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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Dishwashers Jesus and the Worm Front Page
Genghis
By: - Oct 01st, 2025I do recall making Sidecars, Whisky Sours, Brandy Alexanders, Manhattans, Tequila Sunrises, Blue Lagoons, classical Martinis, Gin Fizzes, and there was the artichoke liqueur Fernet Branca, vile stuff, but good for hangovers, and the poetically named feuille morte, made of pastis and grenadine, never liked it myself, and the kirs, champagne with crème de cassis was called kir royal, with white wine simply kir, and with red wine un carabinier.
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MASS MoCA Records Front Page
Museum Launches Label
By: - Oct 01st, 2025The first band to sign with MASS MoCA Records is The Kasambwe Brothers, a multi-generational band who has been making music together for almost 40 years and are grounded in the rich, musical heritage of Malawi, Africa.
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American Art Curator Theodore E. Stebbins Jr Front Page
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
By: - Oct 01st, 2025Stebbins writes, “People are inclined to view past changes in taste as unique misjudgments that will not happen again…. How unthinking, how stupid, they think, not realizing that the pattern has been repeated again and again in the past and will be in the future. We now recognize that the process is a continual one. Each past canon was established for good reason; there are no mistakes, there is only history. Many of the favored artists of any period including our own will drop from favor, something that art dealers never tell their clients, or museum curators their boards.”
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Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford Front Page
Riotous Laughter.
By: - Sep 30th, 2025If you are lucky enough to have tickets for Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford, prepare yourself for riotous laughter.This farce by Michael Frayn combines a behind-the-scenes look at a play (Nothing On) as well as the complicated relationships among the cast.
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Joanna Klain at Gallery 13 ½ in Adams, Mass. Front Page
Sundaes on Sunday
By: - Sep 29th, 2025George LeMaitre and Patricia Fietta have renovated an enormous mill in Adams, Mass. It includes the generously spaced Gallery 13 ½ . Instead of Never on Sunday it is open Only on Sunday. Starting at 3 the gallery will serve sundaes. So its sundaes on Sunday. The artist is North Adams Eclipse Mill resident Joanna Klain. The gallerists are also showing examples of their own work.
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The Answer in a Steaming Bowl Front Page
Finding China in Its Food
By: - Sep 29th, 2025When my students ask what I ate, the answer is this: I ate warmth and energy on a bustling street corner. I ate harmony and balance from shared plates. I ate history in a piece of braised pork belly and mindfulness in a simple egg tart. And in my last meal, I ate a final, perfect memory. I ate China, and I returned full.
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Kevin Sprague Remembers Jonas Dovydenas Front Page
Mentor and Friend
By: - Sep 25th, 2025Jonas and Betsy have been a part of my life - and the life of my extended family - since they moved to the Berkshires when I was a kid. Jonas and my father Peter were great friends and engaged in some epic cross-country aerial adventures over the years. I worked for Jonas - and with him - on myriad projects over the years - we were in touch just a few days ago about making some updates to his website, which I’ve managed since the web began back in the early 2000s.
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Flying With Jonas Dovydenas Front Page
A Sky High Memory
By: - Sep 25th, 2025A couple of days ago my friend Jonas Dovydenas was killed in a collision while visiting his native Lithuania. He was a renowned photographer and philanthropist. For a number of years he was on the board of The Mount with two as chairman. In 2010 he flew in for lunch. We met at the North Adams airport. But he forgot the book, a work in progress, that he wanted to show me. It was back in Pittsfield. We flew back, seven minutes each way, for a truly memorable experience.
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Genius of Bread and Books Front Page
Under the Mountain
By: - Sep 24th, 2025Bread and books. Two more essentials. Shakespeare and Co. will always be dear to my heart. The first real bookstore to sell my book of poetry. And to host a reading I gave there. George Whitman, the founder, was a dedicated and friendly guy. I remember him as being serious about what he was doing. Creating a place for writers and artists to hang out and do what they do.
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Berkshire Photographer Jonas Dovydenas 1939-2025 Front Page
Fatal Accident in Lithuania
By: - Sep 24th, 2025Berkshire artists and patrons Jonas and Betsy Dovydenas visited his native Lithuania a couple of times each year. He was on hand to present an annual prize for Best Lithuanian Novel which he funded. On September 23 they were involved in an accident. He was killed and she was injured. We interacted with them recently during a performance at Shakespeare & Company. As a settlement with the cult Bible Speaks, for a time, they owned the campus of the former Lenox School for Boys which is now the campus of Shakespeare & Company. In 2014 I interviewed him about his photography exhibition at the Lenox Library.
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Boston Artist Arthur Polonsky Front Page
At Childs Gallery
By: - Sep 23rd, 2025Dating to just a few years after his return from Paris, The Diver is perhaps something of a transitional work for Arthur Polonsky, presenting a stark and puzzling juxtaposition of figural elements. At the most direct and literal level, the painting simply depicts the titular diver leaping off a dock, with a distant bridge standing before far-off factories.The work is on view at Childs Gallery, 168 Newbury Street, Boston.
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The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant Front Page
World Premiere at Barrington Stage
By: - Sep 22nd, 2025It’s shoulder season for the arts. With deft serendipity Alan Paul, artistic director of Barrington Stage has maxed on bucolic euphoria by going local with The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant. It is being given a world premiere directed by Paul.
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Gregory Gillespie Roman Interior (Still Life) Front Page
At Forum Gallery
By: - Sep 19th, 2025In her review of Forum Gallery’s 1968 exhibition, Rosalind Browne wrote for ArtNews, “Gregory Gillespie, a formidable young virtuoso who has lived in Rome on grants for the past four years, loads twentieth-century pornography, trompe l’oeil and discreet plaster montage into a highly enameled, explosive sixteenth-century Flemish package. The setting is Roman, the aura is Bosch, the concept is literary.”
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Jacob's Pillow Rebounds Front Page
Announcing Fall Programming
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow announces the presentation of its first-ever fully-produced fall program on campus featuring a special weekend run of Caleb Teicher & Nic Gareiss, an evening-length duo concert performed by the acclaimed dancers and creative partners.
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George Nick 1927 - 2025 Front Page
Renowned Artist and Teacher
By: - Sep 18th, 2025He cited Edwin Dickinson as his mentor, admiring Dickinson’s painterly restraint, his sensitivity, and the way he taught teaching through seeing and doing. For his whole life, he invoked Dickinson as his most important influence. He used to say that he started painting simply because he was interested in the world, and it seemed to him that painting could be a way that he could learn about it.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Paris Highlife in the 1970s Front Page
La Carte Orange and Les Toilettes à La Turque
By: - Sep 17th, 2025The carte orange was a subway pass with your picture on it. You renewed it once a month, and it allowed you to travel wherever and as often as you wanted on the metro and buses of Paris. The pass was second class, unless you splurged. In those days the metro had first class carriages too.
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Martin Puryear Exhibition Front Page
Co Sponsored by MFA and Cleveland Museum
By: - Sep 16th, 2025“With this exhibition we are pleased to feature an exceptional artist of our time and powerful works that speak to Martin Puryear's creativity and exceptional craftsmanship, and the lifelong learning that has fueled his practice,” said Pierre Terjanian, the MFA’s Ann and Graham Gund Director. “The sculptures included in this survey extend a compelling invitation to engage with themes of culture, identity, and history. We are grateful to our colleagues at the Cleveland Museum of Art for their partnership in making this project possible.”
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Navigating Art & Science Front Page
Gloucester's Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
By: - Sep 16th, 2025Incoming Ocean, a site-specific video installation by Georgie Friedman, splashes across the interior architecture of the Cultural Center. The waves, filmed at nearby Halibut Point State Park, break over walls and doors, advancing toward one’s feet while also washing across a school of 50 life-sized Ghost Cod, hand-carved by Jessica Straus.
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Sole Defined Zaz Front Page
Co Presented bv Williams and Jacob's Pillow
By: - Sep 15th, 2025ZAZ is an immersive sensory performance that shifts traditional viewing practices beyond just sight and sound. The performers embody the oral histories and recorded experiences of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. They perform in tap shoes, hard-soled shoes, gumboots, and barefoot, creating a rhythmic score that supports the narration woven into the performance.
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Rethinking African Art and Culture Front Page
Discussing Content and Impact of a CAA Panel
By: - Sep 13th, 2025During the era of Colonialism African nations were ruled by Europeans. This occupation resulted in the looting of some 90% of traditional African art and culture. In recent years German museums have returned tons of Benin Bronzes to NIgeria. The Museum of Fine Arts was pressured to return 34 works loaned to them as eventual gifts by collector Robert Owen Lehman. In a complex negotiation he nullified the agreement but the museum has retained and displayed five works. Noah Smalls of Williams College Art Museum helped to organize “Toward an Inclusive Framework: (Re)Building Black Art Histories in Academe, the Art Market, and Beyond,” for the 2025 College Art Association Conference. With Robert Henriquez we met for lunch to discuss these issues.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Fascist Francisco Franco Front Page
Chasing Immortality
By: - Sep 10th, 2025Alicia cleaned fancy apartments in the sixteenth arrondissement in Paris. She looked worn out, her face was prematurely lined from years of exhausting work, but when she spoke Spanish, her face lit up. She was always in a good mood. One evening she told me she and her husband were planning a visit to Sevilla to see her relatives, but the real purpose of the trip, she confided, was to buy a plot for herself and her husband in the San Fernando Cemetery.
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Elaine Buckholtz Spectacle Front Page
Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
By: - Sep 09th, 2025Spectacle is a visual experiential exhibition. Elaine Buckholtz, a Light Installation Artist with a 25-year career in Lighting Design, has worked with artists such as Meredith Monk and Merce Cunningham.
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What's New at MFA Front Page
Winslow Homer Opens November 2
By: - Sep 04th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced its lineup of 2025–2026 exhibitions, including Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor, a rare display of light-sensitive works that opens November 2. I
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A.R. Gurney’s play, Sylvia, Front Page
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Sep 04th, 2025Sylvia is an excellent play, being given a good, but not outstanding, production.
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Joe Caruso: Walking Among the Trees Front Page
HallSpace Dorchester Ma
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025In these works, Caruso reminds us that beauty is not rare or remote – it is present all around us, waiting in the texture of a leaf or even in the smallest twig. His prints ask us to observe more closely, to trust our own senses, and to find meaning in quiet, unassuming details; if we are willing to look!
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