Arts @ Home

• 2/26 @ 12:30 p.m. Artist talk with Carter Hodgkin: Carter Hodgkin is a contemporary artist known for her striking visual interpretations of physics. Her work is part of the Stanford Redwood City collection.
• 2/26 @ 3 p.m. Another Look Book Club reads Billy Phelan's Greatest Game: Professor Emeritus Tobias Wolff discusses William Kennedy's novel about a young gambler and bookie who suffers a setback that compels him to embark on an odyssey during the Depression.
• 2/26 @ 5 p.m. Multi-media sound/reading Deproduction and Q&A: In Deproduction, artist Terre Thaemlitz investigates the awkward, uncomfortable, and hypocritical power dynamics behind Western humanist notions of family, and how they function internationally through processes of globalization.
• 2/26 @ 5 p.m. 2020 winter MFA documentary screenings: This postponed event from 2020 features four short films produced by first year documentary film graduate students.
• 2/26 @ 5 p.m. Peripheral Modernity and The Blind Owl's Grim Laughter: This talk will problematize the reception of Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl and revisit this novel in light of the concept of "peripheral modernity" as an integral formal feature of his fictional works.
• 2/26-3/26 Mozart Meets Mel Brooks: Watch a video production of The Impresario-Producers, a mashup of Mozart’s The Impresario and songs from Mel Brooks’s The Producers performed by Stanford students, faculty, alumni, staff and community members.
• 2/28-3/28 Songs by Florence Price and Robert Owens: In honor of Black History Month, the recital "Songs by Florence Price and Robert Owens" features the voice students of Wendy Hillhouse performing works composed by these two groundbreaking Black composers.
• 3/2 @ 12:30 p.m. Film discussion of Norma Rae: Tony Michels (Univ. of Wisconsin) leads a discussion of the 1979 film Norma Rae. 
• 3/3 @ 5:30 p.m. Curator tour of When Home Won't Let You Stay: Take a virtual walk through the Cantor's newest exhibition When Home Won't Let You Stay with curator Maggie Dethloff.
• 3/4 @ 10 a.m. From Brahms to Berghain, a virtual tour of Berlin's music scenes: Berlin-based composer and musicologist Leah Muir gives an overview of the wide range of music the city has to offer, followed by Q&A.
• 3/4-3/6 @ 7 p.m. StageCast experimental performance: StageCast: Experiments in Performance and Technology is an experimental showcase of performances to discover new forms of live, theatrical storytelling over the internet.
• 3/5 @ 5 p.m. 2020 spring MFA documentary screenings: This postponed event from 2020 features eight short films produced by first year documentary film graduate students.
• 3/5 @ 8 p.m. TM Krishna in conversation with Aishwary Kumar and Anna Schultz: Thodur Madabusi Krishna is a vocalist in the Carnatic form of classical music, a public intellectual and a social activist who interrogates the intersection of caste, class, and gender within society while exploring the contours of democracy, culture and learning.
• 3/8 @ 4:30 p.m. Alex Ross lecture, "Wagnerian Double Consciousness": The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross delivers the Ron Alexander Memorial Lecture in Musicology on Black and Jewish Wagnerites at the Fin de Siècle.
• 3/9 @ noon Near and Far: Medieval Manuscripts Through Digital Time and Space: Elaine Treharne investigates the lives of medieval manuscripts and fragments that date from the 6th century to the 15th century, tracing their survival to the present day, when increasing numbers exist online in digital format.
• 3/11 @ 5:30 p.m. Christensen Distinguished Lecture: Jacqueline Stewart, professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago, speaks on "Sisters Inside Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class: Black Women Through the Lens of William Greaves."
• 3/11 @ 5:30 p.m. Parenting Playbook Experience (PPE) Live Theater: A virtual event featuring live theater vignettes about communication between parents and young adult children about tough topics, with helpful “playbook” suggestions and a Q&A.
• 3/13 @ 2:30 p.m. Friends of Museum Scholarship Recital: Stanford Music students receiving scholarships from the Friends of Music in support of their lessons perform in this pre-recorded recital for their patrons and the public.
• 3/31 @ 11 a.m. Book talk with Marci Kwon: Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities Center fellow Marci Kwon discusses her new book, Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism, an innovative and interdisciplinary account that reveals enchantment’s relevance to the history of American mid-century American art.
• Ongoing for Stanford Live members and Stanford students: Stanford Live's digital season features exclusive films produced by Stanford Live, performance screenings, lectures, podcasts and more.

*all times are PST and all events are virtual unless described otherwise