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Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Jennie Waldow (Stanford University) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with Samantha Wassmer,…
Find out more »Dialogues in Art
An afternoon of focused gallery talks by Stanford students at the Anderson Collection. Art makers and art historians join together in pairs to present their views, observations, and thoughts on specific works in the collection. Come for one or for all!
Find out more »The Power of Photography for Social Change
REZA is an acclaimed photojournalist whose work has been featured in National Geographic, Time Magazine, Stern, Newsweek, El País, Paris Match, as well as a series of books, exhibitions and documentaries made for the National Geographic Channel. He discusses the importance of using images to serve social change, by training younger generations to become the actors of the future. Part of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts
Find out more »Art Focus Lecture | The Art of Dante’s Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of western literature, and its narrative and dramatic elements have lent themselves for pictorial representation. This is particularly true for the Purgatory, whose seven stages correspond to the Seven Cardinal Sins. The first part of the presentation will introduce The Divine Comedy as a literary work and discuss its three parts: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. In the second part, we will move on to the illustrations in the work of Hieronymus…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Clara Galperin (Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. Please note: this talk will be given in Spanish. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Intermedia Workshop: Final Projects
Intermedia workshop students present their final projects, comprising diverse works across a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices. The culmination of a term’s worth of iteration and experimentation! Note: Installations will be set up in multiple spaces at CCRMA. Installations may be viewed starting at 5:00 PM, with performances at 8:00 PM.
Find out more »Lecture: Working Metal in 20th-Century Sculpture
5:30pm Lecture, Cantor Arts Center, Auditorium Working Metal in 20th-Century Sculpture is an intimate look at the expressive potential of metal worked directly by the artist’s hand using techniques and tools developed for industrial use. The artists featured in this exhibition, including Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, and Melvin Edwards, exploited metal’s deep material and cultural resonances to create forms with extraordinary visual, tactile, and even sonic appeal. Exhibition curator, Sydney Skelton Simon, Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Curatorial Research Assistant and…
Find out more »Open Studios: Winter | 2018
Open Studios is a self-guided art tour of our undergraduate student showcase from the Winter 2018 Art Practice courses: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Digital Art, Sculpture, Film and more..! This is a rare opportunity to see student artwork in the studios in which it was created. VISITOR INFORMATION:The McMurtry Building is located on Stanford’s campus, at 355 Roth Way. The Stanford Art Gallery, is located off Palm Drive at 419 Lasuen Mall. Visitor parking is free all day on the weekend and after…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Hannah Shor (Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Meet the Makers Winter Student Showcase 2018
Product Realization Lab students transform big ideas into pathbreaking products. See innovations in sports equipment, consumer goods, education and health devices, agricultural tools, and MORE! Come get a glimpse of the future!
Find out more »The Dancing Sowei: Performing Beauty in Sierra Leone
This exhibition focuses on one spectacular work in the Cantor’s collection—a sowei mask, used by the women–only Sande Society that is unique to Sierra Leone. Used in dance by senior women of the society, the sowei mask symbolizes knowledge of feminine grace and is part of a young girl’s initiation into adulthood. Thus, for many women of the region, beauty is literally performed into existence through ndoli jowei (the dancing sowei or the sowei mask in performance). IMAGE: Gola or Mende…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Michelle Azout (Public Programs Coordinator, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March…
Find out more »Art Focus Lecture | From Judy Chicago to Cindy Sherman and Beyond: Transformations in Art and Feminism from the 70’s to Now
In the 1970s, Feminist Art garnered the attention of the art world and beyond. By the following generation, however, many young female artists had eschewed the imagery and strategies of their predecessors. For some viewers familiar with established practices, this new art appeared to possess little to no feminist content. But many of these young artists were simply shifting the terms by which an art by, for, and of women could be interpreted and understood. This lecture focuses on the…
Find out more »Intersections: Oscar Muñoz
Oscar Muñoz in conversation with Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley, and Elena Shtromberg, Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah. Oscar Muñoz is a visual artist born in 1951 in Popayán, Colombia. He is known as one of the most significant contemporary visual artists in his country, and his work has also gained international recognition. Most of his art is concerned…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Elena Shtromberg (Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday,…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Jessica Ventura (Curatorial Assistant, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Art Focus Lecture | The Advantages of Obscurity: San Francisco Women Abstract Expressionists
Among the essential features of Abstract Expressionism in San Francisco was its lack of patronage—yet there were great advantages to this situation for women. Unlike their counterparts in the East, women artists in San Francisco never had to contend with what Alfonso Ossorio called the “doctrinaire powerhouses” that excluded them, leaving them free to pursue their own artistic inclinations. This presentation will discuss the women who benefited from working in a far less chauvinistic environment—artists like Jay DeFeo and Sonia…
Find out more »Film Screening: Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist
Narrated by Robert De Niro, this documentary is both an explanation of modern art and the story of an artist and teacher of thousands, some of whom are today’s leading artists. A first-generation Abstract Expressionist, Hofmann was friend to Picasso and Pollock alike. Hofmann never intended to teach, but necessity forced him to, and he became extremely influential. Of the thousands of artists, writers, and dancers who studied with Hofmann at one time, one place or another, twenty-four are included…
Find out more »Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of “Frankenstein”
The Cantor’s contribution to the campus-wide celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus reveals ways artists have represented the body, life, and death, as well as the boundary separating humanity from technology. IMAGE: Beth Van Hoesen (U.S.A., 1926–2010), Stanford (Arnautoff Class), 1945. Graphite and ink on paper. Gift of the Estate of Beth Van Hoesen
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Clara Galperin (Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with…
Find out more »First Friday
On the First Friday of every month during the academic year, the Cantor is open late for art-making, music, and more. Friday, April 6: Celebrate National Poetry Month. Friday, May 4: Party with Leland Jr. for his 150th birthday. Friday, June 1: Relax at the end of the year at the annual Arts District Picnic.
Find out more »Art Focus Lecture | Joan Mitchell: Painting as Cathedral
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) came of age as an artist in the 1950s New York of the Cedar Tavern and the Artists’ Club. The physicality of her mark making—her commitment to abstraction, and her love of oil paint itself, not to mention her toughness—identify Mitchell as a New York School artist. Yet she spent more years in France than New York. While she continued down the path laid out by Abstract Expressionism, her work kept evolving and was, in the end, unclassifiable.…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Amelia Leland (Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Panel: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Moderator: Kyle Stephan, doctoral student in the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University Panelists: – Monica Mayer, Mexican artist, activist, and art critic– Joiri Minaya, Dominican-American artist– Peggy Phalen, Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts and Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, Stanford University IMAGE: Joiri Minaya (Dominican Republic, b. United States, 1990), #dominicanwomengooglesearch, 2016. Digital print on sintra and fabric collage. Installation view at Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, 2016. Photo: Stefan Hagen. Collection of the…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
A-lan Holt (Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday,…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Feddi Roth (Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Jewish Museums in Europe: Cabinets of Curiosities or Theatres of History with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
What comes first? The collection or the story? What is the story the collection tells, and can the story the museum wants to tell be told through the collection? Given the politics of history and historical policies in Europe today, Jewish museums have a special role to play. Prague, Budapest, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna – Jewish museums in these and other European cities have taken different approaches. Their strategies reflect not only the history of the institution and…
Find out more »Is AI the New Frankenstein? with Ken Goldberg
Is AI the New Frankenstein? (Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley with Fred Turner, Stanford) 200 years after Mary Shelley’s masterwork appeared in print, “Artificial Intelligence” is running amok, provoking extreme claims of opportunities and threats. Many assert that AI is an “exponential technology”, a “new electricity” that will transform every industry. Advocates claim that fully autonomous cars and robots with human dexterity are just around the corner. At the same time, headlines report that robots will soon steal the majority of…
Find out more »Hidden Beneath Diebenkorn’s “Window”
Two hidden compositions lie below the surface of Window by painter and Stanford graduate Richard Diebenkorn, BA ’49. These hidden compositions were unknown to the art community except as barely visible reworkings, or pentimenti, until brought to light by Stanford student Katherine Van Kirk, ’19, during her fellowship in the Cantor’s Art+Science Lab. This installation shows the multiple layers uncovered through infrared reflectography as evidence—in a single painting—of the transition Diebenkorn was making in his art from figurative to still…
Find out more »Todd Lewis: “Reconfiguration and Revival: Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley (and Beyond)”
Bio: Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Abstract: Beginning with Sylvain Lévi, most scholars for the past century who have assessed the state of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley have described the tradition as “decadent,” “corrupted by Hinduism,” and so in serious decline. Many predicted its withering away, most often due to competition from the reformist Theravādins, a movement that arrived in Nepal a century ago. The predations of the modern Nepalese state with its staunchly Hindu…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Marci Kwon (Assistant Professor Art History, Stanford University) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4,…
Find out more »Health Humanities Consortium Conference
A three-day celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through an exploration of medically-based ethical dilemmas and an examination of the relevance of Frankenstein in moral imagination today.
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Reily Haag(Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with Jodi Roberts, Cantor Arts CenterSunday, March 4, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Art Focus Lecture | The Art of Making Space Public
Artists working in the public realm can accomplish far more than placing a beautiful artwork on a pedestal or in a plaza. Their work can transform space, stimulate human interaction, and help define community. This lecture will explore trends in public art over the last 30 years, from artists on the design team, to environmental art, new technologies, and art that promotes social justice. Barbara Goldstein is an independent consultant focusing on creative placemaking and public art planning. She is…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Clara Galperin (Cantor Guide, Cantor Arts Center) will lead a gallery talk in The Matter of Photography in the Americas. Please note: this talk will be given in Spanish. The Matter of Photography in the Americas (February 7-April 30,2018) highlights groundbreaking works by artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States who cast a critical eye on photography as both an artistic medium and as a means of communication. Gallery talks in this series include: Thursday, March 1, 12pm, with…
Find out more »Christensen Distinguished Lecture | Qiu Zhijie
Mapping the World Project Nearly a decade ago, Qiu Zhijie began to plot out intricate maps of the relationships among his various artworks. It was from this synthesis of research, writing, imagination, and action that the “Mapping the World Project” was born. In the hundreds of maps that have followed, the ink and brushwork of landscape painting outlines a coordinate system which condenses ideas, individuals, objects, incidents, and situations, weaving them together, and offering a possibility for understanding them in…
Find out more »“Denial”, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving with Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory College Deborah received her B.A. from City College of New York (1969) and her M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from Brandeis University. Professor Lipstadt is frequently called upon by the media to comment on a variety of matters. She has appeared Good Morning America, NPR’s Fresh Air, the BBC, Charlie Rose Show, and is a frequent contributor to and is widely quoted in a variety of newspapers…
Find out more »First Friday
On the First Friday of every month during the academic year, the Cantor is open late for art-making, music, and more. Friday, May 4: Party with Leland Jr. for his 150th birthday. Friday, June 1: Relax at the end of the year at the annual Arts District Picnic.
Find out more »Where here: 2018 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Department of Art & Art History presents, Where here, on view May 15 through June 17, 2018 with a reception on Thursday, May 17, 5-7pm. This group exhibition is curated by Gail Wight and features the thesis artwork of five graduating art practice MFA students. Where here brings together the diverse practices of this year’s Stanford MFA Art Practice candidates. W makes here look different, it complicates here and transforms it into the question, Where? We have collectively sought to…
Find out more »Opening Reception | Where here: 2018 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Department of Art & Art History presents, Where here, on view May 15 through June 17, 2018 with a reception on Thursday, May 17, 5-7pm. This group exhibition is curated by Gail Wight and features the thesis artwork of five graduating art practice MFA students. Where here brings together the diverse practices of this year’s Stanford MFA Art Practice candidates. W makes here look different, it complicates here and transforms it into the question, Where? We have collectively sought to…
Find out more »Rupert Gethin: “On Death and Rebirth, and What Happens in Between: Two Buddhist Accounts of Why it Matters”
Abstract: Ancient Indian Buddhist thinkers for the most part took it as given that death was followed by rebirth, but they disagreed on whether death was followed immediately by rebirth or by an in between state (antarābhava). The lecture will consider two accounts of death and rebirth, both from the fourth to fifth centuries CE but representing the traditions of two different schools: (1) the account found in Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośa, which presents the traditions of the Sarvāstivāda school and advocates an in between state, and (2) the account found in the…
Find out more »墨境 Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
Ink Worlds considers ink painting from the 1960s through the present, examining salient visual features and international connections, as well as the ongoing impact of historical techniques, materials, and themes. In so doing, the exhibition addresses not only the capacity of ink painting to evolve but also the contemporary nature of ink painting as a distinct genre whose achievements can already be documented. Caption: Irene Zhou (China, 1924–2011), Untitled, 1995. Ink on paper. Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
Find out more »Oliver Freiberger: “Lines in Water? On Drawing Buddhism’s Boundaries in Ancient India”
Abstract: This talk explores the ways in which religious agents – and modern scholars – distinguish religions. Illustrated by examples from ancient India, it will problematize the popular notion of blurred boundaries and suggest a multilayered approach for analyzing religious boundary-making. The paper argues that scholars should be prepared to find, even within one religious community, numerous and possibly conflicting ways of drawing a boundary between “us” and “them.” Bio: Dr. Oliver Freiberger is associate professor of Asian Studies and…
Find out more »Robert Daniel DeCaroli: “Snakes and the Rain: Nāga Imagery, Water Management, and Buddhist Rainmaking Rituals in Early South Asia”
Abstract: When considering the water-related challenges that confronted the monks and architects involved with rock-cut monasteries, it becomes apparent that the veneration of nāgas complimented methods of hydraulic engineering designed to regulate the flow of water at the sites. The highly visible nature of this arrangement helps to explain the emergence of ritual texts, primarily dating to after the fourth century CE, in which Buddhist ritualists adopt the role of rainmakers. The ritualists invariably invoke a special relationship with the…
Find out more »First Friday
On the First Friday of every month during the academic year, the Cantor is open late for art-making, music, and more. Friday, June 1: Relax at the end of the year at the annual Arts District Picnic.
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