News Archive

Is God Is, a Southern Gothic Western produced by Undergraduate Film and Media Studies alum Kishori Rajan (CC '08), is set for theatrical release on May 15, 2026 from distributor Orion Pictures.

Joana Urtasun '22 has published a translation of Between Fish Scales by Basque poet Leire Bilbao.

This past month, two floors of the Lenfest Center for the Arts have been bustling with artists, visitors, and performers. Curated by Amal Issa, the Sound Art + Visual Arts Class of 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition comes to a close on Saturday, May 24, 2026. 

Taiwan Travelogue, translated by Writing alum Lin King '22, has just been awarded the International Booker Prize. 

May 12 through 23 is an exciting time for the Film Program. It might mark the last weeks of spring before summer unofficially takes hold, but for a few lucky filmmakers, it means the 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway. 

Lizzie Zelter '22 has long been interested in interiors—the built environments we encounter in domestic, commercial, and bureaucratic settings—and how they invite intervention.

The National Book Foundation recently announced its list of the 5 Under 35 honorees for 2026. Among this year’s awardees are two School of the Arts MFA Writing alums, Anika Jade Levy '23, author of Flat Earth, and Stephanie Wambagu '24, author of Lonely Crowds. 

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Theatre, Liz Hayes, about how a childhood fascination turned into a career, the techniques of teaching speech, and the importance of personal resonance. 

A slate of Columbia Film alums and faculty are screening their feature and short films at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, which will take place in theaters across lower Manhattan from June 3-14, 2026. 

Laurie Anderson '72 (BC '69) and Kambui Olujimi '13 are among the 110 artists invited to participate in the Venice Biennale's 61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys, presenting works alongside the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Pauline Oliveros.

The Son-in-Law (El yerno), produced and co-written by Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Media Studies James Schamus, hit Netflix on May 1, 2026.

Chair of the Visual Arts program, Director of the Sound Art program, and Associate Professor of Professional Practice Miya Masaoka released a double CD, Two Days in Dreamland, last month with Pauline Oliveros and Issui Minegishi on Important Records.

An interview with producer and Undergraduate Film alum Gabriel Mayers (CC '17).

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing BK Fischer '97 about cranberry morphemes, plasticity, and tap dancing.

Associate Professor of Writing Anelise Chen and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Vinson Cunningham named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the categories of Memoir or Autobiography and Criticism respectively.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Directing Concentration Head and Professor of Professional Practice Bette Gordon about artistic freedom, learning through experimentation, and why curiosity and play remain the guiding pillars of her filmmaking practice and her pedagogy as a teacher. 

Cautionary Tales: A Symphony of Anger/Kòlè, the debut New York solo exhibition by Laurena Finéus '24, which opened last month at Fridman Gallery, considers anger as a form of knowing. On view now through June 19, 2026.

Two books from Columbia alums are featured on this summer reading list from Columbia Magazine. Read more.

The 79th Annual Tony Awards concluded the evening of June 7, and Columbia theatre-makers took home some of the night's biggest honors.

Fresh off the success of their debut novel, a writer wrestles with disillusionment, despair, and mysterious visions in surreal sophomore novel, Lucid Dreams, by Daphne Palasi Andreades '19.

This summer, Visual Arts' Director of Graduate Studies, Concentration Head of Painting, and Assistant Professor David Antonio Cruz reenvisions interiors across two boroughs: at PES Futures—a satellite initiative of the Project for Empty Space in Manhattan's historic Chinatown—and the Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center in the Bronx.

Dean of the School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature Sarah Cole has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells (Oxford University Press, 2026), a comprehensive overview of the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.