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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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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Seong-Jin Cho Records Ravel Front Page
Released by Deutsche Grammophon
By: - Feb 04th, 2025Ravel: The Piano Concertos, in which the pianist is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Andris Nelsons, comes out digitally and on CD on February 21. A deluxe edition presenting the complete recordings will be issued digitally and as a 3-CD box set on May 2. Vinyl versions of the two individual albums will be released later this year. The Piano Concerto in G’s central Adagio assai is available to stream/download beginning February 7, while the Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn will be released in advance of the deluxe edition, on March 7, the exact anniversary of Ravel’s birth.
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Steven Carter’s Eden at Yale Rep Front Page
Long-forgotten Play
By: - Feb 04th, 2025The play was first produced in 1976, receiving positive off-Broadway reviews and award nominations. It was part of Carter’s The Caribbean Trilogy; the other plays were Nevis Mountain Dew and Dame Lorraine. Carter died in 2020, and his plays have been seldom produced.
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Diet and Health Front Page
The Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Medicine
By: - Feb 04th, 2025The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine (Huangdi Neijing), compiled over 2,400 years ago, remains the leading foundational treatise on Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Huangdi Neijing addresses all aspects of inner medicine and health, and is required reading for anyone interested in understanding TCM and ancient Chinese culture.
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Tanglewood 2025 Front Page
Best of the Berkshires
By: - Jan 30th, 2025In July, BSO Music Director and Head of Conducting at Tanglewood Andris Nelsons leads ten programs and two TLI/TMC Art of Conducting master classes in a schedule that shines a spotlight on a wide spectrum of musical guests and the festival’s rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts at their best since 1937.
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Jaune Quick to See Smith at 85 Front Page
A Mentor and Friend
By: - Jan 29th, 2025In 2005 Astrid and I met with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in her Corrales, New Mexico studio. Several months later she had an exhibition of new works on paper that I curated for New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk University. She remained a mentor and friend with our last e mail exchange, about Katherine Porter, just a month or so ago. She has now died at 85. Jaune was a life long activist, artist and mentor to many. In 2023 she was the first Native American Artist to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Late in life she received long overdue respect and recognition.
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Best of Theatre 2024 Front Page
Broadway and Connecticut
By: - Jan 27th, 2025Here’s my top shows/performances in New York City in 2024.
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Kind of Blue: Benny Andrews. Emilio Cruz, Earle M. Pilgrim and Bob Thompson Front Page
Transcript of Panel at Northeastern University
By: - Jan 23rd, 2025In 1986 I organized an exhibition of four African American artists who lived and worked in Provincetown. That fall Kind of Blue traveled to the gallery of Northeastern University. In Boston there was a panel discussion chaired by Edmund Barry Gaither, then the director of the National Center for African American Artists and an adjunct curator for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to myself, there were two other panelists. Patricia Hills was then a professor of art history at Boston University. She has long championed issues of social justice and wrote a monograph and curated an exhibition of the work of Jacob Lawrence. Dana Chandler is an artist and activist.
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Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc. Front Page
Montserrat Gallery in Beverly
By: - Jan 23rd, 2025Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy confronts our torrid and complicated history of what it means to be an American and how control of and access to the Land defines our personal and cultural identities. The project moves beyond “farm to table” to “Land to Land” - challenging the corporate supply chain to return to the Land, uncontaminated, from what’s taken. The artist’s project critiques poet Robert Frost’s unabashedly Colonialist poem The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.”
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WCMA and MOCA Collaborate on Exhibition Front Page
Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier
By: - Jan 22nd, 2025Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist, raised in a Swiss village and living between Brooklyn, N.Y., and Williamstown, MA. They work with photography, photographic and filmic archives, and video in a collaborative practice that reinterprets historical events, putting the past into a meaningful transformative relation with the present. They employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care to amplify the systemic failures and violence of the Anthropocene.
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