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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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Painting of the back of a woman's head
Arts & Humanities

Aguas Calientes: A Short Story

Fiction by Lauren Grodstein '97CC, '01SOA

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
Arts & Humanities

The Ballad of Kitt & Yorkey

How did Next to Normal, a musical about bipolar disorder written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, ever make it to Broadway?

Pears
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Opuntia littoralis"

By Moira Egan ’92SOA

Alice Neel's 1979 portrait of Jack Beeson
Arts & Humanities

Remembrance: Jack Beeson

A former student pays tribute to the master composer

"Portrait of Talia with Lilly on the Couch," by Van Hanos (oil on linen)
Arts & Humanities

2010: An Artspace Odyssey

Exploring the mixed-media landscape of this year's MFA thesis exhibition

George Preston holding baseball bats, photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Unbreakable

The home of art historian George Preston ’73GSAS contains all the wood you can handle

Illustration by Irena Roman of a writing desk with pencils, a typewriter, a signed baseball, and a framed picture of a baseball player
Arts & Humanities

Autograph Man

Writer Paul Auster '69CC, '70GSAS gives a reading at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life

Painting by William Ong of two hands sewing
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"

By Binnie Kirshenbaum '80GS, chair of the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts

Members of Sha Na Na at Woodstock.
Arts & Humanities

Taking 'Stock

Looking back at Sha Na Na, the doo-wop revival band that started as a Columbia singing group. 

Julio Marzan photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Utopia Parkway

On the road with the poet laureate of Queens

Illustration of Alice in Wonderland and characters at Columbia University, by Mark Steele
Arts & Humanities

Alice in Columbialand

Celebrating the legacy of the "real" Alice in Wonderland

Phil Schaap
Arts & Humanities

Every Day Is Bird Day

After 40 years at WKCR, jazz guru Phil Schaap '73CC is still riffing like there’s no tomorrow

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