…Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet will always be just an oval arrangement of 40 black speakers on stands — but in this instance, the piece’s visual simplicity narrows all focus to the physical and emotional qualities of sound. And this focus, according to 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…

BY ROBIN WANDER Five years ago, on Sept. 21, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University opened to the public. What was true then is true now: The remarkable collection that is anchored in the New York School and Bay Area Figuration, and incorporates key modern and contemporary artists collected in depth and across media, is a breathtaking survey of post-World War II American art. Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection at Stanfo…

A project of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University Hosted by art historian and the associate director of ITALIC at Stanford, Kim Beil, the micro-video series “Up Close: One Painting Tours with Artists” focuses on a single object in the Anderson Collection, sparking dialogue with a guest artist. This project is made possible by a grant from Stanford Arts and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Artist Rebekah Goldstein explor…

…e riverbank that I would take walks on. So the length of the curves kind of mirrors those trees, and then when I installed the work, I always installed them in relation to and in response to the trees around them. In the grove at Anderson, they’re installed within a grove with the circle of trees around them, and they kind of mirror the shape of those trees. TSD: What impact do you hope your “Reaching Towards Warmer Suns” piece will leave on vie…

…ford University, Oakland-based artist, educator, and Stanford alum Stephanie Syjuco uses photography, video, and installation to examine the construction of U.S. history and colonial practices. Eighteen works installed throughout the museum’s first floor challenge the assumption that images and historical materials are objective or neutral.   Installation shot of Stephanie Syjuco’s “Block Out the Sun,” 2021. Single-channel video with sound….

by Sheryl Nonnenberg / Palo Alto Weekly “How did they fit all this art in their house?” That was the question of the day at the media preview for Stanford’s new Anderson Collection, which opens to the public with a grand celebration this Sunday, September 21. Being surrounded by museum-quality works by artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Richard Diebenkorn was a way of life for collectors Harry W. and Mary Marga…

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…

…g. This includes a curated exhibition by Jim Campbell, the San Francisco lighting artist known for his six-story installation “Day for Night” at Salesforce Tower. For the Anderson show, Campbell built a new work titled “Rhythm Studies” composed of nine LED panels. It hangs in the first-floor window and can be seen day and night from Lomita Drive, the main approach to the Stanford museums. The temporary installation runs through August. Eroding Wa…

by Carol Strickland The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, designed by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects. Photo Tim Griffith.  ADVERTISEMENT Stanford University, a hub of innovative entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and the origin of the “sharing economy” (think Uber and Airbnb), is now home to a magnificent example of art sharing. The Anderson Collection, a new museum that is part of Stanford’s pu…

Manuel Neri’s Chromatic Chaos Apparent in Manuel Neri’s works with plaster figures is a kind of dualism: they reference classical forms while also radiating contemporary anxiety and subjectivity. John Seed 2 hours ago Manuel Neri, “Joan Brown Seated, (1959) aluminum with Alborada patina; oil-based pigments with yellow glaze, cast 1963, re-patina applied 2016, 30 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄2 x 27 inches; pedestal: 30 x 19 x 27 inches (all photos…

…ade with other donors in 1993 when they funded the completion of Stanford Wall (1980) by Josef Albers, currently installed near Littlefield Center. Albers donated the design for the sculpture in 1973, but the sculpture was not fully realized and installed until after his death. In a joint statement by the Andersons in 2011 regarding their intention to give Stanford a significant portion of their prized art collection, they said: “Throughout our a…