Posts by Robert D.
Webcam lets you follow the action at McMurtry construction site
Whether you’re curious to see how construction in the Arts District is coming along, excited about working in the McMurtry Building when it opens in 2015 or just nostalgic for your childhood Erector set, LBRE has a website for you. The website of the Department of Land, Buildings & Real Estate includes views from two…
Read MoreStudying Carrie Mae Weems’ work at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center from different angles
The artist's first large-scale retrospective is not just for art history students and devotees of photography and video.
Of course art history and photography students are heading to the Cantor Arts Center to see Carrie Mae Weems’ remarkable three-decade retrospective. Weems is, after all, a MacArthur genius and one of today’s most important contemporary artists. But she is also an eloquent interpreter of the African American experience and through her work explores the…
Read MoreIntroducing the Interdisciplinary Honors in the Arts Program
Twelve inaugural students add a creative dimension to their Stanford education.The Stanford Arts Institute is bringing to Stanford’s campus a program unlike any other. Meet the Interdisciplinary Honors Program, Honors in the Arts, which provides an opportunity for students of any major to complete a capstone project that brings a student’s experience in another discipline together with artistic endeavor. Conceived by Executive Director of Arts…
Read MoreSTANFORD TAPS PRESENTS MARTIN CRIMP’S ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE
Professors Leslie Hill and Helen Paris lead students on a curious and provocative exploration of 21st-century obsessionsStanford Department of Theater & Performance Studies (TAPS) open its 2013-14 performance season with British playwright Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life, a production featuring dance, song and projection. TAPS performance-making professors Leslie Hill and Helen Paris direct. Attempts presents 17 scenarios for the theater, shocking and hilarious by turn, on a roller coaster of…
Read MoreStephen Hinton wins Kurt Weill Book Prize
The 2013 Kurt Weill Book Prize for outstanding scholarship in music theater has been awarded to Stephen Hinton, the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Music.Hinton won the award for his book Weill’s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform. Published in 2012 by the University of California Press, Hinton’s musicological study offers the most comprehensive overview yet of Weill’s output for the stage, according to a press release by the Kurt Weill Foundation. “In tracing Weill’s extraordinary journey as a theatrical…
Read MoreStanford Band ‘writerz’ aim for irreverent, wacky and fun shows
The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band celebrates its 50th anniversary as a "scatter band."There’s nothing easy about entertaining more than 50,000 people all at once, especially if they are in a football stadium surrounded by friends, fans and lots of good food. Just ask senior chemical engineering major Andrew Kleinschmidt and junior product design major Matt Appleby. The two – backed by a cadre of fellow student “writerz”…
Read MoreStanford’s Clark Center celebrates first decade
Faculty and students agree that the innovative architecture and interior design at the home of Bio-X still inspire people and bring them together.Created as a social experiment in collaboration and described as both a cauldron of creativity and Noah’s ark, the James H. Clark Center, home to Bio-X, turns 10 this month. The three-story, 146,000-square-foot research center brings together under one roof a variety of disciplines, including biology, medicine, chemistry, physics and engineering. That’s why it is…
Read MoreStanford dance scholar examines how ballet challenged the Soviet regime
Through a study of one of the most innovative choreographers in Russian history, Stanford Professor Janice Ross discovers how ballet served as a vehicle for political protest in the USSR.From the royal courts of the Renaissance to modern-day theatres, classical ballet performances have continually delighted audiences. But in 20th-century Soviet Russia, ballet took on another role, that of a powerful vehicle for political resistance and reform. Through a study of Russian choreographer Leonid Yakobson (1904-1975), Janice Ross, a professor of theater and performance studies…
Read MoreListening in on Tyler Brooks at the 2013 Stanford Jazz Festival
In the first of a series of reviews and notes from the seats, guest music critic Tyler Brooks checks out the Calvin Keys Quartet.Omaha-native and Oakland-based guitarist Calvin Keys is the definition of a serious musician. Quiet, husky-voiced, and concealed behind dark auburn shades, Keys wore a steady, sagacious cool that warranted the opening line of Tuesday night’s program which frankly and endearingly read: “Calvin Keys doesn’t call a lot of attention to himself.” And true enough to…
Read MoreStanford Arts Institute to pilot new interdisciplinary honors program
The Stanford Arts Institute will pilot a new interdisciplinary honors program in the arts during the 2013-14 academic year, an initiative intended to appeal to arts and non-arts majors alike. Students admitted to the program will participate in small workshops throughout their senior year while working towards the completion of a capstone project that reflects…
Read MoreCool learning tools to be showcased at Stanford Aug. 2
Students in the Stanford Graduate School of Education are putting the finishing touches on projects for the 16th annual Learning, Design and Technology Expo, which will be held on campus Aug. 2. The Tech Museum of Innovation recently showcased some of the projects.Sitting on a stool and staring intently at a laptop screen, Jim Huang plucked out the melody of Happy Birthday and the rock song Circuital on a guitar – an instrument he was playing for the first time during a recent visit to The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif. The seventh grader…
Read MoreThe Chair – June 6-30
Once again, Stanford students present the best seat in the house.See eleven unique and beautiful chairs designed by students enrolled in ARTSTUDI 262, The Chair, taught by John Edmark. Each chairs’ design and fabrication was informed by historical reference, anthropometrics, form studies, intensive user testing and materials investigations. Meet the Stanford students who designed and fabricated the chairs at the opening reception on June 6…
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