…for the Lost presents portraits painted by Christopher Harrison, imagining what formerly enslaved people “lost” after the Civil War looked like (now through February 16, 2025). 2. Sidney and Losi Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University How to visit: Free. Open noon–5 p.m. daily, except Monday. Café and gift shop opens at 8 a.m. weekdays. Opened in 1982, this modernist building was designed by I.M. Pei, with a focus on geometry, as in his…

…space for 25 artists. “Ribosome Metamorphosis,” by chemist-turned-artist Michal Gavish (2016). She’s one of the artists who’s benefited from Palo Alto’s city-sponsored, affordable studio space. (Photo: Courtesy of Michal Gavish) “Artists and arts groups can be considered here an endangered species,” says Rhyena Halpern, who oversees the city’s public investment in the arts as assistant director of Palo Alto’s Community Services Department. “Bec…

…Collection and the Cantor are always free, so it’s one of our Cheap Thrills this week.   Sept 16 & 17: Angelica’s in Redwood City is a kind of throwback, a supper club where you can go for dinner and a show. With help from Redwood City, they’re trying something ambitious these next two days in celebration of Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16), a Mariachi Festival with Coro Redes Y Cantos de Chapala, a chorus of men and women from Jalis…

…elebration of the Anderson Collection on Sept. 20. As always, she played down her own importance. “It was always a capital A for Art and a small a for Anderson,” Linetzky said. “She was humble, generous, kind and witty.” Survivors include daughter Putter Pence and and granddaughter Devin Pence, both of Los Angeles. A memorial Mass will be private. Donations in Moo Anderson’s name may be made to St. Francis Center, 151 Buckingham Ave., Redwood Cit…

…One of their exhibits, “Reaching Towards Warmer Suns,” is currently being featured at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University from Jul. 29 to Dec. 5. Williams has also created numerous other works of art, such as “Pig Roast,” inspired by police violence toward Black people. They previously worked at Virginia Commonwealth University and served as a fellow with New York University. Their art will be exhibited in New York City this coming…

…ecause of their reparative capacity; for example, some fungi can be used to clean soil contaminated by oil. It’s a way to think about remediating lands and bodies haunted by colonial violence. Kiyan Williams: Reaching Towards Warming Climes is on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University until December 5; Williams’s work can also be seen in the group exhibition How to Cook a Wolf at the Center for Books Arts in New York City until D…

…design of a contemplation space.  The installation encourages introspection and pause for students, passers-by, and visitors to the Anderson Collection.  The progression of arches provides a spatial transition from the campus into a more enclosed cocoon-like space that orients towards the sky. The course is a cross-disciplinary collaboration including students from Architecture, Structural Engineering, Product Design, and Civil Engineering.  Stu…

The culminating project for the design-build seminar Responsive Structures is a 23-foot-high outdoor contemplation space installed in front of the Anderson Collection. Made of wood salvaged from a California wildfire, the structure is a testament to harmonious coexistence and the transformative power of design. Uni-no-Ki , or Tree Urchin, is open to the public through May 31, and small-scale process models built by students are on display in th…

…and staircase ascending to the main gallery spaces—airy, open, graced with natural light—and their cornucopia of art. When the collection opens on September 21, visitors can experience 121 major works—paintings and sculptures—by 86 modern and contemporary American artists, the magnificent gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. Designed by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, the 33,000-square…

…‘Black yo-yo’s on green hanging (Stevie).’ (Photo by Terry Lorant/OMCA) Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts Oakland Museum of California Sept. 12, 2015 – Feb. 21, 2016 OMCA starts the fall season with the work of five Bay Area female quilters, showing 20 quilts from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Seeking orderly patterns and demure fabrics in your textiles? This show is not for you. Working with full denim pant legs, v…

…lumbia University in New York to Rice University in Texas. They come on the heels of recently completed projects at Stanford in California, Harvard in Massachusetts and Yale in Connecticut. This multi-million-dollar investment in culture is fuelled by several factors: administrators’ recognition that the arts can promote nimble thinking, student demand and donor co-operation. “Stanford made this analysis that the arts and creativity were going to…

…than 10,000 visitors. Spencer Finch’s light sculpture Betelgeuse is suspended over Rodin’s iconic The Thinker at the Cantor  Arts Center. Photo: Cantor Arts Center For those new to purchasing art — or who simply want to view it and increase their exposure — smaller galleries can often be less intimidating. Earlier this year, Katharina Powers, an attorney who previously worked in finance, debuted Art Ventures Gallery in Menlo Park. A recentl…

The latest Dance Improv Strategies Lab taught students that performance can happen anywhere at anytime. It could be at a theater or dance hall, or a less traditional venue like a museum or even a city street. For their final project, students chose any area in or around the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and created a performance to work in tandem with the modern art museum….