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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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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Irving Berlin White Christmas Front Page
At Goodspeed
By: - Dec 19th, 2025The highlight is the dancing. An early number, “The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing,” sets up the expectations with a ballroom number by Phil and Judy. Act two opens with a perhaps over long but spectacular tap number, “I Love a Piano.” It stopped the show.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Limits of Rational Behaviour Front Page
Encounters with Authority
By: - Dec 19th, 2025Life in our Paris may have been uncomfortable with few indoor toilets and fewer phones, but life was more relaxed than today, communication was slower, and the police seemed more tolerant. Maybe that was because the May riots of 1968 were still fresh in the collective memory of Paris.
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The Self: Not a Part of Creation Front Page
But Creation Itself
By: - Dec 16th, 2025I didn't come into this world; I came out of it, like a leaf emerges from a tree.
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Hedda Gabler at Yale Rep Front Page
Production Leaves Us Floundering
By: - Dec 15th, 2025Gailus as Hedda gives a performance that emphasizes her manipulative nature so much so that a friend of mine asked if she was a sociopath. The performance doesn’t reveal enough of her depression, despair, and sense of being trapped.
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A Wake for Woke Front Page
Trump's Assault on the Arts
By: - Dec 13th, 2025During the next five year cycle when conceiving and funding ambitious exhibitions, administrators, foundations and trustees will keep a watchful eye on potential offenses against the government’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues He Volunteered as a Kamikaze Front Page
Dwarfs Visited Chez Leroy
By: - Dec 13th, 2025As a young man, he had volunteered as a kamikaze pilot. It was a great honor for his family, he said. The day he was supposed to fly his suicide mission, the war ended, and he was grounded. It was terrible, Namio told us, so shameful for him and his family.
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All Is Calm Front Page
Must See at Playhouse on Park
By: - Dec 13th, 2025Must see theatre at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford.
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MFA Opens New Contemporary Galleries Front Page
Gift of Wyss Foundation
By: - Dec 13th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that a suite of new galleries dedicated to modern art will open to the public on December 13. Four new spaces will be unveiled on the first floor of the Museum’s Evans Wing, each showcasing works from the 20th century that include highlights from the MFA’s collection, new acquisitions, and rarely seen loans from private holdings.
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Decentering Whiteness Front Page
A Museum Makeover
By: - Dec 12th, 2025A recovering art critic once asked after reading the 1619 Project, “Why don’t you hate all white people?” I asked, “What is a white person anyway?” We realized our identities are far more complex than the containers imposed on us. Whiteness is a burden, built on supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, slavery, and global violence.
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Art Front Page
In the Eye of the Beholder
By: - Dec 11th, 2025In any long-term relationship, patterns of behavior, control, dominance, and power are fixed. But when one person begins to change the unwritten contract, it causes ripples. The other person often retaliates or fights back to reestablish the status quo.
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