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This summer, Yuri Yuan '21 brings Wanderlust to Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, in her debut solo exhibition in Europe. Gesturing toward geographic and emotional distance, Yuan portrays landscapes and domestic scenes in her signature flattened style. A woman, clad in a gray trenchcoat and cap, walks through a cemetery; a bluejay sips from a puddle; a hand pulls back a curtain, picks up a paintbrush. Wanderlust emphasizes passage over arrival, witness over judgement.
How is the internet like water? Yehwan Song '26 addresses this question in her solo exhibition—an installation of her kinetic sculpture The Other Internet—on view this summer at Subtitled NYC, an artist-run project space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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 Visual Arts Sable Elyse Smith about the inherent information in materials, time, and the myth of the 'art world.'
The retrospective exhibit The House That Jack Built at Pirelli HangarBicocca—a former Pirelli tire plant turned contemporary art institution in Milan—aims to introduce the public to thirty years of Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija's research into spatial and architectural practices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Read more from Columbia Magazine.
Sophie Kovel '22 is featured in the Center for Curatorial Studies exhibition at Bard College's Hessel Museum of Art.
