Stanford Arts
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The Anderson Collection celebrates 10 years
Since its opening in 2014, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University has become a home to thousands of students, faculty, staff, artists, and community members. Two anniversary exhibitions invite visitors to share the Anderson family's love of living with art and experience masterworks in a welcoming environment.
‘Spirit House’ illuminates the spiritual and spectral boundaries between life and death
A major survey at the Cantor Arts Center showcases an intergenerational range of emerging and established contemporary visual artists of Asian descent.
The Cantor Arts Center presents Spirit House, a major group exhibition foregrounding how contemporary artists of the Asian diaspora challenge the boundary between life and death through art. On view from Sept. 4, 2024, to Jan. 26, 2025, the exhibition comprises nearly 50 works of art by 33 artists, including large-scale paintings, digital media, ceramic sculpture, photography, and significant new acquisitions within the museum’s permanent collection.
Encounters: Where Creative and Scientific Inquiry Meet
A new limited series podcast from Denning Visiting Artist Janani Balasubramanian
What happens when art meets science? Stanford alumni and host Janani Balasubramanian returns to campus to explore the dynamic intersection of these two disciplines throughout their residency in the Denning Visiting Artist Fund. Discover how interdisciplinarity drives breakthrough, from the physics of the interstellar medium to the myths of ancient times, featuring leading researchers and innovators.
From Sea to Studio
Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist collaborates with Oceans researchers at Hopkins Marine Station
A new visiting artist program at Stanford is bringing together a sculptor and ocean scientists to create a sculpture based on the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Their collaboration aims to raise awareness of the impact of human activity on the environment.
Upcoming Events
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Spotlight Tours Thursday
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Spotlight Tours Thursdays
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Weintz Art Lecture Series: Lamia Balafrej
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Evening Curator Talk | Spirit House with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
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“Global Approaches to Sacred Space” Workshop: Fr. Maximos Constas, “The Momentum of Grief”
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NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of Louise Costigan-Kerns
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Public Tour | Spirit House
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Stanford Baroque Soloists
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Highlight Tour
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Public Tour | Cantor Highlights: 1 PM
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Highlight Tour
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Public Tour | Cantor Highlights: 3 PM
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Lou Henry Hoover Carillon Performance
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Stanford Symphonic Chorus & Peninsula Symphony Orchestra: An American Celebration
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Public Tour | Papua New Guinea Sculpture Walk
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Stanford Symphonic Chorus & Peninsula Symphony Orchestra: An American Celebration
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Workshop
Air Clay & Vibes Workshop
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CCSRE-Cantor Latinx Art Fellows Presentations
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Noontime Music at MemChu & CommuniTEA
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NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of Frank Lévy
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Film/Screening
Stanford Cinematheque: FILM BODIES
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O-Tone Fall Show 2024 (“A Night to Remember”)
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Early Music Singers – A Garland of Madrigals
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Evening Curator Talk | Spirit House with Kathryn Cua
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The SImps Present: Improvised Sitcom
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NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of Elizabeth Schumann
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Fall 2024 Open Studios
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2024 Fall FILMPROD114 Screening
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Religious/Spiritual
Festival of Lessons & Carols
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Rite of Spring: Yang Liping & Peacock Contemporary Dance
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Senior Recital: Karthik Seetharaman, piano
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SJW Presents: 2024 Fall Jazz Festival
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Holiday Musicale
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Azure Family Holiday Show
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Isidore String Quartet
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Stanford Flute Ensemble – 2024 Fall Concert
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Fall 2024 Chamber Music Showcase 1
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2024 Fall MFA Documentary Film Screening
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An Evening with Brahms
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Jazz Mafia Holiday Heist
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Fall 2024 Chamber Music Showcase 2
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale |A Bach Christmas | Ruben Valenzuela, conductor
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Meet the Makers!
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Forms & Frequencies | Evicshen
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Roots and Resonance: Shahnameh and Nations
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Chanticleer
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Annual Sing/Play Along Messiah
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Meow Meow Feline Festive Holiday
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Boleros de Navidad featuring Tres Souls
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Dr. Robert Huw Morgan: Holiday Organ Concert
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Ecumenical Christmas Eve Family Service
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Patty Chang: On Mothers, Melons, Lakes, and Whales
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Art & Boba Talk with Patty Chang — STUDENT-ONLY EVENT
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Inter-Arts Info Session
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Lunchtime Curator Talk | Spirit House with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
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Lunchtime Curator Talk | Livien Yin: Thirsty with Kathryn Cua
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Comedy Live: Isabel Hagen
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Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ & Blood Moon Orchestra: Harps of Asia
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Maryna Krut
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Xiaoze Xie Installations
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Kinship Across Time: Heesoo Kwon & Livien Yin
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Art & Boba Talk with Livien Yin — STUDENT-ONLY EVENT
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Stegner Fellow Reading with Stephanie Horvath and Rogelio Juárez
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Inter-Arts Info Session @ RAG
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Jahari Stampley Family Trio
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Kev Choice
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Into The Woods
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Into The Woods
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Into The Woods
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Arooj Aftab
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Sundays with the St. Lawrence | Featuring the Stanford Cello Choir
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Into The Woods
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Studio Lecture Series: Guadalupe Maravilla
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Sufjan Stevens: Reflections | Featuring Timo Andres and Conor Hanick
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David Lang before and after nature
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Stella Chen | Featuring Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
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Stegner Fellow Reading with Fatima Jafar and Sena Moon
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Geoff Sobelle: FOOD
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Weintz Art Lecture Series: Rizvana Bradley
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Renée Fleming, soprano
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Music and Mind: A Conversation with Soprano Renée Fleming and Dr. Andrew Huberman
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2025 First-Year MFA Exhibition
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Stanford Medicine Orchestra with Joshua Roman | Immunity
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band
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Reading and Conversation with Ellen Bryant Voigt, part of the Lane Lecture Series
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Comedy Live: Alex Edelman
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A Night in the Piano Bar: Brandon James Gwinn
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London Symphony Orchestra
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Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Edmar Castañeda
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Evening Curator Talk | Dwelling with Veronica Roberts
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Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard: Farewell Tour
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale: Handel’s Alceste | Peter Whelan, conductor
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Lunchtime Curator Talk | Dwelling with Veronica Roberts
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Honors in the Arts – Proposal Workshop
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Dover Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin
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Honors in the Arts Info Session
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Levinthal Reading
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An Evening with Branford Marsalis
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Lunchtime Curator Talk | Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene with Maggie Dethloff
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Winter 2025 Open Studios
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Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Quintet
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Anoushka Shankar
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Lavinia Meijer
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Anda Union
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
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Mehldau * McBride * Gilmore
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Sona Jobarteh and Brandee Younger — Strings of Hope: A Song for Tomorrow
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Joshua Bell
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Tiffany Sia: No Place
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Conrad Tao & Caleb Teicher: Counterpoint
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Lijin Lecture | Tiffany Sia: No Place
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2025 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition
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Reading with Rachel Kushner, the Stein Visiting Writer
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Studio Lecture Series: Nikita Gale
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Comedy Live: Francisco Ramos
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Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
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Sundays with the St. Lawrence: Featuring Tchaikovsky String Sextet in D Minor, op. 70, Souvenir de Florence
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Weintz Art Lecture Series: Roberto Tejada
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DANCE! with New Century Chamber Orchestra
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Third Coast Percussion with Jessie Montgomery
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Pia Brancaccio: “Buddhist Monasticism in the Longue Durée: The Archaeological Evidence from the Rock-Cut Complex of Kanheri/Kṛṣṇagiri, Maharashtra, India”
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2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition
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Poetry Into Film Festival
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Stegner Fellow Reading with Dāshaun Washington, Bernardo Wade, and Vida James
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AXIS Dance Company and Catie Cuan
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2025 Senior Undergraduate Exhibition
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Undergraduate Prize Reading
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Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour At The Stanford Stadium
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2025 Spring FILMPROD114 Screening
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Copy of Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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2025 Spring MFA Documentary Film Screening
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2025 MFA Thesis Documentary Film Screening
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Meet Artists
Ali Namayandeh
Stanford’s new Doerr School of Sustainability is integrating theater and environmental justice with the premiere of “Hidden Strawberries,” a play by Ali Namayandeh. Debuting from October 16-19 at the Stanford Live Bing Studio, the production focuses on the experiences of California farmworkers affected by escalating wildfires.