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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Years After, Years Before by Michael Geschwer Front Page
Mario Diacono Gallery
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025The paintings on display are inspired by the epic poems The Odyssey, by Homer and Metamorphoses, by Ovid. Geschwer’s idea that mythology, dreams, and art operate within the same language system is at the core of his imagery. In his images, Geschwer makes use of classical painting methods and an interior pictorial language, often integrating art history iconography and verbo-visual elements. The resulting mysterious compositions deliver to the viewer the underlying archetypal messages of antiquity.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Cave and Knife Front Page
The Godess Astrid
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025Asked about the job opening. She said she was the manageress. She told me her name was Astrid. And yes, she strode. She strode everywhere. That was how she moved through her life. Now she came up to me and said: “Yes, we’re looking for a bartender. Come by the lamp here on the bar, open your mouth.”
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Waiting Game Word
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Olivier Meslay Resigns from Clark Art Institute Front Page
Effective July 2026
By: - Sep 02nd, 2025Olivier Meslay, the Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, will step down from his leadership role in July 2026, concluding a decade of change and growth that has seen the Clark flourish in international stature and engagement. Meslay, a widely respected curator and art historian, will return to his native France to pursue a variety of independent projects.
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The Three Treasures: The Candle of Life Front Page
By: - Sep 01st, 2025Imagine your life as a candle. The wax and the wick of the candle are your Jing, your essence.
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Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions by Paula Vogel Front Page
Regional Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 01st, 2025Mother Play: A Play in Five Eviction by Paula Vogel is grating, harrowing, complex and difficult to endure. It is given a stunning, meticulously directed regional premiere at Shakespeare & Company. Members of the company, director Ariel Bock, and actress, Tamara Hickey, excel at executing this excruciatingly difficult play.
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Sisters have mercy Word
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Tabitha Vevers at Boston's Ellen Miller Gallery Front Page
Flesh Memories, Remembered
By: - Aug 30th, 2025Ellen Miller Gallery opens the fall season with Tabitha Vevers: Flesh Memories, Remembered, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Vevers began Flesh Memories during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1993 and later expanded the series at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
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On the Bubble Word
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Charlie Siedenburg Legendary PR Maven Retires Front Page
Leaving Barrington Stage Company After 21 Years
By: - Aug 29th, 2025“Barrington Stage has been more than a workplace — it’s been a home, a family, and a true creative community,” said Charlie Siedenburg. “One of the great joys of my career has been shaping the narrative of BSC — celebrating its artists, championing its productions, and helping to tell the story of a theatre that has become such an essential part of the Berkshires."
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Dishwasher Dialogues, The Beginning Front Page
Le Patron de Chez Haynes
By: - Aug 27th, 2025Leroy employed young people as dishwashers, waitresses, and bartenders who were also writers, poets, photographers, painters, and dancers. He was generous and warm-hearted, one of those rare people who somehow hadn’t managed to forget what it meant to be young. In Paris those were years without credit cards; copy machines were rare; even telephones were hard to come by. Chez Haynes was a safe haven. And our dreams of Paris would surely come true.
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Mark Twain Tonight Front Page
At TheaterWorks
By: - Aug 24th, 2025Twain was known for his satire, humor, and often darker view of mankind and its plights. The performance I saw talked about slavery and threats to democracy.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Back to the Beginning Front Page
A Fresh Start
By: - Aug 24th, 2025We started posting Dishwasher Dialogues about two thirds on. That ended last week. By popular demand we are now backtracking to the very beginning. This weekly column from Paris is one of our most read features. Everyone loves Paris.
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Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time Front Page
Clark Art Institute
By: - Aug 24th, 2025Of mixed heritage Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) endured a lifetime of rejection by his father, racism and adversity. To make a living the young sculptor created portraits of wealthy patrons. His single mother Léonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of Noguchi's work, did her best to encourage his decision to be an artist. Today he is regarded as among the finest of his generation. The Clark Art Institute is displaying 32 pieces as Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time
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Circus & the Bard at Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Best Fun of the Season
By: - Aug 22nd, 2025Much of the spoken word flew over my head but the circus elements had the kids bounding up from their seats and the rafters shaking. It may have been, at least for me, the most entertaining fun I have enjoyed in a heck of a long time.
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London Theatre Front Page
Five Plays in Five Days
By: - Aug 20th, 2025I had wanted to see Giant, starring John Lithgow, since it won rave reviews during a limited run at the Royal Court. Now it is in the West End (Broadway), and I hope it will come to NYC. Lithgow gives a stunning performance as Roald Dahl, the author of children’s books such as James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and others.
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Re-Inventing Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum Front Page
Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Peter Littlefield Collaborate
By: - Aug 20th, 2025Gabrielle saw Judy as a fighter. She's a witch and also a pissed off teenager. It was Gabrielle's idea that a beast should attack Judy, who strangles it. She skins it with her teeth and takes its power (figure 4). “After blood-stained clothing was found, it was reported that Judy was killed by a beast. But in a fit of rage, she strangled it, gutted and skinned it with her teeth. Then she cooked it. She was stuffed with meat and took a nap.”
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Ava – The Secret Conversations Written and Starring Elizabeth McGovern, Front Page
Stage 1, New York City Center,
By: - Aug 20th, 2025The most telling thing Ava says is that “they took away my voice” in reference to being dubbed in the film version of Show Boat. But in reality, her voice was taken from her throughout her career.
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Sophia Ainslie: Woven Front Page
Launches Fall Season for Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Aug 19th, 2025The work lives between abstraction and representation, woven from personal and cultural threads. I am interested in hybridity - how different visual languages can inhabit the same space. There is friction, but also connection. The paintings become a weaving of self and story, an attempt to make sense through making form, the experience of being shaped by multiple places and the ongoing search for coherence in layered identities.
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The Unseen Hand Front Page
Laozi’s Wisdom in an Age of Spectacle
By: - Aug 19th, 2025In the 17th chapter of the Tao Te Ching, Laozi outlines a hierarchy of leadership: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists; not so good when people obey and acclaim him; worst when they despise him.” This timeless wisdom offers a stark and challenging contrast to the political reality of modern America, where leadership has become a spectacle of personality, and one figure, in particular, seems to occupy every moment of the national consciousness.
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Dishwasher Dialogues: Last Call Front Page
If You Live Long Enough Life Ends
By: - Aug 17th, 2025I am not sure what old is anymore. Somewhere along the line it feels like we picked up an extra decade on our ancestors; those of us who have been lucky enough to keep our health. ‘Ninety is the new eighty’ sort of thing.
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King James by Rajiv Joseph at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
Nothing But Net
By: - Aug 17th, 2025King James by Rajiv Joseph is a lively and entertaining two-hander about fans, black and white, of Lebron James "The KIng" and the Cleveland Cavaliers. A regional sports market the CAVs hadn't won an NBA title in 50 years. In desperate need of cash Matt is willing to sell 19 courtside home game tickets pairs to Lebron's rookie season. Through four quarters the play, backlit by the career of James, tracks the complex relationship of eventual best friends.
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Art Deco Front Page
Century Celebration
By: - Aug 16th, 2025Still fresh today, the Art Deco period – which influenced the construction or fabrication of buildings as well as luxury décor and functional objects — is considered one of the finest moments in design history.
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Berkshire Author Steven Reed Nelson Publishes a Provocative Book Front Page
Fire in the Wire: Electricity Empowers Human Evolution Beyond Homo Sapiens
By: - Aug 15th, 2025Western Massachusetts author and entrepreneur, Steven Reed Nelson, is a free range thinker. A graduate of Harvard Law School, and layman in the field of science, he proposes that the term Homo sapiens be replaced by Homo electric. The introduction of electricity some 200 years ago has greatly impacted human evolution.
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Christine McCarthy Worked Wonders Front Page
Director of Procvincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Aug 15th, 2025After several years at the Institute of Contemporary Art,. at 35, Christine McCarthy was ready to move on. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum was in desperate need. Taking an initial 50% salary cut she took the job in 2001 only with a commitment from the board for change. She raised $8 million for expansion and renovation. Today PAAM is thriving under her leadership while the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape is no longer what it used to be.
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