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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The Victim at Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Lawrence Goodman World Premiere
By: - Jun 22nd, 2025With The Victim playwright, Lawrence Goodman, has bitten off a lot to chew in a dense one act play that feels more like three. It presents monologues by three remarkable actresses: Stephanie Clayman (Daphne), Yvette King (Maria), and Annette Miller (Ruth). He takes on DEI, The Holocaust, and The Covid Pandemic.
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Greg Reiner Managing Director for Barrington Stage Front Page
Was Director of Theater and Musical Theater for NEA
By: - Jun 20th, 2025The Board of Directors of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is pleased to announce Greg Reiner as the company’s new Managing Director. Reiner, who most recently served as Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), joins BSC as of August 4, 2025.
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BODYTRAFFIC at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
LA-based Company July 2 Through 6
By: - Jun 19th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow will welcome the LA-based contemporary dance company BODYTRAFFIC for their Ted Shawn Theatre debut, Wednesday, July 2 through Sunday, July 6. This engagement will occur in the second week of the historic summer festival’s nine-week season. Renowned for their “invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe), BODYTRAFFIC will offer dynamic performances exploring the power of memory and the unexpected reminders all around us that provoke deep feelings of nostalgia.
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Carmen Cicero, Lucy Clark, Danielle Mailer, Deb Mell Front Page
Berta Walker Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2025Provincetown's Berta Walker Gallery is presenting four, one person shows by Carmen Cicero, Lucy Clark, Danielle Mailer, and Deb Mell. They open on June 27 and run through July 20.
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Fast Eddy Rubin at 84 Front Page
Astounding NY Theatre and Arts Critic
By: - Jun 16th, 2025Colleague and friend Edward Fast Eddy Rubin was astounding and incorrigible. He was a regular contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. Though he enjoyed getting comped he was slow to submit reviews often just when shows were about to or already had closed. He was the leader of our pack with unflinching panache and humor. The moniker came early on when he worked for a PR firm. He was dispatched with orders "Eddy, quick go here or there and do this or that." His promptness in executing these commands identified him as Fast Eddy. This obit is written by New Orleans based critic and ATCA member Alan Smason.
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Pioneering Photographer Bernice Abbott Front Page
Clark Art Institute Presents Her Portraits of People and Places
By: - Jun 16th, 2025he Clark Art Institute marks the 100-year anniversary of Berenice Abbott’s first photographs with an exhibition examining the relationship between her portraits of people and her “portraits” of places. Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991) was one of the most important American photographers of the twentieth century, known for her pioneering documentary style, unpretentious compositions, and technical innovations.
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Paris The Dishwasher Dialogues Front Page
Sleeping with Rothko
By: - Jun 15th, 2025I recall you always taking photos of yourself in these photo booths, often with staff and friends from the restaurant. Or with whoever happened to be with you at the time. Whenever we were on the metro together, changing metro lines or exiting, you would see a booth and suddenly track straight toward it. A compulsion. In hindsight, it was a bit strange, given we had access to your darkroom.
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The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie Front Page
Directed by Evan Goodchild
By: - Jun 15th, 2025With his first feature length film "The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie" Evan Goodchild has created a complex portrait of a brilliant but troubled artist who ended his life at age 64. In a New York Times obituary Roberta Smith wrote that "Mr. Gillespie had his first solo show in 1966 at the Forum Gallery and was included in several Whitney Biennials in the 1960's and 70's, but he remained an art world outsider, respected by many but enthusiastically embraced by few."
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Rare Earth Word
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Your Name Means Dream by José Rivera Front Page
TheaterWorks-Hartford
By: - Jun 15th, 2025Is this the future? Elderly people “cared for” by artificial intelligence humanoids?
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The Baroness Front Page
Playhouse on Park
By: - Jun 15th, 2025This world premiere provides for a delightfully funny evening in the theater. You can always count on Jacques Lamarre to push the envelope with his humor. He is at his best with this show..
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Something Beautiful: The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty Front Page
Coming to Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 13th, 2025Widely regarded as one of Broadway’s most celebrated songwriting duos, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning creators of Ragtime, as well as the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated team behind the animated feature Anastasia.
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N/A A New Play at Barrington Stage Front Page
Timely Political Drama.
By: - Jun 12th, 2025Given the President’s assault on the arts and higher education the one act, two hander “N/A a New Play” by Mario Correa may be taken as a bold act of defiance by Barrington Stage Company. It is likely to move the Berkshires based company up a few notches on the White House enemies list.
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David Margulies’ Play, Lunar Eclipse Front Page
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
By: - Jun 11th, 2025The brief (80-minute) play opens with George, the wonderful Reed Birney, sitting in a darkened field, sobbing. As the lights come up, we hear sounds, and soon his wife, Em, appears carrying a lawn chair and a basket of provisions – blankets, hot chocolate and more.. She has come to join him, something she hasn’t done in a long time. George loves astronomy.
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James Silin Musician and Farmer Front Page
Performed as Jimmie Midnight
By: - Jun 11th, 2025We met as undergraduates at Brandeis and remained connected all these years. He was my go to analyst for science and politics. Part of that was attending weekly demonstrations. He and Ann lived frugally on food that they grew. There was ongoing war with "the critters." That melancholy was heard in his singular blues.
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More Dishwasher Dialogues Front Page
Rauschenberg, Pollock, de Kooning and ‘Lit Dé’
By: - Jun 08th, 2025During a gallery visit in the 1970s Greg scratches a cardboard piece by Rauschenberg. That evokes a discussion of the Dada, nihilist heritage of contemporary art.
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The Sage in the Green Mountains Front Page
Lessons from a Barefoot Doctor and a Seeker’s Journey
By: - Jun 06th, 2025I first encountered “Fourth Uncle on the Mountain” during a deeply formative period of my life – while living as a Daoist monk at a small temple nestled on a mountaintop in Hubei Province, China. My temple sister, Cheng Feng, and I loved this book and spent much time discussing it. She is Vietnamese and French, and felt a strong connection to Dr. Van Nguyen’s story.
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Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground Front Page
Launches Summer Season at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 04th, 2025A panel of historians, in the New York Time Magazine, have positioned Dwight D. Eisenhower at 22. That’s one behind Andrew Johnson and staring up at Chester A. Arthur. It's 1962 and he's writing his memoir. A projection at the end of the compelling one man play by Richard Hellensen, starring Tony winner, John Rubenstein, has him rising in periodic polls to #5 in 2023.
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Ragtime at Goodspeed Front Page
Not To Be Missed
By: - Jun 01st, 2025A strength of this production is the outstanding performances of the leading characters, Michael Wordly as Coalhouse Walker, Mami Parris as Mother, and David R Gordon as Tateh; each truly embodies the role and has the vocal chops to handle the music.
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From The Dishwasher Dialogues Front Page
Leroy Haynes, Charles Bukowski and Simone De Beauvoir
By: - Jun 01st, 2025Leroy’s silent advice was always there, don’t get too comfy, son, life’s tough and it’s not going to get easier. Unlike Manhattan where I had previously lived, Paris, was not menacing. Never did I sense that there were places or quartiers where I shouldn’t venture.
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Barringtpn Stage Update Front Page
Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind”
By: - May 30th, 2025Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind” on Joy Machine Records. The track is the first single of a two song EP fuzzy (Barrington Stage Company Sessions), featuring music and lyrics by Van Dyke & Talbott and performed by Cass Morgan and John Cariani.
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Beauford Delaney at the Drawing Center Front Page
In the Medium of Life
By: - May 30th, 2025Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is excited to announce the opening of In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in SoHo. Curated by Executive Director Laura Hoptman and Assistant Curator Rebecca DiGiovanna, the exhibition features approximately ninety works on paper from each period of Delaney’s career, offering a rare survey of his stylistic evolution
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John Dunnigan at Gallery NAGA Front Page
Possible Necessities
By: - May 28th, 2025Gallery NAGA is pleased to announce its season closing exhibition, "Possible Necessities," featuring new studio furniture by renowned artist John Dunnigan. This marks Dunnigan's first solo exhibition at Gallery NAGA. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Glenn Adamson, Curator at Large, Vitra Design Museum.
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Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) Spotlight Series Front Page
Past, Present, and Future: What Is Music For
By: - May 28th, 2025BSO collaborator Yo-Yo Ma, encompasses four talks and four musical performances with an array of compelling scholars and performers (Aug. 2–12). The annual Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) Spotlight Series this year features: Ma and historian Heather Cox Richardson (Aug. 2), art critic Sebastian Smee and musicians Sam Amidon and Shahzad Ismaily (Aug. 9), and violinist Vijay Gupta, journalist Steve Lopez, and Juilliard’s Lesley Rosenthal (Aug. 23).
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Harmony and Disharmony Front Page
Understanding Evil in Daoism
By: - May 27th, 2025Rather than focusing on inherent “evil,” Daoism often addresses what we might perceive as evil in terms of disharmony, imbalance, or deviation from the natural Way (Dao). Actions or situations perceived as evil often arise when individuals or systems operate out of alignment with the natural flow, driven by excessive desire, forced action, or unnatural striving (Wei).
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