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Aimee Ng, chief curator at the Frick Collection
Arts & Humanities

5 Alumni Museum Curators Shaping the Art World Today

Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York’s most prestigious museums

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Supriya Ganesh on The Pitt

From Columbia to The Pitt

For Supriya Ganesh ’19CC, starring in the Emmy-nominated hospital drama wasn’t a far cry from reality

Collage of Oscar-winning movies with Columbia connections

18 Oscar ‘Best Picture’ Winners with Columbia Connections

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, Columbians have contributed to some of the Academy’s most awarded movies

Collage of Jewish history

Lessons of Jewish History

For seventy-five years, the Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia has connected the community to the currents of Jewish thought

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Sculpture
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Take a Walk on the Morningside

There’s nothing too wild about this little hike

Lina Puerta
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Jeepers Creepers

Artist Lina Puerta is inspired by the plants that creep into abandoned urban spaces and “reclaim” them

Descartes
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She Thinks, Therefore I Am

Did the father of modern philosophy actually borrow his most influential ideas from a Roman Catholic nun?

"New York to Los Angeles"
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New York to Los Angeles

Ashok Sinha ’99SEAS captures the abstract beauty of the view from an airplane window

Books
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Reading List: Summer 2017

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

Erika Dilday
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Film Forum

An interview with Erika Dilday ’93JRN, ’94BUS, executive director of the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem

NYC skyline
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New York through New Eyes

Justin Davidson '90GSAS, '94SOA on the places that capture the “myth and magic and possibility” of the city he calls home

Wallach Art Gallery
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Room with a View

The Wallach Art Gallery relocates to Manhattanville

Dove on microphone
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Disturbing the Peace

Standup comedians sit down for a conference

Brain Index installation
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Intelligent Designs

The human brain becomes art on the wall

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.

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?

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