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Alexander Nemerov and Richard Meyer Join the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University
Stanford University is pleased to announce the appointment on August 1, 2012, of two distinguished scholar-teachers as professors of art history in the Department of Art & Art History: Alexander Nemerov and Richard Meyer. The arrival of Nemerov and Meyer reinforces Stanford’s preeminent leadership in American art and further enhances the excellence of the department. Nemerov…
Stanford Arts looking ahead to 2016, the 125th anniversary of the opening of Stanford University
In a recent issue of Stanford magazine, Stanford President John Hennessy wrote about the many ways that The Stanford Challenge has been transforming the university through increased financial aid, interdisciplinary graduate fellowships, professorships and new facilities. He wrote that the Stanford Challenge, which concluded in December 2011 after raising $6.2 billion, was the most successful campaign in U.S. higher-education…
Pianos everywhere
Have you played a piano recently? If you are on the Stanford campus, there is no excuse not to be practicing your Chopin or plunking out Chopsticks year-round, because there are more than 200 acoustic pianos on campus and more than half of them are found outside of the classroom, ready to be played. Stanford…
Excavating an Echo
The Byzantine Empire was married to water. Jutting out at the tip of a peninsula, ancient Constantinople was embraced by the Bosporus Sea on one side and the Marmara Sea on the other. And at its heart, the magnificent Hagia Sophia. At once a bulwark against the sea and an apotheosis of its marvels, the basilica…
Stanford’s ‘Another Look’ to discuss the best books you’ve never read
Book clubs have proliferated across the United States, though most stick to middle-of-the-road bestsellers. Once in a while, however, you run across an off-the-beaten-track book you may not know about, praised by a leading literary figure. Where do you go to talk about this unfamiliar, top-notch fare? Look no further. Stanford is allowing readers to…
Robert Whitman: Local Report 2012
Local Report 2012 was an international media and telecommunications work in which Robert Whitman used live video and audio reports from approximately ninety participants around the world. Whitman used these reports to create a live sound and video performance, composing what he calls “a cultural map of the world.” Local Report 2012 was the latest…
In a series of gatherings, Stanford discusses the ethics of wealth
With all the things that money can buy comes a slew of ethical and moral dilemmas. To name a few: Does wealth make people happy? Are large wealth inequalities damaging to a democracy? What are the moral obligations of the wealthy to those in need? Throughout the 2012-13 academic year scholars from an array of…
Remarks by Alex Nemerov at Anderson Collection Groundbreaking
Professor Alex Nemerov speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, which took place on October 9th, 2012. The Anderson Collection is one of the largest and most outstanding private collections of post-World War II American art in the world. The collection has been built over the last 50 years by…
Remarks by Provost John Etchemendy at Anderson Collection Groundbreaking
Good afternoon and welcome. For those of you I haven’t had a chance to meet, I am John Etchemendy, Stanford provost. It is my honor to welcome everyone to this groundbreaking ceremony for the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. We are delighted that Hunk, Moo and Putter are here to help us mark the occasion….
Remarks by Roberta Denning at Anderson Collection Groundbreaking
Throughout the world, a groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of an important construction project. Our ritual turning of the sod will occur a little later this afternoon. But given the nature of today’s occasion—the beginning of the building that will house the Anderson Collection at Stanford University—any reference to groundbreaking is closer in meaning to…
Dance all day? Arts boot camp energizes Stanford students and staff
Last April, 240 Stanford students willingly filled out applications to shorten the length of their summer vacation. The reason? Arts Intensive – the opportunity to spend two and a half weeks with a select group of fellow students immersed in an arts seminar before the start of fall quarter. Dedicating time to focus on a…
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes
The inside of an MRI machine might not seem like the best place to cozy up and concentrate on a good novel, but a team of researchers at Stanford are asking readers to do just that. In an innovative interdisciplinary study, neurobiological experts, radiologists and humanities scholars are working together to explore the relationship between…
Miwok, Stanford’s monumental outdoor sculpture by di Suvero, moves to a new home
Moving art can get complicated very quickly. Frames aren’t always stable, wires fray, pastels and old paint don’t like movement. Sculptural elements become loose or detached, doorways and halls that were adequately high and wide when moving a piece in are inexplicably smaller when moving out. Large-scale outdoor sculpture often takes complicated to a whole…
Design and mechanical engineering share a seat in Stanford’s Product Realization Lab
The signs on the chairs read, “Please do not sit,” but these chairs were in fact designed for sitting – or reclining, in one case. A selection of seven seats of distinction, products of the Stanford spring course ARTSTUDI 262, “The Chair,” are currently on view in Cummings Art Building. The temptation, of course, is…
A comedy set in an Indian restaurant in NYC opens Stanford summer film series
With its summer film series Feast to Famine: Global Politics of Food and Water, Stanford University will host screenings and discussions about the culture and politics of the world’s two most important commodities. The principal characters of the film series, which includes one drama, two comedies and three documentaries, are a chef in an Indian family…
Stanford professor leads exploration of the work of actor, playwright Sam Shepard
It’s as if Sam Shepard could see the Occupy movement coming 36 years ago when he wroteCurse of the Starving Class. His characters, who might identify as the 99 percent today, imagine that the future belongs to them if they borrow or go in debt or buy land or speculate, only to find that the…
