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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Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time Front Page
Clark Art Institute
By: - Aug 24th, 2025Of mixed heritage Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) endured a lifetime of rejection by his father, racism and adversity. To make a living the young sculptor created portraits of wealthy patrons. His single mother Léonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of Noguchi's work, did her best to encourage his decision to be an artist. Today he is regarded as among the finest of his generation. The Clark Art Institute is displaying 32 pieces as Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time
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Circus & the Bard at Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Best Fun of the Season
By: - Aug 22nd, 2025Much of the spoken word flew over my head but the circus elements had the kids bounding up from their seats and the rafters shaking. It may have been, at least for me, the most entertaining fun I have enjoyed in a heck of a long time.
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London Theatre Front Page
Five Plays in Five Days
By: - Aug 20th, 2025I had wanted to see Giant, starring John Lithgow, since it won rave reviews during a limited run at the Royal Court. Now it is in the West End (Broadway), and I hope it will come to NYC. Lithgow gives a stunning performance as Roald Dahl, the author of children’s books such as James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and others.
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Re-Inventing Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum Front Page
Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Peter Littlefield Collaborate
By: - Aug 20th, 2025Gabrielle saw Judy as a fighter. She's a witch and also a pissed off teenager. It was Gabrielle's idea that a beast should attack Judy, who strangles it. She skins it with her teeth and takes its power (figure 4). “After blood-stained clothing was found, it was reported that Judy was killed by a beast. But in a fit of rage, she strangled it, gutted and skinned it with her teeth. Then she cooked it. She was stuffed with meat and took a nap.”
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Ava – The Secret Conversations Written and Starring Elizabeth McGovern, Front Page
Stage 1, New York City Center,
By: - Aug 20th, 2025The most telling thing Ava says is that “they took away my voice” in reference to being dubbed in the film version of Show Boat. But in reality, her voice was taken from her throughout her career.
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Sophia Ainslie: Woven Front Page
Launches Fall Season for Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Aug 19th, 2025The work lives between abstraction and representation, woven from personal and cultural threads. I am interested in hybridity - how different visual languages can inhabit the same space. There is friction, but also connection. The paintings become a weaving of self and story, an attempt to make sense through making form, the experience of being shaped by multiple places and the ongoing search for coherence in layered identities.
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The Unseen Hand Front Page
Laozi’s Wisdom in an Age of Spectacle
By: - Aug 19th, 2025In the 17th chapter of the Tao Te Ching, Laozi outlines a hierarchy of leadership: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists; not so good when people obey and acclaim him; worst when they despise him.” This timeless wisdom offers a stark and challenging contrast to the political reality of modern America, where leadership has become a spectacle of personality, and one figure, in particular, seems to occupy every moment of the national consciousness.
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Dishwasher Dialogues: Last Call Front Page
If You Live Long Enough Life Ends
By: - Aug 17th, 2025I am not sure what old is anymore. Somewhere along the line it feels like we picked up an extra decade on our ancestors; those of us who have been lucky enough to keep our health. ‘Ninety is the new eighty’ sort of thing.
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King James by Rajiv Joseph at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
Nothing But Net
By: - Aug 17th, 2025King James by Rajiv Joseph is a lively and entertaining two-hander about fans, black and white, of Lebron James "The KIng" and the Cleveland Cavaliers. A regional sports market the CAVs hadn't won an NBA title in 50 years. In desperate need of cash Matt is willing to sell 19 courtside home game tickets pairs to Lebron's rookie season. Through four quarters the play, backlit by the career of James, tracks the complex relationship of eventual best friends.
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Art Deco Front Page
Century Celebration
By: - Aug 16th, 2025Still fresh today, the Art Deco period – which influenced the construction or fabrication of buildings as well as luxury décor and functional objects — is considered one of the finest moments in design history.
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Berkshire Author Steven Reed Nelson Publishes a Provocative Book Front Page
Fire in the Wire: Electricity Empowers Human Evolution Beyond Homo Sapiens
By: - Aug 15th, 2025Western Massachusetts author and entrepreneur, Steven Reed Nelson, is a free range thinker. A graduate of Harvard Law School, and layman in the field of science, he proposes that the term Homo sapiens be replaced by Homo electric. The introduction of electricity some 200 years ago has greatly impacted human evolution.
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Christine McCarthy Worked Wonders Front Page
Director of Procvincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Aug 15th, 2025After several years at the Institute of Contemporary Art,. at 35, Christine McCarthy was ready to move on. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum was in desperate need. Taking an initial 50% salary cut she took the job in 2001 only with a commitment from the board for change. She raised $8 million for expansion and renovation. Today PAAM is thriving under her leadership while the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape is no longer what it used to be.
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Kennedy Center Honorees Front Page
A Matter of Taste or Lack Thereof
By: - Aug 13th, 2025Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, and English actor Michael Crawford will receive the Kennedy Center Honors at a Donald Trump-hosted ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8. He has hinted that the Kennedy Center should be renamed for him or at least to have co-billing.
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MASS MoCA Programming Front Page
Through December
By: - Aug 13th, 2025MASS MoCA announces new programming through December 2025, including the opening of exhibitions Jimena Sarno: Rhapsody and Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, concerts by Chuwi and Harold López-Nussa and plenty of opportunities to experience the museum for free including a celebration of Día de los Muertos, Open Studios, and an after-hours Family Night. FreshGrass | North Adams, the campus-wide festival of roots and bluegrass music, kicks it all off with the best in the genre.
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Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy Front Page
Gloucester's Jane Deering Gallery
By: - Aug 11th, 2025Steps from the Cape Ann Museum, currently closed for renovation, is the Jane Deering Gallery. Opening on September 6 is Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy. A commonality is the studio as a place for solace and creativity deflecting the ongoing barrage of bad news.
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Heavenly Earth Front Page
At Manship Artists Residency
By: - Aug 11th, 2025Curated by Manship Artists Sharon Bates and Donna Hassler, our biennial exhibition Heavenly Earth includes some 70 pieces installed throughout the Starfield landscape and inside the Manship Barn Studio. The thirteen juried artists have responded with a range of compelling works that reflect both the thematic prompt and the natural and cultural significance of this historic setting. Work by Laraine Cicchetti is also presented in her memory.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Museums Front Page
The ladies of Wichita
By: - Aug 10th, 2025Then on a Sunday afternoon, you’ll be queuing for the Louvre, and you’ll start chatting with a lady from Wichita, Kansas, and she’ll ask you all sorts of questions. How do you know so much about Paris? Are you a professor or something like that? And I’ll say no I’m a bartender and a painter.
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Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Artist and Activist at 84 Front Page
Protested MFA and Founded AAMARP at Northeastern University.
By: - Aug 09th, 2025Artist and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. ( (April 7, 1941 – June 9, 2025) was the foremost Boston African American artist of his generation. Implementing change he got things done. As Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the National Center for African American Artists and MFA adjunct curator put it "Dana shook the tree and we harvested the fruit."
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Barrington"s Mr. Finn Cabaret Front Page
Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko
By: - Aug 08th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announces two dazzling evenings of Broadway talent at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, headlined by two of the Great White Way’s brightest stars: Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko.
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Joan at Barrington Stage Front Page
The Queen of Comedy Has the Last Laugh
By: - Aug 07th, 2025Joan written by Daniel Goldstein is a compelling and well crafted play about one of the dominant comic geniuses of her generation. The complex story of Rivers is portrayed by four actors assuming multiple roles. As such it is an absorbing evening of drama. Where it falls short, ironically, is as comedy.
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The Knights at Clark Art Institute Front Page
Two Free Concerts
By: - Aug 05th, 2025Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights return to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts for music lovers of all ages.
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The Power of Non-Forcing: Front Page
Finding Wu Wei in a World That Pushes Back
By: - Aug 05th, 2025In a world that champions the hustle, the grind, and the relentless pursuit of goals, the ancient Daoist concept of Wu Wei can seem paradoxical, if not entirely counterintuitive. Often translated as “non-action” or “non-doing,” it’s easily mistaken for passivity or indolence.
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Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static Front Page
Harvard University Art Museums
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025In the 1960s I met Edna Andrade several times when she traveled from Philadelphia to bring new work to the East Hampton Gallery in New York. The gallery was know for Op Art which describes her work at the time. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static presents a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role of drawing as well as interdisciplinary exploration in her art and in modernist movements of the 20th century.
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A Room of Her Own: British Women at Clark Art Institute Front Page
Epic Struggle of Emerging Artists Between the Wars
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which they used to further their artistic ambitions, including their rooms, homes, studios, art schools, clubs, and public exhibition venues.
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Dishwasher Dialogues: Switzerland Front Page
Christmas in Paris
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025Ever since my boarding school days in Vienna and going on school skiing trips, mountains mean snow and snow means cold. I was cold those four years in Vienna. To this day give me the Mediterranean heat.
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