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The third annual Frost Music and Arts Festival took place on Saturday, May 17. On stage, campus-based mash-up Paper Void joined psychedelic pop band Yeasayer as opening acts for the indie group Dispatch. The festival took place in mid-quarter 2014—right in the middle of exams and papers. But the experience was an afternoon out of…
Stanford Dance Division breaks new ground with ‘Construction Site’
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…
Stanford Live and Stanford Repertory Theater ramp up for summer
This spring, Stanford Repertory Theater collaborated with Stanford Theater and Performance Studies and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society to produce J.B. Priestley’s classic British thriller, An Inspector Calls. The play serves as both the closing production to the TAPS 2014 season and the capstone event for the Ethics in Society Ethics Of…
Stanford showcases Carleton Watkins’ landscape photographs of the American West
For the fantasy dinner party that one would plan in celebration of Carleton Watkins’ exhibition at Cantor Arts Center, you would start with Watkins at the head of the table. Add special guests President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Yosemite Valley Grant Act in 1864 based on Watkins’ photographs; Leland Stanford, who was governor of…
Contemporary artwork in spotlight at Stanford’s engineering, science buildings
DeWitt Cheng, a 1971 Stanford alumnus, recently took over the Stanford Art Spaces program, which has been in existence nearly 30 years. He sat down with Stanford Report to talk about the history and future of the program and how he thinks about artwork in non-traditional exhibition spaces. How did Stanford Art Spaces come to…
Haydn, Burney, England, and The Creation
On May 24, Dr. Robert Huw Morgan will conduct the University Singers and the Memorial Church Choir in a performance of Haydn’s Creation in Bing Concert Hall. This post highlights two important items in the Memorial Library of Music related to the work: a letter written by Haydn to his English friend Dr. Charles Burney…
Construction Site locations and approximate schedule for May 27
7 p.m. Breathe Life in the Telling Site: Bing Concert Hall patio and atrium Choreography: Manuelito Biag Music: Said and Done by Nils Frahm Musician: Nils Frahm Dancers: Amy Chen, Sonya Erlandson, Rosemary Le, Tyler Rivlin, Abby Thien-Ly, Nicola Ulibarri 7:25 p.m. Daughter Gone Site: Harmony House interior and exterior Choreography: Robert Moses and the…
Paper Void, Yeasayer open for veteran indie band Dispatch at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater
The third annual Frost Music and Arts Festival this Saturday, May 17, features three bands, a fleet of food trucks and several art installations created in Michael Sturtz’s d.school class specifically for the festival. The musical lineup at Frost Amphitheater starts with campus-local Paper Void, followed by Yeasayer and finally Dispatch. Tickets are on sale…
Seniors
On April 23 the senior class put on the second annual Senior Arts Gala in Bing Concert Hall. This new Stanford tradition is a great occasion. The students get a chance to celebrate their time at Stanford, take a step into the next phase of their lives (with a very sophisticated cocktail party)—and enjoy the…
Stanford inaugurates new academic arts program in Washington, D.C.
After meeting Kale Futterman, an arts practice major at Stanford, the chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entrusted her with an important task – writing short art history essays, known as “wall text,” to mount next to some of the gallery’s paintings. Futterman created wall text for artists ranging from…
Stanford alumnus Josh Haner wins Pulitzer Prize for photography
Josh Haner ’02, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, almost didn’t accept the assignment that would ultimately earn him that prize. In fact, the first time he was offered the assignment, he politely declined. Haner was at The New York Times’ offices, where he was a photographer, celebrating with one of his…
Stanford photography instructor Robert Dawson named Guggenheim Fellow
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named three Stanford faculty members Guggenheim Fellows: ROBERT DAWSON for photography, JONATHAN LEVIN for economics and MONIKA PIAZZESI for economics. “It’s exciting to name 178 new Guggenheim Fellows,” Edward Hirsch, foundation president, said in a press release. “These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of…
Cantor Arts Center presents an exhibition in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant
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…
Rodin’s hand sculptures diagnosed as part of exhibit
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…
Stanford exhibit spotlights medieval ‘world of words’
Open a book, and you discover a whole new world – especially if that book is several centuries old. That is the case with The Circle of the Sun, a new Stanford University Libraries exhibit on display through June 14 in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda of Green Library. It features the secular works…
