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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
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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

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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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Beauty by Numbers

Art history meets data science

Illustration by Craig Larotonda of Pat Boone performing metal music
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Pat 'n Leather

Pat Boone '58GS talks about his music career

Malcolm X photographed by Robert Parent
Arts & Humanities

The Great Debaters

As a professor at Rutgers, champion debater William Neal Brown '50SW would face his most daunting opponent — Malcolm X

Taylor Brodsky with child, photographed by Chris Ho
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Sound Stages

Irene Taylor Brodsky '97JRN made an award-winning documentary about her deaf parents. Now, as a mother, she is gaining a new understanding of the subject

Illustration of a sound engineer working behind the scenes at a concert hall, by Philippe Lechien
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Firebird Rising

In the bowels of Philosophy Hall, a shocking sound

Jacques Barzun in 1947 (Richard Rutledge / Condé Nast Archive)
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Simple and Direct

A former student recalls Jacques Barzun's clarity of mind and pen

Les Halles, Paris, circa 1970, by Al Mercado
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One-Shot Guy

Photographer Al Mercado lost a lot of pictures, but those he saved are gems

Illustration by Michael Witte of Jack Kerouac presenting a book typed on a scroll of paper to his editor
Arts & Humanities

The Road Not Taken

Jack Kerouac's On the Road turns 50

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The Fixer

Can editor Franklin Foer rescue the New Republic?

People building a boat in a workshop, photographed by Vernon Doucette
Arts & Humanities

Working Skiffs

Against the tide, the kids in Joe Youcha's workshop are carving out their futures

W.H. Auden in 1939
Arts & Humanities

Executor Privilege

Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden

"Hartley and Andrew" by Alice Neel
Arts & Humanities

Moving Picture

Alice Neel made art on her own terms; but as a new film by her grandson Andrew Neel '01CC suggests, her family paid a price

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