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The new school year has started – and started with a bang!On Sept. 21 the Anderson Collection at Stanford University officially opened its doors, following a week of celebratory events. Over 3,000 visitors enjoyed this amazing new campus resource during the opening weekend. And then the next day classes started – and Professor Pamela Lee’s Abstract Expressionism seminar held its first session in the Anderson Collection…
Read MoreJason Linetzky named first director of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University
The longtime manager of the Anderson family's extensive private collection will shepherd the core of the collection from its current residential home to a new university home in the developing arts district.Jason Linetzky has spent the better part of his 20-year career working with one of the world’s most coveted private collections of 20th-century American art: the Anderson Collection. The collection was built over the last 50 years by Bay Area residents Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and by their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.…
Read MoreStanford art history graduate students will take a hands-on approach thanks to Mellon Grant
The Cantor Arts Center and the Department of Art and Art History forge a partnership to rethink the relationship between objects and academic study.For an art lover, there is nothing quite like standing in front of a work of art. There’s the scale of the work, the texture of the paint, and the visceral emotional reaction that can only come through experience. For the museum curator, handling these objects – reading the artist’s scribbles on the back of…
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