American Progress: Wendy Red Star’s Exhibition at the Anderson Collection Lady Columbia floats from above, greeting museum visitors at the entrance to Wendy Red Star’s exhibition “American Progress” at Stanford’s Anderson Collection… June 21, 2022 By ALBERTO QUINTERO This story is among a series written by CCSRE’s 2022 Public Writing Fellows. If you have ever entered a pool or a bathtub, you have probably noti…

…designer of the Andersons’ California house, Paul Arnold, thought the couple might need a few pictures to enliven the walls and suggested9/8/2014 Hunk, Moo Anderson give modern art masterpieces to Stanford – SFGate http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Hunk-Moo-Anderson-give-modern-art-masterpieces-5740472.php 3/3 an American Impressionist painting titled “4th of July Parade in Walpole, New Hampshire” by Alfred Cornelius Howl…

…gh point had to be the opening of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, permanent access to a cache of defining postwar American artworks. Low: Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ triennial survey show ended in a ditch YBCA dug by delegating regional nonprofits to make its selections, which sometimes consisted of yet other, smaller collectives. MVP: Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, the couple whose gifts of otherwise un…

…ial 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 December 11. Louis Bury is the author of Exercises in Criticism (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015) and is Associate Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY. He contributes…

…, add facilities for teaching, study and art conservation, and create new public spaces and courtyards. The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, completed a $135 million renovation and reconfiguration of its three adjacent museum buildings in late 2012, a project designed by Ennead Architects, which also designed the new Stanford museum. Michigan State University opened the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing in 2012…

…ty and the public in a series of courses over the last week. Opening week of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University started with a media preview, followed by the building dedication, then a dinner for museum members and donors, capped by a members opening on Saturday and the public opening on Sunday that drew capacity crowds. Reserved time slots for the public opening were all spoken for as of Sunday morning, and the slots left open for w…

The end of the calendar year is a time for first and last chances at the Cantor Arts Center, and the opportunity to revisit favorite works across campus. Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70 opens at the Cantor on Saturday, Dec. 20, and runs through Mar. 16, 2015. In 1969, American artist Robert Rauschenberg was invited by the NASA Art Program to document the launch of Apollo 11, the…

…course directors Braverman and Lerman-Tan said the class is modeled on a program for medical students that they encountered as undergraduates at Yale. “We wanted to bring that experience to Stanford,” Braverman said, “and we ended up creating a class with a novel format: interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer teaching during the gallery portion of each session in the Cantor Center or Anderson Collection at Stanford, followed by an applied, clinical cor…

…pping strokes of bright red and blue. Sam Francis used his signature splashes of primary colors to embellish the almost childlike depiction of himself. Conversely, Arshile Gorky used graphite and pastels to capture a stern and serious visage. Ellsworth Kelly employed ink on paper to portray himself in a contemplative pose, while Franz Kline’s dark, pensive face is branded with a large black “K.” All provide insights into the per…

…r 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 fall. The St…

…trate the connections between the study, creation, and experience of art. On April 27, during a three-day campus engagement with students, Red Star will deliver the Anderson Collections’ annual Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture, a free public program. She will be in conversation with Karen Biestman, associate dean and director of the Native American Cultural Center and the dean for community engagement and diversity at Stanford. The lecture and co…

…Montana State University during the early 2000s. But one morning, her professor projected a slide of John Gast’s American Progress (1872) onto the lecture hall’s massive screen. It jolted her awake. The iconic painting is meant to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny, centering on an oversized Lady Columbia who illuminates a path for white settlers to go West and develop supposedly untouched lands. “The whole chasing the dark away, and all the pe…

…said Syjuco. “This is political and activist work, because representation matters.” Syjuco points out that Asian American artists like Ruth Asawa, Martin Wong, Chiura Obata, Carlos Villa, Al-An deSouza, and so many others should not be seen as “accessories to the American project.” She asserts, “We inhabit its centers, and we have always been here.” The first work that visitors encounter from the exhibition is The Color Shift (Correctional Overla…