CAA Arts Access News

The stunning five-ton sculpture Shorter Than the Day created by Columbia University School of the Arts Professor Sarah Sze was unveiled in June at the newly renovated Terminal B of LaGuardia Airport. Read more on the Columbia University School of the Arts site here.

With the start of the new year, comes the 35th edition of the Sundance Film Festival. The first major player on the festival circuit takes place January 23 to February 2, 2020. 32 Columbia filmmakers will participate.

Mary Annunziata '17GSAS and Allison Cannella '18GSAS, co-founders will launch The Immigrant Artist Biennial with artist Katya Grokhovsky, slated to open in March 2020. This will be the first-ever arts biennial to feature a roster made up entirely of immigrant artists. 

On November 20, 2019, The New York Times first reported the news of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's hiring of Denise Murrell '14GSAS. The acclaimed curator of the Wallach Art Gallery's Posing Modernity will begin her appoinment in January 2020 as associate curator for 19th and 20th century art.

Twenty Columbia visual artists and gallerists, including two faculty members and nineteen alumni, will exhibit work at the 2019 Art Basel Miami and other associated art fairs in Miami. Art Basel Miami and Miami Art Week is from December 4 to December 8, 2019. 

Ito Aghayere ’12SOA stars alongside Emmy Award winner Patricia Heaton in the new CBS comedy Carol’s Second Act. The series centers around Carol Chambers (Heaton), who pursues her dream of becoming a doctor. Aghayere plays Dr. Maya Jacobs, the Chief Resident in charge of Carol.

Academy Award-nominated writer-director Greta Gerwig ‘06BC takes on the eighth feature film adaptation of Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel of the same name. Little Women will be released at theaters nationwide on December 25, 2019.

Glance from the Edge is a Bulgarian-American collaboration between co-directors and choreographers Kosta Karakashyan '19CC and Stephanie Handjiiska, director of photography Kevin Chiu '17SEAS, composer Julien Leitner '20CC (stage name Jude Icarus), and line producer Lora Beltcheva '19CC. 

Michelle Rejwan '08GS producer of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker  was recently hired by Lucasfilm as their new senior vice president of live action development and production. In her new role will oversee all theatrical and direct-to-consumer live-action content for Lucasfilm and Disney Plus and is responsible for identifying and delivering future projects for Lucasfilm.

The 2019 Tony Awards were presented on Sunday, June 9, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Columbia alumni and faculty were among the notable nominees including director Rachel Chavkin '08SOA, who led with 14 total nominations for Hadestown and took home eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical.

The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the artists selected to present at the 2019 Whitney Biennial, co-organized by Whitney curators, Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley ‘05CC. Seven Columbia alumni artists will participate in this year’s Whitney Biennial.