Charles Giuliano

Author Interview: “Annisquam: Pip and Me Coming of Age” — Remembrance of Things Past, On Cape Ann

July 17, 2023
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“One of the accomplishments of this book is that it is a capsule history of the art of Cape Ann.”

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Visual Arts Review: “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” — Some Fake Views?

October 24, 2022
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While impressive, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography disappoints.

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Visual Arts Review: “Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone” — A Problematic Reevaluation

August 4, 2022
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Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?

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Visual Art Review: The Enigma of Sol LeWitt

March 23, 2022
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints is a compelling opportunity for immersion in an important aspect of the artist’s work

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Book Review: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History” — Questioning the Elite

November 24, 2021
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This is an invaluable gathering of interviews, an impressive excavation of institutional memory that not only recognizes the MFA’s grandeur but its many deficiencies as well.

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Visual Arts Review: “Ceramics in the Expanded Field” — Playing with Clay

November 11, 2021
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The curator’s intent is to stretch and subvert received notions of ceramics with their overtones of craft and functionality

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Visual Arts Feature: Memories of a Veteran Boston Gallerist — Mario Diacono

May 11, 2020
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Mario Diacono’s Boston shows were legendary.

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Visual Arts Review: “Landmarks” at Williams College Museum of Art — Losing Your Way

March 1, 2020
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The Ruskinian mantra of “truth to nature” was eventually upended by the development of digital imagery and the agile manipulations of Photoshop.

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Arts Commentary: All Is Not Copacetic for the Fine Arts in the Berkshires

January 30, 2020
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Despite the growing number of artists in the Berkshires, there seems to be an effort, among large cultural institutions and the major media, to pretend that they are not around.

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Arts Commentary: “Counterculture in Boston 1968 – 1980s” — High and Heady Days

November 6, 2019
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About the post-Reagan era, Boston Phoenix and Boston After Dark editor, Arnie Reisman, observes: “Everything went to sleep, and while we were sleeping, the Republican Party grew six more heads.”

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