Artist Hahn Rowe in Something about the Weather
© Rob Davidson
Artist Hahn Rowe in Something about the Weather
© Rob Davidson
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present We be the luminous blues… by acclaimed artist, alum, and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu '18.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents The Crucible, a directing thesis production by student Harry George Brook and written by Arthur Miller.
Hundreds of years in the future, ten-year-old Arco sneaks off in his sister's rainbow time-traveling suit before he's old enough to fly—and crash-lands back in the year 2075. There, he befriends Iris and her robot caretaker, Mikki. Together, they set off on a quest to get Arco home and to save Iris’s world from peril.
Screening: Filmmakers for the Prosecution. The screening is presented in conjunction with Staging Nuremberg: How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes, a conversation with Sylvie Lindeperg and Annette Insdorf, on Monday, October 19, at the Maison Française.
Honoring the life and legacy of journalist, fighter, and feminist Gloria Steinem, this screening of The Glorias will be followed by a conversation with the film's Director, Julie Taymor, and filmmaker Geralyn White Dreyfous.
Dystopian masterpiece Brazil follows Sam Lowry, a government employee who escapes monotony through daydreams of himself as a winged hero rescuing a beautiful woman. When a clerical error leads to the wrongful arrest of an innocent man instead of wanted rogue Harry Tuttle, Lowry tries to fix the mistake and in the process, meets the woman from his dreams—pulling them both deeper into a bureaucratic web of mindless red tape and mistaken identities. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Kim Griest, and Robert DeNiro, and co-written by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown.
Join Anne Bogart (Professor, Theatre), the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Double Edge Theatre for An Evening with Double Edge Theatre, featuring a book talk and conversation on An Alchemy of Living Culture: Collected Writings on Double Edge Theatre, followed by the world premiere screening of the documentary series Double Edge: A Living Culture.
The Wolf x No Smoking Reading Series proudly presents The Poems of Sylvia Plath with leading Plath scholar and co-editor of the 2026 definitive edition of Plath's poetry, Amanda Golden, Ph.D.
Renowned Nairobi and Brooklyn-based visual artist Wangechi Mutu presents recent work, including film, sculpture, and installation at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Response by Rachel Grace Newman, African American and African Diaspora Studies. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Novelist and essayist Maaza Mengiste discusses her wide-ranging career with writer and translator Lars Horn for Columbia University’s Art + Life series, a program of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Undergraduate Creative Writing.
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2027 presents Practice, written by Nazareth Hassan and directed by Jasminn Johnson.
The Best Years of Our Lives follows three World War II veterans who return to their hometown and try to adjust to American civilian life. Coming from different branches of the military with ranks that don't match the social class they're returning to, each man carries the wartime dream of home—only to find himself out of step with the world he left behind.
Lewis is a young orphan inventor determined to find the mother he never knew. When a mysterious boy named Wilbur whisks him away to the year 2037, Lewis is welcomed into the wonderfully wacky Robinson family—and discovers that the family he's searching for might be closer than he thinks.
Comedian Buster Keaton stars in his own directorial debut as a determined suitor pursuing the love of his life across three different eras: the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties. Our screening brings this silent classic into the present with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model.
