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Scene in Action
Director’s NotesI had a revelation about the performance Scene in Action a few weeks ago. My original vision was to bring undergraduate students into two incredible spaces – the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection – to develop a kinesthetic, spatial and intellectual dialogue with the art. After all, Robert Frank was a contemporary of…
Read MoreImagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science series launches with words
Spotlight on the book: Cosmicomics, Life on Mars, A Place Among the StarsOCT. 27 – Out of this world: Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics Author Italo Calvino’s whimsical view of the universe will be explored at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27 at Stanford Humanities Center as part of Stanford’s “Another Look” book club and in conjunction with the series Imagining the Universe. Acclaimed author Robert Pogue Harrison, professor of…
Read MoreWindhover contemplation center now open
Stanford community daily hours are 11a.m to 11 p.m. with an I.D. card.When visitors walk into Windhover, the first painting they’ll see is Big Red, a large abstract oil painting of a kestrel flying in a red sky, a work that artist Nathan Oliveira returned to again and again over the 25 years it stood in his studio. Oliveira, who died in 2010, was an internationally acclaimed…
Read MoreDocumentaries by Stanford affiliates to show at international film festival
The 17th United Nations Association Film Festival, an international feast of documentaries, will run Oct. 16-26 at various locations on Stanford’s campus and at other local venues. The theme of this year’s festival is “Bridging the Gap,” and films include a range of settings from Syria to Stockton. Topics run the gamut from dance and…
Read MoreStanford students learn to build their own bikes
One of the most popular courses run by the Product Realization Lab, ME 204 teaches students how to build bicycles, but also patience and project management.In the summer of 2001, Ryan Connolly wanted to build a bicycle from scratch. Connolly, a master’s student majoring in manufacturing systems engineering, had met a master frame builder in Palo Alto and convinced him to come to the Product Realization Lab (PRL) and share his knowledge. That fall quarter, Connolly learned to design and…
Read MoreDetermined students overcome challenges and breathe new life into a classic musical
With 'My Fair Lady,' Stanford's Asian American Theater Project tackles race and social class in the first student-produced musical theater production in Bing Concert Hall.
Reimaging Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins as part of the British Asian immigrant community in early 20th century London was the first of several challenges for Ken Savage, ’14, and Asia Chiao, ’15, two students who don’t take no for an answer. It was fall 2012 when they agreed to join forces and stage My…
Read MoreUltimate Stanford Bing Concert Hall souvenir: limited edition ukuleles made from stage floorboards
Stanford music Professor Stephen Sano salvaged Alaskan yellow cedar scraps from the concert hall construction site and commissioned twin ukuleles.
The idea started with a gift. For music Professor Stephen Sano’s 17th wedding anniversary in 2012, his wife found a ukulele at a local shop, Gryphon Stringed Instruments, with a top made from a piece of discarded fence found on the Stanford campus. From ugly duckling to swan, the old piece of weathered California redwood…
Read MoreGroundbreakers in fashion industry share insights at Stanford
Stanford Arts Institute hosts "Fashion at Stanford," four conversations between fashion critic Cathy Horyn and forward-thinking industry insiders. Speakers include Ron Johnson, Annie Leibovitz, Pascal Dangin, Antoine Arnault and Alexander Wang.
Fall fashion at Stanford is not just cardinal-red hoodies and bike-friendly skinny jeans. On Dec. 2, “fall fashion” at Stanford may very well refer to the first of four conversations surrounding the fashion industry with New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn and a collection of forward thinking-insiders: Ron Johnson, Annie Leibovitz, Pascal Dangin, Antoine…
Read MoreSTANFORD TAPS PRESENTS MARTIN CRIMP’S ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE
Professors Leslie Hill and Helen Paris lead students on a curious and provocative exploration of 21st-century obsessionsStanford Department of Theater & Performance Studies (TAPS) open its 2013-14 performance season with British playwright Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life, a production featuring dance, song and projection. TAPS performance-making professors Leslie Hill and Helen Paris direct. Attempts presents 17 scenarios for the theater, shocking and hilarious by turn, on a roller coaster of…
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 Live’s Executive Director Wiley Hausam looks forward to 2013-14 and beyond
Success and lessons from the inaugural season in Bing Concert Hall inform plans for the coming year.Wiley Hausam came to Stanford in 2012 as the executive director of Bing Concert Hall with a healthy performing arts portfolio under his arm. He was a Broadway producer, a presenter of classical theater and musicals, and the former executive director of two university performing arts centers where he excelled at developing younger audiences with…
Read MoreStanford Arts Institute funds student works
An exhibit of vinyl prints in the Cummings Art Building lobby, a Toyon performance of a student composition for violin and viola, the Cantor Arts Center’s annual Party on the Edge– all owe their existence to student arts grants given out quarterly through the Stanford Arts Institute. This winter, 76 students submitted applications for grants,…
Read MoreGe Wang to receive the Champion of the Arts Award
Cantabile's annual award recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to the promotion of music in Silicon Valley.Another member of the Stanford community is the recipient of Cantabile’s Champion of the Arts Award for the second consecutive year. Ge Wang of Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and co-founder of Smule, will add this new title to the many awards and accolades he has already received for his…
Read MoreIn a series of gatherings, Stanford discusses the ethics of wealth
Spread across the school year, a series of talks, readings, films and performances organized by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society will explore the relationship between money and humanity.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…
Read MoreIt’s all about the space at Stanford’s design school
Stanford's d.school space is the stage for creative collaboration. A new book by two of its leaders provides direction for design spaces elsewhere.The spaces within Stanford’s popular d.school are as creative as the furniture and fixtures are inventive, and every aspect of the space impacts behavior. In his foreword for Make Space, David Kelley, the founder of the design school as well as the design firm IDEO, writes, “Regardless of whether it’s a classroom or the offices…
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