Agnieszka Sablinska

Many Columbia students may not realize that the closest museum to Columbia’s campus is only a short walk away.

A theater performance featuring a compilation of stories with no main plot line may seem conceptually dull.

Although most remember the uncomfortable period of adolescence, many directors feel the need to remind audiences of the questions of beauty, physical awkwardness, and uncertainty associated with this phase.

When staging a timeless classic, it is not enough to rely on the playwright’s ingenuity in order to please the audience. The Pearl Theatre Company’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts proves that no matter how great the work, it’s the acting that matters most.

In recent years, few classic dramas have been staged Off Broadway. Those that have been are often overly modernized or altered to such an extent that the original dramaturgy is hard to find.

If you never thought you could find yourself in the same room as Truman Capote, Ingmar Bergman, and Stephen Sondheim, a visit to the Morgan Library and Museum will prove you wrong. Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers, on display until April 13, allow the viewer to truly feel the presence of over 60 great personalities of the artistic and literary world.

Unlike many exhibits at the Guggenheim Museum, “Foto: Modernity in Central Europe from 1918 to 1945” is filled with obscure artists from a seldom artistically recognized region and medium. While the Dada movement as a whole has been thoroughly appreciated, most recently and memorably in a comprehensive MoMA show last summer, many of the photographic greats of Central Europe have been less celebrated than the multimedia and “ready-made” artists of Western Europe.

If you copied something from a magazine, could you use it as your own work? Your professor would call it plagiarism, but Richard Prince might disagree.

"Please be aware that this exhibition contains strong imagery and content," warns a sign outside the entrance to the exhibit called "The Disappeared", on show at El Museo del Barrio until June 17.

"The Redux series is comprised of 10 images photographed over the past two years of new suburban home construction in America," begins John Kirchner's statement about his latest work, on display at the Kim Foster Gallery until April 28.

"The Redux series is comprised of ten images photographed over the past two years of new suburban home construction in America," begins John Kirchner's statement about his latest work, on display at the Kim Foster Gallery until April 28.

Any artist who sketches Trotsky having apple pie and tea at an automat on Broadway in 1917 is sure to evoke curiosity.

Saul Steinberg's cartoons and sketches, many of which appeared in the New Yorker over a period of nearly six decades, are currently being shown at two parallel exhibitions in Manhattan.

Walking into the Marian Goodman Gallery, one is met by the stares of multiple schoolchildren and teenagers pausing from play or resting after school in city parks. The Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, in her newest series of photographs titled Park Portraits, has once again managed to magnificently capture the transitional period of life within the faces and eyes of her adolescent subjects.

By Agnieszka Sablinska

Columbia Daily Spectator

Barnard College's production of Endzone at Minor Latham Playhouse this weekend was a show about football with only one male cast member-and he was the referee. Based very loosely on Don DeLillo's novel of the same name, Endzone failed to take enough from the original to do justice to the book or embellish it enough to create a coherent and original script.