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Dial M for Morningside: Hitchcock at Columbia
collage of Alfred Hitchcock with movie images and Low Library
Arts & Humanities

Dial M for Morningside: Hitchcock at Columbia

In 1972, film-studies professor Stefan Sharff brought his idol Alfred Hitchcock to campus to receive a Doctor of Humane Letters

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The Story Behind the Most Famous Christmas Poem of All
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The Story Behind the Most Famous Christmas Poem of All

The improbable tale of Santa Claus, Columbia, and Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas"

Spooky Movies to Stream this Halloween — all with Columbia Connections
Sissy Spacek in Carrie

Spooky Movies to Stream this Halloween — all with Columbia Connections

These haunting tales are perfect for a morbid movie night at home

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

Columbia in the Movies

21 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Intelligent Designs
Brain Index installation
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Intelligent Designs

The human brain becomes art on the wall

A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green
Illustration
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A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green

How a Butler librarian became Columbia’s first curator for comics and cartoons.

Opening Minds Behind Bars
Illustration of book in prison cell
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Opening Minds Behind Bars

What happens when you bring college classes to incarcerated men and women?

"South Shore, Staten Island"
"South Shore, Staten Island)
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"South Shore, Staten Island"

Photographer Joseph Michael Lopez's street scenes are on view at the Museum of the City of New York

Better Read Than Dead
KGB Bar
Arts & Humanities

Better Read Than Dead

MFA grads meet up for an exchange of words

Labor of Love
Lynn Nottage
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Labor of Love

With her latest play, Sweat, School of the Arts professor Lynn Nottage turns hard work into high art

History's Burden
Columbia vintage campus map
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History's Burden

Taking a close look at Columbia's links to slavery

The Mane Event
cartoon
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The Mane Event

"You’ve got to stop swallowing your pride"

"Measures" at the Storm King Art Center
"Measures" by Josephine Halvorson
Arts & Humanities

"Measures" at the Storm King Art Center

Josephine Halvorson's sculptures were recently on display

A Virtual Museum Tour
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Arts & Humanities

A Virtual Museum Tour

Mabel O. Wilson ’91GSAPP guides you through the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Penn Station in a Brand-New Light
Penn Station illustration
Arts & Humanities

Penn Station in a Brand-New Light

Vishaan Chakrabarti has a plan to turn Penn Station into a public space as majestic as Grand Central Station

Bittersweet
Aaron Douglas painting
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Bittersweet

Two scholars of Harlem take in the view from Sugar Hill

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