Campus Stories - Art & Art History
Stanford art history graduate students will take a hands-on approach thanks to Mellon Grant
For an art lover, there is nothing quite like standing in front of a work of art. There’s the scale of the work, the texture of the paint, and the visceral emotional reaction that can only come through experience. For the museum curator, handling these objects – reading the artist’s scribbles on the back of…
Pacific Northwest artists restore Stanford totem poles to their original grandeur
The first totem pole installed on the Stanford campus rests close to the Oval, tucked into a nearby grove of trees. Art Thompson finished the Nuu-chah-nulth style pole, titled Boo-Qwilla, in 1995. The second pole, The Stanford Legacy by Don Yeomans, sits adjacent to the Law School’s Crown Quad and was completed in 2002. Carved in the traditional…
Cantor Arts Center Chooses Photography as an Area for Expansion
Stanford, Calif. — Connie Wolf, the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center, announces the launch of a comprehensive plan for the growth of the Cantor’s photography program. This will position the Cantor as a leader in the collection, exhibition and study of photographs in the Bay Area, which is recognized internationally…
McMurtry Building Ceremony Marks Arts District Milestone
For the second time this academic year, ground was broken in the developing arts district on a new building that convincingly promises transformation. The McMurtry Building for the Department of Art and Art History is officially under construction, just four months after the opening of Bing Concert Hall and seven months after the groundbreaking for…
A latticework of iridescent color and light
How do you portray space? One possible answer now hangs from the ceiling of the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. The new sculpture, artist Alyson Shotz’s vision of the skeletal structure of emptiness, was commissioned by the School of Medicine to honor former dean Philip Pizzo, MD. It will be dedicated May 21. Sailing above the…
Remarks by Nancy J. Troy at the McMurtry Building Groundbreaking Ceremony
On behalf of colleagues, students and staff in the Department of Art and Art History and the Art and Architecture Library who have been looking forward to this moment for almost a decade, it is a pleasure to thank all of you who have enabled us to envision, design, and, now, break ground for our…
Remarks by Provost John Etchemendy at the McMurtry Building Groundbreaking Ceremony
Welcome Good afternoon. For those of you I haven’t had a chance to meet, I am John Etchemendy, Stanford provost. It is my honor and privilege to welcome you to this groundbreaking ceremony for the McMurtry Building, the new home for the Department of Art and Art History. I would like to first acknowledge members…
Remarks by Charles Renfro at the McMurtry Building Groundbreaking
Stanford has always been known for its groundbreaking research and applied science. I, like many of my peers, thought it was a school wholly populated by nerds. Then about 12 years ago I picked up a book called Object to Be Destroyed, which chronicles the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s irreverent approach towards art making. Author Pam…
Remarks by Burt and Deedee McMurtry at the McMurtry Building Goundbreaking Ceremony
Burt begins: A groundbreaking sounds like a beginning, but this seems to be more like the middle. For years there has been talk of moving Art and Art History to a new building near Cantor. In fact that was one of the recommendations in an external review of the Cantor Center in 2002! The real…
Walters Art Museum manuscript collection makes a virtual move to Stanford
More than 100,000 high-resolution images of unique medieval manuscripts will have a second home, thanks to a new agreement between the Walters Art Museum and Stanford University Libraries. The Walters’ holdings of 850 medieval illuminated manuscripts and 150 single leaves, ranging in date from the ninth to the 19th century, are one of the most…
2013 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition opens at the Art Gallery
The Department of Art & Art History is pleased to present the 2013 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition on view May 14 to June 16, 2013, with an opening reception on May 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery. This exhibition features the MFA Thesis artwork of five graduating artists: Ben Bigelow, Chris…
42nd Annual Stanford Powwow & Indian art market is this weekend, May 10-12
The Powwow is a celebration of Native cultures through traditional songs, dances and events. An attendance of over 25,000 is expected, making it the largest student-run powwow in the United States and one of the largest events of its kind on the West Coast. Open throughout the three-day event are more than 100 arts and…
Richard Misrach lecture on Monday, May 13 at 6 pm at Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building
Artist Richard Misrach will be at Annenberg Auditorium on Monday to talk about his photography and the Cantor exhibition Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley. Misrach, one of the most influential photographers of his generation, helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation. For 40 years he has documented modern industry’s impact…
Art And History: Treasures From The Hoover Library And Archives
The Hoover Institution’s new exhibition, Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives, runs from April 23 to December 20, 2013, in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion (next to Hoover Tower) on the Stanford University campus. Drawing on the extensive holdings of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, this exhibition showcases the…
Captivated by Sea Creatures
When he was in first grade, Daniel Wong was obsessed with cephalopods, a class of marine animals that includes squids and octopuses. He would fill pages of his writing journal with an enormous list of all the animals he knew according to the oceanic zone they occupy. Wong, now a senior majoring in studio art…
Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center partners with the Google Art Project, an international online art gallery
Nothing compares to seeing a work of art in person, but there might also be nothing compared to examining a high- resolution image of a work of art that reveals details not visible to the naked eye – at least a naked eye viewing from behind a velvet rope or through protective Plexiglas. The closer-than-you-can-get-in-person…
