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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Patricia Hills: Art World Feminist Front Page
A Lively and Insightful Memoir
By: - Dec 06th, 2025Now in her late 80s. Patricia Hills overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the leading scholars and curators of American art. I knew her as a radical leftist feminist at Boston University. This intriguing and insightful memoir chronicles that daunting journey. The book conflates her life as wife and mother with struggles in academia which regarded the study of American art as "too easy." As a force majeure she trained a generation of Americanist scholars and curators.
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Chess Revived on Broadway Front Page
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Shakespeare & Company Holiday Show Front Page
Austen's Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill,
By: - Dec 04th, 2025Shakespeare & Company’s traditional winter show returns this year with Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, a fast-paced, staged reading wherein the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic tale come to life. This year, the Austen-inspired production coincides with her 250th birthday on December 16.
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Jared Abner Hauntology Front Page
Boston's HallSpace
By: - Dec 03rd, 2025HallSpace presents Hauntology an exhibition of wood sculpture by Jared Abner. This is Abner’s first solo exhibition at HallSpace. In 2021, he was in a 2-person show.
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The Effortless Flow of Existence Front Page
Surrender and the Cosmic Drive
By: - Dec 02nd, 2025Is the large Norway maple in my garden trying to be alive? What specifically is it doing right this moment to be alive? The answer, if we are honest, is that the tree is doing nothing but allowing. It is not trying to push sap. It is not struggling to expand its canopy or striving to gather light. It is simply allowing the forces of the earth and sun to move through it. It exists in a state of perfect Wu Wei—actionless action.
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Berkshire Opera Festival Front Page
Announces 2026 Season
By: - Dec 02nd, 2025Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) announces its 2026 summer season under the vision of Co-founders Brian Garman (William E. Briggs Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production), and new President and CEO Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. In its 11th year, the company remains unique in the culturally rich Berkshires for producing opera at the highest level.
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Susan Cross of MASS MoCA Front Page
Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Susan Cross has been appointed to the new position of Director of Curatorial Affairs at MASS MoCA following a nationwide search.
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Oedipus Rex on Broadway Front Page
Outstanding British Production
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Mark Strong is magnificent as Oedipus – a mixture of arrogance and moral certainty and idealism. It is a powerful combination. Yet he can be ruthless and cruel, and always needs to be right; often angry at Creon, his campaign manager and Jocasta’s brother, played by a fine David Carroll Lynch.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Pig Alley and Street Theatre Front Page
They weren't Wearing Gestapo Uniforms
By: - Nov 27th, 2025One night, I remember hearing loud American voices on the street outside the restaurant. A table of three or four had just left the restaurant and now they were outside the front door, upset about something. Suddenly, one of them swept back in through the red curtains and saloon doors and looked up at me and demanded directions to Pigalle, which she pronounced in a sharp New York accent as ‘Pig Alley’. ‘Where is Pig Alley?’ she demanded. ‘I didn’t come all this way to miss Pig Alley.’
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Peabody Essex Museum Front Page
19th Century Sculptor Edmonia Lewis
By: - Nov 24th, 2025The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of acclaimed 19th-century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis. 30 sculptures by Lewis from public and private collections across the United States and abroad will be brought together with a number of additional objects in a range of media, giving visitors an opportunity to learn of Lewis’ mastery of marble and her remarkable, storied life.
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Chorus Line at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
To Be Directed by Alan Paul
By: - Nov 20th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announce that the company’s 2026 season will feature a 50th Anniversary production of A Chorus Line, the legendary Broadway musical that won nine 1976 Tony Awards and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. BSC’s production will be directed by Alan Paul. Additional creative team will be announced soon.
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Dishwasher Dialogues; Cobblestones and the Sorbonne Front Page
Des Lecons D'amour
By: - Nov 19th, 2025Remember that evening, when you were still making salads, and I asked you to slip a folded note under the lettuce? From the bar I had seen these two couples come in with an unaccompanied, elegantly dressed, young woman. The waitress placed them at table five. I asked the waitress serving them to remember the salad the single woman ordered. I went back to you in the kitchen, and said, ‘Greg, slip this in her salad, it’s a note I wrote to her’.
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Eternity in the Now Front Page
The Perfection of This Complete Moment
By: - Nov 18th, 2025There is a moment in the transition between sleep and wakefulness—a liminal space of deep Stillness—where the voice of the soul often cuts through the static of the day to come. When the mind is truly receptive, it delivers truths unburdened by egoic striving.
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Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 Front Page
At the Clark Art Institute
By: - Nov 17th, 2025The Clark Art Institute presents an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter. Their work encompasses the Gothic nostalgia of architectural photography, the social critique embedded in searing allegorical illustrations, and the literary connections with fantastical art. Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 i
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The New England Experimental Art Group Front Page
Gloucester"s Cosmos Gallery
By: - Nov 17th, 2025COSMOS Gallery’s Unexpected #25 – Unwrapped will feature numerous and diverse artwork by The New England Experimental Art Group. The group is renowned for their innovative pursuit of contemporary art, with no constraints on technique or materials.
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Cape Ann Museum Taken for Granite Front Page
Hammers on Stone: The Granite Industry & Cape Ann
By: - Nov 16th, 2025There is a judicious balance between tools and ephemera of the industry as well as a superb and insightful mix of works from the museum’s collection that further enhance and illustrate this history. Most intriguing was the manner in which granite and the quarries inspired artists.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea Front Page
Blockbuster Reopens Cape Ann Museum in June
By: - Nov 16th, 2025Building on the extraordinary momentum and record attendance generated by the 2023 exhibition Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape, the Cape Ann Museum is pleased to announce a new landmark exhibition, Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, on view from June 30 through September 27, 2026.
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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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