Campus Stories - Posts
Can’t resist touching the art? These Stanford students scrub the ‘Gates of Hell’
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,…
Stanford filmmaker aims to reveal injustices of wrongful convictions
When Jamie Meltzer touches down in Dallas to film scenes for his upcoming documentary Freedom Fighters, he never quite knows what to expect. On one visit, he interviewed exoneree Johnnie Lindsey in his backyard at the break of dawn. “The sun was coming up and he just sat there listening to birds and trains and all…
My Three Weeks with the Workshop (Part 1 of 2)
I had the privilege of covering the 2013 Summer Jazz Workshop and Festival (SJW/F) for its duration – following the international cast of students, staff and faculty who make up the immersive three-week world of summer jazz camp at Stanford. The first two weeks of the Workshop (part one of my two-part SJW/F coverage) are…
My Three Weeks with the Workshop (Part 2 of 2)
I had the privilege of covering all programs that ran the last week of SJW/F’s concurrent weeks, Aug. 3-10. In that time, I attended concerts including Savion Glover and His Trio, Jazz Guitar Night with Julian Lage and Larry Koonse, Taylor Eigsti Quintet Featuring Julian Lage, Chris Potter and Larry Grenadier, the SJW All-Star Jam,…
Listening in on Tyler Brooks at the 2013 Stanford Jazz Festival
Omaha-native and Oakland-based guitarist Calvin Keys is the definition of a serious musician. Quiet, husky-voiced, and concealed behind dark auburn shades, Keys wore a steady, sagacious cool that warranted the opening line of Tuesday night’s program which frankly and endearingly read: “Calvin Keys doesn’t call a lot of attention to himself.” And true enough to…
Stanford Arts Institute to pilot new interdisciplinary honors program
The Stanford Arts Institute will pilot a new interdisciplinary honors program in the arts during the 2013-14 academic year, an initiative intended to appeal to arts and non-arts majors alike. Students admitted to the program will participate in small workshops throughout their senior year while working towards the completion of a capstone project that reflects…
Stanford Summer Theater Festival presents works by two great Irish dramatists and funnymen, Wilde and Beckett
Lynne Soffer knows what she likes when she sees it. Earlier this month, she was tinkering with the blocking of the third act of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and her directorial instincts were swiftly shaping the action on stage. The actors’ every step, gesture and inflection were quickly weighed and tweaked to her liking…
Cool learning tools to be showcased at Stanford Aug. 2
Sitting on a stool and staring intently at a laptop screen, Jim Huang plucked out the melody of Happy Birthday and the rock song Circuital on a guitar – an instrument he was playing for the first time during a recent visit to The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif. The seventh grader…
![[wpbb-if post:acf type="image" name="image" size="thumbnail" display="alt"]Among the items from the Allen Ginsberg Papers collection at Stanford are a pair of Ginsberg](https://arts.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Ginsberg-7-1-50x50.jpg)
Through photos and memorabilia, Stanford’s Allen Ginsberg collection captures a generation
Allen Ginsberg, the iconic figurehead of the Beat Generation, saved just about everything. Ginsberg’s vast array of memorabilia housed in the Stanford University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections proves that he was not just an observer of culture, but also a collector of culture. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s personal archivist, bibliographer and biographer, told a Stanford…
Hoover Library and Archives brings out its art to illustrate history
Archives are often pictured as rooms full of dusty books and documents – a place only for historians. The Hoover Institution is proving that theory wrong with its latest exhibit, Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives. Presenting history in all its many shades, the exhibit showcases a wide range of items from…
Stanford Live’s Executive Director Wiley Hausam looks forward to 2013-14 and beyond
Wiley Hausam came to Stanford in 2012 as the executive director of Bing Concert Hall with a healthy performing arts portfolio under his arm. He was a Broadway producer, a presenter of classical theater and musicals, and the former executive director of two university performing arts centers where he excelled at developing younger audiences with…
Hitting a high note with the Stanford Jazz Festival
The Stanford Jazz Festival kicked off its summer season a few weeks ago with piano great Herbie Hancock. This weekend’s headliners include drummer Allison Miller, singer Madeline Eastman, and Brazilian jazz with Trio da Paz. The director of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, Jim Nadel, joins us to talk about the festival’s upcoming acts and about…
![[wpbb-if post:acf type="image" name="image" size="thumbnail" display="alt"]Kay Kostopoulos and Marty Pistone in SST](https://arts.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kay-Kostopoulos-and-Marty-Pistone-in-SSTs-The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-1-50x50.jpg)
He’s Funny That Way: Oscar Wilde & Samuel Beckett
Stanford Summer Theater (SST) celebrates its fifteenth season with an explosion of comedy – comedy with a difference. We meet two great Irish dramatists, Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, in a festival featuring productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Happy Days. There is also a free Monday night film series on “apocalyptic comedy,”…
Cantor Arts Center’s French summer
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…
Paris is everywhere full of art, including the boulangeries
With its beautiful city parks, wide, open avenues and one of Europe’s most beautiful rivers, its no surprise that so many artists have called Paris home at one time or another. The Louvre, Centre Pompidou and Musée D’Orsay house some of the world’s greatest works of art, but you do not need to go to…
Matt Kahn, pioneer in design coursework and Stanford professor emeritus, dies
Stanford Professor Emeritus Matt Kahn died at his Stanford home on June 24. He was 85. Kahn was born on May 29, 1928, in New York City, the son of Jess and Julia Kahn. He studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where he met Lyda Weyl, his wife and partner in…
