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An installation by alumnus Hugh Hayden ‘18 has been announced as the next Madison Square Park Conservancy commission. Presented across three lawns in the park, Brier Patch will open to the public on January 18, 2022. It will be open through April 29, 2022. 

The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, co-edited by Senior Lecturer Ron Gregg and featuring Professor Tom Kalin, was published by Oxford Handbooks on November 26, 2021.

On November 18, 2021, Writing Program students interested in the lineup of professors for the Spring semester had the opportunity to get to know incoming Assistant Professor Diksha Basu, as she joined Ravina Aggarwal, Director of Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai for a virtual installment of Indian Stories on the Global Stage. 

Ghost Light, Meet the Dramaturgs is a Theatre series featuring Columbia Dramaturg students, faculty, and alumni, learning about their work, aspirations, and pandemic passion projects.

Several Columbia artists are featured in Common Space, an exhibition on display at Oolite Arts in Miami, Florida until January 23, 2022.

Art Basel: Miami Beach ran from December 2 through December 4.

Film and Media Studies alumna and current PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures Xinyi Zhao '17 received the Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to conduct field work for her PhD dissertation, titled Cinema as a Quest for Modernity: Film Culture, Spectatorship, and Colonial (After)lives of Manchukuo.

Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television by alumna Annie Berke '09 will be published in January 2022.

Nonfiction alumna Lacy Warner ‘16 recently debuted her first short documentary, A Journey of Sight: The Long Road Toward Curing River Blindness, with Epic Digital and Vox Media.

Painting alumnus Cy Gavin ‘16 is featured in his first solo show in the United Kingdom. The exhibition is at David Zwirner Gallery in London and is available for viewing until December 23, 2021.

 

Is There Still Sex in the City? is a new one-woman stage show from Candace Bushnell, the acclaimed, bestselling author of Sex and the City (1996), which was the basis for the HBO hit series of the same name and two subsequent blockbuster movies. 

In this series, we feature the new mentorship program that connects recent alumni with industry professionals.

Columbia University’s graduate Film Program is proud to share that starting in 2022, the prestigious Blue List competition is now sponsored by the curated streaming service, MUBI. 

Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Photography Concentration Head Naeem Mohaiemen about the future of photography, the path of unlearning, and his journey to becoming an Anthropologist in the Visual Arts.