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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:

  • From Call It in the Air Front Page

    The Obscene Woman

    By: Gregory Light - Sep 24th, 2026

    Joey flopped down on his bed in residence. Joanna’s words prowled in his head; uncomfortably so, like sharp thorns every so often making him wince to temper the sting of their indictment. He knew that she was right. He did make scenes. He was impulsive. He did shout. He was crazy. 'I can't help it,' he had said multiple times in the long debate that circled and cawed in his head like a murder of crows.

  • Gottlieb Painting Acquired by Cape Ann Museum Front Page

    Gift of Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

    By: CAM - Sep 23rd, 2026

    The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation announced that it will donate one of the artist’s oil paintings, Untitled, c. 1936, to the Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection.

  • What a Glorious Feeling by Jay Berkow Front Page

    Musical Based on Making of Film Singing in the Rain

    By: Jay Handelman - Sep 23rd, 2026

    Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”

  • The Open Palm Front Page

    Devotion Without Rigidity

    By: Cheng Tong - Sep 22nd, 2026

    There is a profound difference between dedication and obsession, between steady devotion and spiritual zealotry.

  • Sarasota Contemporary Dance Front Page

    Upcoming Season Its 21st

    By: Carrie Seidman - Sep 20th, 2026

    This year, each of the company’s four mainstage productions will be held at a different venue, with just one at its usual “home” stage, the Jane B. Cook Theater at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts. The most unusual will be a traveling, outdoor, site-specific work.

  • Co-founder Dolly Jacobs Ousted from Circus Arts Conservatory Front Page

    Sarasota Supporters Outraged

    By: Jay Handelman - Sep 18th, 2026

    In the days since Circus Arts Conservatory co-founder Dolly Jacobs’ Sept. 11 announcement that she had been terminated by the organization’s board of directors, fans of the legendary aerialist, supporters of the nonprofit and members of the Sarasota circus community have reacted with shock, outrage and vows to discontinue support for the organization.

  • Indigenous People Film Festival Front Page

    Images in Williamstown

    By: Images - Sep 18th, 2026

    Images Cinema will present a second edition of Indigenous Peoples Film Festival, its series featuring indigenous films from across the US and Canada, beginning Monday, October 5 and continuing weekly on Mondays through October 26th, with a finale on Thursday, October 29.

  • Music Theatre of Connecticut Front Page

    Harmony Opens Season

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 18th, 2026

    The show tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a singing group of six men formed in Germany in the 1920s. Their close harmony and jazzy routines, as well as their humor made them an international success. Tours of Europe led to an appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1932. Best selling recordings led to movie contracts.

  • Come From Away at Sharon PLayhouse Front Page

    A Timely Revival

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 18th, 2026

    Though it seems as though everyone must know the plot of come from Away by now, it is set in Gander, Newfoundland on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days following. Gander, once a major refueling stop for cross Atlantic flights becomes one of the airports that flights that are in the air on 9/11 are directed to when the US airspace is closed. 38 jumbo jets, mostly originating in Europe, are told to land; the 7,000 passengers on board exceed the population of the town.

  • Berkshire Botanical Gardens Harvest Festival Front Page

    Began in 1935

    By: BBG - Sep 18th, 2026

    Each October, the Garden’s 24 acres are transformed for the region’s best-known end-of-season celebration. What began in 1935 as a modest plant and bake sale has grown into a beloved Berkshire tradition featuring family activities, live entertainment, regional food, artisan vendors and hands-on gardening and educational programs.

  • BSO Launches New Program Front Page

    Technology and Our Humanity

    By: BSO - Sep 17th, 2026

    The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces a rich array of humanities events to complement its orchestral programs this fall.

  • Edith Wharton Play Roman Fever Front Page

    Staged Reading at the Mount

    By: Mount - Sep 17th, 2026

    Set against the timeless backdrop of Rome, “Roman Fever” explores friendship, jealousy, betrayal, and the secrets that can reshape a lifetime. In Wharton’s sharply observed story, two longtime friends revisit their shared past, gradually revealing simmering tensions, long-buried secrets, and startling revelations. The reading brings Wharton’s razor-sharp wit and enduring fascination with the complexities of human relationships vividly to life.

  • From Call It in the Air Front Page

    I Can Explain

    By: Gregory Light - Sep 16th, 2026

    Call it whatever you like; fluke, fate; quirk; but there she was, less than twenty-four hours later, casually going about her business in broad daylight. Crossing the street. As if nothing could be more natural.

  • Sarasota Players Fundraise for New Home Front Page

    It Hasn't Been Easy

    By: Jay Handelman - Sep 15th, 2026

    At the Sept. 10 ceremony, the theater company broke with tradition to kick off the launch of Payne Park Auditorium and the fundraising campaign by plugging in a ghost light, which has been part of theatrical history and superstition since the 19th century.

  • MFA Celebrity Lectures Front Page

    Ruth and Carl Shapiro Sponsored Series

    By: MFA - Sep 15th, 2026

    Join us for a series of exciting lectures that brings the greatest names in their fields through our doors. Hear from innovative artists, entertainers, musicians, and writers in an ongoing conversation with you—their audience—on stimulating issues in culture today. Chosen for their creative brilliance and fresh perspectives, these speakers share their vision, their working process, and their insights.

  • Bangladesh Life Lessons Front Page

    A Matter of Ethics

    By: Michael Bedford - Sep 15th, 2026

    In ethics, there is a clear divide between absolutism and relativism. Ethical absolutism is based in the belief that there is a singular universal moral standard across all peoples & cultures. Moral relativism, however, is the belief there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles, but rather that circumstances are culturally shaped, affecting choice.

  • Landmark Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum Front Page

    Closing Soon

    By: Mark Favermann - Sep 15th, 2026

    Beautifully installed, aesthetically accessible, and sensitively illuminated, the show explores the artistic bond among three pivotal 20th-century American painters: Milton Avery (1885–1965), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). Their shared summers in Gloucester—beginning in the 1920s and continuing into the mid-1940s—had a profound and lasting effect on their individual development as artists.

  • Norweigans by C. Denny Swanson Front Page

    Launches Fall seasob for Shakespere & Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 14th, 2026

    Launching the Berkshire shoulder season, Shakespeare & Company, is presenting a dark comedy, The Norwegians, on weekends in the intimate Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It's a rare treat to see the hilarious Elizabeth Aspenlieder sharing a stage with Peggy Phar Wilson.

  • Boston Lyric Opera's Fiftieth Season Front Page

    Launches with William Tell

    By: BLO - Sep 14th, 2026

    Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.

  • Excavating Antioch the Archaeology of an Ancient City Front Page

    Davis Museum of Wellesley College

    By: Davis - Sep 11th, 2026

    The exhibition brings together more than 140 artifacts — including mosaics, sculpture, architectural fragments, ceramics, lamps, and other objects of daily life — drawn from six U.S. museums: Baltimore Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Art Museums, Princeton University Art Museum, and Worcester Art Museum. Together, these works illuminate the architecture, artistic production, and everyday experiences of one of the ancient Mediterranean’s most significant cities.

  • Making an Impression Front Page

    Panel Discussion at Cultural Center of Rocky Neck

    By: Rocky - Sep 11th, 2026

    Discussion will consider the breadth and vitality of the exhibition, which brings together 19 artists from Cape Ann and beyond, exploring the rich and varied language of printmaking. Through traditional and contemporary approaches, the exhibition presents a diverse range of techniques and perspectives, offering a thoughtfully curated selection that reflects the creative possibilities of the medium today.

  • From Call It in the Air Front Page

    Sometimes Events Conspire

    By: Gregory Light - Sep 09th, 2026

    ‘Joanna.’ Joey Couldn't believe it. 'My God! I'm right. It is her.' He ducked behind the Political Science shelf in the University Textbook store, snatching up the first book that came to hand: Federalism and the French Canadians by Pierre Elliot Trudeau. 'Joanna,' he said to himself, again, his mind racing, 'She's standing right over there. What'll I say?' He looked at his watch. Six days, three hours. Roughly. Too many days had passed for him to just say hello as if nothing had happened.

  • The Courge to Be Permeable Front Page

    By: Cheng Tong - Sep 08th, 2026

    We had been sitting in comfortable silence for about thirty minutes. At not even five feet tall, she was a peanut of a woman, resting quietly in her wheelchair while I towered beside her. Together, we watched with great amusement as squirrels chased each other up and around the bark of the trees just outside her window.

  • Key Chorale Launches New Season Front Page

    Twentieth Under Joseph Caulkins

    By: Jay Handelman - Sep 04th, 2026

    When he was first hired as artistic director of Key Chorale in 2007, Joseph Caulkins figured he would lead the chorus of more than 100 voices for five or six years and then move on to the next job opportunity. It was such a different organization back then that he never expected to be preparing for his 20th season.

  • Music at Clark Art Institute Front Page

    Fall Programming

    By: Clark - Sep 04th, 2026

    This autumn, the Clark Art Institute presents an exciting lineup of performing arts events spanning multiple genres. There's something to delight every music fan!

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