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


Drawing from nature, history, and emerging trends, four alumni interior designers share their decorating wisdom.

At 86, the composer and pianist is still playing at a fast tempo.
Exhibitions

This Rare Book and Manuscript Library exhibition combines recent works on paper by Columbia Visual Arts MFA students with materials from the RBML collections.

This exhibition at GSAPP's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in Buell Hall centers on work by Armin Linke, a multimedia artistic research project that investigates the technocratic entanglement of industry, science, politics, and economics at the frontiers of ocean exploration.

Since the early 2000s, Elidor Mëhilli has assembled a vast archive on the dramatic transformation of his hometown, Tirana, Albania. This Harriman Institute exhibition encompasses his body of work--photographic series, thousands of documents, ephemera, and found objects.
More Arts News
A Book About the Links Between Gold and Apartheid in South Africa
Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the mines.
A Conference Celebrates the Career of Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Colleagues and former students will gather to discuss the work of the eminent professor of French and philosophy.
This Artist Explores How Systems and Infrastructures Impact Our Lives
Sable Elyse Smith wants her School of the Arts students to see these effects in the world around them.