The new exhibition on the third floor of Butler Library is a powerful collection of over 50 works by book artists responding to the tragic bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the centuries-old center of book selling in Baghdad, on March 5, 2007. There was an international call to book artists, and there so many responses, it's […]
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Pine Tree Scholars: The next generation of readers for paper and ink books
This summer I am putting together a new program that we are excited to offer for the coming academic year. The Pine Tree program will expose students to craft as well as (light) industrial book-making processes, often with hands-on exercises. It allows us to go beyond what we can offer on campus without a Center […]
Columbia to House El Diario Photo Archive
Watch the video to learn more about the El Diario collection. So much of New York’s history has been lived, sung and reported in Spanish. With the great migration of the 1950s, what had long been a relatively small Latino community in New York became a thriving center of Puerto Rican life and culture. But […]
Ulysses Kay Online Exhibition
We are delighted to announce that “Ulysses Kay: Twentieth Century Composer” is now available for viewing: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/kay Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) wrote more than one hundred forty compositions in a wide range of forms – five operas, over two dozen large orchestral works, more than fifty voice or choral compositions, over twenty chamber works, a ballet, […]
Loaded Dice
Currently on view in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is a small but fascinating exhibition of dice, from the Smith Collection of Mathematical Instruments. They date from the Roman era to the early 20th century. David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) was a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University. He used these dice in […]