Smart, indie pop from four former Columbia students: how they got together, the success of their debut album and where they're headed now. Interviewed by Ben Sisario.

Vampire Weekend is: Ezra Koenig (CC '06), Rostam Batmanglij (CC '06), Christopher Tomson, (CC '06) and... | Learn More

Dec. 18, 2008. The Sundance Institute has announced the films selected to screen at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The following is a list of 28 Sundance films to which 35 Columbia University alumni, students, and faculty from contributed.Additionally, two screenplays by Columbia filmmakers are... | Learn More

Meet Uncle Vanya, the quintessential superfluous man, who wakes up one morning to discover he has wasted his life in the service of others. This is Chekhov's tragicomic masterpiece of dashed dreams, thwarted love and eternal longing.

Tony Award winner O'Hare stars as Vanya alongside... | Learn More

Contrary to popular belief, Golem is neither a towering Jewish Frankenstein who defended the Jews of 17th Century Prague, nor a creature from "Lord of the Rings." Golem is a 6 piece Eastern European folk-punk band.

Fronted by Annette Ezekiel - singer, accordionist, and 5-foot powerhouse, with... | Learn More

“Muhly’s career has been a pursuit to figure out what comes after every rule has already been broken.” — Los Angeles Times

The appearance of this boundlessly innovative classically trained composer, arranger, and performer, along with Maria Kalman, Doveman, and... | Learn More

Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired "Hippies of the Age of Aquarius" fighting against conscription to the Vietnam War and living a bohemian life together in New York City. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and all their friends... | Learn More

Emanuel Ax, Piano
Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66

Tickets go on sale to priority notice members (CAAL Fellows and higher membership levels) on... | Learn More

2009 is a twin sesquicentennial - for Oregon and for Marylhurst University. 1859 was the year Oregon became a state and the year the Sisters of the Holy Names, who founded the university, first arrived in Portland. David Plotkin, Provost of Marylhurst, thought a birthday celebration was in order.... | Learn More

This year, Socrates awarded fourteen fellowships to: Martin Basher, Chelsea Beck, Kim Beck & Osman Khan, Michael Berens, Sari Carel, Adriana Farmiga, Kimberley Hart, Rajkamal Kahlon, Jason Bailer Losh, Matthew Lusk, Jong Il Ma, Ted McCann, Juniper Perlis , and Harriet Salmon . Fellowship... | Learn More

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the selection of Huma Bhabha as the recipient of the Museum’s 2008 Emerging Artist Award.

For this exhibition, Bhabha has created Bumps in the Road, a major figurative sculpture that measures 60 ½ x 66 ¼ x... | Learn More

Set in 1922, Glimpses of the Moon is a charming, romantic musical comedy based on Edith Wharton's novel.

The musical follows the jazzy whirl of Manhattan society from champagne-soaked dinner parties to luxurious vacation cottages and New York's elegant hotels. Popular but... | Learn More

A dynamic programme of new commissions by major London-based artists. Event Horizon traces a British avant-garde as sculpture transforms into social experience with new sculptural installations, and a social club infrastructure housing over 30 nights of live events.

"Event Horizon" is... | Learn More

Public Art Fund is pleased to present a new exhibition of contemporary art at the MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn, opening November 7, 2008. Trapdoor features new commissions by Ethan Breckenridge, Martha Friedman and Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and recent... | Learn More

Visionary director Martha Clarke brings Hieronymus Bosch's provocative painting to life in Garden of Earthly Delights, exploring heaven, hell, and the beauty and sins in between. An inspired synthesis of visual and performing magic, this breathtaking flight of imaginative genius is sexy,... | Learn More

The celebrated American musical comedy returns to Broadway for the first time in thirty years. Pal Joey tells the story of fast-talking nightclub emcee Joey Evans, whose affair with society dame Vera Simpson leads to a web of blackmail in 1930s Chicago. With a score of hits including... | Learn More

Dust is a power play. Martin is an executive with money and a paunch. Zeke is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum wage position. Early one morning, in the fitness center of the Essex House, the battle of will begins over the most trivial of requests. And when Martin's daughter Jenny... | Learn More

Thirteen year-old Edwina Spoonapple would do just about anything to be a part of the Kalamazoo Advice-a-palooza Festival. While her siblings both have proof “up on the fridge” of their accomplishments, poor Edwina has nothing. When a talent scout from the convention visits her... | Learn More

Depicting singular objects and painted perceptually, Josephine Halvorson views each work as a record of decisions and a material testament to experience. For Halvorson, the space between looking and painting reveals intrinsic histories and creates new ones. Though there is no pictorial project,... | Learn More

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition curated by artist Marco Breuer titled The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld. The exhibition takes its title from a 1967 poem by Austrian writer Peter Handke. For his most recent curatorial venture, Breuer has... | Learn More

Funny Not Funny is an exhibition of artworks and performances that deal with the language, content, and representation of humor in overt and subtle ways. Artists who incorporate wit, absurdity, or satire into their practice create and confront the challenge of making serious work with humorous... | Learn More

The need to connect with others begins when a baby gazes up at its mother. We need to know and be known, and to be remembered. Portraits, by depicting another human being, seize our imagination and compel viewing in a way no other genre can. The individual captured in a portrait is presented in a... | Learn More

"Lost In Your Eyes" is a collaborative exhibition that aims to comment on how authorship, mutability, subjectivity and fabrication destabilize simple representation, allowing fiction to take on the appearance of fact and vice versa. The exhibition title "Lost In Your Eyes" is the title of a... | Learn More

Museo is a paperless quarterly, highlighting the best in contemporary art through conversations with today's most compelling artists.

The winter issue treats art about the pressing issues of borders, transportation, fuel, and the re-investment of design objects.

Daniele Ugolini Contemporary
Via Montebello 22r, 50123 - Firenze
ITALY

Featuring "The Long Forced March of Mammiferous Human Larvae", a
collaboration with Jason Boughton and "Rolling Cabinet of Unconditioned
Substitutability", with Keil Borman

Starlet coconuts, phantom birthdays, Baryshnikov, trinities, circles and a Dolphin--the seemingly haphazard connections put forth in Uri Aran's work, engage a language of the absurd to illustrate social structures and diagram systems of value.

Sometimes narrative surfaces engage an... | Learn More