Charlotte Levitt cultivates an audience for the dozens of concerts put on each year at Columbia’s Miller Theatre, which 'The New York Times' has described as one of the “city’s foremost new music venues.”
Image from instructional booklet accompanying Richter’s Anchor-Building-Bricks: real stone in three colours. (New York, 1887).
Puzzles, a folding dollhouse, 19th century peep shows, pop-up books and Lego models are all on display in “Classics at Play,” an exhibition of architectural toys from the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library collection.
In December 2015, Clement Meadmore’s Curl was welcomed back to its home in front of Uris Hall after a full restoration. The swooping Cor-Ten steel sculpture, which was commissioned by Business School benefactor Percy Uris, was originally installed in 1968.
Miller inaugurates a new holiday tradition, a playful production that brings to life Saint-Saëns’ musical “salute to feathers, fur, and fins”—Carnival of the Animals.
You might not think that civil rights and graphic novels go together, but Georgia Congressman John Lewis has turned to the popular literary form.
Page detail from Faster Than Birds Can Fly by John Ashbery, with illustrations by Trevor Winkfield. New York: Granary Books, 2009. Courtesy of the Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
In 2001, Granary Books, a small press based in New York, published an illustrated catalog of all its books titled, When Will the Book Be Done?.
Cornelius Johnson, Portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby, oil on panel, 31 x 24 in. At left, the painting before restoration, image courtesy of the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Right, post-conservation photograph by Juan Trujillo
The exhibit titled Messages Across Time and Space: Inupiat Drawings from the 1890s was curated by Frances Negron-Muntaner, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Sarah Diver, and Christopher Green.
