NEWS
Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.
During her Spring 2019 visit to the School of the Arts, internationally acclaimed visual artist Ann Hamilton presented CHORUS, her stirring new work for New York City straphangers. Installed in the Cortlandt Street Station — destroyed on 9/11 and reopened in 2018 — the large-scale public work weaves text from the Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in marble on the walls of the repaired transit space. We asked Hamilton what she is working on and thinking about now.
Current student Khari Turner, Visual Arts, sat down with his roommate Po-Yu Chen, Film Directing, to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work. Their light filled apartment has turned into Turner’s art studio.
This year, undergraduate seniors studying visual arts will have their annual thesis exhibition online. The exhibition, which ordinarily features work from graduating seniors in a one-day show at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Dodge Hall, will run online from May 7 through June 15 but will be available long afterward. For the show, each student has created their own page on the exhibition site and contributed to a physical catalog that will be mailed out soon. Ordinarily, this would be an in-person celebration of seniors’ last four years at the university.
On April 23, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members of 2020. Among the 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders inducted include Columbia University’s Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze and Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93.
If you plan to graduate prior to the mounting of the Class of 2020 Exhibition please follow these guidelines in preparation for your Preliminary Thesis Committee Meeting.
Paintings by recent alumna Annette Hur ’19 are on display in Columbia University’s Café Nous, located in Philosophy Hall. This solo exhibit was curated by Jennifer Mock, who is the Associate Director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery.
Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.
Work by current student Joseph Liatela ’21 is featured in the group photography exhibit Love, Actually at New York’s Humble Arts Foundation, curated by Jon Feinstein.
Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.
Alumna and Visual Arts Adjunct Assistant Professor Alex Strada '16 is a recipient of the 2020 NYFA Women’s Fund for her documentary short, truths.
