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2012 Contest Winners
From our Poetry Editor, John Fenlon Hogan: Gale Marie Thompson’s poem, “Sigourney Weaver” was selected by Eileen Myles as the winner of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art’s 2012 Poetry Contest. “I have so much optimism / that when I look around me I squint. / All I want is for someone to let [...]
Ticket Giveaway
In celebration of finishing our proofs of Issue 50, COLUMBIA: A JOURNAL is giving away TWO TICKETS to Kathryn Harrison and Lionel Shriver reading on Monday night at 92nd Street Y in New York. Just tell us something about your favorite piece published by COLUMBIA in the past 50 years by writing on our facebook [...]
An interview with artist Shawn Kuruneru
Sleeper Shawn Kuruneru Canadian artist Shawn Kuruneru’s beautiful, intricate drawings have just been compiled into Women (a 38 page book, laser printed and perfect bound, published by Bsviv, Canada). Shawn’s work recently featured at the Drawing Center in New York, Battat Contemporary in Montreal and Night Gallery in Los Angles. He is currently working on a [...]
Béla Tarr at the Lincoln Center Film Society
Image courtesy of Lincoln Center Film Society, “Autumn Almanac.” The complete retrospective of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr (at the Lincoln Center Film Society from February 3-8) brought together all of his films, including the rarely seen Macbeth. The showings provided a unique opportunity to track Tarr’s artistic development.
An interview with Ellis Avery
The super-talented Ellis Avery is the author of The Teahouse Fire, (Riverhead 2006), which won three awards and was translated into five languages, and The Smoke Week (Gival Press 2003) an award-winning personal account of life in lower Manhattan after 9/11. Her critically acclaimed new novel The Last Nude, centering on the relationship between Art [...]
New show of drawings by Hilary Berseth at Eleven Rivington Gallery in New York City
All images courtesy of Eleven Rivington Gallery Hilary Berseth (SOA’ 2001) impressed with his first show at Eleven Rivington Gallery in 2008. He seamlessly blended nature with human agency; his honeycomb sculptures combined his own wood and wire armatures with wax and honey structures built by bee colonies. His manipulation of natural processes resulted in [...]
Photohysteria in Paris
Every year, photohysteria descends on Paris in the form of the world’s leading photography fair, Paris Photo. This November, the Grand Palais off the Champs Elysees played host. I wandered in to take on the works of 117 international galleries, and to find out what the buzz was about. My starting point was Magnum, the [...]
Film Comment Selects
Image courtesy of Lincoln Center Press Each year Film Comment Selects at Lincoln Center presents an eclectic mix of films they term, among other things, “the rare and the rediscovered.” Two noteworthy films at the festival this year were literary adaptations, remarkable for the gusto with which they handled the original texts. Faust, by Russian [...]