I went to Spectator’s open house during the spring of my first year, half on a whim, half propelled by the relentless anxiety that everyone else was doing something and I wasn’t. I didn’t know much about Spec besides that it was a student-run newspaper. I talked to the then-deputy editors of the Arts and Entertainment section and took some stickers. I applied, thinking that I like both art and writing, then soon joined the A&E trainee class of six (soon to be three) that spring.

After having a peculiar desire for the recorder in elementary school, learning to play 10 instruments, performing in the Backstreet Boys’ tour band, and so much more, Sondra Woodruff, GS ’19, found herself in front of the gates of Columbia in 2016 to get her bachelor’s degree.

Student dancers walk in seemingly erratic paths around Studio 305 in Barnard Hall, some of them holding objects like an empty plastic bottle or a cardboard box. These objects spontaneously drop from the dancer’s hands. The sound of a plastic bottle hitting the ground echoes throughout the studio. Each individual’s disparate path comes to one, but the movement doesn’t stop; they continuously move, but now as one entity. In front of them sits Yvonne Rainer, this year’s Lida A. Orzeck ’68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, quietly gazing.

To survive the changing landscape of the New York food scene, the former owners of Artopolis Espresso have flipped their crepes into bagels.

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.