This page features Columbia faculty and research related to the arts and humanities, and highlights cultural events happening at Columbia's four campuses.
Discover Tony Kushner’s and Patti LuPone’s Archives at Columbia University
The collections of these two major figures in American culture reside at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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
Discover Tony Kushner’s and Patti LuPone’s Archives at Columbia University
The collections of these two major figures in American culture reside at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Zosha Di Castri Receives a New York Premiere by Gustavo Dudamel This Week
The Columbia music professor’s new work will be played by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and in Europe.
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.
