…ill make you feel at ease. The rooms are living-room size not museum size, giving one a feeling of what it is to live with art. Museums are usually places for art to be seen. This museum feels like a place for art to live in. A lady sitting on a bench next to me summed it well: “You know it’s a great museum when it makes you talk to strangers about paintings”. I concurred. We exchanged emails. To be continued. Follow Sylvie Leo…

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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…

A&E Digest: Student scholarships, fashion for a cause and more This week’s A&E news by Elizabeth Schwyzer / Palo Alto Weekly Twenty-seven student artists from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties have been awarded scholarships for by the Community School of Music and Arts. Photo courtesy of CSMA. This week, students win art scholarships, a film on feminist art screens at Stanford and international fashion designers sell their goods…

…ection is worth as much as one or even two of those neighboring estates. This is the home of people who not only live with art, they live for it, searching for “the best of the best,” as Harry Anderson puts it. Paintings by Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston in the foyer, Jackson Pollock in the dining room, Sam Francis and Morris Louis in the living room while the narrow hallway is lined with huge abstractions by Ellsworth Kelly, Ric…

…ther innovating through inventive carving, firing and glazing techniques coupled with allusions to race, gender, politics, digital media and the environment. For example, Linetzky explained, Ruais starts her large, wall-mounted starburst pieces with a quantity of clay equal to the weight of her body and pushes it outward to create a physical record of her gestures that is inextricable from the piece’s final contours, inherently insisting that the…

By Anna Koster For The Daily News Pushing boundaries has been the life work of Robert Irwin. His six-decade exploration of perception as the fundamental issue of art has expanded ideas of what art can be and can do. Irwin will speak about his work on March 10 at Stanford’s Cemex Auditorium. Irwin, born in 1928, in Long Beach, started as a painter in the 1950s with an abstract expressionist style, but quickly began removing all that was not…

…corporatism. Buying and selling contemporary painting and sculpture had not become the spectator sport they are today, dominated by international collectors forged in the expansive contemporary art market that erupted in the 1980s. At Stanford, a fixed, free-standing collection that will not grow, housed in a dedicated university building, frames the distinction. The most recent work on view is “Full Time,” a 2003 canvas by Bay Area…

A new exhibition at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University – Nick Cave – challenges the boundaries between multiple artistic and creative disciplines. BY ROBIN WANDER When the exhibition Nick Cave opens at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, visitors will encounter the intersection of visual art and performance in a collection of Cave’s Soundsuits, videos and a documentary film. The exhibition opens Sept. 14 and runs…

The donation by the late Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson comes as the museum commemorates its fifth anniversary and launches a new fundraising effort. BY BETH GIUDICESSI To mark its fifth anniversary, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University was gifted two major works of art, Jackson Pollock’s 1944 Totem Lesson 1 and Willem de Kooning’s c. 1949 Gansevoort Street, by its eponymous supporter Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson. Anderson donate…

…e programs will be announced throughout the academic year, including student engagements and a panel discussion. Updates will be available at anderson.stanford.edu and by email newsletter. Eamon Ore-Giron. Infinite Regress CXIX, 2020. Flashe on linen. 102 x 84 in. Those interested are invited to learn more about Ore-Giron and his work by attending a virtual conversation between the artist and Diana Nawi, co-artistic director of Prospect.5, the Ne…

…in the presence of the original,” Harry W. Anderson once said. ‘It affects the brain, taste, feelings and more.’ Today, the Anderson Collection at Stanford has been seen free of charge by more than 250,000 visitors. Like characters out of a John Cheever or John Updike novel Harry W. Anderson (“Hunk”), his wife Mary Margaret Anderson (“Moo”) and their daughter Mary Patricia Anderson Pence (“Putter”) could have led post-World War Two lives of subur…

…ags where, she explained to me, federal and state recognized Native American territories exist, and where people live in allotments assigned by the Government. The Crow people don’t have a word in their language for allotment. Whenever they want to speak of another’s allotment, they just say “their land,” Red Star’s father had told her. It was the vagueness of the term that clashed strongly against the West’s obsession with private property…