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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

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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

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

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Jacques Barzun
Arts & Humanities

The Unedited Man

Critic John Simon offers his personal reflections on Jacques Barzun '27CC, '32GSAS, one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals

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Arts & Humanities

The Passage: A Photo Essay

Central American migrants risk their lives on the journey north through Mexico

Newspaper clipping of Lucien Carr news
Arts & Humanities

The Last Beat

A murder in Riverside Park changed the lives of a group of Columbia undergrads. Did it change literature as well?

Laura Cantrell with guitar, photographed by Rayon Richards
Arts & Humanities

Tennessee Rose

The return of singer Laura Cantrell

Book cover: "Glaciology" by poet Jeffrey Skinner
Arts & Humanities

Poem "The Deal"

By Jeffrey Skinner '78SOA

Sci-fi/ Columbia University illustration by Cliff Cramp
Arts & Humanities

Space Avengers

Exploring Butler Library's sci-fi magazine collection

Paul Auster
Arts & Humanities

The Solitude of Invention

Paul Auster, one of America’s most enigmatic literary figures, has opened up about his life in a new memoir. Now he opens his front door

Rachel Wetzsteon
Arts & Humanities

Poem: “Becalmed”

By David Yezzi '95SOA

Pixelated photo of woman in a bedroom
Arts & Humanities

Two Laptops: A Short Story

By Ed Park '95SOA

A person looking at "Judith I" by Gustav Klimt
Arts & Humanities

Your Brain on Klimt

What can painters of a hundred years ago tell us about our brains? Neurobiologist Eric Kandel narrates a museum tour of the mind

Diane Paulus
Arts & Humanities

Out of the Woods

Theater director Diane Paulus '97SOA takes on Porgy and Bess

"Nature-City" model from MoMA's 2012 "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream" exhibition
Arts & Humanities

Dreaming American

For a MoMA exhibition, architects rethink the American suburbs in light of the foreclosure crisis

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