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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Sole Defined Zaz Front Page
Co Presented bv Williams and Jacob's Pillow
By: - Sep 15th, 2025ZAZ is an immersive sensory performance that shifts traditional viewing practices beyond just sight and sound. The performers embody the oral histories and recorded experiences of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. They perform in tap shoes, hard-soled shoes, gumboots, and barefoot, creating a rhythmic score that supports the narration woven into the performance.
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Rethinking African Art and Culture Front Page
Discussing Content and Impact of a CAA Panel
By: - Sep 13th, 2025During the era of Colonialism African nations were ruled by Europeans. This occupation resulted in the looting of some 90% of traditional African art and culture. In recent years German museums have returned tons of Benin Bronzes to NIgeria. The Museum of Fine Arts was pressured to return 34 works loaned to them as eventual gifts by collector Robert Owen Lehman. In a complex negotiation he nullified the agreement but the museum has retained and displayed five works. Noah Smalls of Williams College Art Museum helped to organize “Toward an Inclusive Framework: (Re)Building Black Art Histories in Academe, the Art Market, and Beyond,” for the 2025 College Art Association Conference. With Robert Henriquez we met for lunch to discuss these issues.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Fascist Francisco Franco Front Page
Chasing Immortality
By: - Sep 10th, 2025Alicia cleaned fancy apartments in the sixteenth arrondissement in Paris. She looked worn out, her face was prematurely lined from years of exhausting work, but when she spoke Spanish, her face lit up. She was always in a good mood. One evening she told me she and her husband were planning a visit to Sevilla to see her relatives, but the real purpose of the trip, she confided, was to buy a plot for herself and her husband in the San Fernando Cemetery.
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Elaine Buckholtz Spectacle Front Page
Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
By: - Sep 09th, 2025Spectacle is a visual experiential exhibition. Elaine Buckholtz, a Light Installation Artist with a 25-year career in Lighting Design, has worked with artists such as Meredith Monk and Merce Cunningham.
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What's New at MFA Front Page
Winslow Homer Opens November 2
By: - Sep 04th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced its lineup of 2025–2026 exhibitions, including Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor, a rare display of light-sensitive works that opens November 2. I
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A.R. Gurney’s play, Sylvia, Front Page
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Sep 04th, 2025Sylvia is an excellent play, being given a good, but not outstanding, production.
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Joe Caruso: Walking Among the Trees Front Page
HallSpace Dorchester Ma
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025In these works, Caruso reminds us that beauty is not rare or remote – it is present all around us, waiting in the texture of a leaf or even in the smallest twig. His prints ask us to observe more closely, to trust our own senses, and to find meaning in quiet, unassuming details; if we are willing to look!
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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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