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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Summer at Mass MoCA Front Page
Full Schedule
By: - Apr 16th, 2025MASS MoCA today announces its full lineup of summer programming. Following the celebratory opening weekend of Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream…, this summer’s concerts, workshops, and events include SNACKTIME (July 12), Guster & The Mountain Goats (July 26), and many others live in concert; the final Like Magic: Screening Series (June 7) prior to the exhibition’s September closure; the return of MASS MoCA’s summer fun spot The Chalet; and a late summer outdoor show with Lake Street Dive (September 6); among other energizing offerings.
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Chesterwood 2025 Programming Front Page
Mansion of Daniel Chester French
By: - Apr 14th, 2025On May 14, Chesterwood – the summer home, studio and gardens of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) – will reopen its doors to the public after a multi-faceted, four-year renovation and rehabilitation project to preserve the French family residence. The $4 million project has resulted in three new exhibition rooms, ADA upgrades, and a state-of-the-art collections and resource center available for research and academic work.
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MFA Art of the Americas Reinstalled Front Page
Celebrating 250th of the USA
By: - Apr 02nd, 2025“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we wanted to take a moment to pause and revisit some of our most beloved galleries,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. “Thinking collaboratively and working with a spirit of curiosity, we set about to create a space for many voices to share their experience and understanding of the origin story of our country’s founding.”
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Summer at Peabody Essex Museum Front Page
Making History: 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
By: - Apr 02nd, 2025The exhibition delves into the extensive historic and modern collections of the first art school and museum in the United States. Established in Philadelphia in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has long championed American art and artists and was the first art academy in the nation to admit women and Black art students for study in the 1800s.
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The Art of Yielding Front Page
Finding Strength in Suppleness (Part 2)
By: - Apr 02nd, 2025Compromise, another form of yielding, is essential for navigating the complexities of human interaction. By yielding on less important issues, we create space for finding common ground and achieving mutually beneficial outcomes. This approach avoids unnecessary conflict and preserves valuable relationships.
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Anette Miller and John Doughlas Thompson Honored Front Page
Celebrated at Gala 2025
By: - Mar 31st, 2025Shakespeare & Company has announced its Gala 2025, slated for Saturday, June 28, will honor award-winning actors Annette Miller and John Douglas Thompson. In addition to performing on its stages – including together in Richard III in 2010 – both actors are alumni of Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training, which offers acting intensives and workshops for artists at varied stages in their careers and provides the basis for the company’s aesthetic.
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Berta Walker Legendary Provincetown Gallerist Front Page
Then and Now
By: - Mar 31st, 2025Last October Astrid and I spent an afternoon with the legendary Provincetown gallerist, Berta Walker. The gallery is now in its 35th year. It was business as usual although artist Grace Hopkins manages the day to day operation. There were disruptions as she greeted visitors but I attempted to discuss her career as well as her famous father and grandfather. They were collectors and philanthropists. Her grandfather founded the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Her father, Hudson Walker, served on museum boards and was one of the Monuments Men during WWII.
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Pillow Honors Norton Owen Front Page
2025 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
By: - Mar 27th, 2025The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award is presented each year to an artist of exceptional vision and achievement, and carries a cash prize which the artist can use as they choose. As a beloved archivist and mentor, and a founder of the award-winning digital archive platform Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive, Owen has curated decades of resources, events, and creative collections for public access, providing entry points into the vast Archives at Jacob’s Pillow.
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Laughs in Spanish at Hartford Stage Front Page
Not So Funny
By: - Mar 27th, 2025The play is set in an art gallery in Miami during the Basel Art Festival, a major cultural event. Mariana runs a small gallery and discovers that the paintings from the current exhibition have been stolen; later that day, she is hosting a reception with many affluent collectors attending.
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The Inspector at Yale Rep Front Page
Less is More
By: - Mar 26th, 2025The primary difficulty with this production is because each “bit” is drawn out to its utmost, the play runs over two and a half hours. A tighter production would have had more effect.
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The MFA to Show Van Gogh Roulin Portraits Front Page
Collaboration with Van Gogh Museum
By: - Mar 20th, 2025Organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is the first exhibition devoted to the artist’s deep connection to the family and the making of their portraits. Featuring 23 works by Van Gogh—including 14 of the Roulin portraits—as well as earlier Dutch art and Japanese woodblock prints that inspired him, the exhibition includes iconic works from the MFA’s collection alongside more than 20 key loans from prominent international collections. The exhibition presents 10 letters from Joseph Roulin to Van Gogh and the artist’s siblings together for the first time, offering an intimate and tender look at their friendship.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Front Page
Highlighta Include Count Basie Orchestra at the Colonlal
By: - Mar 18th, 2025Here is the lineup for the nineteenth Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from April 24 through May 4 in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the cultural capital of the Berkshires.
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Yielding with Strength Front Page
Bamboo as Metaphor
By: - Mar 18th, 2025In essence, yielding with strength is a practice of cultivating inner resilience. It is about developing the ability to adapt to change, to flow with the currents of life, and to find strength in suppleness. It is about recognizing that true power lies not in rigid control, but in the ability to yield, to adapt, and to flow.
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William H. Holst’s Provincetown: Point of Origin and Homecoming Front Page
An American Modernist Painter and Educator
By: - Mar 17th, 2025William Holst was in Provincetown during the summer of the seminal Forum '49. He returned to study for several more seasons absorbing Hofmann's methods which he refined and taught. He developed what some refer to as Holstian Theories which included an expansive exploration of Hofmann’s ideas, but largely carried out in black and white. While an important artist of his generation Holst is not well known today. His influence on other artists, however, is palpable.
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Southwest Photos by Allan Seppa Front Page
Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. and Framework
By: - Mar 16th, 2025The exhibition by Berkshire based artist Allan Seppa will feature photography of Southwest America, specifically of Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. At Framework by Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. (437 North Street).
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Steve Locke at MASS MoCA Front Page
A Poetic Response
By: - Mar 12th, 2025Steve Locke is having a show now installed at MassMoCA (opened last August – goes to until Nov 8). Three years ago I wrote a poem to Steve, whom I know, after seeing his exhibition of “Cruising” at the Alexander Grey Gallery
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TheaterWorks Hartford Upcoming 40th Season. Front Page
Opens With Prize Winner English
By: - Mar 07th, 2025The theater’s 40th anniversary season opens with ENGLISH by Sanaz Toossi, the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. “English Only” is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adults are preparing for the TOEFL - the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Together, with their teacher, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground that is a funny, stunning triumph about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication, hoping that one day English will make them whole. TheaterWorks Hartford’s production of English will run October - November of 2025 (exact dates to be announced).
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North Adams Artists Roger and Ellen Questel Front Page
Exhibiting in Smyrna Beach Florida
By: - Mar 06th, 2025Our North Adams neighbors Roger and Ellen Questel send news from Florida. They are sharing an exhibition Time and Transformation at Jane's Art Center in New Smyrna Beach. We are pleased to share their information and images.
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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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