This page features Columbia faculty and research related to the arts and humanities, and highlights cultural events happening at Columbia's four campuses.
How Do Order and Collective Behavior Emerge From Chaos?
Venkat Venkatasubramanian explores this and related questions in his book, Emergence as Harmony.
The executive producer, writer, and director shares her unusual path to the top.
Natalia Winkelman (’15CC), a film critic, podcast writer, and producer, pens several reviews per month for The New York Times and other outlets.
Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Columbia experts weigh in on a massive legal shift.
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.
Selected Prints at the Harriman Institute Gallery presents a selection of Radomir Đukanović’s graphic works produced over the past two decades, offering an overview of an artistic practice that moves between abstraction, gesture, and symbolic suggestion. Đukanović (born 1978) is a Serbian visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, and printmaking.
School of the Arts presents We be the luminous blues… by Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu, whose 11 banners are installed in the lobby of the Lenfest Center for the Arts. The exhibition celebrates ancestors and alumni of Columbia who transformed the world in remarkable ways: anthropologist Ruth Benedict; biochemist Marie Maynard Daly; dentist Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany and her sister, educator Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany; cultural preservationist Ella Cara Deloria; folklorist, novelist, and writer Zora Neale Hurston; minister and suffragist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee; organizer and social worker Antonia Pantoja; actor and singer Paul Robeson; attorney and advocate Frederick Wells; and Jamaica, Cuffy, Prida, Caesar, Jenny, Betsy, Pompey, and Richard Jenkins—all of whom were enslaved by Samuel Bard and his family—as well as James, who escaped in 1776.
More Arts News
How Do Order and Collective Behavior Emerge From Chaos?
Venkat Venkatasubramanian explores this and related questions in his book, Emergence as Harmony.
See ‘Drawn by a Columbian’ at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The exhibition features the work of famous artists and cartoonists created while they were students at the University.
Why the Declaration of Independence Remains Required Reading for All Columbia Undergrads
As America continues to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Columbia News asks: Does this founding document, which is part of the Core Curriculum, remain relevant?
