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This fall, Professor Aliza Nisenbaum is featured in two exhibits: a solo exhibit at the Anton Kern Gallery in New York, and a group exhibition in Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.
With a total of 13 nominations, Russian Doll was a serious contender at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.
Columbia University School of the Arts and Roundabout Theatre Company announced the winners of Columbia@Roundabout's 2019 New Play Reading Series.
The future looks bright for current student King Lu. He was selected as one of three finalists for the 2019-2020 Humanitas Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Fellowship for his teleplay From June to July. If chosen as the winner, Lu would continue the University’s success in the competition after Jessica Shields ‘18 was awarded the Fellowship last year.
From the mystique and fate of an outlier blue whale; to the civil war photography of Matthew Brady; to the spooky appeal of a computer game that allows users to create virtual selves; to the museum of broken relationships in Croatia, Leslie Jamison’s new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, is, as NPR called it “[a] heady hybrid of journalism, memoir and criticism.”
In a work that was 10 years in the making, Professor of Professional Practice and future Writing Chair Lis Harris’ exhaustive and sensitive reporting in her new book In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family manages to humanize a deeply polarizing and volatile conflict.
Faculty member and Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang and Barnard College alumna and Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori ’83 bring a new high concept musical-within-a-play to The Public Theatre for its New York premiere.
The Student Spotlight series aims to highlight the work of current MFA students, asking them to share thoughts on their practice by answering curated and peer-submitted questions.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Current student Asad Farooqui and alumna Fany de la Chica '18 are featured in this year’s Nashville Film Festival.
On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.
Alumna Nadja Verena Marcin '10 currently has work in three international exhibits: the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken and zwanzigquadrameter in Germany, and the Humor House in Bulgaria.
Current student Susan M B Chen ’20 is a finalist for the AXA Art Prize. Her painting, Waiting (2018), will be exhibited in two galleries this fall: first, the Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago Oct. 24-30, and then the New York’s Academy of Art Nov. 18-22.
In Dubai, the Jameel Arts Centre’s first group exhibit, Second Hand, draws from their collection to explore materiality in contemporary art practice. Work from recent alumnus Vikram Divecha ’19 is featured.
Sister Aimee, co-written and co-directed by alumni Marie Schlingmann ’16 and Samantha Buck ’16 had its theatrical debut at the Village East Cinema in New York and at the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles last week before its digital release on October 1st.