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Pour One Out: Cocktail Odes to TV's Most Dearly Departed, written by fiction alumnus Chris Vola ’10, was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, last month.
Low Tide, written & directed by Kevin McMullin ’14, is now playing in select theaters and available to stream online.
Juan Hernandez, a current visual arts student, has an individual exhibit at Estudio 74 in Bogotá, Colombia.
One of America’s leading authors, Professor Richard Ford has been awarded the prestigious Hadada Award for lifetime achievement from The Paris Review, joining the distinguished ranks of winners as Joan Didion, William Styron, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth.
From Sep. 20 to Dec. 16, 2019, alumna Maria Antelman ’11 has a solo photography exhibit at the Visual Arts Center located at the University of Texas in Austin. Antelman is an artist based in New York. She studied Art History at the Complutense University in Madrid and holds an MFA from Columbia University. The exhibit, Mechanisms of Affection, shows photography of machines trying to interpret humans. Antelman’s photography here draws inspiration from the aesthetics of early IBM advertising, which marketed machines and women as objects of desire. IBM, which created its…
Writers in Collaboration is a monthly series covering writers involved in two art mediums and/or working with other artists.
Kareem Fahmy is a Canadian-born director and playwright of Egyptian descent.
Mountainfilm has awarded current student Gabriele Urbonaite its 2019 Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship for her short documentary in development, Solastalgia.
Reflexive political correctness, the often toxic fallout from social media, progressive enforcers of “proper” thinking, the cult of “weaponized victimhood,” are some of the topics social critic and personal essayist alumna Meghan Daum ’96 focuses on in her recently released The Problem with Everything. Fearlessly engaging such topics as fourth wave feminism and other divisive cultural and social issues affecting our lives today, Daum candidly braids her social observations with her own sometimes bruising personal experiences in this third essay collection.
Two films by alumnus Tanuj Chopra ‘06, Punching at the Sun and Chee and T have been named on the LA Times list of “The 20 best Asian American films of the last 20 years.” The list, created by more than 20 Asian American film critics, puts Punching at the Sun at the 25th spot while Chee and T lands in 56th place.
Professor and alumnus Esteban Cabeza de Baca ’14 is in three exhibits this fall, two in New York, and one in the Netherlands. He lives in New York but works between New Mexico, the U.S./Mexico border, and the Netherlands.
Columbia MFA Acting thesis In the Blood brings conversation around poverty, institutional racism, and motherhood into sharp focus.
Acting Alumna Dawn Elizabeth Clements ’19 will play Lydia in the Long Wharf Theatre’s upcoming production of Pride and Prejudice. This new adaptation by Kate Hamill is directed by Jess McLeod. Clements most recently starred as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. During her time at Columbia, Clements starred in productions directed by Tina Benko, Ron Van Lieu, James Calleri, and Andrei Serban.
Three Columbia alumni released Semper Fi, a feature film starring Jai Courtney and distributed by Lionsgate, earlier this month.
Alumnus Adam Salky '08 directed the Lifetime TV movie The College Admissions Scandal which has earned great acclaim from The New Yorker Magazine and other outlets.