This page features Columbia faculty and research related to the arts and humanities, and highlights cultural events happening at Columbia's four campuses.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Welcomes 26 New Full-Time Faculty
This year’s new faculty include path-breaking mathematicians, political scientists, biologists, anthropologists, scholars of language and culture, and many others.
Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the journalist and author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf.
A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation.
Exhibitions
With over 1,000 student works, Columbia GSAPP's End of Year Show 2026 occupies all of Avery Hall during commencement week, as well as this online platform.
An exhibition at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library traces how Columbia marked the United States’ 200th birthday--on a shoestring budget, in a city in crisis, with institutional sincerity that characterizes the best of what archives preserve.
The Wallach Art Gallery's summer exhibition amplifies the carnival’s central role in supporting the art of Black and diverse contemporary artists.
More Arts News
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Welcomes 26 New Full-Time Faculty
This year’s new faculty include path-breaking mathematicians, political scientists, biologists, anthropologists, scholars of language and culture, and many others.
How New Banking Practices Helped American Jews and Finance Flourish
In Credit to the Nation, Rebecca Kobrin chronicles East European Jewish immigrants who came to New York and, by lending to fellow Jews, became a crucial part of the city’s history.
School of the Arts Professor Dorothea Lasky Discusses ‘Memory’
Her most recent book of poems explores personhood and consciousness.
