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Richard Misrach lecture on 
Monday, May 13 at 6 pm at Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building

Artist Richard Misrach will be at Annenberg Auditorium on Monday to talk about his photography and the Cantor exhibition Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley. Misrach, one of the most influential photographers of his generation, helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation. For 40 years he has documented modern industry’s impact…
Art And History: Treasures From The Hoover Library And Archives
The Hoover Institution’s new exhibition, Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives, runs from April 23 to December 20, 2013, in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion (next to Hoover Tower) on the Stanford University campus. Drawing on the extensive holdings of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, this exhibition showcases the…
Rapper Future performs at Stanford’s Blackfest
Blackfest is back with Future. The annual spring concert sponsored by the Black Family Gathering Committee and the Black Community Services Center will feature headliner Future as well as local rappers, Greek organizations and campus dance groups. The event takes place this year at Levin Field on Saturday, May 4, beginning at 2 p.m. and is free for all….
Captivated by Sea Creatures
When he was in first grade, Daniel Wong was obsessed with cephalopods, a class of marine animals that includes squids and octopuses. He would fill pages of his writing journal with an enormous list of all the animals he knew according to the oceanic zone they occupy. Wong, now a senior majoring in studio art…
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Stanford scholar Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer Prize in fiction
Adam Johnson, an associate professor of English at Stanford, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Orphan Master’s Son, his novel set in North Korea. The Pulitzer committee called the book “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate…
‘Learning play’ pushes Stanford scholars and actors to explore the contradictions of capitalism
The Stanford Summer Theater production of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Exception and the Rule is a uniquely Stanford affair: a classics student is acting in it, a music student wrote the score and a drama professor is the director. The multidisciplinary academic involvement is particularly fitting, since the show is one of the German playwright’s “learning plays,”…
Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center partners with the Google Art Project, an international online art gallery
Nothing compares to seeing a work of art in person, but there might also be nothing compared to examining a high- resolution image of a work of art that reveals details not visible to the naked eye – at least a naked eye viewing from behind a velvet rope or through protective Plexiglas. The closer-than-you-can-get-in-person…
First Night, Twelfth Night
Earlier this week the Stanford community commemorated the 75th anniversary of Memorial Auditorium with a performance in Pigott Theater of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which was the first-night production on August 20, 1937, in what was then called Memorial Hall. We can thank the plumbers for bringing Twelfth Night back to MemAud. To quote from the evening’s program, “it…
Stanford Department of Music partners with San Francisco World Music Festival to present a course on Azerbaijani music
This spring the Stanford Department of Music in partnership with the San Francisco World Music Festival is offering an innovative music course titled Music and Culture from the Land of Fire: Introduction to Azerbaijani Mugham, taught by the festival’s Global Music Director and Azerbaijani kamancha virtuoso Imamyar Hasanov and Azerbaijani music specialist Krystal Barghelame, BA…
Art in the Metropolis
“Art in the Metropolis” is a sophomore seminar  offered in conjunction with the annual “Arts Immersion” trip to New York that takes place over spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute.  The trip, now in its fourth year, provides a group of students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cultural…
Stanford exhibit of San Jose’s lost Chinatown brings archaeology out of the laboratory
Visitors to the Stanford Archaeology Center find modern glass cases filled with fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs, buttons and leather shoes, ceramic bowls and soup spoons. These are the remnants of the once thriving Chinatown community in downtown San José. Today, these archaeological findings populate City Beneath the City, an art installation designed by…
Ram’s Head Theatrical Society Presents Spring Awakening: A New Musical
Book + Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play about the trials and tribulations, and the exhilaration of the teen years. Spring Awakening takes its inspiration from one of literature’s most controversial masterpieces…
End-of-year Frost Music and Arts Festival features MGMT, Delorean and Kuroma
Following on the success of last year’s spring Revival concert that put the one-time sleepy Frost Amphitheater back on the music map, the Stanford Concert Network is presenting another crowd-pleasing lineup May 18 at the Frost Music and Arts Festival. Headliner MGMT will wrap up its national spring tour on the Farm, joined by openers…
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TEDxStanford 2013, set to the beat of breakthrough innovation [Sold Out]
TEDxStanford returns to campus on Saturday, May 11. Tickets are already sold out.TEDxStanford will be streaming live. Sign up here. Free.  This year’s theme, “Break Through,” brings a cutting-edge cast of speakers from laboratories and classrooms across the campus. Cliff Nass, the communications researcher, will, for example, talk about technology addiction and tween-age girls. Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, a…
Visitations: Theotokia and The War Reporter, chamber operas by Jonathan Berger, and Landfall, a collaboration between Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet
Only a few months after the official opening, Bing Concert Hall has revealed itself to be a masterpiece of organic design ideally suited to intimate, classical performance in a modern setting. At the same time, the space encourages creative exploration and is able to support cutting-edge technology in a way that refocuses the timeless dialogue between…
Know They Can Dance
Ballerina Jenny Koenig, ’13, speaks the sentiment of many when she says belonging to a student-run dance company “has become a fellowship and a sanctuary where my problem sets, papers and midterms cannot invade.” All kinds of dancers—whether premed major/dance minors who have been training since they were 4 or engineers who have newly discovered swing—kick…
