Posts by Robert D.
Scene in Action
Director’s NotesI had a revelation about the performance Scene in Action a few weeks ago. My original vision was to bring undergraduate students into two incredible spaces – the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection – to develop a kinesthetic, spatial and intellectual dialogue with the art. After all, Robert Frank was a contemporary of…
Read MoreImagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science series launches with words
Spotlight on the book: Cosmicomics, Life on Mars, A Place Among the StarsOCT. 27 – Out of this world: Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics Author Italo Calvino’s whimsical view of the universe will be explored at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27 at Stanford Humanities Center as part of Stanford’s “Another Look” book club and in conjunction with the series Imagining the Universe. Acclaimed author Robert Pogue Harrison, professor of…
Read MoreSt. Lawrence String Quartet celebrates 25th anniversary season with three world premieres at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall
A silver anniversary and a trio of premieres kick off Oct. 19 with new work by Stanford composer Jonathan Berger.To commemorate its 25th anniversary this season, Stanford’s prized St. Lawrence String Quartet – violinists Geoff Nuttall and Mark Fewer, violist Lesley Robertson and cellist Christopher Costanza – has commissioned a trio of new works from John Adams and Stanford-based composers Jonathan Berger and Jaroslaw Kapuscinski to be premiered at Bing Concert Hall. The series,…
Read MoreStanford’s new player piano collection brings sounds of history to life
Stanford's new player piano collection opens up a world of musical and cultural highlights from the early 20th century. The Denis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls brings to life historic performances from major composers like George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky and Camille Saint-Saëns.The Golden Age of player pianos has dawned on the Farm. Stanford University recently acquired the Denis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls, a private collection of more than 7,500 rolls and 10 player pianos – among the most important of its kind. Experts in the field are working along with faculty and staff…
Read More‘Stanford in New York City’ to launch autumn 2015
Twenty undergraduate will take courses and work in internships in the arts, design, architecture and urban studies.Stanford will accept applications in early December for the inaugural quarter of Stanford in New York City, an undergraduate program in which students will use the city as their laboratory – taking courses; working in internships in the arts, design, architecture and urban studies; going on field trips and attending cultural events. The program, designed…
Read MoreWindhover contemplation center now open
Stanford community daily hours are 11a.m to 11 p.m. with an I.D. card.When visitors walk into Windhover, the first painting they’ll see is Big Red, a large abstract oil painting of a kestrel flying in a red sky, a work that artist Nathan Oliveira returned to again and again over the 25 years it stood in his studio. Oliveira, who died in 2010, was an internationally acclaimed…
Read MoreDocumentaries by Stanford affiliates to show at international film festival
The 17th United Nations Association Film Festival, an international feast of documentaries, will run Oct. 16-26 at various locations on Stanford’s campus and at other local venues. The theme of this year’s festival is “Bridging the Gap,” and films include a range of settings from Syria to Stockton. Topics run the gamut from dance and…
Read MoreStanford music professor wins Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement
Music Professor KAROL BERGER has received a 2014 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The 60,000 Euro award enables a scholar to spend a year working at a research institute in Germany and collaborating with other experts in the field. A scholar of Austro-German music, Berger intends to complete a long-term study…
Read MoreWelcome Back!
The new school year has started – and started with a bang!On Sept. 21 the Anderson Collection at Stanford University officially opened its doors, following a week of celebratory events. Over 3,000 visitors enjoyed this amazing new campus resource during the opening weekend. And then the next day classes started – and Professor Pamela Lee’s Abstract Expressionism seminar held its first session in the Anderson Collection…
Read MoreA molecular physics experience through movement at Stanford
Stanford collaborators fuse cutting-edge art with research-grade science.Earlier this year, dS headlined at the Barbican, London’s hot multi-arts and conference venue. Now it’s coming west. dS, short for danceroom Spectroscopy, is the world’s first large-scale, interactive molecular physics experience, and it was created by scholar, scientist and artist David Glowacki, a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Bristol, presently in…
Read MoreSTANFORD LIVE ANNOUNCES 2014-15 SEASON UPDATES
Bing Concert Hall lineup to include special event with Grammy winner Sheryl Crow, indie-pop-rock-duo Pomplamoose, third annual Sing and Play the Bing community concert and an Arts Open House to celebrate Anderson Collection; single tickets go on sale Sunday, September 7Stanford Live’s expanded 2014-15 season is becoming even more expanded. In addition to the nearly 60 performances already scheduled, Executive Director Wiley Hausam has announced four more added events to the 2014-15 lineup, the organization’s third season at Bing Concert Hall. Among the updates is Sound + Vision, a free arts open house on September…
Read MoreOpening this month!
It’s September – and students are packing up their belongings to come to Stanford for the new school year.The Anderson Collection at Stanford University has been packing as well – crating 121 exemplary works of modern and contemporary art and moving them from the Andersons’ private collection to their new home in Stanford’s arts district. The team has been working hard all summer long receiving and installing the works – by Jackson Pollock,…
Read MoreStanford library’s punk poster art collection revives ’80s musical history
Stanford's new archive of punk posters for legendary 1980s San Francisco bands offers a colorful and brash path of research for scholars from diverse fields. The size and comprehensiveness of the Tom Law Punk Poster collection is probably unmatched anywhere, library officials say.The Stanford University Libraries host an impressive set of archival music collections ranging from 16th-century lute music to Dixieland jazz. Now, an unlikely cast of characters joins their ranks, as San Francisco punk stalwarts like Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys cozy up next to the likes of Jascha Heifetz on the library shelves. Unlike…
Read MoreStanford art historian explores the shocking yet affirmative power of gay imagery
Stanford's Richard Meyer co-authors the first major historical survey to consider the ways in which homosexual codes and cultures yield creative resources for visual artists.News coverage of recent milestones in gay rights routinely includes images of happy same-sex couples kissing in celebration. But according to Stanford art historian Richard Meyer, visuals of same-sex kisses and other gay images do much more than illustrate happy moments. In making formerly private content public, such scenes “help to create queer culture by…
Read MoreWorks from American art giants enter Stanford’s permanent collection
Remarkable works by artists Richard Diebenkorn, Jacob Lawrence and Andy Warhol are entrusted to Stanford's Cantor Arts CenterWhen Connie Wolf took over the helm at the Cantor Arts Center in 2012, she began seeking out opportunities to build on the Cantor’s strong collections and its legacy. Under her leadership, the museum recently experienced a dramatic expansion of its collection through three significant gifts of American art: Richard Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks donated by his…
Read MoreStanford Repertory Theater in the throes of a whale hunt and preparing for an alien invasion
Stanford Rep's summer festival celebrates Orson Welles with his theatrical adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick and a recreation of his 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.Perhaps it was Orson Welles’ fascination with magic as a youth that inspired him to turn a 200,000-word novel into a 90-minute play. The trick worked. His Moby Dick – Rehearsed invokes the sea, the great white whale and the infectious mania of Captain Ahab with just a few props, some scaffolding and a remarkable…
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