News
Columbia Students Take Over Campus in “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”
Dozens of students were arrested after NYPD was called in to clear the tents in a highly criticized move by the school's president.
Columbia University
Art
Columbia’s MFA Show Is an Immersive Experience
The Unravelling and Exploding of Time, Space, and Matter presents student artworks that transport and disorient us.
News
Should Columbia University Students Be Helping "Co-Design" Harlem?
A course titled “Co-Designing Smart Cities” has angered activists who see Columbia as a gentrifier.
Art
Poeticizing and Politicizing Black and Asian American Abstraction
Columbia University exhibition thwarts the de-politicization of postwar abstract art with a series of provocative questions.
Books
The Disappearing Queer Spaces of the Harlem Renaissance
A new project by Columbia’s Queer Students of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation explores queer histories that have been suppressed by gentrification and urban development.
Art
Highlights From Columbia University's MFA Thesis Exhibition
Every corner and crevice of Columbia University's MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.
News
Columbia Graduate Arts Students File Lawsuit, Seeking Reimbursement Amid Pandemic
On November 4, School of Art students filed a class-action lawsuit against the university to recover damages, including tuition for the spring 2020 semester.
Announcement
Columbia University Opens Applications for MFA Programs in Visual Arts and Sound Art
On November 15, join Columbia University School of the Arts for virtual information sessions on these interdisciplinary graduate programs in New York City.
Art
Outstanding MFA Work from Columbia, Cornell, and SVA
As summer winds down, Hyperallergic is continuing to highlight some of the superb work produced by recent MFA graduates from around the country.
News
Columbia University Asks Professors to “Reconsider” Their Choice to Teach Online, Prompting Backlash
In an e-mail sent to staff, the executive vice president of Columbia's School of Arts and Sciences asked professors to help the school mount "a more robust offering of in-person or hybrid courses" this fall.
Art
Art Students Demand University Accountability and Reimbursements During Pandemic
Students at some of the most renowned art universities in the country, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Yale, and NYU Tisch, are sounding alarm bells about their schools’ handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
Art
A Brutal, Historic Film About Decolonization
Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.