This page features Columbia faculty and research related to the arts and humanities, and highlights cultural events happening at Columbia's four campuses.


The industrial photographer’s new book, Made in America, celebrates the rich history and fresh promise of U.S. manufacturing.

In Eve, Cat Bohannon (SOA '02, GSAS '22) looks at 200 million years of human evolution and argues that medical science needs to wake up and focus on women.

These three Columbia alumni have brought to life critically acclaimed shows from Hamilton to A Strange Loop to Kinky Boots.
Exhibitions

This Italian Academy photography exhibition reveals the riches of the archaeological site of Tharros in western Sardinia, with images of buildings and roads from the Bronze Age, ancient Roman times, and the Christian era.

The exhibition is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman, but not yet Arab.

The Harriman Institute presents a show of photographs by Vesna Pavlović (SoA '07), an art professor at Vanderbilt University who documented through these images the disintegration of her native Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
More Arts News
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