Cantor Arts Center
Stanford conservators work to preserve Rodin Sculpture Garden
With dust, UV light radiation and acid rain to contend with, it’s difficult to keep outdoor works of art in their original, intended condition. To help fend off corrosion, the Rodin Sculpture Garden, next to the Cantor Arts Center, is in the middle of its annual conservation work. Conservators first wash the sculptures, then apply…
Read More Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center acquires an early Edward Hopper painting
"New York Corner," 1913, finds a new home at Stanford University.The Cantor Arts Center has announced the major new acquisition of a painting by Edward Hopper, New York Corner (Corner Saloon), 1913. One of Hopper’s early paintings, the oil on canvas was created when Hopper was just 31 and still struggling to establish himself, but it heralds the artist’s influential career and prominence as one…
Read More Five-year digitization and inventory project at Cantor nears the finish line
Entire collection will be online to everyone this fall, allowing scholars and the public greater access to the encyclopedic collection and presenting the Cantor staff with a clear picture of the museum's holdings.It has been picture day at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center five days a week for five years. Thousands of objects have posed for the camera in order to be included in an online database. The massive digitization and inventory project serves multiple purposes: access for students, faculty and other scholars; a clear assessment of what…
Read More Cantor wins prestigious media and technology award
Stanford, Calif., May 8, 2015 — The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University earned a 2015 Gold Muse Award from the American Alliance of Museums’ Media and Technology Professional Network. The Cantor won the Honeysett and Din Award for TandemArt, a software application created by recent Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) students Renee Bruner…
Read MoreCantor Arts Center presents solo exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s work, “Promised Land”
Stanford students are the first scholars to study and present some of the works that have never been on public display.One of the largest collections of works by American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) in any museum belongs to the Cantor Arts Center, and it goes on view for the first time April 1. Lawrence is an acclaimed figurative painter of the 20th century and a leading voice in the artistic portrayal of the African American…
Read MoreCampus engagement at the Cantor Arts Center
There’s a lot going on at the Cantor Arts Center this spring, and through it all runs a unifying thread: a profound engagement with the campus community.Two large exhibitions engage faculty, students and campus partners from multiple disciplines. She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (closing May 4) This exhibition features the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world. Through partnerships with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the…
Read MoreHappy 2015!
Welcome to the new year!We are looking forward to everything 2015 will bring in the arts at Stanford – new exhibitions at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Live performances at Bing Concert Hall and beyond, engagement with the Anderson Collection at Stanford University – and of course the enormous variety of performances, events, exhibitions and programs put on by…
Read MorePhotographer Robert Frank drops in on a panel discussion of his work
The artist celebrated his 90th birthday with a visit to his exhibition at the Cantor.The event was supposed to be an in-depth discussion of the Cantor Art Center’s special exhibition Robert Frank in America, with three panelists providing analysis of select photographs. For the lucky guests who got in, it lived up to the description, and then some. Robert Frank dropped in to participate. Frank visited the exhibition with his wife, June Leaf, a few days before…
Read MoreScene 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 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 MoreStanford Dance Division breaks new ground with ‘Construction Site’
Guides calling themselves the "construction crew" lead a traveling audience to site-specific dances built around five campus locations.Wear sturdy shoes, bring a flashlight, prepare to step lively, bikes and skateboards optional. Not the usual set of instructions for attending a dance production, but the arts at Stanford aren’t always predictable. In a year that saw choreographer Jérôme Bel enlist untrained members of the Stanford community to perform in The Show Must Go…
Read MoreCantor Arts Center presents an exhibition in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant
Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums is on view April 23 to August 17, 2014.As the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant, Cantor Arts Center presents an exhibition featuring more than 80 original mammoth prints from three unique albums of Carleton Watkins’s work: Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865–66), Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862–76), and Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867…
Read MoreRodin’s hand sculptures diagnosed as part of exhibit
Eight of the 10 Rodin hand sculptures on display in a new exhibit have been diagnosed for malformations and diseases by a School of Medicine hand surgeon.One of the sculptures has been “repaired” using virtual surgery by the techies in the school’s Division of Clinical Anatomy. And with the help of more digital wizardry, viewers can see virtual blood and bone in the bronze hands. Inside Rodin’s Hands: Art, Technology and Surgery, which runs April 9 through Aug. 3 at Stanford’s…
Read MoreImmersion
For a group of Stanford students last week, spring break meant plunging into the arts—in New York City.Eighteen lucky students went to museums, galleries and performances. They danced with members of the Mark Morris Dance Group, met with art experts at Christie’s, attended a rehearsal of the New York Philharmonic—and much, much more. Throughout the week, students gathered their thoughts and impressions about the trip on tumblr. The students were participating in…
Read MoreCan’t resist touching the art? These Stanford students scrub the ‘Gates of Hell’
Check out one of the coolest jobs on the Stanford campus: outdoor sculpture conservation technician.Somebody has got to keep the Gates of Hell safe from the elements. Meet the students on Stanford’s outdoor sculpture preservation crew. They conduct preventative maintenance on Rodin’s Gates of Hell and 100 other outdoor sculptures across campus. In other words, they get lots of hands-on-the-art experience because they have permission to touch. Given the nature of their work,…
Read MoreCantor Arts Center’s French summer
Six exhibitions highlight five centuries of French art from private and permanent collections. Staff members pick their favorite works.Never mind that King Francois I of France pre-dated Bastille Day by more than 200 years. The sophisticated and extravagant School of Fontainebleau style that developed under his royal command is something to celebrate and see during the month of France’s La Fête Nationale. Francois’ 16th-century prints, le quatorze juillet, on view through Sunday, are part of…
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