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Stanford Arts: Breadth and Depth
Welcome to 2014! It’s an exciting time in the arts at Stanford. Last year brought us the opening of Bing Concert Hall, and this fall we will see the opening of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. We are eagerly anticipating the arrival on campus of this magnificent collection of postwar and contemporary American art. Keep an…
In Japan, Stanford architecture students explore design ancient and recent
Being able to visit the sacred Shinto Ise Grand Shrine in Japan during a rebuilding year happens only once every 20 years. Combine that experience with participation in a workshop to design a school in tsunami-ravaged Ogatsu and a competition to build a mobile artist pavilion of the future and you’ve got yourself an opportunity…
New maps showcase public art treasures on Stanford campus
While the Burghers of Calais is a favorite stop for visitors who pose for photos with Auguste Rodin’s larger-than-life bronze statues in Memorial Court, there are dozens of other public art treasures all over the Stanford campus awaiting visits from art lovers. Strolling across campus, students, faculty, staff and visitors can encounter art at almost…
Groundbreakers in fashion industry share insights at Stanford
Fall fashion at Stanford is not just cardinal-red hoodies and bike-friendly skinny jeans. On Dec. 2, “fall fashion” at Stanford may very well refer to the first of four conversations surrounding the fashion industry with New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn and a collection of forward thinking-insiders: Ron Johnson, Annie Leibovitz, Pascal Dangin, Antoine…
Fruit bats on the clothesline
From across the room it catches my eye immediately, hundreds of 16-inch fiberglass figures dangling from a spidery, umbrella-shaped clothesline. As I approach, I realize that they’re flying foxes—big-eyed, pointy-eared fruit bats of the type I’ve seen fluttering overhead in the evening. I happen to love bats, and these particular sculptures are stunning in their…
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…
Studying Carrie Mae Weems’ work at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center from different angles
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…
Introducing the Interdisciplinary Honors in the Arts Program
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…
STANFORD TAPS PRESENTS MARTIN CRIMP’S ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE
Stanford 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…
Stephen Hinton wins Kurt Weill Book Prize
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…
Stanford Band ‘writerz’ aim for irreverent, wacky and fun shows
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”…
Stanford’s Clark Center celebrates first decade
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…
Stanford dance scholar examines how ballet challenged the Soviet regime
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…
Jason Linetzky named first director of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University
Jason Linetzky has spent the better part of his 20-year career working with one of the world’s most coveted private collections of 20th-century American art: the Anderson Collection. The collection was built over the last 50 years by Bay Area residents Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and by their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence….
The Rapture
The enormously entertaining exhibition of 45 color images is an unexpected surprise and deviation from Leivick’s past work, which has generally been characterized by large format landscape prints in black and white. While in Italy last autumn as a 2012 Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Leivick had planned a project involving beachfront…
What were the aristocracy enjoying at the Paris Opéra while the peasants starved in the days before the French Revolution?
Stanford University Libraries is pleased to introduce Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres, a cross-index of data for over 38,000 opera and oratorio premieres. It allows complex searches across multiple categories or simple browsing within any single category, such as genre, composer, librettist, premiere date, country, oratorio subject or theater. The database is linked to…
