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Arts & Humanities

Alumni Art and Photography Books for Your Coffee Table

Though they’re often purchased as gifts, souvenirs, or home accents, there’s more to great “coffee table books” than pretty covers

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Students at Columbia's Center for Science and Society mix pigments at the Sato Sakura Gallery
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A 500-year-old Artisanal Manuscript Yields Its Secrets

“Try burnt oysters,” and other words of wisdom

Rachel Chavkin
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High Art, High Ideals: Rachel Chavkin Takes on Broadway

The Tony Award-winning director of Hadestown may be theater’s most forward-thinking artist

Photo of Toni Morrison by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Capturing the Life of Toni Morrison

A new film by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders '74CC honors the legacy of the celebrated writer

Elegance Bratton, shot by Gioncarlo Valentine
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Elegance Bratton Makes Films About the Queer Black Experience

The filmmaker talks about family, ballroom, and diversity in film and television

Bronze bust of Béla Bartok over sheet music
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Bring Me the Head of Béla Bartók

There's a bronze sculpture of the Hungarian composer in Dodge Hall

Marie Kondo and her translator, Marie Iida
Arts & Humanities

The Marie Kondo Whisperer

Meet Marie Iida ’11GSAS, the valued translator on Netflix’s hit reality show

Black and white photo of bride riding bicycle: "Bridecycle" by Pan Su "Peter" Kim
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A Look at the Medical Center’s 10th Annual Art Show

Some 200 works by CUIMC students, faculty, staff, and family members will be on display through 2019

Donald Keene at poet Basho’s tomb in Zeze, Japan, 1955.
Arts & Humanities

Remembering Donald Keene, America’s Foremost Japanologist

The Columbia professor lived for his adopted country — and his students

Exterior of The Shed in Hudson Yards, seen from the High Line
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Alumni Artists Featured at the Shed in Hudson Yards

Five Columbians show off the projects that grabbed the attention of curators at New York’s ambitious new cultural space

Yoke thé marionette puppet from Burma
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The Puppets of Butler Library

Professor Brander Matthews left his theater memorabilia to Columbia — with strings attached

Subway mosaic
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Lion in the Subway

A new series of subway mosaics honors famed Bronxites, including writer and activist Audre Lorde ’60LS

MOLD magazine founder LinYee Yuan in front of a food market
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Must-Reading for Ethical Foodies

YinLee Yuan ’02CC publishes Mold magazine, a guide to the future of responsible food production and design

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