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A'Lelia Bundles
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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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A partial building design pictured in Low Library was created by architecture students and now is displayed on the lower level of Avery Hall through the end of April (Mark Bearak '08GSAPP).
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Learning to Truss

As part of the architecture school’s 125th anniversary, graduate students created two structures in Low Library to demonstrate a novel building approach

Illustration of André Malraux
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Colonel of Truth

André Malraux at Columbia

Illustration by Mark Steele of a game show
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Blonde Knockout

Dr. Joyce Brothers '53GSAS wins big

Photo by Paul Calhoun of Chinese laundry workers in Chinatown on lunch break in the 1980s
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A Museum Grows in Chinatown

Columbians tap their roots to bring a community’s history to the world

Painter Jacob Collins in studio, photographed by Sarah Shatz for Columbia Magazine
Arts & Humanities

A Brush With the Past

Painter and teacher Jacob Collins '86CC steps outside the art establishment to give a lesson in reality

Young Robert Moses standing in front of a map of New York City
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Bob the Builder

A series of exhibitions and symposia offers new perspectives on the city that Robert Moses built

Kiran Desai
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A Proud Inheritance

With storytelling in her blood, novelist Kiran Desai '99SOA wins the Man Booker Prize

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Brooklyn Beat

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Bergdoll Named MoMA’s Curator for Architecture and Design

The high line in 2000, photographed by Joel Sternfeld
Arts & Humanities

Walk the Line

The fight to put Manhattan’s High Line on a whole new track

Illustration of Dick Hyman with a keyboard, by PJ Loughran
Arts & Humanities

Shoot the Piano Player

Has the ultimate Dick Hyman movie already been made?

Alicia Graf Mack photographed in 2006 by Lois Greenfield for Columbia Magazine
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Pointe Taken

After a knee injury nearly ended her career, Alicia Graf '03GS is back on her toes

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