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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Dishwasher Dialogues Sleeping with Rothko Front Page
Being and Nothingness
By: - Apr 15th, 2026Rafael: The relationship between the photo booth pictures and my photo-canvases was philosophically intimate. By that I mean that both seemed more real to me than oil self-portraits.
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Tania Vergara Dance Theater Front Page
Cuban Company Reformed in Sarasota
By: - Apr 13th, 2026Sensory memories became the catalyst for the choreographer’s latest work for Tania Vergara Dance-Theater, the contemporary ballet company she founded in Cuba as Endedans Contemporary Ballet more than two decades ago and revived three years ago in Sarasota.
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Margaret Swan Current Front Page
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 10th, 2026Sinuous planes of flat aluminum, intersected and punctuated by bright swirling aluminum tubing, create counter movement, suggesting rivulets of water, creeping vines, or musical notation, and coaxing the curving leaf-like, wave-like forms into a rhythmic stream of luxurious movement.
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Giant with John Lithgow Front Page
Play Reveals Dark Side of Children's Author Roald Dahl
By: - Apr 09th, 2026Giant, which won multiple awards in London, is based on a true incident in 1983; the children’s author Roald Dahl wrote a book review about a non-fiction book on the 1982 Israeli-Lebanese war. In his review, Dahl expresses multiple statements that most would consider antisemitic condemning Israel.
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Rauschenberg, Pollock, de Kooning and Lit Dé Front Page
So This Is Rauschenberg
By: - Apr 09th, 2026One afternoon we went to see a Robert Rauschenberg show at the Galerie Sonnabend on the rue Mazarine. It consisted of, among other things, flattened, used, tattered, cardboard boxes stuck to the gallery wall.
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Season at Chesterwood Front Page
Stockbridge Home of Sculptor Daniel Chester French
By: - Apr 09th, 2026“Daniel Chester French helped give form to America’s highest ideals – liberty, courage, sacrifice, and shared civic purpose,” says Chesterwood Executive Director Miguel Rodriguez. “His sculptures continue to remind us that democracy is not only preserved in our institutions, but also in the values and stories we choose to honor. At Chesterwood, keeping his legacy alive means preserving not just the home and studio of a great artist, but a space where art, history, and the American spirit continue to speak to each new generation.”
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Programming at MASS MoCA Front Page
Lots to See and Do
By: - Apr 08th, 2026Music isn’t the only art form you can experience outdoors at MASS MoCA this summer: Amanda Lovelee's Homecoming and Pep Rally for the Trees opens on our annual Community Free Day (June 13), and invites visitors to contemplate and celebrate the assisted migration of two “trees-in-residence”. MASS MoCA’s expansive collection of long-term outdoor exhibitions will reopen for the season (May 23) and the indoor galleries continue to sing with newly installed works by Laurie Anderson, the recently opened Technologies of Relation, and a participatory commission by Boston-based Chilean artist Daniela Rivera (on view beginning July 11).
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Berkshires Satelite Reef Front Page
'62 Center for Theatre and Dance
By: - Apr 08th, 2026The Crochet Coral Reef was created in 2005 by the artists and sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim to raise awareness to the beauty and plight of coral reefs worldwide. The Berkshire iteration features hundreds of corals crocheted by community members in the Berkshires and beyond over the last year. The corals, made of a variety of colors and textures, are being assembled into a vibrant reef in the CenterStage Theatre, where lighting and sound will immerse visitors in an underseas wonderland.
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Berkshire Opera Festival Presents Flower and Hawk Front Page
At Historic Ventfort Hall in Lenox
By: - Apr 08th, 2026This intimate, 50-minute performance (no intermission), sung in English, brings to life one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages—queen of two nations, mother of kings, and a commanding political force. Set during her imprisonment in Salisbury Tower, Flower and Hawk unfolds as Eleanor reflects on the triumphs and betrayals that shaped her extraordinary life.
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BSO Announces BSO 2026-27 Season Front Page
Andris Nelsons at the Podium
By: - Apr 07th, 2026The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons announce their 2026–27 subscription season — the orchestra’s 146th — running from September 18, 2026, through May 9, 2027. Subscriptions (fixed and flexible “choose your own” packages) are available now, and single tickets may be purchased starting July 31.
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The Self You’ve Been Seeking is Already Here Front Page
Delusion of Lack and Freedom of Becoming Nobody
By: - Apr 07th, 2026We often treat awakening as a destination—a distant mountain peak we must climb through sheer effort, “magic” mantras, or intellectual gymnastics. But there is a persistent shadow that follows the practitioner: the Delusion of Lack. It tells us that who we are right now is insufficient, and that the peace we seek is always just one more book, one more form, or one more retreat away. In my work with students, I see this delusion manifest in two primary ways: the Abyss and the Shield.
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Sarasota Film Festival Front Page
Less Hoopla and More Focus on Film
By: - Apr 06th, 2026The 2026 Sarasota Filn Festival, which runs April 10-19, is a more restrained affair, with greater emphasis on the films than famous faces. Though there are still parties to open and close the 10-day event, the most notable name on the visitor list is Julian Schnabel, who is probably as well known as a painter as he is as a film director.
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Crucifixion Word
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Ric Haynes at Hallspace Front Page
The Shape of Things
By: - Apr 03rd, 2026His figures are friendly monsters: part human, part animal, part spirit. Haynes is a storyteller, an American humanist with a long history of supporting those that need the most help.
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Sarasota Opera House Centennial Front Page
Celebrations
By: - Apr 03rd, 2026In 1956, around the time that Elvis Presley was first called the “King of Rock and Roll,” he stepped on the stage of what is now the Sarasota Opera House for four shows that apparently attracted relatively small crowds. Just four years earlier, the theater was packed and the streets outside were crowded for the star-studded premiere of “The Greatest Show on Earth,” Cecil B. DeMille’s look at the circus world that had been partially filmed in Sarasota. It would go on to win the Academy Award for best picture.
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Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing Front Page
Mariska Hargity to Take Over Role in May
By: - Apr 03rd, 2026The script is incredibly flexible. The work can be performed by an actor of any gender, age, or nationality. In fact, when Daniel Radcliffe leaves the cast in late May, Mariska Hargitay is taking over the role.
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3rd NO KINGS DAY Front Page
NOW A World-Wide Movement
By: - Apr 01st, 2026Between 8 - 9 Million people in the USA protested on 3/28/26 at perhaps 3300 locations in the USA. The population protested, held rallies, and demonstrations! We learned that: two-thirds of all protests happened outside of major urban areas. Americans everywhere are awake, declaring themselves as: 'We the people.'
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Dishwasher Dialogues Leroy, Bukowski and Simone De Beauvoir Front Page
He Had Our Backs
By: - Apr 01st, 2026: The French have a fascination with Charles Bukowski, he seems to confirm their deep-seated need to equate creativity and self-destruction.
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Hermitage Artists Retreat Expands Reach Front Page
Gifted Land on Manastoa Key, Florida
By: - Mar 31st, 2026For more than two decades, hundreds of writers, painters, composers, dancers and others have come to the Hermitage Artist Retreat on Florida's Manasota Key for inspiration to create new work. They stay in historic, waterfront cottages as they develop new exhibits, prepare for premieres of plays and symphonies, share ideas with other creatives on the campus or take time to recharge by walking on the beach and watching sunsets.
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Summer at The Mount Front Page
Richly Varied Programming
By: - Mar 31st, 2026This summer marks the debut of The Mount’s refreshed visual identity, honoring Edith Wharton’s legacy while embracing the organization’s evolution into a vibrant, multidisciplinary cultural center.
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller Front Page
The Sarasota Players
By: - Mar 27th, 2026Miller’s play, set during the time of the Salem witch trials in 17th century Massachusetts, opened more than 70 years ago, but it continues to resonate whenever it is produced, even in an admirable if not fully realized production.
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA Front Page
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Peri Schwartz at Gallery NAGA Front Page
Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes
By: - Mar 26th, 2026Reverberations showcases the range of Schwartz's treatment of still life within the self-imposed set of subject matter limitations and the confines of her studio. Gradually, the artist shifted away from more traditional compositions of stoneware and fruit toward non-organic forms, illuminated by strong natural light and vibrantly colored liquids or subdued in sepia and monochrome
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Easter Sunday Word
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Get a Real Job Front Page
Square One
By: - Mar 26th, 2026I was very lucky. I have met over my life many painters who are better than I am in all ways, better technically, with a more fertile imagination, hard-working and self-disciplined, and they have had no luck, haven’t made it to square one.
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