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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2025 Boston Artadia Awards Front Page
Awardees: Sónia Almeida, Brittni Ann Harvey, and Sopheak Sam.
By: - Nov 06th, 2025Artadia, a non-profit grantmaking organization and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons, announces the 2025 Boston Artadia Awardees: Sónia Almeida, the Wagner Foundation Boston Artadia Award recipient; Brittni Ann Harvey; and Sopheak Sam.
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The Clark Art Institute Appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt Front Page
Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
By: - Nov 05th, 2025The Clark Art Institute announces that Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been appointed to serve as the first Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
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From Epic Theater to “Oh, Mary” Front Page
Cole Escola Receives the Erwin Piscator Award
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025Honored for Oh, Mary!, a hysterical, historically inaccurate Broadway hit that reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln, the 16th president’s wife, as a perpetually tipsy, attention-starved First Lady who longs to be a cabaret singer. Performed in drag by Escola (who also wrote the play.
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Ragtime at Lincoln Center Front Page
An All Time Favorite
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025This musical, even more so than when it opened in 1998, forces us to confront some truths that we would prefer to ignore. It points out that America has not always lived up to its ideals and, in fact, has at times rejected them.
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Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Publishes a Critical Study of American Art Front Page
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
By: - Nov 02nd, 2025Nobody but Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. could have written such a remarkable book. Drawing on a lifetime as a curator and scholar he has provided a sweeping critical analysis of the field of American Art from Colonial times through the present. With complete authority he rampages through an intriguingly well written and argued book that pulls no punches in telling it like it is.
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Mario Diacono 1930-2025 Front Page
Legendary Italian Born Boston Gallerist
By: - Oct 30th, 2025In every sense Marion Diacono, who died today, was truly unique and remarkable. As a gallerist he had a deep and lasting impact but few of the A list works he showed remained in Boston. Italian born with a global vision his program was light years out of reach for earth bound and generally reactionary collectors, curators and critics. While they came to look mostly collectors failed to open their wallets. There were token sales to the MFA and at that time the ICA did not collect.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Brutality of Correctness Front Page
No Reservations
By: - Oct 30th, 2025Much of bartending at Chez Haynes was about words, about the conversation, the ‘craic’ as the Irish say. It was also about theatre. The place was dressed like a stage and there were people coming and going, making their entrances and exits all through the night. With just a comment thrown in here and there, suddenly there was a real entertainment.
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MFA Returns Pots to Family of Enslaved Potter Front Page
David Drake Recognized as an American Master
By: - Oct 29th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David?Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet. The Museum has restored ownership of both works, returning one to Drake’s family and purchasing the other back.
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Gabrielle Munter at Guggenheim Museum Front Page
First Major Exhibition in Thirty Years
By: - Oct 29th, 2025Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments. The presentation will comprise some sixty paintings and nineteen of her early photographs across three galleries.
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Acquisition and Cultural Stewardship Front Page
Non-Weestern Art Objects in American Art Museums
By: - Oct 28th, 2025Resulting from Colonialism and looting some 90% of traditional African art is not to be found in Africa. Only recently has there been an awareness of this inequity. Noah Kane-Smalls is an administrator at Williams College Art Museum with some 20 years in the field. Here with passion and precision he lays out the issues and what needs to be done.
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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Theatre Front Page
2025–2026 Season
By: - Oct 27th, 2025This year's productions showcase a dynamic range of theatrical styles and voices, featuring contemporary works alongside student-created performances that push creative boundaries.
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The Demon of the Book Front Page
By: - Oct 27th, 2025The Demon of the Book does not dissuade us from learning; on the contrary, it thrives on our love for it. It tempts us to believe that by memorizing scriptures and mastering doctrines, we have mastered the Dao itself. This barrier turns knowledge into a gilded cage.
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The Great Emu War, Front Page
Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre
By: - Oct 25th, 2025The title sounds weird, but it is sophisticated silliness. If you think of Monty Python or Book of Mormon, you’ll get just a hint of how delicious this show, written by Cal Silberstein and Paul Hodge, is.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center Front Page
Four New Exhibitions
By: - Oct 24th, 2025Four new exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Saturday, Nov. 15. The new exhibits include a tribute to the late art historian Meyer Schapiro and solo shows featuring Erika Ranee, Elliott Katz, and Ray Materson.“Singing in Unison, Part 13: Homage to Meyer Schapiro” was conceived by Phong H. Bui, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail, a prolific curator and leading figure in contemporary American art and culture.
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Jazz in the Berkshires Front Page
Tanglewood’s Linde Center for Music and Learning
By: - Oct 24th, 2025Our friends at the Tanglewood Learning Institute are committed to presenting jazz year-round, and we’re delighted to remind our followers of three upcoming performances: Ulysses Owens, Jr., Ted Rosenthal, and Stella Cole.
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Time at the Aurora Archive(s) Front Page
Lively Mix at Former Great Barrington Train Station
By: - Oct 24th, 2025The Great Barrington Station House has never felt this alive. Aurora Archive(s) presents “Time” as a curated experience merging art, design, and fashion into one immersive environment. Beyond the sharp mix of global fashion, avant-garde art, and niche jewelry, the transformation of the station itself adds another layer of brilliance to unpack. It's culture on culture.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning English by Sanaz Toosi Front Page
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - Oct 23rd, 2025The play has flaws, but it is a credit to the playwright that we want to know more about these characters.
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Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston Front Page
World Premiere at Yale Rep
By: - Oct 23rd, 2025Zora Neale Hurston wrote short stories, novels, and plays. But she was also an ethnographic researcher, folklorist, and cultural anthropologist who published academic articles and taught at several universities. She was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance – that period between the wars when music, art, dance, and literature flourished in Harlem – but whose works were forgotten for many years
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Dishwasher Dialogues James Baldwin Front Page
Baby I Was Never American
By: - Oct 22nd, 2025Once I went to Leroy’s apartment to get some papers, and there in his living room, I saw ten chapters nailed to the wail, not stapled or in folders; no, he had driven a three-inch nail through the pages of each chapter as if to emphasize the brutality of that era
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Dawn Nelson All in the Same Boat Now Front Page
At Future Labs in North Adams
By: - Oct 22nd, 2025This exhibition contains stories on video and artwork inspired by ancestors created and told by myself, and my family, friends, and neighbors. We all come with our personal stories. I began exploring my own story in my artwork through a 2024 project entitled The Little Red House.
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Ecologies of the In\between Front Page
Gallery 51 in North Adams
By: - Oct 16th, 2025Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically. The exhibition brings together four artists — Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Bayo Akomolafe — whose work collectively moves across and between forms — drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound — in an embrace of pluralities, thresholds, and portals.
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Boston Public Art Triennial Front Page
Overcoming Civic Neglect
By: - Oct 16th, 2025Through the efforts of the Boston Public Art Triennial, the City of Boston’s civic life and built environment have been enhanced and strengthened. Bravo!
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Dishwasher Dialogues Anon Front Page
Happiness Was the Enemy
By: - Oct 15th, 2025We found a place—Le Paradis Mandarin—behind the Odéon metro station. Five francs, including bread and one Tsingtao beer, and the bottles were bigger than the French ones. Sunday Chinese dinner became a ritual where we solved the world’s problems, including those about art, women, love.
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Tesla Cybertruck Front Page
Love or Hate
By: - Oct 13th, 2025Cybertruck represents an act of innovation. Tesla fans admire the Cybertruck for its distinctive engineering and technology. Despite (or because of) its critics, the Tesla Cybertruck continues to generate considerable curiosity and interest. I have never ridden in, driven, or even touched one. But I love the way it looks.
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Shakespeare & Company Weekend of Jewish Plays Front Page
Roz and Ray by Karen Hartman
By: - Oct 12th, 2025Shakespeare & Company hosted “Celebrating Jewish Plays” from October 10 to October 12, showcasing a weekend of staged readings and a special literary event. We attended Roz and Ray by Karen Hartman. Directed by Daniela Varon it was brilliantly performed by John Douglas Thompson and Abigail Rose Solomon.
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