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…

…ust a tech-incubator with a football stadium, think again: the opening of the Anderson makes the Stanford campus a genuine arts destination. “Overnight,” says Christopher Knight of the LA Times, “the Anderson Collection catapults Stanford into the top tier of American university museum art collections.” Knight has that right, but I don’t agree with his assessment of the Richard Olcott designed building which he dinge…

…with these works at home. Here visitors have the opportunity to wander wherever their eyes pull them”. One also notes the absence of doors and closed rooms. It is one big gallery space fragmented by floating walls, creating a multitude of interconnected alcoves. The west end of the gallery where the Rothko and Pollock resides is a must see. Watching those masterpieces cozily facing one another as if engaged in a dialogue is worth the experi…

…phy, Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; and Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA. Deeman is represented by Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA. Click here to discover more of her work and click here to follow her on Instagram. About Kim Beil Kim Beil, PhD, is an art historian and the associate director of I…

The Cantor and Anderson Collection offer free membership to Class of 2020…