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Morningside Lights
Welcome Back 2012
Sep. 21 - 29
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Join us this fall as we light up the neighborhood with a community parade of incredible lanterns and moving scultpures.
Read here to see how you can get involved in the arts-making and procession September 22-29. Click here to attend a talk with the artists about this event on September 21.
Co-produced by the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts, in collaboration with Friends of Morningside Park.
Curated by Processional Arts Workshop, with an original, participatory score by Nathan Davis.
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The Arts Initiative Student Arts Fund
Fall 2012 Deadline: Two weeks prior to event, or Oct. 15
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Apply to the Arts Initiative Student Arts Support Fund!
Producing a short film with fellow student actors and directors? Mounting an exhibition by Columbians? Planning on showcasing your culture through dance and music? Find out how the Arts Initiative can help you leverage the power of the arts and build community on campus.
Applications are due two weeks prior to the event or by October 15th, whichever comes first. Please check out our website for application details.
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Final week! Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
Closes September 23
1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd Street
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This exhibition offers a fresh view of the French artist Edouard Vuillard’s career, from the vanguard 1890s to the urbane domesticity of the lesser-known late portraits. The presentation focuses on the inspiration provided by friends and patrons whose support became inseparable from the artist's achievement. Featuring some fifty key artworks in various media, the exhibition extends pioneering past projects of The Jewish Museum, New York, on the significance of collectors and patrons for the development of modern art.
Full Price: $12 Students: Free with valid student CUID through Passport to NY
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Doris Duke's Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art
Sept. 7 - Feb. 17
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
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Exploring the extraordinary dialogue between Islamic tradition and Western modernity that shaped the fabled Honolulu residence of the philanthropist Doris Duke, this exhibition features large-scale newly commissioned photos of the five-acre property by Tim Street-Porter and archival materials on the travel and research that led to the creation of Duke's home and the growth of her collection over 60 years, in addition to a selection of works from her collection, along with new works by six contemporary artists of Islamic heritage who participated in Shangri La's Contemporary Artists Residency program.
Full price: $15 Students: Free with valid student CUID through Passport to NY
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