“Unlocking Art Deco with Joseph Urban,” a Curatorial Short by Amy Dehan and Jennifer Lee

On February 7th, Amy Dehan, a curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Columbia’s Jennifer Lee presented on their work restoring a magnificent bedroom designed by eminent Art Deco architect and designer Joseph Urban. Born in Vienna, Urban began his career as a theatrical set designer, working on productions for the Vienna Royal Opera, Champs […]

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News from RBML’s Archivists and Collections Managers | March and April 2022

Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares a selection of newly processed collections, updated finding aids, and materials reformatted to digital for use. This month we feature the fruits of the Mellon-funded Audio and Moving Images initiative, a three-year project that officially concluded at the end of March.  There will be more content featured in the […]

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News from RMBL’s Collections Managers and Archivists | December 2021 and January 2022

Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares a selection of new and updated finding aids, as well as newly available collections. We have lots to share, including newly processed collections, recently digitized AV material, and some significant updated finding aids. At long last, the heavily used Random House records have an digital finding aid, replacing a […]

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EVENT: “¡Actívate! Activism + Representation in Latinx Comics”–Thursday, 9/19, 6 pm

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Comics@Columbia will host a panel discussion on the history of Latinx-American comics, and the roles that activism and representation have taken in them. Cartoonist and CUNY professor Sara Gómez Woolley will moderate the conversation with comics artists Sandy Jimenez (World War 3 Illustrated) and Nicole Virella (City of bones), along […]

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