…est examples by the most noteworthy artists available, and had the good fortune — and foresight — to purchase stellar works by artists working in the Abstract Expressionist movement before prices became prohibitive. Their collection grew, filled their ranch house in Atherton and then became part of the Saga Food headquarters (now Quadrus) on Sand Hill Road; Hunk was a co-founder. Along the way, Hunk and Moo were always intent on shari…

Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson didn’t know much about art – they’d dabbled in antiques – before they first visited Paris in 1964 and made their way into the Louvre. “We became so enamored with the visual experience that on the way home, we looked at each other and said, ‘How could all this have been going on and we not have been a part of it?’ ” said Harry “Hunk” Anderson. The muse…

…student; Yinshi Lerman-Tan, a graduate student in art history; Audrey Shafer, MD, a professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine and director of the Medicine and the Muse Program in medical humanities; Sam Rodriguez, MD, a clinical instructor in anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine; and Issa Lampe, curator of education at the Cantor Center. Shafer and Rodriguez are the course directors Braverman and Lerman-Tan said the…

…reports from previous installations of Cardiff’s “masterwork,” can move the listener to tears. The installation, organized by SFMOMA and on loan from local video and media art collectors, will occupy a historic space at Fort Mason Center with its ghostly voices. Each speaker projects the voice of one member of the Salisbury Cathedral Choir performing a 16th century choral composition Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui, which translates as “In No Other i…

…aving an “art moment”. The Anderson Collection is special for many reasons. The collection is deeply personal. It was assembled by a family, not a museum curator or art consultant. It represents the personal choices and tastes of a family, and a love relationship that spanned over 50 years. They cherished every artwork equally as a family member. In fact, they grew so close to the art they lived with that when it moved to Stanford, th…

…rd’s name etched on the spike’s golden surface, Red Star’s spike shows the Crow inscription “You are without relatives,” used mostly as an insult to remind people that without community, we are nothing— a truth that, in Wendy’s eyes, colonial expansion tried to erase. On a deeper level, Red Star’s exhibition revisits a page of the history of Stanford’s campus that has been subsumed into obscurity. Leland Stanford was one o…

A new solo exhibition of works by Sam Francis at the Anderson Collection celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth and highlights his multifaceted connection to the Palo Alto community and the Anderson family. On view through March 3, 2024, this intimate presentation of works in the Wisch Family Gallery is anchored by two large-scale paintings from the museum’s permanent collection, Red in Red (1955), an early work created while…

…e Summer Solstice, the group of scientists and technicians from the McMurdo research station participated in the performance act rounding off the work. The group paced in the Fibonacci spiral, otherwise divine proportion or Golden ratio, in the snow among the spheres. The spiral trace outlined by human feet symbolised that we are “vessels of information” and part of the universal. Performance directed by Lita Albuquerque on the day of summe…

Collectors Harry “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson made their fortune from Mr. Anderson’s Saga Foods, supplying food to universities and other institutions. But these days, they’re providing Stanford University with a lot more than lunch. Last weekend, Stanford unveiled a 33,500-square-foot building to house the Anderson Collection, 121 contemporary artworks donated by the Andersons, including major artw…

Meet Manuel Neri’s Muses ‘Assertion of the Figure’ highlights the models behind the sculpture September 27, 2017 Jeffrey Edalatpour A subject study, ‘Joan Brown with Neri Sculpture I,’ one of the Manuel Neri sketches on display at Stanford’s Anderson Collection. Manuel Neri’s muses are equal partners in Assertion of the Figure, an exhibit of the Bay Area artist’s work at Stanford’s Anders…

Kiyan Williams is not afraid to get dirty in quite literal ways. From a performance in which they emerged from a trash bag beside a New York City dumpster (Trash and Treasure [2014]) to a sculpture of uplifted, zombie-esque arms made from soil and installed without permission on the riverbank of a colonial-era slave dock site (Reaching Towards Warmer Suns [2020]), their art places them in intimate relation with the abject and the taboo so as to…

…part of a carved foam sculpture where it pierces a buffalo skull. It is inscribed with the Crow insult “You are without relatives,” but more closely means that an individual is nothing without family or community, Red Star explained, adding “It’s the opposite of capitalism and what these [railroad] benefactors were trying to do.” Railroad lines hold personal meaning for Red Star, who grew up on the Apsáalooke reservation in Montana. “On my reser…