“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.
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Music Monday at The Forum: Louis Armstrong Jazz Program with David Gibson
- Monday, January 27, 6 to 7 pm, The Forum
- Music Monday is a free and open-to-the public monthly concert series hosted by The Forum on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus. Famed jazz and funk trombonist David Gibson will perform with students from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 6 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm), Miller Theatre
- Norwegian-born saxophonist and composer Ole Mathisen, director of Columbia’s Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program will perform his latest project, “Vector Series,” along with musical collaborators. This concert is one of the Miller Theatre’s free Pop-Up Concerts.
Exhibit Opening Reception: Lens on a Century
- Tuesday, January 28, 6 to 8 pm, Harriman Institute Atrium (IAB 12th Floor)
- This event is an opening reception to celebrate the Harriman Institute’s latest exhibit, Lens on a Century, featuring photographs from the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian collections of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution archives. The exhibit “seeks to provide a “lens” on a period from circa 1899 to the post-World War II era.” You must register by 4 pm on January 27.
In Conversation: Rubén Ortiz-Torres and Gabriela Ortiz
- Thursday, January 30, 5 to 6 pm, The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts
- To mark the occasion of Rubén Ortiz-Torres’ first major solo exhibition, Zonas de Colaboración, which opens at the Wallach Art Gallery on January 31, the gallery will host a discussion between Ortiz-Torres and his sister Gabriela Ortiz, a composer.
The Art Historian’s Mark: David Rosand’s Writings on Titian and Veronese
- Thursday, January 30, 5 to 7 pm, Teatro, Italian Academy
- The Italian Academy presents a roundtable discussion with Columbia art history professors and renowned curators and editors. The discussion celebrates two recent English publications of former Columbia professor David Rosand, Titian’s Poetics: Selected Essays and Paolo Veronese.
Jazz via Bwarchives.