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Collective 131, a gallery based in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a space devoted to promoting the work of women artists.

Professor Susanna Coffey will have a solo exhibit opening November 20, 2019 at the Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York.

Alumna Patricia Treib ’06 currently has a solo show at the Kate MacGarry gallery in London.

Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Juan Hernandez, a current visual arts student, has an individual exhibit at Estudio 74 in Bogotá, Colombia.

From Sep. 20 to Dec. 16, 2019, alumna Maria Antelman ’11 has a solo photography exhibit at the Visual Arts Center located at the University of Texas in Austin. Antelman is an artist based in New York. She studied Art History at the Complutense University in Madrid and holds an MFA from Columbia University. The exhibit, Mechanisms of Affection, shows photography of machines trying to interpret humans. Antelman’s photography here draws inspiration from the aesthetics of early IBM advertising, which marketed machines and women as objects of desire. IBM, which created its…

Professor and alumnus Esteban Cabeza de Baca ’14 is in three exhibits this fall, two in New York, and one in the Netherlands. He lives in New York but works between New Mexico, the U.S./Mexico border, and the Netherlands.

This year, sound art alumna Lemon Guo ’18 was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Sophie Shen.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, alumna Alexandra “Sasha” Lerman ’12 will have a solo exhibit opening this Saturday, running until Nov. 3, 2019. The exhibit is called Soldiers of the Sun or the Right to Future Tense, and will be shown as part of the ProArte festival, “Contemporary Art at the Traditional Museum.”

The opening reception for the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery’s latest show took place on October 25 from 6-8 pm. The show, titled Waiting for Omar Gatlato: Contemporary Art from Algeria and its Diaspora, borrows its title from a 1979 publication on early Algerian film, edited by Wassyla Tamzali, which references Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Merzak Allouache’s 1976 cult classic film Omar Gatlato.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York reopened to the public on Oct. 21 since its closing in June, revealing a $450 million expansion and breathtaking renovations, including a 30% increase in space. This major reinstallation of art across all 170,000 square feet of the museum has been largely admired by visitors and critics alike; the New York Times praised this expansion for being “possibly unprecedented.” “These exhibitions, several of which are reviewed below, clarify the museum’s ambitious reformation project and provide a valuable commentary on the permanent…

Student Series

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Encounters

by Mădălina Telea Borteș

A series featuring Columbia visual, sound, and performance artists, discussing the art that compels them to see and create in new ways. 

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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Constructing Futures: Making Ecological Art in a Time of Uncertainty

by Catherine Fisher

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.