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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Cuban Born Dancer Harold Mendez Front Page
Career Ending Early
By: - Jul 13th, 2026It was never a given that Harold Mendez would succeed as a dancer. When he was chosen by the Cuban government to enter its state-run ballet training program at the age of 10, there was no guarantee he would ultimately develop the combination of physique, ability, discipline and ambition it takes to make it in a notoriously difficult and competitive art form.
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Akram Khan Company at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Thikra: A Night of Remembering
By: - Jul 13th, 2026Thikra: A Night of Remembering is the final work created by Akram Khan for his 25-year-old British based company. It will be on tour through March, 2027 when the company will disband.
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International Black THeatre Festival Front Page
Every Two Years in Winston Salem
By: - Jul 11th, 2026When they return to the International Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina later this month, members of Sarasota’s Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe are looking forward to reconnecting with a group of artists they don’t often get to see or meet.
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Estate Sale at Barrington Stage Front Page
Galvanic World Premiere of Keelay Gipson Play
By: - Jul 10th, 2026Estate Sale, by Keelay Gipson, a 70-minute, one act play having its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company, begins obliquely. Half of the audience enters from the stage door navigating a clutter of estate sale items. They thread through the urban dwelling designed by You-Shin Chen.
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1776 Front Page
Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jul 08th, 2026If you think that history can be boring, then seeing the excellent Ivoryton Playhouse production of 1776 will change your mind. The Tony-Award winning musical combines music, humor in a quite accurate recounting of why we celebrate July 4th. It’s part of Ivoryton’s season honoring our 250th anniversary.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air Front Page
Jo and Joe
By: - Jul 08th, 2026College Days. And then a flood of warm nostalgia. It startled Joey, catching him unaware, the unlikely cause tumbling out of a two-day-old edition of The Times which he'd dragged out of the dustbin after breakfast. He had purchased the newspaper on his way back from the aborted lunch with McDougal but had been too incensed to read it. Now it sat on his lap, jolting his memory and attaching his attention to a short, news-in-brief item at the bottom of the page.
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MFA French Film Festival Front Page
30th Anniversary
By: - Jul 08th, 2026Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year’s Boston French Film Festival presents a wide-ranging selection of contemporary cinema from France focused on art, identity, and cultural memory.
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Asolo Rep's Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition Front Page
Appealing to All Ages
By: - Jul 07th, 2026Rather than bringing in a touring production as it has in the past, for the first time last year, the Asolo Rep staged its own family-friendly summer show, based on the “Frog and Toad” series of children’s books that relate the daily adventures of two best friends with opposite personalities.
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Urban Bush Women at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
SCAT!... The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
By: - Jul 06th, 2026A mandate for the 2026 season of Jacob’s Pillow is to highlight the contributions of women. The week celebrating the 250th anniversary of America focused on Jowole Willo Jo Zollar who founded Urban Bush Women in 1984. The company has been a frequent visitor to the Berkshires and developed new work during a residency at MASS MoCA.
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An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection Front Page
The Clark Art Institute Presents
By: - Jul 03rd, 2026The current installation of 150 works represents about half of the collection. The works on paper will be available for view and study as well as in displays of limited duration. A gift of this quality and depth is unprecedented. It greatly enhances the Clark as one of the foremost regional American museums.
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What's Next Front Page
Tabula Rasa
By: - Jun 30th, 2026In the early 2000s, there was a popular television drama, The West Wing, that followed the hyper-fast, high-stakes lives of the political elite inside the White House. Whenever the fictional president finished a grueling debate, resolved a global crisis, or wrapped up a staff meeting, he would look around the room, slap his hands together, and utter a signature two-word phrase: “What’s next?”
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Bernstein/Avery: Discovery Made Visible Front Page
Cape Ann Collectors
By: - Jun 30th, 2026Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002) and Milton Avery (1886-1965) ran in the same modernist circles, summering in the same art colonies and gathering at Bernstein and husband William Meyerowitz’s home in East Gloucester – steps away from Good Harbor Beach. All three modernists walked away from abstraction, capturing an intimacy where realism and abstraction intersect – observed reality.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea Front Page
At Cape Ann Museum of Art
By: - Jun 29th, 2026On view at the Cape Ann Museum from June 30 through September 27, 2026, the exhibition is guest curated by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita at The Phillips Collection. Following its Gloucester debut, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in October 2026—marking the first time an exhibition organized by the Cape Ann Museum will tour to a national museum.
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Charming 'Dog Mom' at Florida Studio Theatre Front Page
An Actress Plays a Stray Dog
By: - Jun 29th, 2026I have never been much of a dog person, but I quickly fell for the one played by Kelsey Leigh Stalter in Tate Elizabeth Hanyok’s charming and touching new comedy drama “Dog Mom” running through July 26 in Florida Studio Theatre’s Keating Theatre.
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Sarasota Ballet Returns to The Joyce Front Page
Company's Third Visit to New York City
By: - Jun 29th, 2026In a not particularly surprising reveal, The Sarasota Ballet has announced it will begin its 20th season under Director Iain Webb with a six-day, seven-performance run at The Joyce Theater in New York City prior to opening its home season in Sarasota in late October.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air Front Page
Dan Spear
By: - Jun 28th, 2026It was the truth. Well, close. His mother had said something like that after another dumb incident with his uncle. It had happened one evening when Frederick—having nothing better to do, Joey guessed—nudged his nephew with his foot while they were watching television and mused that if he dropped Joey's baseball and his rubber eraser from the same height, they would both hit the floor at the same time.
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Sweeney Todd Sondheim's Masterpiece Front Page
TheaterWorks Hartford and Hartford Stage
By: - Jun 27th, 2026Sweeney is the first co-production of Hartford’s two major theaters: TheaterWorks Hartford and Hartford Stage. The two combined resources for this demanding work. It uses the expansive space at Hartford Stage, while calling on the talents of the Artistic Director and award-winning Director Rob Ruggiero of TheaterWorks to stage the musical. The production team includes veterans of both Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks productions as well as some new people.
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Provincetown Art Association and Museum Front Page
Announces Annual Artists Grants
By: - Jun 19th, 2026The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant is awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need. The mission of this grant is to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art, and to encourage interest in painters who lack adequate recognition.
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Heavy/Light Front Page
Annual Kingston Associates Show
By: - Jun 18th, 2026Making art in a sharply polarized, hyper-political moment, HEAVY / LIGHT is less about choosing a side and more about choosing a stance toward the noise itself. Artists, as culture bearers, face a persistent tension – to ignore the churn of daily politics and risk irrelevance, to engage it directly and risk becoming didactic, or to translate the deeper emotional and social currents beneath it into something more enduring.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air Front Page
Calculating the Days
By: - Jun 18th, 2026To Joey, barely eleven years old in 1962, flipping a penny one million times did not seem an unreasonable task. He wasn't sure how big it was—he knew it was big—but it was a number he'd heard people use in connection with lots of things, so it had to have an end. Some people, like Diane's father, even made a million dollars in one year.
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Consistency in the Ordinary Front Page
By: - Jun 16th, 2026This is the second writing in the trilogy, a supporting essay to The Alchemical Ash. The third will come in two weeks.
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Clark Shows Works on Paper Front Page
CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings
By: - Jun 15th, 2026CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings draws almost entirely from the Clark’s collection, bringing together a vast range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of life along the shore
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Barrington Stage Company Receives Grant Front Page
From Shubert Foundation
By: - Jun 15th, 2026Barrington Stage Company, is the recipient of a $125,000 grant from The Shubert Foundation. Granted in the category of Theatre, the award will support key programming in BSC’s 2026 season. The award represents a $5,000 increase over last year’s grant.
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Berkshire Artist Morgan Bulkeley at 81 Front Page
Had 2018 Retrospective at Berkshire Museum
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Berkshire artist, Morgan Bulkeley, died on May 11 after a long illness. He was 81. Bulkeley was known for whimsical narrative work in a variety of media from painting to carved relief and free-standing sculpture. He graduated from Yale where he majored in literature. That led to an auto-didactic approach. Approachable and understated he was admired and appreciated by a circle of friends in Boston and the Berkshires. What follows is a review of his 2018 retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. There is going to be a memorial service for him on July 18th.
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Henry Ferrini of Gloucester Writers Center Front Page
Founding Director to Retire
By: - Jun 14th, 2026In a newsletter Henry Ferrini wrote "As many of you know, I am retiring on June 30th as Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. As one of its founders, I wanted to share a little origin story of how Vincent's home became the community's house."
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