Olivia Schwob

Photograph of the two actors on stage

Montage | March-April 2020

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, profiled

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.

Montage | September-October 2018

From academia to art: profile of Nell Painter

Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.

Montage | May-June 2018

Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”

The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.


Performing & Recorded Arts |

“A Category of One”: The Enigma of Edward Gorey

A new play captures the enigma of Edward Gorey ’50. 

Montage | January-February 2017

Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons

A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore

Ellen Harvey’s “Metal Painting,” 2015

Montage | May-June 2016

Artist Ellen Harvey holds a "dark mirror" to the museum world

Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.

Adams in front of his 2015 installation, <i>Life, or Something Like It.</i>

Montage | July-August 2015

Harvard ceramicist Christopher Adams and his thousands of clay critters

Christopher Adams brings ceramics to life (or vice versa).

<i>Skies Painted With</i> <i>Unnumbered Sparks</i> (2014), in Vancouver, allowed viewers to choreograph its lighting using their mobile devices.

Montage | May-June 2015

Sculptor Janet Echelman weaves large-scale urban art

Janet Echelman’s urban sculptures take to the skies.