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Lucia Aniello in Hacks
Arts & Humanities

Lucia Aniello Hacks the System

The executive producer, writer, and director shares her unusual path to the top

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A colorblind test illustration depicting justice

The Final Fate of the Voting Rights Act

Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

A scene from The Pitt

16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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Illustration of Tony Kushner and famous writers
Arts & Humanities

A Sentimental Education

Playwright and political activist Tony Kushner '78CC provides insight into his intellectual development

Painting of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Arts & Humanities

Feeding the Meter

The improbable origins of poet Keith O’Shaughnessy's first book

Postcard of tropical island
Arts & Humanities

Thinking of You: A Short Story

By Emma Aarnes ’09SOA

Photo of man reading newspaper on street in Shanghai, by Howard French
Arts & Humanities

The Power of Lingering

To shoot his photo essay Disappearing Shanghai, J-school professor Howard French had to make something else fade from view: himself

Painting of the back of a woman's head
Arts & Humanities

Aguas Calientes: A Short Story

Fiction by Lauren Grodstein '97CC, '01SOA

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
Arts & Humanities

The Ballad of Kitt & Yorkey

How did Next to Normal, a musical about bipolar disorder written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, ever make it to Broadway?

Pears
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Opuntia littoralis"

By Moira Egan ’92SOA

Alice Neel's 1979 portrait of Jack Beeson
Arts & Humanities

Remembrance: Jack Beeson

A former student pays tribute to the master composer

"Portrait of Talia with Lilly on the Couch," by Van Hanos (oil on linen)
Arts & Humanities

2010: An Artspace Odyssey

Exploring the mixed-media landscape of this year's MFA thesis exhibition

George Preston holding baseball bats, photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Unbreakable

The home of art historian George Preston ’73GSAS contains all the wood you can handle

Illustration by Irena Roman of a writing desk with pencils, a typewriter, a signed baseball, and a framed picture of a baseball player
Arts & Humanities

Autograph Man

Writer Paul Auster '69CC, '70GSAS gives a reading at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life

Painting by William Ong of two hands sewing
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"

By Binnie Kirshenbaum '80GS, chair of the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts

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