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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The Inspector at Yale Rep Front Page
Less is More
By: - Mar 26th, 2025The primary difficulty with this production is because each “bit” is drawn out to its utmost, the play runs over two and a half hours. A tighter production would have had more effect.
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The MFA to Show Van Gogh Roulin Portraits Front Page
Collaboration with Van Gogh Museum
By: - Mar 20th, 2025Organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is the first exhibition devoted to the artist’s deep connection to the family and the making of their portraits. Featuring 23 works by Van Gogh—including 14 of the Roulin portraits—as well as earlier Dutch art and Japanese woodblock prints that inspired him, the exhibition includes iconic works from the MFA’s collection alongside more than 20 key loans from prominent international collections. The exhibition presents 10 letters from Joseph Roulin to Van Gogh and the artist’s siblings together for the first time, offering an intimate and tender look at their friendship.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Front Page
Highlighta Include Count Basie Orchestra at the Colonlal
By: - Mar 18th, 2025Here is the lineup for the nineteenth Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from April 24 through May 4 in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the cultural capital of the Berkshires.
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Yielding with Strength Front Page
Bamboo as Metaphor
By: - Mar 18th, 2025In essence, yielding with strength is a practice of cultivating inner resilience. It is about developing the ability to adapt to change, to flow with the currents of life, and to find strength in suppleness. It is about recognizing that true power lies not in rigid control, but in the ability to yield, to adapt, and to flow.
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William H. Holst’s Provincetown: Point of Origin and Homecoming Front Page
An American Modernist Painter and Educator
By: - Mar 17th, 2025William Holst was in Provincetown during the summer of the seminal Forum '49. He returned to study for several more seasons absorbing Hofmann's methods which he refined and taught. He developed what some refer to as Holstian Theories which included an expansive exploration of Hofmann’s ideas, but largely carried out in black and white. While an important artist of his generation Holst is not well known today. His influence on other artists, however, is palpable.
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Southwest Photos by Allan Seppa Front Page
Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. and Framework
By: - Mar 16th, 2025The exhibition by Berkshire based artist Allan Seppa will feature photography of Southwest America, specifically of Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. At Framework by Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. (437 North Street).
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Steve Locke at MASS MoCA Front Page
A Poetic Response
By: - Mar 12th, 2025Steve Locke is having a show now installed at MassMoCA (opened last August – goes to until Nov 8). Three years ago I wrote a poem to Steve, whom I know, after seeing his exhibition of “Cruising” at the Alexander Grey Gallery
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TheaterWorks Hartford Upcoming 40th Season. Front Page
Opens With Prize Winner English
By: - Mar 07th, 2025The theater’s 40th anniversary season opens with ENGLISH by Sanaz Toossi, the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. “English Only” is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adults are preparing for the TOEFL - the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Together, with their teacher, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground that is a funny, stunning triumph about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication, hoping that one day English will make them whole. TheaterWorks Hartford’s production of English will run October - November of 2025 (exact dates to be announced).
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North Adams Artists Roger and Ellen Questel Front Page
Exhibiting in Smyrna Beach Florida
By: - Mar 06th, 2025Our North Adams neighbors Roger and Ellen Questel send news from Florida. They are sharing an exhibition Time and Transformation at Jane's Art Center in New Smyrna Beach. We are pleased to share their information and images.
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Insider’s View of the Protests Against the MFA’s ‘Boston Masssacre’—1999 Front Page
Adapted from Forthcoming Book
By: - Mar 03rd, 2025Patricia Hills is a leftist/ feminist scholar, professor and curator. Since retirement from teaching art history at Boston University she has continued with research and writing. This essay is a chapter from her soon to be published memoir Feisty Feminist Challenges the Art World. Here she vividly relates the Boston Massacre when MFA director Malcolm Rogers fired renowned curators pursuant to his vision of One Museum. In a corporate, manner unique to the well mannered art world, they were escorted from the museum. Hills organized protest against this initiative. She endured a counterattack from the museum but was supported by Boston University.
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Lazours at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) Front Page
The Lazours’ Night Side Songs, Commissioned by A.R.T.
By: - Feb 27th, 2025Night Side Songs is a communal music-theater experience performed for—and with—an intimate audience that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. Inspired by American writer, philosopher, and cultural critic Susan Sontag’s observation that “illness is the night side of life.”
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English by Sanaz Toossi Front Page
The Roundabout Theatre Retains Original Cast of Iranian Actors
By: - Feb 27th, 2025The Pulitzer Prize-winning play English by Sanaz Toossi raises fascinating questions about the interconnections of language, culture, and identity. Does learning a new language result in the loss of our sense of self? Does adapting to a new culture mean you are rejecting your heritage?
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Jacob's Pillow 2025 Front Page
Outdoor Leir Stage Performances
By: - Feb 27th, 2025Leir Stage performances will be held Wednesdays through Saturdays for all nine weeks of Festival 2025, offering one-night and two-night engagements by companies dancing Afro-Caribbean, contemporary, swing, tap, ballet, jazz, Indigenous, modern, West African, and more. Performances by artists of the Berkshires on Community Day, and by the Contemporary Ballet, Contemporary, and Tap Dance ensembles of The School at Jacob's Pillow, round out the schedule.
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WAM 2025 Front Page
Women on Stage in the Berkshires
By: - Feb 26th, 2025. The season features expanded offerings in the spring, summer, and fall. With two mainstage productions, three Fresh Takes play readings, and a dynamic community program—including documentary films, thought-provoking panels, and creative exchanges with women-led theatre companies.
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The Strength in Yielding Front Page
A Core Principle of Chinese Martial Arts and Life
By: - Feb 25th, 2025A stiff tree may withstand a strong wind for a time, but eventually, it will snap. A willow, on the other hand, bends and sways, yielding to the wind’s force, yet it survives even the fiercest storms. This is the essence of yielding: adapting, flowing, and ultimately overcoming by not resisting directly.
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Poet and Artist Gerd Stern at 96 Front Page
Guru of Multimedia Light Shows
By: - Feb 20th, 2025The poet and multimedia artist Gerd Stern has died at 96. His friend Mark Favermann wrote about him on two occasions for Berkshires Fine Arts. His companies USCO and Intermedia were a presence in Cambridge and Boston. Most notable was a recording studio on Newbury Street where the Cars and other bands recorded.
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The Mount 2025 Front Page
Readings Music Sculpture and More
By: - Feb 19th, 2025“Our 2025 season reflects The Mount’s unique intersection of history, literature, the arts, nature, and community. With Edith Wharton as our muse, we are excited to offer an illuminating season celebrating the sharing of ideas, stories, art, and music, while providing space for our community to gather, reflect, and wander in the natural beauty of the Berkshires,” says Susan Wissler, The Mount’s executive director.
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Anne Bogart To Direct Carousel Front Page
Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Feb 18th, 2025Through a contemporary lens, Anne Bogart says the show’s depictions of domestic violence, cycles of poverty and crime, suicide, and toxic masculinity still resonate strongly. “The treatment of these issues in Carousel may seem outdated by modern standards, but its artistic merits – and willingness to tackle complex human actions – make it a thought-provoking work within the classical music theater canon."
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Rose Art Museum Honors Danielle Mckinney Front Page
2025 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Feb 18th, 2025Mckinney’s work is a deeply personal exploration of portraiture, color, and composition. Her work draws from a wide range of sources, rooted in an expansive dialogue with art history while remaining true to her unique vision.
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Deborah Kass’ Pop, Power, and Patriarchy Front Page
The Art History Paintings at Salon 94
By: - Feb 17th, 2025Now, decades later, The Art History Paintings are back—louder, sharper, and just as biting. The forces Kass set out to dismantle —patriarchy, racism, homophobia, and the elitism of cultural institutions— haven’t gone anywhere, making her work feel as subversive and necessary in 2025 as when she first picked up a brush.
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Kultur Klash Front Page
Trumping the Arts
By: - Feb 15th, 2025The arts are the canary in a coal mine. Any government sponsored attack on culture diminishes dissent. Autocracy enforces a mandate of disinformation. Serfs and slaves were denied literacy. Ideas are anathema to oligarchies and must be repressed. Nazis burned books. School boards and libraries ban them.
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Jacob's Pillow 2025 Front Page
Doris Duke Theatre Reopens
By: - Feb 12th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2025 will feature indoor performances in the landmark Ted Shawn Theatre and the newly-opened Doris Duke Theatre, as well as outdoor performances on the Henry J. Leir Stage. The return of the Doris Duke Theatre restores Jacob’s Pillow to its full presenting capacity for the first time since 2020, reuniting the Festival’s three core performance spaces and offering audiences an unparalleled range of dance experiences across the Pillow’s grounds.
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August Wilson’s Two Trains Running Front Page
At Hartford Stage
By: - Feb 11th, 2025Several characteristics are common in Wilson’s plays: focus on African American men, experiences of being cheated by white men or the government, and a degree of desperation. Each of these is present in this play.
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Barrington Stage Company 2025 Front Page
Seven Productions on Two Stages
By: - Feb 07th, 2025Barrington Stage Company is pleased to announce the theatre’s 2025 season which includes seven productions, including two regional premieres and two world premieres. “Our 2025 season is inspired by the once-and-future leaders of American theatre” commented Alan Paul.
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Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty Front Page
Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Feb 06th, 2025Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty features photographs inside the Gloucester studio of renowned sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998) and select sculptures by Hancock. He was commissioned to complete the Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, which depicts Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Georgia law states that “the memorial to the heroes of the Confederate States of America graven upon the face of Stone Mountain shall never be altered, removed, concealed, or obscured in any fashion and shall be preserved and protected for all time as a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the citizens of this state who suffered and died in their cause.”
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