge
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026This season’s performing arts series showcases programs in music, dance, literature, poetry, and theater, with highlights including Boston Baroque’s The X-Tet, Reson8 Vocal Octet, Great Barrington Public Theater, the New England Poetry Club, a panel discussion on patriotism with former Governor Deval Patrick, former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin Baron, Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth, and historian Kendra Field
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Affordable Housing by Design Front Page
Revisiting the Eameses Modular Dream
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026Revisiting the Eameses’ modular dream at a moment when policy, economics, and architecture are under pressure to deliver.
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Who is Eartha Mae Front Page
One Woman Show Portrays Eartha Kitt
By: - Jun 02nd, 2026Jade Wheeler may not look a lot like actor and singer Eartha Kitt but she sure makes you believe the distinctive entertainer is on stage at Urbanite Theatre in her one-woman show “Who is Eartha Mae?”
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The Alchemical Ash Front Page
Part One of Three
By: - Jun 02nd, 2026The scholar had spent three years tracing the lineage of a single, rare manuscript on the Heavenly Horse Water Form. When he finally tracked the old teacher to a drafty shack in the northern hills, he carried the text in a silk-lined case like a holy relic. He wanted to debate the translation of the third stanza. He wanted definitions.
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Driving Miss Daisy Is a Blast in Pittsfield Front Page
Debra Jo Rupp Sizzles in Iconic Role
By: - Jun 01st, 2026Debra Jo Rupp is regarded as a cherished treasure of Berkshire Theatre. She is truly magnificent in the Barrington Stage Company production directed with precise authority by Julianne Boyd. There is a superb supporting cast of Ray Anthony Thomas as her chauffeur Hoke and Matthew W. Koreinko as her businessman son, Boolie Wertham. In the intimate St. Germain Stage we are close enough to observe every twist and turn of richly nuanced performances,
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Florida Arts Funding Front Page
Fewer Non Profits Get Support
By: - Jun 01st, 2026The budget provides $20 million in programming support, less than half of the $51 million recommended by the Florida Council on Arts and Culture to fully fund grants for 563 non-profit organizations.
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Stephen Hannock’s Phosphorescent Paintings Front Page
Then and Now Spanning Four Decades
By: - May 30th, 2026As a youngster in the 1970s, he’s now 75, Stephen Hannock boldly experimented with glow in the dark phosphorescent paint. Last night, during a private viewing at Porches, he told me that, back in the day, he had shown the work at night on Boston’s Esplanade, as well as at Williams College Art Museum.
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American Players Theatre Front Page
2026 Tony Award’s Regional Theater Tony
By: - May 29th, 2026On June 7, American Players Theatre administrators will accept the 2026 Tony Award’s Regional Theater Tony, which comes with an official, gleaming statuette and a $25,000 prize. According to APT’s communications director, the company is “over the moon” about this recognition.
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