Lucia Auerbach

Dec 8, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Lucia Auerbach

In the middle of Orchard Street sits a little utopia, Chinatown Soup—a mystical space that defies all labels. At once, it’s an art gallery, art studio, tea bar, retail store, and reiki studio. Hidden behind the tea bar and down the memorably steep staircase is their newest artist-in-residence, Hana Maatouk, GS ’24, who can be found sipping tea alongside other creatives in the basement studio. Maatouk is a Saudi-Spanish visual artist, and now, a memory excavator.

Oct 30, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Lucia Auerbach

The silver metallic hollowed inflatable form, installed on Oct. 21, spans over 66 feet wide, is suspended by 25 cables, and uses four electric blowers to loom over Avery Plaza. The silver metallic hollowed inflatable form, installed on Oct. 21, spans over 66 feet wide, is suspended by 25 cables, and uses four electric blowers to loom over Avery Plaza. Meet “Cloud”: The silver metallic hollowed inflatable form, installed on Oct.

Oct 2, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Lucia Auerbach |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance

To develop lust for the man across the bar who refuses to break eye contact is different from the desire to settle down that lingers when you visit a friend’s childhood home. Or is it? What does it mean to develop desire? Is the reasonable desire to purchase a set of glassware the same as the desire for love and adoration in the bedroom? Amanda Ba, CC ’20, grapples with these questions in her first New York City solo exhibition, “Developing Desire” at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.

Dec 6, 2023 | columbiaspectator.com | Ana Carpenter |Lucia Auerbach |Andrew Park |Joel Jares

Columbia film and media studies professor Richard Peña acknowledges that film culture is changing, and not necessarily for the better. Even so, he maintains optimism for the future potential of cinema. Peña appeared in conversation with Museum of Modern Art department of film curator Josh Siegel on Sunday at the Lenfest Center for the Arts as part of the Richard Peña Selects film festival, which ran Friday through Sunday.

Nov 27, 2023 | columbiaspectator.com | Joyce ZHANG |Lucia Auerbach |Andrew Park |Irie Sentner

From the tiered seating looking into the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center’s black box stage, audience members filed into their seats. As the lights dimmed and a hush fell over the audience, an evening of dance officially began. On Nov. 17 and 18, Columbia Repertory Ballet premiered its fall 2023 gala, consolidating months of rehearsals and training into a 90-minute show.