Gia Kim

Columbia Classical Performers, Orchesis, Wallach Hall, the National Residence Hall Honorary—the list goes on and on for the organizations that Maria Sun, CC ’18, has contributed to during her time in the Columbia community.

Nigerian visual artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, this year’s Lida A. Orzeck ’68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Barnard, opened her first solo New York museum exhibition in the Whitney Museum of American Art last month.

The Harriman Institute, Columbia’s academic center dedicated to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies, celebrated the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 with the prints of Russian artist Mikhail Karasik in a new exhibit that opened this Monday.

Absolute Bagels, one of the Upper West Side’s most beloved bagel shops, was temporarily shut down by the Department of Health on Thursday due to five different health code violations, including evidence of mice and filth flies.

In “No. 9,” Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s most recent exhibition in the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo uncovers the history of Todd Williams’ sculptural installation for the 1968 Olympics through photographs, historical documents, and her own replica of Williams’ installation.

“Revolt, Resist, Defy!”, the current exhibit in the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, highlights the long history of printmaking as a medium for political dissent through the works of contemporary artists.

Ai Weiwei, an acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist and human rights activist, shared his beliefs on the values of real life experience over education at an event Thursday discussing his most recent project

How do people engage with photography as an artform when anyone with a smartphone can take a photo?

On a humid Monday night, a diverse group of undergraduate film enthusiasts gathered in the Intercultural Resource Center. They were there to discuss problems they all faced as underrepresented artists on campus, one of which was that while Columbia has strong programs for declared visual arts and film majors, there is a lack of resources for artists on campus who aren’t art or film majors.

Sitting in the Diana Oval on a Thursday night, an audience of all ages sat and hummed in unison, attempting to replicate the concept of sonic frequency that Tina Campt presented in her book, “Listening to Images.”