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Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
Arts & Humanities

How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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A scene from The Pitt

16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

Photo of Caroline Bynum

My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

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

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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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

Subway train at station
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Train Ride"

By Bill Zavatsky '74SOA, '74GS

Illustration of men playing chess in a bar
Arts & Humanities

To Capture A King: A Short Story

By Norbert Ehrenfreund '50GSAS

Illustration of horse jockeys riding books
Arts & Humanities

Bookmakers

A literary Run for the Roses at the New School

Valerie Paley in gallery
Arts & Humanities

History in the Making

Historian Valerie Paley '11GSAS gives a heads-up on her makeover of the New-York Historical Society's permanent exhibit

Abstract painting of woman swimming by Vivienne Flesher
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Half of All of What Was True"

By Josh Weil '04SOA

Katori Hall
Arts & Humanities

Tell It on the Mountain

The young playwright Katori Hall '03CC unlocks her voice in a controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.

Photo of snow on branches
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Light Snow"

By Jeffrey Harrison '80CC

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