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“I wanted to go deeper than the intellectual mind,” Directing student Rakesh Palisetty said of his thesis production, Hedda Gabler.
The fourth annual International Play Reading Festival—a festival co-founded by Dean Carol Becker and Associate Professor David Henry Hwang, Theatre—was held last month, presenting readings of three plays by living international playwrights.
It seems that to know Robert Walser is to love him. The great Swiss-German writer who lived, struggled, and worked prolifically in the early 20th century, a contemporary of Kafka and Herman Hesse, has been easily overlooked in the decades since his death, but for a robust and still growing following of Walser enthusiasts.
Constructing Futures: Making Ecological Art in a Time of Uncertainty is a series that features artists who use found materials, natural resources, and the landscape to construct work that addresses the harsh realities of our ecological age.
Adjunct Film Professor and alumnus J. Hoberman '81 wrote Duck Soup (Bloomsbury, 2021) a new book on the Marx Brothers' famous movie of the same name.
Students of Columbia’s Sound Art MFA program presented installations in the Music and Arts Library. Staff Writer Celia Bernhardt learns what sound art is and describes a few beautiful pieces from the show.
A new body of work by Visual Arts alumna Patrice Renee Washington ’14 is available for viewing at Marinaro Gallery, New York.
Animation Conversations is an interview series with Film faculty, students, and alumni where we discuss working as screenwriters, directors, and producers in the animation industry.
On October 26, 2021, campus walk was illuminated by the lanterns of the Morningside Lights festival once again, its colorful shapes and marvelling spectators charging the fall air with wonder and excitement.
Our Country Friends by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart was released by Random House on November 2, 2021.
Ida Red, a feature film edited by Adjunct Assistant Professor John David Allen, opens in theaters around the country on November 5 with a same-day streaming release on Paramount+.
Alumna Nicole Holofcener '88 is set to write and direct the feature film Beth and Don, which will begin filming in New York City in early spring 2022.
The House of Spirits, a TV series adapted, co-written, and directed by alumna Francisca Alegría '16, will go into production for FilmNation Entertainment next year.
In this series, we feature the new mentorship program that connects recent alumni with industry professionals.
A Poet’s Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor Emily Skillings '17 about the public landscape in her poem “The Duke’s Forest,” the magical wormholes of poetry, and the intersections between poetry and dance.