Arts & Humanities

The prolific writer recommends six great essayists he really thinks you should read

A controversial sculpture receives a restoration

Israeli cellist and musical innovator Matt Haimovitz is on a mission to bring classical music to unexpected places

Journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian '08CC, '11JRN reflects on the meaning of citizenship in the twenty-first century

Move over, Washington and Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton is the coolest Founding Father

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

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

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

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

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

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

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