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Columbia University’s rare-book archive will show off its latest addition when the papers of theatrical artist Robert Wilson--the experimental visionary who staged or created works as varied as “Einstein on the Beach” to “the CIVIL warS”--go on exhibit Dec. 8. The contribution, which spans Wilson’s 20-year career with thousands of drawings, notes, outlines, scripts and photos, builds on the collected papers of Brander Matthews, Joseph Urban and Tennessee Williams. “Columbia was chosen as the repository for . . . one of the most influential theatrical artists of our time so that it would always be accessible to scholars and students,” said Kenneth Lohf, Columbia’s rare book and manuscript librarian.