Skip to main content
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni
  • On Campus
  • Books
Issues
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • School Abbreviations
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni
  • On Campus
  • Books

Arts & Humanities

A'Lelia Bundles
Arts & Humanities

How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject

Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf

Most Read
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

Aimee Ng, chief curator at the Frick Collection
Aimee Ng (Joseph Coscia Jr.)

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

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

More Stories

Alondra Nelson
Arts & Humanities

The Double-Edged Helix

To write about DNA ancestry testing, sociology professor Alondra Nelson immersed herself in the world of African-American genealogy

Painting
Arts & Humanities

Paint by Numbers

Helena Kauppila '10GSAS wants the dispersal of objects in her paintings to be as arbitrary as the scattering of stars in the galaxies

Henry Lawrence Freeman
Arts & Humanities

Spellbound

The Morningside Opera staged a revival of Harry Lawrence Freeman's Voodoo at Miller Theatre

Maureen Ryan
Arts & Humanities

Producer's Chair

Maureen Ryan '92SOA is the new chair of the Columbia film department

Ancient columns
Arts & Humanities

The Turn of the Key

Ancient Rome scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta teaches the classics to formerly incarcerated adults

National Sawdust building
Arts & Humanities

The Transformers

When three architects decided to convert a Brooklyn warehouse into a state-of-the-art performance space, their plans didn't stop with the blueprints

Florine Stettheimer painting
Arts & Humanities

Treasure Quest

Columbia’s bounty of hidden art is beginning to see the light of day

Broadway illustration
Arts & Humanities

Some Enchanted Evening

Introducing the first annual “Columbia Songbook,” a celebration of show tunes written by faculty and alumni

Illustration
Arts & Humanities

Capturing the Emperor

Barak Goodman's latest film, a six-hour adaptation of The Emperor of All Maladies, has been the documentarian's most intricate assignment yet

Piano
Arts & Humanities

The Hippocratic Overture

Students at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons are getting ready to practice. Will it make them better doctors?

Navarsky
Arts & Humanities

The Controversy of Art

Victor Navasky, founding member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, on Charlie Hebdo

Illustration
Arts & Humanities

After the Deluge

A New Orleans-born writer reflects on the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the toll the disaster is still taking on his city

  • Read More

Stay Connected.

Sign up for our newsletter.

Newsletter consent

General Data Protection Regulation

Columbia University Privacy Notice

  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni Newsmakers
  • On Campus
  • Books
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Advertising
  • Staff
  • Awards
  • Contact Us
  • School Abbreviations
  • Donate
  • columbia.edu
  • Alumni Association
  • Update Your Information
  • Disability Services

©2026 Columbia University