Louis Reich
Arts & Culture Staff Writer
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Bringing Norway to New York City, the Barnard theater department kicked off the semester with Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play “An Enemy of the People.” Adapted by Arthur Miller and directed by Shannon Sindelar, the play opened Thursday at Barnard’s Minor Latham Playhouse and closed Saturday.
Columbia/Barnard Hillel set up about 800 white plastic chairs on South Lawn on Wednesday to commemorate the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
McCarthyism, questions of citizenship, and the American western collide in Fred Zinnemann’s “High Noon.”
Working against the clock of government contracts and the hurdles of Kenyan bureaucracy, author Shiro Koinange and publisher Angela Wachuka turned an endeavor to renovate a decades-old library—once only open to white people—into a nationwide movement for cultural preservation and legacy. Their story of resilience and decolonial struggle is captured in “How to Build a Library,” a new documentary screened at Barnard’s Athena Film Festival on March 8.
Featuring a live DJ-performed score, the Lenfest Center for the Arts celebrated the 100th anniversary of the classic 1926 silent film “The Flying Ace” with a faculty-hosted screening on Feb. 27.
Combining the free-flowing improvisation of live jazz with the creative act of skiers carving down a mountain, Armada Skis’ new film experience “Ornada” showcases world-class athletes and artists in collaboration.
Within the walls of 112th Street’s Book Culture, writer-director Carianne King, SoA ’15, brings a new kind of workplace sitcom to life: one interested not only in the future of independent bookstores but in the eccentric lives of the people who keep them alive.