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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…
Robert Henke, 2013 Mohr Visiting Artist
At Stanford: Spring Quarter 2013 Hosted at Stanford by: Department of Music The Stanford University Department of Music is pleased to host Berlin based artist Robert Henke during the spring 2013 term as the second Mohr Visiting Artist. Henke’s residency is part of the Mohr Visiting Artist Program, administered by the Stanford Arts Institute, which brings acclaimed and…
New building, new faculty demonstrate ambitious growth plans for Stanford’s Department of Art and Art History
Earlier this month, during their final meeting of the academic year, the Stanford Board of Trustees moved two significant building projects forward: the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and the McMurtry Building for the Department of Art and Art History. Ennead Architects’ renderings of the building to house the Anderson Collection of post-World War II American art…
Stanford’s Apostolidès teaches his gender studies/French film class for the last time
With a periodic table on the wall and an eyewash faucet next to the door, it’s clear that the William D. Hewitt amphitheater is intended for science. But twice a week during the spring quarter, French Professor Jean-Marie Apostolidès has introduced students to a decidedly different type of experimentation. Instead of beakers and data tables,…
Anderson Collection at Stanford University to be displayed in an elegant new home
The Anderson Collection at Stanford University has reached another on-schedule milestone in the trek toward beginning construction this summer and opening its doors in 2014. The Stanford Board of Trustees approved Ennead Architects‘ building design at their meeting this week. The Anderson Collection is one of the largest and most outstanding private collections of post-World War…
Anderson Collection at Stanford University to be displayed in an elegant new home
The Anderson Collection at Stanford University has reached another on-schedule milestone in the trek toward beginning construction this summer and opening its doors in 2014. The Stanford Board of Trustees approved Ennead Architects‘ building design at their meeting this week. The Anderson Collection is one of the largest and most outstanding private collections of post-World War…
Stanford anthropology team prepares fractured, historic objects for art gallery debut
Stanford students taking Barbara Voss’ anthropology classes have been sifting through San Jose’s 19th century Market Street Chinatown remains for years, but the thousands of artifacts that have been excavated have never been on view to the public, until now. A selection of 60 artifacts has been assembled to create City Beneath The City at…
Stanford Dancers Take DC
Twilight Composite has truly been the little engine that could. When we began the rehearsal process for Diane Frank’s new dance work last September, neither I nor the six other student dancers could imagine the unbelievable adventure that it would take us on. We expected our one and only performance of the work to be…
Stanford Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet brings the feuding families of Verona together for a eulogy
The idea of a family feud forever was never truer than in the presentation of Romeo and Juliet by the Stanford Shakespeare Company tonight through Sunday, May 23-27. The company adds new life and longevity to the familiar Montague vs. Capulet tragedy by staging the play as an evocation of the spirits of the doomed lovers by the two…
A Stanford event: How the arts contribute to the Occupy movement
The word “occupy” was on several short lists for word of the year after the Occupy Wall Street protest launched in New York City’s Zuccotti Park last fall. The word was certainly on the minds of H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, Tania Mitchell, Ramón Saldívar and José Davíd Saldívar when they developed an entire course…
Stanford’s distinguished outdoor art collection is on view 365 days a year
Viewing art is a personal thing. Some like labels, some don’t. Some want the backstory, some want to be surprised. To be led, or not to be led? That is often the question, and for those who appreciate knowledgeable insight and conversation while viewing art, the answer is to be led. The next several months promise…
Renowned Stegner Fellowship program announces 2012-2014 fellows
Known as the “Dean of Western Writers,” acclaimed author Wallace Stegner dedicated his life not only to writing, but also to helping other writers develop their craft. In an effort to address a dearth of formal creative writing instruction, Stegner founded the Creative Writing Program and the Stegner Writing Fellowships during his tenure at Stanford. Established in…
