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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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Columbia and the Artist

We asked a few of Columbia’s uncounted alumni artists to reflect on how their student years turned them toward the lives they’ve lived since

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Reflections from Brian Dennehy

The actor remembers his time at Columbia

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Documenting the Edges

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini release American Splendor

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Hollywood Transgressor

Catching up with Kathryn Bigelow

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Kara Walker’s Contradictions

The artist is an associate professor in the School of the Arts

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Making Art a Day Job

Alumni are having post-MFA success

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A Playwright of Ideas

Kia Corthron writes plays that grow not out of stories or characters but out of issues

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Roadhouse Raga

The musical worlds of Aaron Fox

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Jazz ’til Dawn

A profile of Katharine Digman ’03CC

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Columbia Jazz Ensemble

A campus music group performs at Smoke

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A Conversation: Bollinger & Rushdie

Columbia's president speaks with the Indian expatriate writer

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Surfacing into Daylight

Visiting the Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival

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