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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…
The Golden Gate is returning to Stanford May 30
The homecoming is long overdue: The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth’s 1986 novel-in-verse, was born among Stanford’s sandstone buildings and palm trees. Now the Bay Area will have a chance to hear highlights of composer Conrad Cummings’ opera of the novel. A multimedia presentation at the new Bing Concert Hall Studio at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, will include readings of…
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Stanford visiting artist Robert Henke to perform a ‘musical machine’
Digital musician Robert Henke is building a musical performance without performers. Seated in a thick darkness, the audience will be surrounded by morphing and transforming sounds unlike anything typically heard in a concert hall. This Thursday and Friday Henke will present Stanford Dust at Bing Concert Hall Studio as the culmination of his time as Stanford’s 2013 Mohr Visiting Artist. Henke relates the show’s…
Wit and Wordplay Take Center Stage in StanShakes’ Love’s Labour’s Lost
Performing the show at an actual fraternity house aligns with StanShakes’ history of presenting high-quality, free Shakespeare shows in uniquely Stanford locations. Past locations have included the old Terman fountain, the Cantor Arts Center, and the oak tree amphitheater outside Huang Engineering. This week only, through the generous support of ASSU Special Fees and a…
SCIT presents Euripides’ Cyclops
Otis and Us of Ithaca, New York, are like any old band touring the Williamsburg circuit. They’re tearing up stages, bagging chicks, and rolling their own fair-trade tobacco cigarettes all while keeping to a strict locavore, vegan, paleo-diet. Worn and exhausted from their most recent conquests at Coachella, the merry band of brooding hipsters gets…
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…
SLSQ Chamber Music Seminar 2013
The St. Lawrence String Quartet is pleased to host the Chamber Music Seminar, 2013, with 67 musicians making up 17 groups, including trios, quartets, a quintet, and a string sextet. The presentation of five concerts at the new Bing Concert Hall this year will be an exciting new development for the seminar series. Students will…
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Pigott Theater
Leanna Keyes: Dead Man’s Cell Phone (DMCP) ponders issues of technology and connectivity. At this particular historical juncture, it seems people are never more than a text message away, and the idea of not having a cell phone at all is inconceivable. How does Stanford’s position within Silicon Valley and start-up culture affect your approach to the play? Isaiah…
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…
Stanford visiting artist Ann Carlson creates a performance piece made entirely of gestures
Ann Carlson has been animating the Stanford campus, sometimes with silence, sometimes with stillness, for over a year as a visiting artist in dance and performance with the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. Carlson’s work mines the ephemeral and the commonplace toward extraordinary results. Her upcoming project, commissioned by the Stanford Arts Institute, is…
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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…
